Auburn Tigers head coach Hugh Freeze, who used to be the head coach at Ole Miss and coached former Rebels offensive lineman Michael Oher in high school, spoke out on Michael Oher’s allegations against the Tuohy family.
“I love Michael Oher. He’s like part of our family. I love the Tuohys,” Freeze told Auburn reporters. “I think it’s sad, and I certainly don’t claim to understand all the ins and outs of adoption, conservatory, all of that. But I know what I witnessed, and I witnessed a family that totally took in a young man. And I think without that, there is no story.
Many think that the Tuohys were instrumental in helping Freeze lead the head coaching gig at Ole Miss.
here is Auburn HC Hugh Freeze's full answer on Michael Oher and the Tuohys from earlier pic.twitter.com/GGttfk8NcB
— Justin Ferguson (@JFergusonAU) August 17, 2023
Freeze added:
“I know this, I know if Michael called Sean right now and said, ‘Let’s work this out,’ Sean and Leigh Anne would be there in a hurry to hug his neck and tell him he’s loved. I hope he feels that. And certainly. I don’t claim to… until you walk in people’s shoes, I don’t claim to have all the answers to anything.”
“I think it will all… whatever happens will happen, of course. The facts will come out. But, you know, I love both sides of it. Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy did something that most families… a lot of us talk about doing things, but they actually put the shoes on and pulled the boots up and got in the arena and did something. I think that’s admirable,” he said.
Freeze is one of the few people who have come out and defended the family during this time. Many feel that Oher was used by the Tuohys for financial gain, a charge they deny.
