What's the single worst thing Ole Miss has done in all this?

[AlmostPositive]

Staggering amount of bad behavior to wade through, but I'm not busy at the moment:

-- Devising a system to alter ACT grades

-- Using overt but fraudulent Christianity as a selling tool for a program that was far from faith-based.

-- Looking the other way while star players damn near kill themselves with illicit drugs

-- Deceiving their own recruits by lying straight-faced to the media about what is in the NOA

-- Defying clear directives to comply with state open records laws.

-- Leaking the identities of other schools' student athletes despite federal laws prohibiting that

-- Providing sexual encounters as enticements for visiting high school athletes.

-- Allowing a lawsuit against two student athletes to proceed when they know full well Rebel Rags is guilty as charged

-- Systematically misleading their own fans to the point where they slander and threaten violence against the only media
voices telling the truth.


There may just be too much corruption to single anything out, and that really is the actual point here. Something went badly wrong in Oxford and if the NCAA has any value at all it has to start setting things right September 11.

[Indndawg]

ACT violations and it's not close. That said, if state and federal laws have been violated..there ya go

[raymond21]

Deceiving recruits is low down

[Apoplectic]

ACT cheating - proven and they don't dispute. Unbelievable assault on the entire system.
Hookers for recruits if they can prove it.

[Dawgbite]

-- Piss off Steve Robertson!

[Dolphus Raymond]

Continuing to cheat while they were being investigated was by far the dumbest thing Ole Miss did. The worst was the ACT fraud.

[RougeDawg]

Receive funds from the state for establishment back in the 1800's.

[Bodaski]

I'm as disappointed in our state leaders who have set back and let OM lie and deceive the very people that pay the taxes that support the place. To me, that's a travesty.

[Pollodawg]

I'm as disappointed in our state leaders who have set back and let OM lie and deceive the very people that pay the taxes that support the place. To me, that's a travesty.

This. It's a microcosm of everything wrong with Mississippi.

[Mimi's Babies]

The worst issue that OM has done/allowed/created/said/did in this ENTIRE mess.... is too


BLAME OTHERS for THEIR MISTAKES

[starkvegasdawg]

Exist.

As that line from Full Metal Jacket goes, "It's looks like the best part of you ran down the crack of your mama's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress. I think you've been cheated."

[DownwardDawg]

In God's eyes.......easy to pick out. To the NCAA, it's the ACT fraud that's gonna kill them. That and LOIC.

[Dawgology]

This. It's a microcosm of everything wrong with Mississippi.

Yes! Exactly.

[PassInterference]

Yes! Exactly.

1. Hire Hugh Freeze
2. Hookers for high school kids
3. Religious fraud

[gravedigger]

Staggering amount of bad behavior to wade through, but I'm not busy at the moment:

-- Devising a system to alter ACT grades

-- Using overt but fraudulent Christianity as a selling tool for a program that was far from faith-based.

-- Looking the other way while star players damn near kill themselves with illicit drugs

-- Deceiving their own recruits by lying straight-faced to the media about what is in the NOA

-- Defying clear directives to comply with state open records laws.

-- Leaking the identities of other schools' student athletes despite federal laws prohibiting that

-- Providing sexual encounters as enticements for visiting high school athletes.

-- Allowing a lawsuit against two student athletes to proceed when they know full well Rebel Rags is guilty as charged

-- Systematically misleading their own fans to the point where they slander and threaten violence against the only media
voices telling the truth.


There may just be too much corruption to single anything out, and that really is the actual point here. Something went badly wrong in Oxford and if the NCAA has any value at all it has to start setting things right September 11.

An Institution of higher learning allowing some group of self important sports fans with a god complex to make decisions with no jeopardy of their own hide being taken.

[Avelso]

Crossed Tom Mars.

[Boodawg]

Allow HF to continue to push religion daily while calling escorts. They should've shut it down. They knew.

[Spiderman]

Staggering amount of bad behavior to wade through, but I'm not busy at the moment:

-- Devising a system to alter ACT grades

-- Using overt but fraudulent Christianity as a selling tool for a program that was far from faith-based.

-- Looking the other way while star players damn near kill themselves with illicit drugs

-- Deceiving their own recruits by lying straight-faced to the media about what is in the NOA

-- Defying clear directives to comply with state open records laws.

-- Leaking the identities of other schools' student athletes despite federal laws prohibiting that

-- Providing sexual encounters as enticements for visiting high school athletes.

