Doesn't matter. The precedent of a team being kicked out of the league, especially a founding member, would not be a good precedent to set.
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If they take the kind of action many of their fans want...it could become a possibility. A huge portion of their fanbase wants them to go after other SEC schools, including Bama, in an effort to "take them down with them". They also advocate suing the NCAA.
Can you imagine how the SEC office would view it if the UNM admin, or some rogue UNM lawyers/boosters enact a plan such as that?
Step back and think, this is a new era that the NCAA has to get programs under control. It has to fire a shot across the bough of the big dog cheaters, we know who they. What better way than to make an example of a smaller dog cheater-Mississippi university.
NCAA has the motivation; the NCAA has the proof. There's gonna be metaphoric blood in the square and on the Purty Campus. The effect on Oxford will be meteoric.
Exactly. There has never been epic cheating like this.
If Old Misses gets kicked outta the SEC (which I don't think is possible) I would expect the team that replaces them is Oklahoma. The ACC schools are much more difficult to get because of the measures the conference took to ensure no school leaves.
Where's Spiderman been hiding? It's long past time for him to tell us that one of his big Ole Miss booster/golfing pals are telling him that they'll skate?
I've heard a SEC athletic director address Oklahoma. If the SEC were to take them, the existing teams would take a large cut in their share of the SEC money. There aren't enough TVs in Oklahoma to offset the extra share. Of course he was talking about them as an addition, not as a replacement.
I don't think the SEC can expel a charter member. But the thing to remember is Mississippi will lose it's share of SEC money for the duration of the probation, at the end or the probation they will receive half of the money they would have received. That's approximately 31M/year of money they don't have in their athletic budget.
Ok...How 'bout the SEC offices have a chat with SEC officials, "suggesting" that every hold by OM linemen....every possible "illegal receiver downfield", etc be acutely watched for and called. It's been said holding could be called on nearly every play. Imagine UNM football where they get called for holding damn near every time they make a first down.
Not gonna happen, I know, but it would be fun to watch.
I hope they don't, and I doubt they do in the end, but it's gotten to that point. They're getting popped for having their hand in the cookie jar again in 2017. They're going to be q decade deep before they know it. Thy won't stop. That's becoming apparent now and it's apparent to the NCAA. What choice do they have?
OU is a helmet school near the level of Bama. Population wouldn't matter due to the content they would offer. OU in the SEC west (replacing Bama) would be a huge win for the conference. UMiss getting kicked out would be a big plus for the SEC coffers in that scenario.
Ole Miss is redefining "scorched earth" war policy. The ruskies don't have shit on the confeds.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of guys on here who will come out and flatly say "UM is not getting the death penalty." Talking about the possibility of the death penalty only hurts UM.