Liberty's Hugh Freeze to coach from medical chair for game against Louisiana-Lafayette
Hugh Freeze will be upgrading from a hospital bed to a medical chair this weekend.
The Liberty football coach spent his debut at the school in Week 1 against Syracuse working from a hospital bed in the press box. Freeze had been hospitalized last month due to back pain and a potentially life-threatening staph infection.
Liberty confirmed to Paste BN Sports, the school is planning to ship a medical chair to Louisiana-Lafayette — Liberty's Week 2 opponent — so Freeze can sit in the press box. Freeze, according to the school, will travel Saturday separately from the team, which is due to arrive Friday.
Louisiana-Lafayette coach Billy Napier said earlier this week said "we want to do everything we can do to help Coach Freeze."
“It’s a unique scenario for him," Napier added. "If any of us were in that situation and had an obligation to a group of people, we would want to do everything we could do for them."
Freeze, the former Ole Miss and Arkansas State head coach, was brought into Williams Stadium last week via wheelchair before watching from the bed. He addressed the team before the game and gave a postgame news conference in a similar manner.