Clant Seay is a 71-year-old attorney interested in animal welfare. He moonlights as a citizen journalist with his website billygoboy.com, and he also regularly posts on the RebelGrove.com message boards under the handle “jhvaught.”

Mostly, Seay said, he’s an Ole Miss Rebel.

That’s what led him roughly 300 miles this week to this Cincinnati suburb, where he spent many hours Monday and Tuesday sitting in the corner of the lobby of the Embassy Suites, right outside the doors of the ballroom where the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions held Ole Miss’ hearing....

“I think it’s one of those deals where this entire saga is borderline insane and it’s just the latest chapter,” said RebelGrove publisher Neal McCready. “If it were on anything else, it would have more value, but we’re so numb to chaos at this point that it’s almost semi-normal that he’s over there covering the story for billygoboy.com.”....

"If you need to know anything about jhvaught, it's that he's obsessed with Ole Miss," Ole Miss Spirit editor Ben Garrett said, "but also, he's not afraid to stand firmly behind his stances because he's been banned from the Ole Miss Spirit message boards, immediately went to RebelGrove and started with the same shtick ... and now, he's here. That's surreal."....

It’s a concerning time, Seay admits. But he posted that it was a pleasure to share the past two days with members of the Ole Miss family, while he was sitting in the corner of that lobby, outside those doors, snapping his photos, pondering identities of individuals he didn’t recognize.

“Think of the money we’ve all spent this week to sit in a hotel lobby while armed guards guard a door that no one is thinking of threatening," McCready said. "All of the energy that could have gone to so many other things. I don’t know. In some ways, he fits.”