Everyone is excited for the official kickoff between the Syracuse football squad and the Liberty Flames in Week 1.
Some things are bigger than football and Flames head coach Hugh Freeze came dangerously close to death in early August.
He was released from the hospital last week after undergoing back surgery. While that may seem rather insignificant, what they found during surgery wasn’t.
During the operation, the medical staff noticed a potentially “life-threatening strand of staph infection entered his bloodstream and complicated what was already severe pain he was experiencing from a herniated disk in his back,” per ESPN.