Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
Excellent post and I would be OK and would agree to recruiting peacefully as you say without all of the ridiculous hat parties, Flipmas, and etc. Unfortunately, I do not believe Ole Miss can help themselves. They're always going to want to do crap like that. In the meantime, we're just going to continue to recruit like we do and see mostly positive results on the field.

The thing that State fans have to be careful of is not expecting them to get too much in terms of sanctions. Any State fan that thinks that they are going to get the death penalty is going to be disappointed. I don't think that's what is going to happen. I do think they will get sanctions- probably more along the lines of what USC got which would be relatively worse to Ole Miss since they won't fill 15 spots up with all 4-5 star recruits.

The other thing that has been discussed in this thread that State fans have to be prepared for are Ole Miss fans blaming this all on MSU. We need to hammer home the point that this is NOT us and is more about Georgia and the other big boys. They are going to repeat, repeat, repeat again that it's MSU turning them in until some State fans actually end up believing it. Let's not let that happen on the message boards. I am 100% sure that when this is all over that they are going to try to turn us in to the NCAA for whomever, and they are going to say "well, it's because YOU turned us in first" even though that is not the truth.

On that note, I just hope that we stay as clean as possible in the meantime and that the Will Redmond situation is turned into a blessing in disguise by exposing the weakness of our compliance dept. I hope that weakness gets corrected in the meantime.
I agree with everything here pretty much, but especially the bolded paragraph. UM absolutely loves that their fans are turning this into an MSU thing; that gives them a scapegoat and takes the pressure off of them cheating. They will let their fanbase be ignorant to what's really going on, so long as the administration and big boosters aren't getting the blame.