
Two of the women involved in the lawsuit were brave enough to speak out in an interview with Inside Edition in November. It claimed that the religious university’s strict policies made sexual assault and rape more likely. Details of the lawsuit can be found here. Liberty University was recently involved a significant lawsuit that accused the school of mishandling allegations of sexual assault. What appears to be one of his most recent messages is extremely bizarre. Over the course of his first three seasons at Liberty, as has been the case since his time at Ole Miss, Freeze often responds, replies, or reaches out to people via direct message on Twitter (myself included), whether he knows them or not. McCaw hired Freeze to take over his football program two years into his tenure. Ian McCaw became the athletic director at Liberty University on November 28, 2016. It led to the ousting of head football coach Art Briles, the demotion and eventual resignation of Baylor president Ken Starr and the resignation of McCaw. Pepper Hamilton found that university officials had failed to take action regarding the alleged rape and assaults. Baylor commissioned the law firm Pepper Hamilton to conduct an independent external investigation regarding the school’s handling of sexual violence. The scandal was the result of numerous allegations of and convictions for sexual and non-sexual assaults committed by students, many of whom were on the football team. Ian McCaw on his resignation + a statement from Baylor's BOR /qtZMIYELnB The move brings Freeze back to a head coaching position for the first time. After three years in Waco, he resigned his position in May of 2016 in wake of a sexual assault scandal. Liberty Universitys new head football coach Hugh Freeze tries on a LU cap. Prior to taking over at Liberty in November of 2016, McCaw served in the same role at Baylor. Hugh Freeze was hired as the head football coach at Liberty University on Decemby athletic director Ian McCaw. The calls dated back to shortly after Freeze arrived in Oxford. The basis for the investigation was later described as a ‘concerning pattern’ of phone calls to a number associated with a female escort service. His resignation came after chancellor Jeff Vitter and athletic director Ross Bjork conducted an internal investigation.

On July 20, 2017, Freeze resigned from his job as the head football coach at the University of Mississippi. Now, three years after he took over the Flames’ football program, an alleged victim of sexual assault claims that she received bizarre DMs from Freeze on Twitter. The first read "If you have complaints about this result, send it to If not, please do not slander these young men or insult their family." It was a not-so-subtle reference to a tweet from Freeze in 2013 challenging allegations of NCAA violations during his time with the Rebels.Hugh Freeze was named the head football coach at Liberty University less than two years after he resigned from the same role at Ole Miss. The tweets took direct aim at Freeze for events that happened during his time with Ole Miss and Liberty. All proceeds will be donated to Angel Armies, an organization dedicated to combatting the. We will work to do better in the future." Head Football Coach at Liberty University. I have spoken with Ian McCaw to relay my sincere apology. "When I found out about them, they were immediately taken down. "These tweets were unfortunate and not who we are in Ole Miss athletics," said Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter to ESPN.

Freeze, who is 25-10 in three seasons with the Flames, will make more than 4 million per year on average, according to ESPN. 16 Rebels pulled off the victory to move to 7-2, the team's social media team unloaded on the former head coach, who now holds the same job with the Flames. Liberty coach Hugh Freeze has signed a contract extension through the 2028 season, the school announced Wednesday. Ole Miss has apologized for a pair of now-deleted tweets following its 27-14 win against Liberty on Saturday, a game that marked the return of former coach Hugh Freeze to Oxford, Mississippi.
