1. Sources from the North Pole are telling me that Ole Miss has landed themselves on the naughty list for years to come and will be receiving a stocking full of coals. In fact, Ole Miss has been so naughty that their best present(DD Bowie) will be given to their better behaved "little brother". Not to worry though Rebs, you have plenty of presents to play with from the past three Christmas mornings. Unfortunately, those old presents will soon enough become broken, restless or outdated, with no replacements in sight. Silver lining: there is a lesson to learn here, if you steal others' Christmas presents, Santa will notice, and he will place you on the naughty list. As Santa, and J Cole, like to say:
"Fool me one time, shame on you; Fool me twice, can't put the blame on you; Fool me three times, 17 the peace sign, load the chopper, let it rain on you."
2. Back to reality, if anyone puts out a pro Ole Miss piece this week, you have to remember that it is nothing but smoke and mirrors. Absolutely NOTHING has changed.
3. Jumping off the last point, if any Ole Miss fan tries to tell you this week anything positive about the investigation, don't listen. The infamous leak of OM's first NOA is coming up on it's one year anniversary. I'm no psychologist, but it seems like Ole Miss fans have some type of memory disorder. They so clearly remember the good times of the 50's and 60's, they are not forgotten. However, they seem to have forgotten about the NOA that they received just one year ago. That NOA is just as bad today, as it was a year ago, and as it will be 3 years from now. Even if that's all the received, and it's not, but even if it was, we are talking 20-30 scholarships, 3-4 years of probation, 1-2 years of bowl bans, and show causes for any coaches that were dumb enough to remain on staff.
4. Now, let's think about NOA part 2. There is absolutely NO WAY that it is not as bad as the first one. Think about this for a minute, everything on the first NOA was before anyone in the country knew about the investigation. No recruits knew about, and any players and coaches that knew about it weren't talking. So anything on the first NOA was just stuff that the NCAA found without any help. Now think about the time frame of the second NOA and everything it may include:
-It was while everyone in the country knew that OM was cheating.
-It was AFTER Ole Miss had already received a NOA for dirty recruiting from the NCAA themselves.
-It was after Tunsil's Draft Day confession, and will include anything that was found from that.
-During the time frame of the second NOA, any athlete recruited by Ole Miss during the time frame of the second NOA and/or the first NOA was given immunity to speak on their recruitment by Ole Miss.
-Also during this time frame, Ole Miss had over half of their football coaching staff jump ship for equal or worse jobs. That includes our boy Barney, who was Ole Miss's patsy, and he is not happy about it. Not to mention Heard, Wommack, Werner, Batoon and Kiffin. Seems weird that they all departed at the same time, it's almost like they were waiting for immunity from the NCAA, and once they received it they were gone. Think about it, why would any of these schools hire these guys with so much baggage without knowing that they were immune from anything that they did in Oxford.
The NCAA investigators had none of the above in the first NOA, yet they were able to put together 8 level I violations. Just imagine what they have put together in the second one. Any OM fan that tells you or believes the second NOA will not be as bad as the first one is simply illogical. It's like telling a person to go build a house, without any wood, tools or help, in the middle of the desert. That house will take a longggg time to build and will not be that impressive. Then you tell someone else to go build a house, and give them unlimited access to a lumberyard and Home Depot, as well as a veteran construction crew. For the first four years of the investigation, the NCAA was the first person. It took a long time to build the first NOA, and honestly, it wasn't that impressive, but just enough to get the job done. However, for the past year the NCAA has been the second person, and it is creating a house that will not be easily destroyed for years to come, and will be remembered for decades to come.
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