Auburn coach Hugh Freeze, who coached former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher at Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, has offered his thoughts on the public dispute between Oher and the Tuohy family after Oher alleged earlier this week that the Tuohys exploited his story for financial gain.
The Tuohys became Oher’s conservators while he was in high school, Oher alleges, and reaped financial gain on the success of the 2009 film The Blind Side, adapted from the ’06 book of the same name that chronicled Oher’s rise.
“I think it’s sad. I certainly don’t claim to understand all the ins and outs of adoption, conservatory, all of that. I know what I witnessed,” Freeze said Thursday, per The Athletic‘s David Ubben. “I witnessed a family that totally took in a young man and I think without that, there is no story.”
