Here's something I'm confident of without having any inside info: Bjork and Co. can't fire the coaches named in the allegations because they were doing the bidding of Ole Miss Football.

If Freeze fires Barney Farrar for doing something -- for instance paying Tunsil every month -- that Bjork either had winked at or actively directed him to do, Farrar can bring the whole program down.

There will be show causes... ironically that might work in OM's favor by reducing the leverage of the named coaches


OM is teetering on the brink right now, I think the NCAA is on the verge of proving exactly what was said on this pages: there was a network of boosters coordinating with coaches to offer a wide array of illegal inducements. If that is proven, their penalty will be something close to an order of magnitude greater than the 9 over 3 they were fantasizing about five months ago.