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Hugh Freeze Agrees To 4-Year Extension With Ole Miss Rebels

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Nov 8, 2014; Oxford, MS, USA; Mississippi Rebels head coach Hugh Freeze during the game against the Presbyterian Blue Hose at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mississippi defeated Presbyterian, 48-0. Mandatory Credit: Spruce Derden-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 8, 2014; Oxford, MS, USA; Mississippi Rebels head coach Hugh Freeze during the game against the Presbyterian Blue Hose at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mississippi defeated Presbyterian, 48-0. Mandatory Credit: Spruce Derden-USA TODAY Sports

Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze will not be the next head coach at Florida  after signing a four-year extension worth $4 million annually to remain with the Rebels

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The Ole Miss Rebels signed head coach Hugh Freeze to a four-year contract extension that will pay him $4 million annually and an additional $500,000 for his assistant coaches, according to Parish Alford of the  Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.

Freeze had been making $3 million after receiving a raise and a fourth year added to his contract after last season, his second season at the school that gave him first college job in 2005 after coaching on the high school level at Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, Tenn.

Florida reportedly offered $4.2 million annually to Freeze, according to SBNation, but the University Athletic Association refuted that the job had been offered to Freeze or anyone else on Monday afternoon.

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    • Freeze just finished his third regular season at Ole Miss with an Egg Bowl over Mississippi State for the second time in his career and also beat No. 1 Alabama en route to a 9-3 record. He has a 24-16 record in three years and a 2-0 record in bowl games that he’ll look to make 3-0 with the Rebels yet to be determined bowl game this year.

    He took over a team that had won one SEC game in the previous two years under his predecessor Hugh Freeze and inherited a 2-10 team.  In three years Freeze had Ole Miss ranked as high as No. 4 in the College Football Playoff Rankings earlier this year. The Rebels 5-3 record in the SEC was the first winning record since 2008.

    The 45-year-old Oxford, Miss. native also has established himself as an ace recruiter after signing No. 1 prospect Robert Nkemdiche as part of the No. 8 recruiting class in 2013, according to the 247Sports Composite Rankings.

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