I don't know if Selma meant it this way or not, but taking someone to court because they called you a cheater (are you listening Houston Nutt) is downright silly. All coaches are called all sorts of names. Get freaking over yourself.
Taking someone to court for claiming they got your shirt for free is also stupid. This "lie" has generated more PR than they have ever had. The players ought to countersue for unpaid publicity. Rags suing these players is like White Star Lines suing the North Pole for the iceberg that Titanic rammed into. If the NCAA case centered on the free shirts then maybe Rags would have a gripe. But free shirts to two players is not what is bringing down Ole Miss -- there are 17 Level 1 infractions on the football team.
. Totally Silly.
Well I'm not a lawyer, but I DO remember this: when the whole Gene Jelks saga was unfolding at Alabama, one of the coaches accused was a guy named Jimmy Fuller. I think he's the one that filed a lawsuit in 1993/94 time frame. What I vividly recall reading, though, is that filing a lawsuit was generally regarded as an absolutely boneheaded move because - as one of the principal attorneys said - "I have subpoena power, the NCAA doesn't."
One of my best friends is a long-term, long-time MSU student who at best passively follows what's going on. I've been keeping him up to date, and while he appreciates the rivalry aspect, he doesn't overly spend his time worrying about what Ole Miss does. When I informed him what was going on here, he (a pretty sharp guy) said, "Why are they doing THAT?"
He still lives in MS and this whole thing is reinforcing - at every step - that much of the PTB at Ole Miss consists of backwoods hayseeds without an ounce of real world sophistication. Keep in mind - I'm basically "from" there, so I'm not ripping the state OR the people as a whole; but this kind of mentality is the same kind of mentality that would lead a group to commit the infamous 1964 Mississippi Burning murders. Before anyone gets all huffy, I'm NOT saying there's anything resembling a moral equivalence between these situations, I'm pointing out that the isolated, backwoods mentality that doesn't bother to think things through (like most notably - how in the world are you going to make THREE people disappear and think nobody would get suspicious or that one of your large group wouldn't have a conscience?) and actually believes it can just pass off any old story in the world.
This entire thing has become a William Faulkner-style comedy.