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Freeze Completes First Full-Time Staff At Ole Miss
OXFORD,
Miss. -- Ole Miss head football coach Hugh Freeze has completed his
first full-time staff with the Rebels with the addition of Corey Batoon
as Assistant Athletics Director for Player Development and Tyler Siskey
as Coordinator of Recruiting Development.
Batoon arrives
in Oxford after three seasons as an assistant coach at Arkansas State,
where he coached cornerbacks, safeties and special teams during his
tenure and worked with Freeze in 2010 and 2011. Three of his pupils
earned All-Sun Belt honors, and A-State led the league in total defense
twice in that period.
Batoon came to Arkansas State after
spending the previous 11 seasons as the assistant head coach, defensive
coordinator and secondary coach at Northern Arizona. He also
spent time as the special teams coordinator during his time with the
Lumberjacks.
Batoon developed the Lumberjacks into one of
the top defensive units in the Big Sky Conference while earning NAU a
reputation nationally for its defensive play. He tutored 42
student-athletes to all-conference honors 61 times and developed four
NFL players during his tenure. His defensive unit ranked among the top
two units in the conference and top 20 in the country against the run
three times as well.
Batoon’s time in Flagstaff was
preceded by a year at Montana working with the defensive line. Prior to
that, he was special teams coordinator and secondary coach at Central
Missouri State after two years at Saint Mary's (Calif.) and a
three-year stint at Pierce Junior College in Los Angeles.
Born
in Honolulu, Batoon played at San Diego City Junior College and later
at Long Beach State (1988-89). He graduated from LBSU with a degree in
political science in 1991, later earning a master's in health, physical
education and recreation from Saint Mary's in 1996.
Another
former ASU staff member with Freeze, Siskey spent the past four seasons
as the Red Wolves’ wide receivers coach. He tutored four All-Sun
Belt honorees including two-time selection Dwayne Frampton, who broke
the A-State single-season record for receptions and ranked 11th
nationally in catches in 2011.
Siskey came to ASU after
serving the previous four years at St. Paul's Episcopal School in
Mobile, Ala., where he helped lead the Saints to the 2007 Alabama Class
5A state championship as the team's offensive coordinator and
quarterbacks coach.
Prior to joining the St. Paul's staff,
Siskey was an offensive graduate assistant at A-State for the 2002 and
2003 seasons. He assisted with offensive line in 2002, wide
receivers in 2003 and quarterbacks in the spring of 2004.
Siskey
also held an offensive graduate assistant coaching position at
Northwestern State in 2000-01, where he was responsible for tight ends,
and he worked as a student assistant coach at Troy during the 2000
season.
Siskey earned his master's in education from Northwestern State in 2003 and his bachelor's degree from Troy in 2000.
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