OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Hugh Freeze, who is 30-7 in just three years as a head coach, was hired Monday to be the football coach at Mississippi.
Freeze was the coach for two seasons at Lambuth, an NAIA school, and in 2011 at Arkansas State, taking the Red Wolves to a 10-2 record and a berth in the GoDaddy.com Bowl Jan. 8 in Mobile, Ala.
Arkansas State was 4-8 a year ago.
However, Freeze is perhaps best known as the high school football coach depicted in the film "The Blind Side," a fictionalized account of Baltimore Ravens lineman Michael Oher's early playing years.
Freeze was an assistant on the Mississippi coaching staff from 2006-07, two of the seasons Oher played at Ole Miss, before taking over at Lambuth, where he went 20-5 in two seasons.
Freeze takes over an Ole Miss team that was 2-10, including 0-8 in the Southeastern Conference, last season. Coach Houston Nutt was told in November that he wouldn't be returning. The Rebels were 24-26 in four seasons under Nutt.
