Heard from a distinguished State alum yesterday he's talked to a couple of om lawyer friends saying that om will impose a second bowl ban soon. They are attempting to self inflict enough wounds so the NCAA doesn't come for the full pound of flesh.
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Heard from a distinguished State alum yesterday he's talked to a couple of om lawyer friends saying that om will impose a second bowl ban soon. They are attempting to self inflict enough wounds so the NCAA doesn't come for the full pound of flesh.
That is cute that they think doing this Right Before the hammer drops is going to help them. They haven't done anything yet with all the coaches still on staff that committed the violations and they haven't disassociated any boosters.
I am amazed at the lengths OM is going to in order to hopefully save Freeze. Won't really matter once the show cause comes down but for now it looks like they are willing to take a big dose of medicine in hopes of keeping him. At first I just thought they just wanted grounds to get rid of him to make sure they wouldn't have to pay him anything in a settlement but given all of the allegations the University has already agreed with in even the first NOA it seems they would already have more than enough justification for that. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a school offer up a 2 year bowl ban while still retaining the HC involved.
I know if the NCAA imposes a multiyear ban then players can transfer. Can they do that on a self imposed mutliyear or is this an attempt to keep players from leaving?
I am conflicted on why they want to keep him so bad. He is a decent coach if he gets that level talent. You don't beat Bama with a bad coach. However, the level of allegations that is just public is enough that a normal coach would have been fired. Of course UNM has kept a lot out of the public so far. Either they think firing Beaver is an admission of guilt and they are going to try to fight it or Beaver has threatened to bring people down with him.
There is another possibility: The Network knows that they won't be able to get even a decent coach to come there and agree to let the Network have the impact in the program going forward. They know that to get recruits to their "beautiful campus", they have to cheat their ass off just to get them to visit. Any coach that wants a future in coaching isn't going to let the atmosphere of Sodom and Gomorrah raining down on recruits with hookers and cash keep on in the future. Beaver sold his soul for his "Dream job" and they know no one else will after this.
Hasn't the university already agreed with the vast majority of allegations in the first NOA? I believe they are contesting one or two and maybe the level of one or two but there are a bunch of allegations in there that they are not contesting in any way. Seems they have already admitted a lot of guilt.
The players can transfer.
If this is being done- this is just the OM Brass slowly giving the NCAA more and more until they finally accept what OM offers up. It's called negotiations. Start low and see where things end up. Obviously the NCAA laughed at one year
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No disrespect to the OP or his source, but this smells like fake news to me.
I can't see this happening prior to them landing in Naptown.
What's a two year bowl ban when you are staring down the barrel of a two year death penalty?!?
3-5 Year Bowl Ban, 30-45 Schollys and 5 year Show Cause .... going by matrix on first NOA.
Coach beav frezzuz is playing hardball with Ole Miss. He knows all and will talk if they fire him. This is the most logical explation. Occam's Razor.....
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Nope, two of the three sports (WBB & track) have already been penalized. The current case is primarily football only aside from the LOIC as that definitely bleeds into the athletic department covering all three sports (but I know what you meant).
With 21 Level I's listed but the quantity pushing 100+ occurrences, it will be interesting to see how the NCAA administers penalties per their rules matrix. All of college athletics is interested in seeing this unfold.
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I guess they'd just have to pay walk-ons to come play for them.
And this would 100% happen. They would have walkons that would probably go to USM or Memphis normally to play in the SEC and the "beautiful campus". They would still be bottom of the barrel in the SEC but would keep them afloat until they could open the checkbook again.
But who's going to walk on at Ole Miss (and pay their own tuition, fees, room & board, etc.) when they can get a full ride at Memphis or equivalent? Memphis isn't so bad that most football players would pay what's probably in excess of $100K to go to Ole Miss. And Ole Miss isn't that good. As Boo said, they'd have to pay the walk-ons, and pay them pretty well.
I am sure the Net Work is trying to find out who to buy off at the NCAA. They probably have millions of dollars and thousand of wives to give for the cause.
Bdork & Vitter & Freeze knew when they made the Feb 22 video citing LOIC being levied by the NCAA and that's why Bdork specifically mentioned remaining "...a valued member of the Southeastern Conference..."
Very few people are focusing on this statement (but it was made for a reason) because conference removal just does not happen, but also what just does not happen is 21 Level I's occurring on approximately 100 occasions. The DP is seriously being considered, TCUN knows it and if they are unable to contribute to the SEC financially, they become irrelevant and nothing more than a moocher.
I will not see the day that Ole Miss is out of the SEC, won't happen. Bowl bans, etc.. sure... Out? No freakin' way.
I would be having a bit of fun with my late wife right about now though. She was a diehard Rebel, since her brother played there.