Originally Posted by
Bubb Rubb
The problem with this is that the current head coach was part of that stuff with Nutt. And the Saunders stuff overlaps.
The bigger problem is this: once the NCAA gets into your kitchen, they start looking at more stuff. They have or will find stuff from the current staff. Even the most rebelly of rebels are acknowledging that there will be a slew of secondary violations - things that they quickly spin by saying that "everyone reports secondary violations." The problem is that you have major violations, particularly around academic fraud, in multiple sports spanning ADs and coaching staffs. Secondary violations on top of that will make that snowball get quickly out of control.
We know about Saunders. The guy got an 8 year show clause (!) based on what they stumbled on at ULL while looking into his time at Ole Miss. We know about Tunsil and Hampton (the players served suspension, but the institution still will have sanctions - that's not over). We know about the women's basketball stuff. There's a lot of stuff we don't know and that should be scary to the Rebs. But what we do know is enough to nail them.
My Rebel friends who are connected acknowledge that probation is coming but it will be minor. They say the Tunsil and Hampton stuff is over, and the NCAA found nothing else, despite three years of digging. They say that Saunders did not give the NCAA anything on Ole Miss. Maybe they are right, but the smoke (and the logic) suggests otherwise.
If I were a Rebel I would be very concerned that a guy like Rosebowl would put himself on the line like this if nothing were to come of it. My Rebel friends assert that it's a coordinated MSU effort to damage recruiting. Again, we shall see.