Hugh Freeze
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Ole Miss |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 39–25 |
| Annual salary | US $5.14 million |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 27, 1969 Oxford, Mississippi |
| Alma mater | Southern Mississippi |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1992–1994 | Briarcrest (TN) HS (OC/DB) |
| 1995–2004 | Briarcrest (TN) HS |
| 2006–2007 | Ole Miss (TE/RC) |
| 2008–2009 | Lambuth |
| 2010 | Arkansas State (OC) |
| 2011 | Arkansas State |
| 2012–present | Ole Miss |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2005 | Ole Miss (assistant AD) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 69–32 (college) |
| Bowls | 4–1 |
| Tournaments | 1–2 (NAIA playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 Sun Belt (2011) 1 Mid-South Conference West Division (2009) 2 Tennessee HS 8-AA (2002, 2004) 6 Tennessee HS 8-AA Regional (1995–1998, 2001, 2002) |
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| Awards | |
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AFCA Southeast Region COY (2009) Mid-South Conference COY (2009) 4× AP HS COY 5× Region 8-AA COY |
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Danny "Buck" Hugh Freeze, Jr. (born September 27, 1969) is an American football coach. He is currently the head coach at the University of Mississippi, and is widely known for being portrayed as the head coach from the 2009 motion picture: The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock. Freeze served as the head football coach at Lambuth University from 2008 to 2009 and at Arkansas State University in 2011. He was previously a successful high school football coach at Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, Tennessee, where he coached Michael Oher and Greg Hardy. He would later follow both of them to the University of Mississippi.
Freeze attended Senatobia High School and the University of Southern Mississippi, from which he graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and a minor in coaching and sports administration.
In 1992, Freeze joined the coaching staff at Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, Tennessee, as the football team's offensive coordinator and defensive backs coach. In 1995, he was promoted to head coach. Freeze ran the no huddle spread offense and led his team to the state championship twice, in 2002 and 2004, and the regional championship each year from 1995 to 1998 and in 2001 and 2002. He received Region 8-AA Coach of the Year honors five times and Associated Press Coach of the Year honors six times. In ten years at Briarcrest, Freeze was 94–30 as head coach (.785 winning percentage) and 126–37 overall. Freeze was depicted in the book and motion picture The Blind Side, about one of his former players, current Carolina Panthers offensive tackle Michael Oher.
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