State-hater Mike Farrell is at it again!

[blacklistedbully]

This imbecile Rivals.com National Recruiting Director wrote a big, one-sided hit-piece against us. For anyone who has read his stuff over the years, this shouldn't be a surprise. He has clearly had a hard-on for us for years.

"I wrote back in late March that I didn't think 2016 five-star recruit Jeffery Simmons should be given a second chance by Mississippi State after he was caught on video pummeling a woman. So you can imagine my disgust when it was announced he would be allowed to enroll in Starkville "under conditions" and would serve only a one-game suspension for his actions.

The justification by Athletic Director Scott Stricklin was all over the map in his interview at the SEC spring meetings, and he even admitted that there was some concern that another SEC school would grab Simmons up if State decided to jettison him.

Really?

After hearing the "punishment" for Simmons and then watching Stricklin try to justify his and the school's actions, I actually felt sick to my stomach. This was an amazing opportunity for a program to send a message to the world just after the Baylor fiasco, and Mississippi State dropped the ball in a big way.

I guess its OK to potentially endanger all of their female students by letting Simmons enroll, and I guess video evidence of beating a woman warrants the same suspension as an academic hiccup or even a targeting penalty?

Mississippi State could have stood up loud and proud and said "not at our university" and punted this kid like it was 4th-and-20, setting somewhat of a standard at least for circumstances like this one moving forward.

Instead, head coach Dan Mullen, Stricklin and President Mark Keenum essentially felt enrolling Simmons was a safe choice because, as Stricklin said, "this is not a sexual violence issue as defined by law."

OK, that justifies it. I am speechless and I'm honestly surprised female students aren't lodging protests right now outside the football office."

[Jacksondevildog]

I believe this guy used to write for RebelGrove.com.

[Commercecomet24]

This imbecile Rivals.com National Recruiting Director wrote a big, one-sided hit-piece against us. For anyone who has read his stuff over the years, this shouldn't be a surprise. He has clearly had a hard-on for us for years.

"I wrote back in late March that I didn't think 2016 five-star recruit Jeffery Simmons should be given a second chance by Mississippi State after he was caught on video pummeling a woman. So you can imagine my disgust when it was announced he would be allowed to enroll in Starkville "under conditions" and would serve only a one-game suspension for his actions.

The justification by Athletic Director Scott Stricklin was all over the map in his interview at the SEC spring meetings, and he even admitted that there was some concern that another SEC school would grab Simmons up if State decided to jettison him.

Really?

After hearing the "punishment" for Simmons and then watching Stricklin try to justify his and the school's actions, I actually felt sick to my stomach. This was an amazing opportunity for a program to send a message to the world just after the Baylor fiasco, and Mississippi State dropped the ball in a big way.

I guess its OK to potentially endanger all of their female students by letting Simmons enroll, and I guess video evidence of beating a woman warrants the same suspension as an academic hiccup or even a targeting penalty?

Mississippi State could have stood up loud and proud and said "not at our university" and punted this kid like it was 4th-and-20, setting somewhat of a standard at least for circumstances like this one moving forward.

Instead, head coach Dan Mullen, Stricklin and President Mark Keenum essentially felt enrolling Simmons was a safe choice because, as Stricklin said, "this is not a sexual violence issue as defined by law."

OK, that justifies it. I am speechless and I'm honestly surprised female students aren't lodging protests right now outside the football office."

He's obviously not speechless as he said or he wouldve kept his mouth shut! Screw the media, what have they ever done to help us? Just another idiot!

[Mjoelner34]

I feel the same way about him as I do Rachel Baribeau. Until either one of them writes a scathing article crucifying LSU and Les Miles about Jalen Mills not even missing a practice, they can both shut their damn pie holes!

[maroonmania]

"I wrote back in late March that I didn't think 2016 five-star recruit Jeffery Simmons should be given a second chance by Mississippi State after he was caught on video pummeling a woman. He should only be given a second chance at schools that I like. So you can imagine my disgust when it was announced he would be allowed to enroll in Starkville "under conditions" and would serve only a one-game suspension for his actions.

Fixed it for him.

[Interpolation_Dawg_EX]

I feel the same way about him as I do Rachel Baribeau. Until either one of them writes a scathing article crucifying LSU and Les Miles about Jalen Mills not even missing a practice, they can both shut their damn pie holes!

