The penalties will tell us a lot more about the NCAA than about OM

[AlmostPositive]

We will find out if they want to be taken seriously as an enforcement agency.

If they have any integrity, any self-respect.


Sadly for our Bear friends, this is an existential pivot point for the NCAA. Ninety-five percent of the college sports universe will sing their praises if they dissect Ole Miss like a lab rat. If they go light, they will be mocked and ridiculed. They know this quite well.

As for Ole Miss, every objective observer in the nation knows they cheat. Anyone paying close attention knows they paid players, corrupted the entrance exam process, winked at drug use and illegal loans and cars, financed parents' homes and more.

Keep this in mind: The people thinking Ole Miss will get off easy are the same ones who thought they'd never be caught. The same ones who said there was no investigation. That it was all before Freeze. That the infractions were minor. That the texts were photoshopped. That the NCAA already knew. Etc etc.


I hope they know that we'll be there in their hour of shame.

[PassInterference]

I fully expect that Ole Miss made a calculated decision in setting up The Network. They figured it was worth it to have big time success, and even get caught once in a while. And frankly, I agreed with them.

We're about to find out if that was the right strategy.

[Dolphus Raymond]

I think any chance that the NCAA would "go easy" on Ole Miss died after the Tunsil debacle on draft night. The "opportunity fund" explanation that was put out for public consumption seems to have very little validity at this point. As others have stated, if documentation did exist, Ole Miss would have have flooded every sports writer in the nation's in-box with it Friday morning two weeks ago. I'm sure some are holding out hope that what Tunsil said to the world that night will eventually be explained away in a rational and legal way. However, the reality of the situation (Two weeks and nothing.) says otherwise.
It must really suck to be an Ole Miss football fan right now.