The whole post is here-
http://www.elitedawgs.com/showthread...iting-Playbook
Now it is 2 years later. Let's examine it:
1. They created a "little black book" of Rebel Alumni across the nation that want to be a part of The Network.
Ole Miss has had at least 8 boosters disassociated to this point and appear to have more on the horizon. Just this week, OM Fanboy Neal McReady interviewed one of their Network members on his podcast. Mr. "Didnt Do-Nuffin" acted all broke and sad. But this Network member was using the FCA to help recruit for Hugh Freeze. You can bet he and Freeze worked these visits out together with recruiting. 100% orchestrated. How sleazey do you have to be to use the FCA in recruiting?
2. Create a list of 25 targets across the nation and get it to The Network.
3. Network member closest to said target finds a way to make contact with that recruit's family. Find an "in". Figure out who is going to control the recruitment for the family and see what it will take to get a visit. Pay recruits to visit. Get them on campus
How many random visits have they gotten from a top recruit out of nowhere? They get them constantly. They randomly get into a top recruit's Big Three out of nowhere. They won't even be mentioned by a recruit, then suddenly be in play come January before Signing Day. Only 1 school "randomly" does this out of nowhere time and again under Hugh Freeze and that is Ole Miss.
4. Asst coach recruiting said player shares info with local member of The Network and vice versa
Barney fired for illegal recruiting. Other assistants named in the 1st NOA. Even Hugh Freeze is named in the 1st NOA meeting with a recruit with a booster present. More assistants jumping ship now that the 1st NOA has been dropped, Draft Night, and now a 2nd or Amended NOA is on the horizon. The NCAA is showing that it wasn't just assistant coaches- it was the head coach as well. Special props have to be given to Laremy Tunsil for admitting it on Draft Night. You truly were the gem of the 2013 signing class.
6. Set the big Recruit-a-palooza weekend well in advance so Alumni can make plans to be in town that weekend. Always have it coincide with a basketball game if possible. Make Oxford appear busy and populated. Make sure Alumni know faces of these recruits so they give them "handshakes" to make their trip even more exciting. Make the recruits feel like rock stars. Make Oxford seem like the most awesome place in America for that weekend.
The Library has become famous for this and the stories are almost movie-worthy. Hooter's Girls being brought in, recruiting coordinators being fired over "establishing friendships" between recruits and coeds, money pics being tweeted out. Pics of coeds kissing recruits. They had someone putting it on Chris Jones so good he was lying to his girlfriend and everyone else about where he was at night. It has certainly been a spectacle headed up by the Preacherman.
Grown men pretending to be young female students on Twitter talking in direct messages to recruits. Funniest of all is Rosebowl solving that mystery and blowing it up. The newest catfish is pretending to be a 15-16 year old good-looking girl talking to recruits. Nowhere but Ole Miss does a 15 year old HS girl know about college football recruiting.
7. Seal the "deal" in the exit interview. Local member of The Network handles it and payment is made. Money is funneled through an Aunt or other member of the family in most cases to make it untraceable. Ive even heard about it being funneled through a girlfriend's family in one instance. Set up loan's for houses and such where the money from the Aunt pays off the loan. Stuff like that. Very creative.
We keep hearing rumors of recruits interviewed by the NCAA under immunity are saying in their exit interviews, Coach Freeze talks to them then leaves the room. A booster then enters the room smelling like tacos and chalupas. This booster then talks of an incentive plan available to them should they attend Ole Miss. Who would have thought that The Closer at Ole Miss was Mexican?
8. Reap rewards on Signing Day
Two Top 10 signing classes under Pastor Freeze. Now that the NCAA has a field office located in Oxford, recruits are picking other schools. Suddenly the campus isn't as pretty. Suddenly fewer stories from recruits about Brother Freeze being a great spiritual guide to young men. Suddenly their fansite puppets are no longer receiving correct info about anything. Wonder what has changed in Oxford since last signing day?
Kudos to you Coach34 (wherever you are). Your post two years ago gave us all the insight to what was happening in Oxford. The NCAA, through four years of investigation, is proving it to be dead on balls accurate. We will all continue to enjoy the NCAA's march through Oxford until the very end. The NCAA vs The Network will certainly be a great 30 for 30.