Duties involved team meetings before every home game, counseling, studying with them, golfing, hanging out, spending time together discussing top-of-mind issues, helping new players and their wives feel welcome and a part of a new team culture, keeping in touch with their parents, and so much more.  Absolute confidentiality. Kind of a combined player development assistant, empathic listener, kick-butt coach, mentor, counselor, spiritual adviser, pastor and confidant.

  Quite a number of pro athletes from basketball and hockey to football and baseball have consulted with him on a variety of personal and professional matters.

Freeman has served as mentor to Sports World ('98-'04), an organization with 13-15 ex-pro athletes who speak to close to a million young people every year.  Freeman is a Diplomate member of the International Sports Professionals Association (ISPA).