There is only one inaccuracy to this post...

When football was lily white, Ole Miss was a big deal.

It should read....When football was lily white, Ole Miss was a big deal because they still weren't lily white during the lily white era in college football. Talk to enough of us that were old enough to remember the Vaught days and you will hear of some of the same accusations that you read about today. It just happened to be on a smaller scale in that the majority of a teams players in that day were more localized than what you see today. You didn't have OM buying OT's from Florida or DT's from Georgia. But you did have them buying them from Aberdeen and McComb and Yazoo City. And guess who it hurt the most?

Yes, OM has been corrupt for as long as they have been in existence. The good ole boy "network" has been alive and well in this state in politics and sports for quite some time. And probation once a decade hasn't slowed it down one iota. Hopefully the NCAA has looked back at some of its past rulings and wondered why they haven't been able to slow that train down any.