USA Today’s Josh Peter has taken a long look at the answer to one big question, “Who is Hugh Freeze?” Many football fans feel that they don’t know the former Ole Miss coach who made his faith a large part of his public persona, but had to resign or face termination after phone records showed he made a call to an escort service.

Peter talked to people in Oxford, Miss., a former high school quarterback for Freeze and former students of Briarcrest Christian School among others. A pair of former female students accused Freeze of what they saw as inappropriate behavior.

Katie Dalmasso, 27, told Peter of a time she was forced to change her shirt in front of Freeze. Dalmasso, an eighth-grade student at the time, was wearing a Grateful Dead t-shirt, and Freeze brought her into his office to inform her it violated school dress code because the shirt “represented drugs.”

“I said, ‘I’ll go change in the bathroom,’ and when I said that he said, ‘No, you’re going to change in here so I get the (Grateful Dead) shirt and you can’t have it back,’” she told Peter.

“He didn’t do anything sexual. But I stood in the corner and faced the wall when I did it and I changed out of my shirt. No privacy.”

Another former female student, who remains anonymous, told Peter that Freeze was “hyper attentive’’ to the length of her skirts and that he loomed in the parking lot after she would go to her car to change clothes.

The same anonymous student recalled a time she was paddled by Freeze.

“(Freeze) did some bizarre warm-up taunt before actually making contact,’’ she told USA Today. “I was humiliated that he didn’t have a female in the room. I don’t know if the acts were intentionally sexual or if he was really that oblivious to the inherently sexual nature of his approach to discipline.”

Freeze denied any wrongdoing in a statement to USA Today.

“These accusations are totally false. I can unequivocally say that during my time at Briarcrest Christian School I handled disciplinary issues professionally and in accordance with the school’s policy. I am very confident that the members of the administration who worked hand in hand with me during my tenure will verify that.”

Briarcrest administrators also said they were unaware of any misconduct by Freeze during his time at the school.

Peter’s full article can be read here.