Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
It feels pretty good to me to be honest. I 100% agree with you about the Christianity take. As a Christian myself the problem I had was it was pretty obvious that he was using faith as PR and also as a way to get people on his side to explain cheating. "Oh these 4-5 star players are coming here because Freeze can change their lives!" The other problem I had with how he used Christianity was that at times it seemed like he was almost saying that God loves Ole Miss more than others or loves him more than others because of his faith. That has nothing to do with Christianity and is not Biblical. You can't "work" your way into Heaven. God loves each of us equally whether we are a State, Ole Miss, Alabama, LSU, Tulane, Liberty University or EMCC fan. The point is to have a relationship with God and accept that Jesus was his Son who died for our sins and to love and serve God. A lot of the time it seemed like Hugh whether he knew it or not came across as God served him in the form of landing recruits or winning a big game.

It's one thing to cheat and that's bad enough as it is- but it's another to drag God into it and to try to use that as cover for your cheating is horrible.

But off of that soapbox- as far as football itself is concerned the thing that upset me from a MSU fan/alum perspective about their cheating is we built a team through hard work and eventually got to number one in the country and all of that. The team they built through cheating beat our team twice and cost us at least one Sugar Bowl bid if not two. It would be one thing if they built their team the way we did and they just beat us straight up on the field. I can tolerate and respect that. But to have deserved accomplishments taken away by a team that was built through cheating it's one of those things that in life isn't fair especially in the moment that it happens. I think this revelation about Freeze and who he really is plus the fact that Ole Miss will be hit hard by the NCAA and it appear to be snowballing quite frankly and knowing that they are at a very bare minimum are going to have to vacate the accomplishments that they achieved by cheating a little more fair and "right" even though to me to be honest it never will be truly right because our guys that worked hard didn't get to experience what they worked hard for and deserved more.

So, I hope they get slammed as hard as possible and I won't feel sorry for them at all if they get the death penalty. At least if they do get the death penalty they can actually at least look each other in the eye and say that they earned something for once.
That is the thing...their cheating maybe have even cost us a national championship. Add two, three, four or more (probably more) players we would have gotten if not losing them to the cheater we may have had "that" team.
I have zero sympathy for the bearsharks and will be disappointed with the sanctions no matter how bad.