I Now Respect Hugh Freeze Even More.

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"Whenever I'd get the question, 'Where'd you played your college ball at?' it used to bother me," said new Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze, who attended Southern Miss but did not play. "You knew that they expected something different than what the truth was."

Another curious aspect: Of those eight college football head coaches, seven have backgrounds that are primarily rooted on the offensive side of the ball. Is there some draw-it-up-in-the-dirt vibe that attracts the guy with the nontraditional background? "That's an interesting question," said Freeze. "My initial reaction is, probably for those guys that didn't play college football that our mental makeup is a little different. Our type of guy -- me, Leach -- I was a math major. I think that mindset is probably more geared to offense. Most of those defensive guys probably relate to their players because they once were a mean linebacker. I'm not really sure though."

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