NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former Mississippi football coach Hugh Freeze – now at Auburn – took the podium at SEC Media Days on Tuesday for the first time since July 13, 2017, when he did so as the coach of the Rebels.
By July 20, 2017, Freeze had resigned from his post following what the university called a "pattern of personal misconduct."
USA TODAY reported that Freeze used a university-issued phone to make a short call to a phone number connected to a female escort service on Jan. 19, 2016. The call was uncovered when the attorney for former Rebels coach Houston Nutt, who had filed a lawsuit against the university and its athletic foundation, requested Freeze's phone records.