From SI & Pete Thamel

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Originally Posted by maroonmania

My favorite paragraph:

The theory in SEC circles is simple. If Ole Miss doesn't get hit hard after significant academic fraud, heavy booster involvement and a nationally televised admission of a player taking money, the SEC West will turn into the Wild Wild West. The NCAA has a chance to make a statement as a deterrent for future behavior.

A number of us having been spouting this for months and it sounds like we've got agreement from a lot of others in that if UNM gets off light on this then you might as well light a match to the NCAA rulebook and just let recruiting be anything goes.

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I'm not sure I agree with the quoted paragraph entirely. If Ole Miss gets off with anything remotely resembling their self-imposed penalties, recruiting in the SEC and the other Power 5 conferences is about to make the Wild West look tame.

Interesting matrix of the new penalty structure. Looks like OM will end up throwing themselves on the mercy of the (NCAA) court.

https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/f...B6)_101212.pdf

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The NCAA really needs to make an example of Freeze. Show him that he has to follow the rules like everyone.

Freeze responses through out this whole ordeal suggest that, he truely believes he is a disciple of God. These extra benefits are his manna from the sky, a few loaves of bread and fish into feeding generations of a family.

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Originally Posted by notsofarawaydawg

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I see what you did there! Rep points given.

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Originally Posted by DancingRabbit

I think the new head coach accountability rule is mostly focused on responsibility for actions of coaching staff and AD staff, and maybe to a lesser degree players. I think HC's can still claim ignorance of booster activity, but they will need to prove it. They now cannot claim ignorance of what their staff is doing to excuse accountability. Period. To a degree, they cannot claim ignorance of what their players are doing.

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If they prove that Tunsil was getting money from Farrar or that Kiffin was putting him in touch with a booster, the ignorance claim goes out the window. Hell, in their response to the NOA, they acknowledge that Freeze had a booster with him on recruiting visits.

It's going to get bad for Freeze. I don't see how anyone with a brain can see all of this and think otherwise. This isn't message board rumor - this stuff is now showing up in NCAA documentation and national media reports.

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Originally Posted by notsofarawaydawg

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Hilarious.