Quote Originally Posted by Really Clark? View Post
They didn't sue Fulmer, it was Tom Culpepper (recruiting analyst) and the NCAA, Paul finebaum, SEC and a host of others. The judge threw out the lawsuit against the NCAA, SEC, Finebaum, etc. and removed Ivy Williams as a plaintiff, in the end it was just defamation that Cottrell went against Culpepper and a jury awarded $30 MIL to them. A few months later the verdict was overturned in what the judge declared the decision bias and severely flawed. Years later in his book the judge described the lawsuit as little more than a hoax and there was no conspiracy to bring down Ivy, Cottrell, and Alabama Football. The Alabama Supreme Court agreed with the judge's decision. Cottrell attorney used the local and national media to mislead the Fulmer and Tenn connection which the judge found a lot of shoddy reporting by the media and hiding of documents that showed that Tenn reported to the SEC of issues concerning Means but never mention any other school. The SEC classified it as rumor at the time. Cottrell's attorney also tried withhold evidence to the media that it was Arkansas that reported the violation not Tenn to play up the bias and misleading the public....boy does this playbook not seem familiar right now within our own state.
That's pretty accurate... Phat Phil dropped dime (along with TC) as "secret witnesses"...

Additionally, (I believe) UGA, UK, Memphis, Arkie also got in a lil trouble for their recruitment of Means, although it wasn't the bomb they dropped on TTown....

This is why OM's reaction is so perplexing to me... If the NCAA has a hard on for you, you're screwed... and if they (the NCAA) will do that to a conference's cash cow (that was cooperative) over 1 (major) incident, imagine what they will want to do to a belligerent, welfare case, never-was-anybody program like OM....