It has been reported that they have records of actual payments made to Tunsil and his family. It helps when the player involved cooperates with the NCAA.
If only what you said were true. The NCAA decides when / if it will punish teams on what appears to be pure whim. There's literally zero consistency, which is why many of us want to see the P5 teams leave and start their own division, completely apart from the NCAA.
You get the full Banjeaux for that Thanksgiving Day chuckle. Well played.
Can't argue with that. As I have stated many times in the past, I hate the NCAA.
Oh don't get me wrong. Ole Miss is guilty as sin. I just find it interesting that Miss State is behind almost every single recruiting investigation in the West for the last 7yrs or so. Basically since Mullen has been there. I think they have tried turning us in for stuff too. Maybe Bo Davis?
My favorite part of it is after all the blatant payouts to recruits and players, they never even won their division.
Have they given any kind of time line?
They were set to go before the NCAA a few months ago. Then, the second investigation began. Word is the second letter of NOA arrived in Oxford a few weeks ago. There's been no confirmation, though. If it has, OM will have to respond fairly soon. That would make it go public like the first one.
North MS connections say the uproar is over the perceived shortcomings of the compliance department. For almost a year now Joe Average fan has told us about the UM compliance department being out in front of all these reports. This was "self reported" and that was "self reported"----everything we've heard to now has been that Ole Miss and the NCAA are working together to investigate a few things and everything has been "self reported". Women's basketball was "self reported". Track was "self reported". Laremy Tunsil's borrowed cars were "self reported". This information regarding the local clothing establishment, Rebel Rags, was provided by one of the players under immunity and playing at "another school" and certainly was NOT self reported. The NCAA showed up to ask questions before the compliance department could investigate/warn and the NCAA was even accompanied by a local UM lawyer.
What's the story with Rebel Rags?
Does Laremy Tunsil's instagram postings count as self reporting? :tongue:
Truth is that no one knows for sure yet. NCAA went straight there after getting the information from the player of another school who says he received several hundred $ worth of free merchandise. This is not news. This happened several months ago but the leak just took place. Company line is that it is a tee-shirt shop. Reality? Who knows.
Barney has already been discussed. Let's take a look at Dan Werner's coaching history...
Those times in Miami weren't the cleanest in UM history. He also takes a random year to spend in Auburn to be an offensive consultant for Tubbs? He's with Freeze and O for two years in 2006 and 2007? Seems like Dan did some job jumping to avoid trouble.
We can't throw too many rocks----Werner came from the same coaching tree that gave us Pannunzio and Stoutland.
