Originally Posted by
Spiderman
All I'm hearing from Reb Fan is,...... well none of this has anything to do with today. It all happened a long time ago and they can't get us for that. Statute of limitations and such.
Ok, whatever. I have no idea how far they can go back if they can or can't get them, and any way, that's not the topic of this post.
This is.........
When Eddie O came in, all of a sudden some players who had no chance to were getting in school. Most notably Powe and Oher.
If anybody has ever read The Blindside, there are some very telling things in there. One is the joke of the BYU courses, which I think are no longer allowed (but not sure). They were then. So even with the BYU courses, if you read the book you know there is no way Oher passed an ACT or SAT, whether timed or untimed , or read to him. Powe either.
What was the common thread of all this?
The Plan... quoted, heralded, fellated, spewed, and praises of sung of by every Reb Recruitnik from Chuck Rounsaville and his dingleberry Yancy, to the main dingleberry remover himself Shep Smith.
Everybody still talks about The Plan. Most credit Saunders with it. I say Saunders learned it and maybe polished it from someone else.
Who? Let's look at somethings.......
1st exhibit.......
2004-2005 (From Wikipedia)
Oher's low grades were initially a barrier to his acceptance to an NCAA program. He eventually increased his 0.76 grade point average (GPA) to a 2.52 GPA by the end of his senior year so he could attend a Division I school by enrolling in some 10-day-long internet-based courses from Brigham Young University. Taking and passing the internet courses allowed him to replace Ds and Fs earned in earlier school classes, such as English, with As earned via the internet.[6] This finally raised his graduating GPA over the required minimum.
According to a passage in the book, one of the A's, I believe it was for an English credit, was writing a short paper on Abe Lincoln. (Dumbass me sat through 2 semesters of Sr. HS English for no reason at all). No mention of ACT or SAT.
Wow, that was a great Plan.
Now let's take scholar Powe.....
Powe returned to Waynesboro to retake courses, attended Penn Foster Career School, a prep school in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and took correspondence courses in 2006.
Uh oh, now we are back in good old Wayneboro, home to Advanced ACT Tutoring.
As we see Powe and Oher were already on The Plan before Saunders came back to Ole Miss in '06.
Now, there were others on the Plan but let's just use these two well known examples for now.
Exhibit 2......
There is one common theme from the time Eddie O got there, Saunders arrived, and today.
What would that theme be????
One Danny Hugh Freeze, Jr.
The well known HS football coach of Michael Oher. Who parlayed Oher into his current 4.7 million dollar a year job. Who helped Oher with the Plan. Who then worked alongside Saunders later on where they polished the Plan.
Danny Hugh had a history in HS of being a great recruiter. If you read The Blindside you will know that not the Tuoghys, but Hugh Freeze got Oher into Briarcrest.
Again from Wikipedia......
The school's football coach, Hugh Freeze, submitted Oher's school application to the headmaster, who agreed to accept him if Oher could complete a home study program first. Despite not finishing the program, he was admitted when the headmaster realized that his requirement had removed Oher from the public education system.
Note... Briarcrest is not a public school.
Then, after enrollment...
In 2004, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy, a couple with a daughter and son attending Briarcrest, allowed Oher to live with them and eventually adopted him.The family began tending to his needs after becoming familiar with his difficult childhood. They also hired a tutor for him, who worked with him for 20 hours per week
Sean Tuoghy was a a "volunteer" football coach for Briarcrest at the time. And wealthy enough to hire a private tutor( who was also an avid Ole Miss fan) for Oher. And pay his tuition so his buddy Danny Hugh could get him a stud O-Lineman. Make no mistake, Michael Oher was Ole Miss bound from the get go. But he was not gonna make it academically until the Plan, tutor or no tutor. Because as we can see, even with the tutor, Oher only managed a 0.76 GPA.
The NCAA looked into all of this and this is basically what they had issue with....
The first issue was that Oher's grade-point average (GPA) was still too low to meet the requirements for a Division I scholarship at the time of the offer from Ole Miss. That difficulty was corrected by graduation, when Oher completed online classes through Brigham Young University.
The Plan worked.
Issue number 2.......
The second issue was the Tuohys' preexisting relationship with the school and the fact that Ole Miss hired Freeze twenty days after Oher signed his letter of intent. Freeze asserted that his position with Ole Miss was not an example of quid pro quo for encouraging Oher to attend the school, but rather the result of his preexisting relationship with Ole Miss offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone.
Now that's some serious bullshit there. I'm sure if Danny Hugh had been at Fuzznut HS without the top O-lineman in the nation, Coach O would have hired Ole Danny Hugh strictly on the recommendation of the newly hired Mazzone, (who Coach O didn't know, and hired only because of a recommendation from Dennis Erickson, and thought so much of him that he fired him that same year)
Issue number 3.....
Freeze was found guilty of secondary violations for contacting other Memphis-area recruits before joining the Ole Miss staff.
Damn, Danny Hugh was an NCAA cheat before he ever even got to Ole Miss. Now that's impressive.
So we see that Hugh Freeze was looked at askance before even getting his office job at Ole Miss, where in said office he was supposed to have no contacts with recruits anyway.
In 2005, the University of Mississippi hired Freeze as an assistant athletic director for football external affairs.
In no way should he have talked to any recruit off campus with this job. Notice the job title "Football External Affairs." In other words, glad handling HS and JUCO coaches.
But as we saw, he was doing what he had always done well, recruiting Memphis. Just like his HS days when he recruited Oher and everybody's favorite woman beater, Greg Hardy to Briarcrest.... Hardy amazingly ended up on the Plan and at Ole Miss also.
The following season, he became the tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator, positions he held through 2007.
So, as we see here, Danny Hugh was on staff and executing the Plan long before Saunders reached Ole Miss in 2006.
After that season, he replaced head coach Ed Orgeron on an interim basis before the hiring of Houston Nutt.
Hey Ole Miss, did you realize that you fired Freeze to hire Nutt? Off topic, but the thought made me laugh.
Freeze interviewed for the offensive coordinator position with Nutt, a position that eventually went to Kent Austin.
Again, a little off topic but at coaching clinics around the south when Nutt was hired, I heard from many coaches that should know, that Coach O warned Nutt about "that backstabbing little shit Freeze."
Boone loved Freeze , who reportedly was feeding Boone negative stuff on Coach O to him, and tried to pressure Nutt into keeping him. I've also been told that Nutt not doing so was the 1st crack in the Nutt- Boone relationship.
I never thought I'd hear Hugh Freeze's name after that. My, was I mistaken!
So to sum up........
The NCAA ended up at ULL because of stuff uncovered at Ole Miss. That is irrefutable. They went after Saunders, who we have seen by evidence and timeline, arrived at Ole Miss AFTER the Plan was already being used. Saunders was judged guilty by the NCAA.
I submit Saunders isn't the 'mastermind" of the Plan.
So who was?
Who was at Ole Miss before Saunders and already using the Plan even before he, Freeze, was at Ole Miss? Who is at Ole Miss now, and again seemingly working miracles enticing young men into attending Ole Miss, and getting certain one's eligible? Who has already been chastised by the NCAA before, and now is under investigation again by the NCAA? Who has a history of cutting corners to achieve his objectives all the way back to HS ? Who is so devious that other coaches would tell of him reportedly being called a backstabber by a former employer?
I may be way off base, but I submit that all the evidence points to, and should by logic, lead back to the only one who has been at Ole Miss 7 of the 11 years in question....
That one is The Reverend Danny Hugh Freeze, Jr.
What say you?
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