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We now take you to Oxford, Mississippi...

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NCAA apparently just hit Ole Miss with a notice of allegations for ~30 rule violations for football, women's basketball, and track and field. No word yet on the breakdown by sport or the severity of the violations. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume a lot of them are football given how well they've been recruiting for the last 4 or 5 years or so. In typical SEC fashion it sounds like they may have been ratted out by multiple SEC schools. They tolerate a certain amount of rule bending, but if you start to be too egregious about it, or if you're cheating over your level in the established pecking order they'll turn you in.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/source...ations-193911274.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

I'm not really surprised given Ole Miss currently has the #4 ranked recruiting class, which has been raising some eyebrows.
 
SuperD said:
NCAA apparently just hit Ole Miss with a notice of allegations for ~30 rule violations for football, women's basketball, and track and field. No word yet on the breakdown by sport or the severity of the violations. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume a lot of them are football given how well they've been recruiting for the last 4 or 5 years or so. In typical SEC fashion it sounds like they may have been ratted out by multiple SEC schools. They tolerate a certain amount of rule bending, but if you start to win to much, or if you're cheating over your level in the established pecking order they'll turn you in.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/source...ations-193911274.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

I'm not really surprised given Ole Miss currently has the #4 ranked recruiting class, which has been raising some eyebrows.
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I'm curious as to the nature of Forde's sources. It's...ummm...interesting timing for this news to leak the last weekend before National Signing Day when Ole Miss just happens to be killing it in recruiting this year.
 
I doubt SEC schooLs would snitch on each other, a la the SWC, which led to their downfall.
 
Ole Miss may have fibbed just a tad regarding the severity of the violations in order to not scare off recruits right before signing day. All the sources out of Oxford were claiming the majority of these were for sports other than football, and almost all the football stuff occurred during Houston Nutt's tenure. Apparently the first point is technically true, but 13 of the 28 violations were for football, and the latter was an outright lie. Nine of the 13 violations are on Freeze's staff. No word yet on the severity of the violations.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...aa-violations-involve-football-021416363.html
 
Report: NCAA expands investigation to other SEC players recruited by Ole Miss

The NCAA's investigation into Ole Miss athletics has taken what Yahoo! Sports' Pat Forde is calling a "new twist" in the last month: The NCAA is now interviewing other SEC players about the Rebels' recruiting practices.

Since the NCAA does not have subpoena power, enforcement officials can get student-athletes from other schools to offer their accounts of potential violations by granting immunity. According to the report, this is how NCAA officials were able to get interviews during visits to Auburn, Mississippi State and "perhaps at least one more SEC Western Division school."

Neither the NCAA nor Ole Miss will comment on the details of ongoing investigations.
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http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...n-to-other-sec-players-recruited-by-ole-miss/
 
BuffLuKe said:
I'd be worried if I was them. They aren't Alabama.
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Yep; they'd pretty much be an ideal target for the NCAA to hammer since they're:

  1. Not a blueblood or cash cow
  2. But still a "premier" program by dint of being in the SEC
That way the NCAA can point their critics to how harsh they were on an SEC school. Meanwhile, bigger programs will continue to skate by.
 
Denver_sc said:
Yep; they'd pretty much be an ideal target for the NCAA to hammer since they're:

  1. Not a blueblood or cash cow
  2. But still a "premier" program by dint of being in the SEC
That way the NCAA can point their critics to how harsh they were on an SEC school. Meanwhile, bigger programs will continue to skate by.
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Death penalty for the entire SEC except for Vandy lol.
 
Uncle Ken said:
Cause violent gang rape is a legal matter.
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A lot of these cases highlight, at least for me, how much college sports would benefit from putting its athletics programs within a trade group in the way professional sports teams are organized. A commissioner and common rules that go beyond recruiting, student-athlete benefits & training standards into the realm of punishments for conduct detrimental to the league seems to be what the public wants and is increasingly demanding. That is not, however, something that the conferences or the NCAA are empowered to do. I'm not sure that people understand that.
 
Buffnik said:
A lot of these cases highlight, at least for me, how much college sports would benefit from putting its athletics programs within a trade group in the way professional sports teams are organized. A commissioner and common rules that go beyond recruiting, student-athlete benefits & training standards into the realm of punishments for conduct detrimental to the league seems to be what the public wants and is increasingly demanding. That is not, however, something that the conferences or the NCAA are empowered to do. I'm not sure that people understand that.
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So...no new job for Art Briles?
 
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