Hugh Freeze is coaching his new school, Liberty, from a hospital bed in a box next to coordinators at Williams Stadium in Lynchburg, Virginia as the Flames face Syracuse.
From Nate Mink:
Freeze will essentially videoconference with his team pregame and at halftime and do so during postgame press conference. The plan is to fly him to Louisiana next week to be with the team on the road.
According to ESPN, the operation took place at the University of Virginia Medical Center. Freeze had previously experienced severe pain due to a herniated disk in his back.
“The doctors told me if it had been another 24 hours, that strand of bacteria could have gotten to my heart and that I would have been fighting for my life,” Freeze told ESPN. “It’s the way God works because there’s no doubt that bacteria would have killed me if (Liberty University) President (Jerry) Falwell wasn’t so quick to make sure we got the right people involved.”
Here's Hugh Freeze coaching from his hospital bed pic.twitter.com/SSURR2KErM
— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) August 31, 2019
Here’s a look at Hugh Freeze’s seat in the coaches’ booth.
Freeze will essentially videoconference with his team pregame and at halftime and do so during postgame press conference.
The plan is to fly him to Louisiana next week to be with the team on the road. pic.twitter.com/YA1HAXiQ43
— Nate Mink (@MinkNate) August 31, 2019
Hugh Freeze, our head coach, is running the team from a hospital bed. What a legend #SyracuseVsLiberty pic.twitter.com/p4SxrQiXhC
— Ryan Conaghan (@RyanConaghan2) August 31, 2019
