Quote Originally Posted by Leeshouldveflanked View Post
Ole Miss better be glad that LT was our AD then....we didn't put out foot on their throats like we could have...../
Exactly. Plus Jackie was a marked man by the NCAA. We now have an AD that has balls and a head coach that isn't hated by the NCAA that is an even better coach than Jackie IMO. At the very least he is a much more consistent coach in terms of having winning seasons- and is just now starting to get acclaim from the NFL for developing Dak. Speaking of the NFL we have a lot more prominent group of football players in the league at this time led by Dak and Fletcher Cox- and most of them were recruited and developed by Dan.

1995 Ole Miss got very lucky in that while they were put on probation we were coming off of a Peach Bowl season and instead of putting them away we lost to Northeast Louisiana (now ULM) and even worse lost the Egg Bowl. It was pretty much a perfect scenario for them to minimize the damage as much as possible.

On top of that, they also turned us in to the NCAA and got us put on probation very briefly which again helped negate their penalties at least on a local level. And I fully expect them to try to do so again- and their recent behavior where they basically call out Leo Lewis, Kobe Jones, and MSU and while turning a blind eye to the plethora of players and other teams that turned them in pretty much is a confirmation of this. Hopefully with a better AD and a better coach it won't work this time. At any rate our AD needs to be ready to stand up to it when it happens.