Agreed and don't forget to add Quinn Johnson and jevonte domond to that list as well:
http://www.batonrougecrime.com/lsu-f...layer-arrests/

[Pollodawg]

It's all about deflecting the heat from OM right now.

[SaintDawg]

He's obviously not speechless as he said or he wouldve kept his mouth shut! Screw the media, what have they ever done to help us? Just another idiot!

One day in the near future, something will be done to stop these liberal media pussies. We've become a nation of crybabies. I hate to say it, but the only way to curtail the media is to amend the Constitution. It will never go away and will only get worse.

[Big4Dawg]

In the same article:

Something must be afoul in the state of Mississippi these days, because Ole Miss has been under fire as well. While the issues in Oxford are not nearly as serious as they are in Starkville, they are still troubling.

Personally, I feel lied to. I wrote a column back in early February saying we should reserve judgement on Hugh Freeze and Ole Miss in light of the NCAA investigation.

Why did I say such a thing when everyone, even my inner instinctual self, said something was amiss at Ole Miss when it came to landing elite recruits?

I foolishly believed Ole Miss Athletic Director Ross Bjork back in late January when he clearly insinuated that the roughly 30 violations the NCAA found were mainly in regards to women’s basketball, track and field and football with the old coaching staff as well as the Laremy Tunsil, situation which many felt was previously addressed with his seven-game 2015 suspension.

Now we come to find out 13 of the roughly 30 violations occurred in football and only four were under Freeze’s predecessor, Houston Nutt. Only three of those remaining 10 involved loans of cash and cars and improper payments and free lodging in regards to Tunsil and his family, which means this is much more than just a Tunsil issue and certainly wasn’t all about women’s hoops, track and field and Nutt.

Eight of the 13 are Level I breaches, a big deal in the NCAA world. Freeze was so confident he was following the rules that he famously tweeted (and then deleted) the following leading up to LOI Day in 2013…

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Bruce Feldman ✔ @BruceFeldmanCFB
RT @CoachHughFreeze: If you have facts about a violation, email compliance@olemiss.edu. If not, please don't slander the young men
5:10 PM - 1 Feb 2013
254 254 Retweets 154 154 likes
Now Freeze says these are “mistakes” and “not some staff out trying to buy players.” After being misled by Bjork, should we now believe Freeze?

Fool me once, shame on me. The worst part is that good, honest players who aren’t receiving additional benefits and chose Ole Miss for all the right reasons are being lumped in with the lies and deceit more than ever. Freeze didn’t want the young men slandered or their families insulted, but how do you stop that now?

[Coach34]

Unreal- OM signs a WR that got kicked out of another school plus a guy that sticks his fingers in little boy's assholes and then shoves it in their mouth- but he's not outraged by that? Issues more serious in Starkville? Really?

[maroonmania]

After the statement of "While the issues in Oxford are not nearly as serious as they are in Starkville, they are still troubling." how can anything else he says on ANYTHING really be taken seriously?

[MaroonFlounder]

After the statement of "While the issues in Oxford are not nearly as serious as they are in Starkville, they are still troubling." how can anything else he says on ANYTHING really be taken seriously?

I quit reading after that.

[msstate7]

Kelly threatened to shoot up a nightclub
Kim brothers bout beat a student to death
Lil Kim bails out a hotel room
Big Kim smokes himself into a coma
Om signs the anal bandit

And of course the NCAA trouble for 3 different programs at om, but we're the ones that disgust this clown

[EAVdog]

He's just capitalizing on the latest SJW craze.

[starkvegasdawg]

That article reminds me, I need to stop and get some toilet paper on my way home.

[maroonmania]

It amazes me with a school like Mississippi State, with a rather benign past for the most part that has done some rather progressive things (game of change, hiring of Croom, etc.), continues to be hated on by so many sports writers from all over the country.

[mstatefan91]

He's just capitalizing on the latest SJW craze.

This.

[shannondawg]

No one has said it so far so I will. He needs his ass whipped.

I bet that ole gal Jeffery popped could whip half our football team.

[maroonmania]

SJW?

[mstatefan91]

SJW?

Social justice warrior