Great Call on Bo Bounds this morning

[blacklistedbully]

If ole miss doesn't get hammered by the NCAA, from now on we better:

1. Provide hotel rooms for all players and recruits families

2. Provide travel and/or reimburse any travel expenses for the entire family of recruits/players

3. Have dinners and events hosted at coaches' homes with all the big time boosters in attendance

4. Provide cost of living allowances not just players, but for momma, daddy, aunts, uncles or any other influential family members

Any more?

5. Provide vastly upgraded new car, "loaners" to key players, recognizing that if he gets caught, he may have to miss s few games, but at least we'll have him the rest of his college career.

6. Offer no-interest "loans" with no pay back deadline to key players. They only have to pay it back if they get caught.

[gravedigger]

I think reasonable minds can agree with this

I think reasonable minds disagree with this. We are better. We've won without it. Championships won without being earned are not championships. But they are for some.

God love them

[ShotgunDawg]

I think reasonable minds disagree with this. We are better. We've won without it. Championships won without being earned are not championships. But they are for some.

God love them

is it cheating if it isn't against the rules?

Just as a school principle determines what is and what isn't against the rules, due to what he suspends students for, the NCAA determines what is and is not against the rules, due to how they sanction teams.

[lastmajordog]

That beautiful campus, though.***

That's not what CJ Johnson said....!!!!!

[Dawgology]

All of these grand ideas start with axing Bracky Brett.

You know Bracky is probably sweating this all more than UNM is!

[dawg27]

That beautiful campus, though.***

But freeze said they did no mean to cheat. Was not on purpose.

[maroonmania]

I think reasonable minds disagree with this. We are better. We've won without it. Championships won without being earned are not championships. But they are for some.

God love them

If that's the case then very, very few college football championships have been "earned". UNM is certainly not the only ones out there cheating pretty consistently, granted, they seem to have taken it to a new level but they are not alone. A large portion of the top end recruits are looking for something and you can't really compete for a NC without a decent amount of that type talent on your team.

[dawg27]

I got a ncaa question? For those of u that know more about the ncaa investigation process than i do, why is the ncaa taking so long and is that a good think or bad? It seems that the schools that have got popped here lately has been a slap on the wrist,it seems to me it has been awhile since a school has been hit hard, that self imposed crap that the bears put out, the ncaa does not have to accept that right? I have heard so much stuff on what the ncaa can and cant do. they have 8 level ones i think, i mean if that is not enough to get a couple years bowl ban then what is.

[blacklistedbully]

I think this makes a ton of sense as well, but would add showcauses for Freeze, Kiffin, Nix, etc. Basically, I don't believe the NCAA should be out to destroy Ole Miss' football program or university, but I think the fair thing to do is to set them back to where they were before Freeze got there. No more, no less. If Freeze's program was built through illegal benefits, then the people involved should be terminated & the program reset to where it was before he got there.

If the setback is, "no less" than where they were before, then it encourages cheating. What do you think their fans prefer...several continuous years of sucking with no end in sight, or a few years of sucking, followed by a few years of top-notch-recruiting, high-end bowls, highest ranking since integration, a SB trophy (albeit it a watered-down one), followed by a return to exactly where they were before the cheating?

"Give me door #2, Bob!" ALL DAY LONG.

[Reason2succeed]

It's taking a long time because like a police investigating a crime scene every time the NCAA has packed up their bags to leave Oxford they have tripped over the body of a dead prostitute on the way out of the door.

It's not because OM has such a beautiful campus or that OM's compliance staff "invited" them back.

No, it's because the more the NCAA digs the more they find. That's why they sent an NOA, received a response and are STILL INVESTIGATING.

OM will be hammered just because of the sheer volume of infractions. Unlike the past the NCAA now has a matrix to follow for punishment.

Even by a miracle of the false prophet Hugh Freeze the best that OM can hope for is mitigated circumstances on every violation. That's unlikely because what excuse can you make for all these "mistakes". But even if that were to happen the mitigated punishments would still add up to substantial penalties.

Remember Level 1 means that the violation "threatens the integrity" of amateurism. They threatened the integrity of the sport 8 times and there is more to come after the completion of the ongoing investigation.

Anyone saying OM isn't going to get hammered has either been deluded by the NCAA's past, OM's "superiority" or is blowing smoke up your butt.