OT : Is Ole Miss screwed

[demauroj]

So it appears that Tunsil has admitted to taking money from a member of his coaching staff after some dialogue was put on his hacked intagram account.

Is Ole Miss holding an email server erasing party at this very moment?

 

[Leonard23]

So it appears that Tunsil has admitted to taking money from a member of his coaching staff after some dialogue was put on his hacked intagram account.

Is Ole Miss holding an email server erasing party at this very moment?

Southern Miss may get the death penalty.

 

[RUSK97]

So it appears that Tunsil has admitted to taking money from a member of his coaching staff after some dialogue was put on his hacked intagram account.

Is Ole Miss holding an email server erasing party at this very moment?

Yep, the NCAA will determine that he's banned from ever playing for the Rebels again.

 

[vkj91]

Everyone knows ole miss is cheating. Think about this.....USC's best recruiter and beloved coach couldn't recruit or win at Ole Miss. They go and hire a HS coach and start landing top 5 classes? I have a good friend who was offered 6 figures to deliver a recruit to them recently. Apparently nobody really cares.

 

[Ataylor1989x]

The only truly safe bet is that no power five team will ever receive the death penalty. Tv contracts alone require all major conference schools to field teams.

 

[Caliknight]

The NCAA is completely useless. They are allowing UNC to systematically cheat over decades. A guy getting some money from his coach isn't going to raise an eyebrow.

This is what we compete against, especially in these conferences.

 

[mdh2003]

The only truly safe bet is that no power five team will ever receive the death penalty. Tv contracts alone require all major conference schools to field teams.

This is a really good point.

Another point, the NCAA as a "governing body" is pure nonsense. NCAA = The member schools. When was the last time you went over the speed limit and immediately wrote a check for the fine? It don't happen. Better yet, how about reporting your boss, or wherever you get your paycheck, for going over the speed limit. Think that will go over well? The NCAA is remarkable consistent, they act in the interest of themselves (the schools). Not really shocking.

 

[Dpgru]

The only truly safe bet is that no power five team will ever receive the death penalty. Tv contracts alone require all major conference schools to field teams.

Things have changed on this board since the amended UNC report. I said a similar thing quite a while ago when everyone was saying that UNC would get hammered by the NCAA. The NCAA will never kill the cash cow that is the p5 leagues. The networks won't let them nor do they don't want to. Don't expect much from the "governing" body on any of these issues. I was skewered by the people on the thread for my opinions on the issue. Now all sorts of posts are saying it. Follow the money folks. The NCAA is not going to kill any of it's cash cows.

 

[LotusAggressor]

Ole Miss isn't screwed. This just means that the NCAA will land on Directional Boondocks A&M like a ton of bricks.

 

[RUScrew85]

So it appears that Tunsil has admitted to taking money from a member of his coaching staff after some dialogue was put on his hacked intagram account.

Is Ole Miss holding an email server erasing party at this very moment?

If the NCAA let the rape coverup at PSU go and look like now they are going to overlook UNC's academic cheating for the last 20 years, what makes you think they care if Ole Miss is paying players or skipping drug tests?

 

[Abro1975]

Unless RU goes 'rogue' it's doubtful it can compete with the big boys.

 

[Raritan83]

Ole Miss isnt screwed. If Tunsil doesnt cooperate with the NCAA, Ole Miss will deny and it will then be on the NCAA to prove it and we have seen in the past how well that goes.

 

[Cheesesteak Vegas]

LOL at the guy above talking about PSU. Maybe if the NCAA cared less about grandstanding, it could actually enforce its own rules and punish schools that cheat rather than trying to legislate criminal behavior. How Mark Emmert still had a job is one of life's great mysteries.

 

[LC-88]

The only truly safe bet is that no power five team will ever receive the death penalty. Tv contracts alone require all major conference schools to field teams.

Somehow I think Rutgers would be the sole exception to this rule of thumb.

 

[miketd1]

Their women's basketball team is gonna get hammered for this

 

[hrdcorhays]

Can we declare a moratorium on the Jerry Tarkanian joke from 30 years ago with a different school/team getting punished when a big school does something wrong? It was funny the first 7000 times I heard it.

 

[Beancounter88]

I used to work with a guy who went to Ole Miss who told me a couple of things.

1. You guys up north work way too hard
2. You guys up north care way too much about school - they're all the same books
3. The SEC is our pro league in the South. We don't care about school, money or crimes. We don't consider it cheating.
4. We got nothing else besides SEC football

 

[krup]

LOL at the guy above talking about PSU. Maybe if the NCAA cared less about grandstanding, it could actually enforce its own rules and punish schools that cheat rather than trying to legislate criminal behavior. How Mark Emmert still had a job is one of life's great mysteries.

That rationale is idiotic. The NCAA didn't have to "legislate criminal behavior" to punish Penn State. The main charges most schools penalized by the NCAA face is "failure to monitor" and "lack of institutional control". Just because the underlying events surrounding what happened at Penn State were criminal doesn't mean Penn State's athletic department wasn't absolutely guilty of both charges I mentioned.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

hummm....yeah.. right....

 

[newell138]

 

[Knight Shift]

Unless RU goes 'rogue' it's doubtful it can compete with the big boys.

And some people were cowering over Flood's actions last year resulting in NCAA sanctions. At least RU takes shit seriously and nips it in the bud. Tunsil looks like he has nipped some buds, but that is a different story.

