{"id":5394,"date":"2020-11-11T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2020-11-11T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:32:09","slug":"liberty-university-extends-contract-with-football-coach-hugh-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5394","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University extends contract with football coach Hugh Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University has reached a lucrative new deal with football coach Hugh Freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty, as a private institution, doesn&#8217;t release the financial details of coaches&#8217; contracts. But in ranking among the five highest-paid coaches in the non-Power 5 ranks, that would place Freeze&#8217;s average salary at $3 million-plus per year.<\/p>\n<p>This is Freeze&#8217;s second season at Liberty, which has won nine straight games dating back to last season, most recently a 38-35 victory on the road against Virginia Tech on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was without question the biggest win in the history of our school,&#8221; said McCaw, who added that the two sides had been working on an extension for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames (7-0) are ranked No. 22 in the latest Associated Press poll in just their second full season at the FBS level after being a provisional program in 2018. They own two wins over ACC opponents after defeating Syracuse 38-21 on the road earlier in the year and face a third ACC foe on Nov. 21 when they travel to NC State.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">News from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClowESPN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ClowESPN<\/a>: Hugh Freeze lands new contract with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Liberty?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Liberty<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kBAODEAC2o\">https:\/\/t.co\/kBAODEAC2o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNRittenberg\/status\/1326591378546192385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI said I was wrong. I\u2019ve paid a price. My family paid a heck of a price. When can we move on?\u201d Hugh Freeze asks.<\/p>\n<p>A dispatch from the hills of Virginia, where there is a curious university in the AP Top 25.<\/p>\n<p>On the past, present &amp; future of Hugh Freeze &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CJJnQ0AODI\">https:\/\/t.co\/CJJnQ0AODI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RossDellenger\/status\/1324359414720139267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rex7WEg7Wy0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University has reached a lucrative new deal with football coach Hugh Freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty, as a private institution, doesn&#8217;t release t&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5394\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University extends contract with football coach Hugh Freeze<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-extends-contract-with-football-coach-hugh-freeze","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1p0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}