Hugh Freeze, Former Ole Miss Head Football Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Episode 146
Hugh Freeze is the former head coach of the Ole Miss football team. In 2017, Freeze resigned from his position amid an NCAA investigation and evidence of personal misconduct.
Freeze coached the Bulldogs from 2012-2016 where he led his club to a 2016 Sugar Bowl victory over Oklahoma. Last year, he appeared on the Sports Spectrum podcast and shared his journey of coaching.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Hugh Freeze in the aftermath of resigning from Ole Miss in 2017 about redemption, empathy, forgiveness, repentance and walking through a difficult season of life with his wife and family as a person of faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.3 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Hugh Freeze, former Old Miss |
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| 1:02.7 | Today's podcast features a story of forgiveness, a story of empathy, a story of redemption, |
| 1:08.3 | at least in the eyes of Coach Hugh Freeze, who was the former Old Miss football coach. |
| 1:14.7 | And Coach Freeze was on the show about a year ago, a little over a year ago in July of 2017. |
| 1:19.1 | And that was just an interview that I had done with him to learn about his journey, getting ready for the football season and that type of thing. |
| 1:21.5 | And then a week later, he resigned from his job at Old Miss over a pattern that Old Miss officials have found and some |
| 1:29.8 | mistakes that Coach had made in making some inappropriate phone calls, as well as some other |
| 1:35.2 | things going on in regards to an NCAA investigation. |
| 1:38.7 | And so Coach Freeze resigned. |
| 1:40.7 | And it's been 13 months now, almost 14 months since he was last a head football coach, |
| 1:48.4 | specifically with Ole Miss. And I thought it was time to get him back on to see it, first of |
| 1:54.1 | off, he's willing to come back on, but to talk about what he's learned in the process, because |
| 1:58.8 | as believers in Christ, really as just people in general, |
| 2:03.0 | we all make mistakes. |
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