-- Allowing a lawsuit against two student athletes to proceed when they know full well Rebel Rags is guilty as charged

-- Systematically misleading their own fans to the point where they slander and threaten violence against the only media
voices telling the truth.


There may just be too much corruption to single anything out, and that really is the actual point here. Something went badly wrong in Oxford and if the NCAA has any value at all it has to start setting things right September 11.

Leaking Lewis's and Jone's name. Not only a NCAA violation but an actual crime

[Spiderman]

Receive funds from the state for establishment back in the 1800's.

Boom

[Martianlander]

ACT fraud.

[Joe Schmedlap]

The worst issue that OM has done/allowed/created/said/did in this ENTIRE mess.... is too


BLAME OTHERS for THEIR MISTAKES

Bingo!!!

[Howboutdemdogs]

The old lawyer'sg adage,,,,,,Deny, Deny, Deny...... law school 101.

[Reason2succeed]

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Receive funds from the state for establishment back in the 1800's.

[msbulldog]

Don't forget they published the date, time and location of their COI hearing as well as the names of the committee members, after being admonished twice in the letter that according to NCAA bylaws this information was to be kept confidential.
I don't think the members of the COI are going to be happy campers about this.

[FISHDAWG]

posting the NCAA's meeting time, place, and names of the COI when told to keep it confidential ... #aggravated

[JoseBrown]

Fearing for the souls of athletes not committing to them.

[Jack Lambert]

Staggering amount of bad behavior to wade through, but I'm not busy at the moment:

-- Devising a system to alter ACT grades

-- Using overt but fraudulent Christianity as a selling tool for a program that was far from faith-based.

-- Looking the other way while star players damn near kill themselves with illicit drugs

-- Deceiving their own recruits by lying straight-faced to the media about what is in the NOA

-- Defying clear directives to comply with state open records laws.

-- Leaking the identities of other schools' student athletes despite federal laws prohibiting that

-- Providing sexual encounters as enticements for visiting high school athletes.

-- Allowing a lawsuit against two student athletes to proceed when they know full well Rebel Rags is guilty as charged

-- Systematically misleading their own fans to the point where they slander and threaten violence against the only media
voices telling the truth.


There may just be too much corruption to single anything out, and that really is the actual point here. Something went badly wrong in Oxford and if the NCAA has any value at all it has to start setting things right September 11.
Yes

[MStateDawg]

To me, the worst thing is the collusion of numerous people spanning multiple staffs. None of these incidents are isolated. They are the conglomeration of systematic and coordinated cheating. All done intentionally with the help, knowledge and support of dozens, if not hundreds, of staff members, alumni, fans & adminstration members. Truly, an accepted culture of cheating.

[parabrave]

ACT violations and it's not close. That said, if state and federal laws have been violated..there ya go
This all day. This is the one which affects the entire student body by belittling the schools academic reputation.

[Bully13]

the NCAA response stated OM continued to cheat even while knowing they were under investigation. "during a time when it was obvious they should have been totally compliant"

filing a law suit against two players whose claims thus far have been deemed credible by the investigators should not work very well either.

then you've got UM leaking COI meeting info which will only further aggravate their situation.

they are indeed 17'd to no end from what I can see. "exemplary cooperation" my ass.

[Willy Lump Lump]

The worst thing they have done is clearly a subjective opinion. The thing that baffles me the most, meaning the only thing they did that didn't really "make sense", is their misleading of the media about the contents of the original Notice of Allegations. Everything else that they have done, if it had gone their way and no one had ever learned about it, would not have resulted in any negative backlash on the University or the football program.

Lying to the media about the contents of the original Notice of Allegations, however, was something that any reasonable person would have realized was bound to fail. They were aware of the open record laws. Every other public university served with a Notice of Allegations was, at one point in time or another, required to make that document public. The thing that baffles me the most about what they did was how they thought everyone was going to perceive their purposefully misleading narrative after the fact once the contents of the Notice of Allegations were made public. Sitting where we are now, we know that the public reaction was very negative, but I just can't wrap my head around who could have possibly given them the advice to do what they did.

We know they were represented by counsel, and I cannot imagine an attorney that would have told them that this was even an option. Yet, here we are. I think the only logical conclusion is that the leadership in Oxford was attempting to play checkers in what ultimately proved to be a high stakes game of chess.