 

[LotusAggressor]

The only truly safe bet is that no power five team will ever receive the death penalty. Tv contracts alone require all major conference schools to field teams.

You won't ever see the death penalty administered again. Except if RU goes undefeated and wins a NC. SMU got the death penalty because they crashed the big boy football party, and the big boys didn't like it.

 

[LotusAggressor]

Can we declare a moratorium on the Jerry Tarkanian joke from 30 years ago with a different school/team getting punished when a big school does something wrong? It was funny the first 7000 times I heard it.

It's funny because it's true. And as long as there's an NCAA, it will always be funny and it will always be true.

 

[SirPerceval]

They are already under investigation - if anything this just buys them more time - the NCAA process is so flawed in that it is actually advantageous to keep getting caught every 6 months for something new.

 

[calvin2711]

Somehow I think Rutgers would be the sole exception to this rule of thumb.

Sadly, I would bet you are 100% correct about this.

 

[jor22]

No-See UNC.

 

[cicero grimes]

This is just business as usual in the SEC. Nothing will come of it just like the OK State story that SI broke a couple of years back.

 

[knightfan7]

Their women's basketball team is gonna get hammered for this

Supposedly the NCAA has been "investigating" Ole Miss for 3 years. It started with WBB and the turnaround in football recruiting.

 

[mikemarc1]

No way NCAA lets this go. I say Ole Miss gets punished.

Won't be the death penalty, as NCAA said they won't hand that down anymore.

This story is too big right now for the NCAA to look the other way. I bet they hit Ole Miss with something significant, just my opinion.

 

[cicero grimes]

No way NCAA lets this go. I say Ole Miss gets punished.

Won't be the death penalty, as NCAA said they won't hand that down anymore.

This story is too big right now for the NCAA to look the other way. I bet they hit Ole Miss with something significant, just my opinion.

I hope your right but too many things have been ignored before. The UNC thing is disgusting.

 

[MozRU]

These guys are going to pay a dear price of Ole Miss's transgressions

 

[hrdcorhays]

It's funny because it's true. And as long as there's an NCAA, it will always be funny and it will always be true.

Originality is funny. Plagiarism isn't. That same joke has been made 4 times in this thread alone.

Its just like calling every scandal -Gate.

 

[mikemarc1]

I hope your right but too many things have been ignored before. The UNC thing is disgusting.

NCAA has a reason (though yes, it's a BS reason) they haven't punished UNC yet. It's more of an academic scandal than an athletics scandal...according to them.

This Ole Miss situation is 100% a big NCAA no-no. There's now evidence of it..and it's something the NCAA has been investigating for a while. Think there will be a harsh punishment.

 

[Rokodesh]

I always laughed at the UNC will be punished posts, knowing they won't get touched.

No way NCAA lets this go. I say Ole Miss gets punished.

Won't be the death penalty, as NCAA said they won't hand that down anymore.

This story is too big right now for the NCAA to look the other way. I bet they hit Ole Miss with something significant, just my opinion.

The only thing the NCAA would do is require ole miss to pay biweekly, to make accounting easier.

UNC and Ole Miss will emerge unscathed, I would bet my life on it.

 

[RUfromSoCal?]

USC lost a Heisman and most of a season for less (not that anyone cares)

Everyone knows ole miss was cheating to get those high ranked recruits. But, will anyone ever care?

 

[Dpgru]

That rationale is idiotic. The NCAA didn't have to "legislate criminal behavior" to punish Penn State. The main charges most schools penalized by the NCAA face is "failure to monitor" and "lack of institutional control". Just because the underlying events surrounding what happened at Penn State were criminal doesn't mean Penn State's athletic department wasn't absolutely guilty of both charges I mentioned.

What actually went on is not the issue for the NCAA. They are interested in how they can punish the school for what went on without really hurting them. Thus, it is all about the loophole in the regulations. Once they discovered their way out from under the infraction they can now make it look like they care but "their hands are tied". Don't expect harsh sanctions, you are setting yourself up for a big disappointment.

 

[NotInRHouse]

Ole Miss will be banned from a bowl for 2 years but if they don't pay anyone for a year, NCAA will lift the penalty because they learned not pay players. ESPN will then celebrate the justice and how unfair it is that rules apply to SEC schools.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

You are talking about a part of the country that would rather teach creationism, lives on fried food,spends their summer weekends watching cars drive around in circles and would do anything ,ANYTHING, for their college football programs. What they preach against on Sunday mornings they are perfectly good with on Saturdays.Go Rebs.

 

[Scarlet16E]

People forget that the "death penalty" was enacted to punish repeat offenders. Even at that the thought was that it would never be used.

Then SMU's Board of Regents voted to continue paying players who were already receiving payments, that had not been discovered by the NCAA in their original investigation, while SMU was under sanctions for paying other players. The thinking among SMU's BOR was that if they ceased payments the players were likely to talk. Continuing payments was seen as the "safe" option.

When the NCAA was confronted with evidence of this (SMU repeating the infraction even while being penalized for the same thing, and that this was authorized at the highest levels of the University - the President and Board of Regents), they were essentially forced to use the death penalty that nobody ever thought would be used.

 

[El Curioso Impertinente]

You are talking about a part of the country that would rather teach creationism, lives on fried food,spends their summer weekends watching cars drive around in circles and would do anything ,ANYTHING, for their college football programs. What they preach against on Sunday mornings they are perfectly good with on Saturdays.Go Rebs.

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