NCAA to formally charge Ole Miss with rules violations (Freeze has resigned)

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Houston Nutt would settle lawsuit against Ole Miss for apology



Houston Nutt's attorney has offered to settle the former coach's federal lawsuit against Ole Miss if the university apologizes for making inaccurate statements about him to the media and donates $500,000 to establish a state commission on sports ethics, sources with knowledge of the case told ESPN on Monday morning.

Last month, Nutt filed a lawsuit against Ole Miss and the university's board of trustees, alleging former coach Hugh Freeze, athletic director Ross Bjork and other athletic department officials violated a separation agreement with Nutt by making disparaging comments about him in off-the-record conversations with reporters.

Nutt's attorney, Thomas Mars of Little Rock, Arkansas, wouldn't confirm details of the proposed settlement, which he sent to Ole Miss officials on Friday. University attorneys couldn't be immediately reached for comment.
Who knows if Schlabach is being played by sources from Oxford or not...
 

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Apologizing may compromise their case with the NCAA?


If not, why in the heck didn't they do this from the start? Can't apply logic to crazy, I guess.
 

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State Commission on Sports Ethics in Mississippi would uncover 40 years of ACT Fraud and would #FreeChrisVaughn.
They can't afford that-----they can afford $500K but $500K would turn into tens of millions.

Oh, btw---that slamming sound you just heard was Pat Dye's sphincter.
 
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State Commission on Sports Ethics in Mississippi would uncover 40 years of ACT Fraud and would #FreeChrisVaughn.
They can't afford that-----they can afford $500K but $500K would turn into tens of millions.

Oh, btw---that slamming sound you just heard was Pat Dye's sphincter.
Is that a Cam reference, or is there more???
 

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State Commission on Sports Ethics in Mississippi would uncover 40 years of ACT Fraud and would #FreeChrisVaughn.
They can't afford that-----they can afford $500K but $500K would turn into tens of millions.

Oh, btw---that slamming sound you just heard was Pat Dye's sphincter.
Nutt is really boxing them in from a PR standpoint. I guess if OM refuses or delays Nutt and his team will start slow dripping more infractions/tabloids to the media. It's great too because you can't label Nutt a MSU guy pushing a vendetta against a rival.

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Look at when Wayne County became the War Eagles and how many kids from that part of the world went to Auburn between then and 2006. No Cam reference intended---they just bought him. Most of the rest of them were not getting in school until Wayne County happened. And that doesn't include the Mobile area----it isn't but an hour from downtown Mobile to Wayne County High School. Think back to Mike Dubose's statements about that area when he was an assistant----------
 
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Nutt is really boxing them in from a PR standpoint. I guess if OM refuses or delays Nutt and his team will start slow dripping more infractions/tabloids to the media. It's great too because you can't label Nutt a MSU guy pushing a vendetta against a rival.

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Really?...
 

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They have some, and will have all through subpoena power, of Hugh's phone records for a phone that was never intended to be used the way it was used. There is no assumption of privacy on any phone that is used to conduct State business. If there is even one phone call from Bjork or Vitter on that phone, it is free game for FOI requests.
 

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Apologizing may compromise their case with the NCAA?
If not, why in the heck didn't they do this from the start? Can't apply logic to crazy, I guess.
They already admitted that the infractions occurred, just that they were Nutt's fault. If they admit that they knew Nutt was innocent, then they admit to deliberately misleading the NCAA, and that won't end well for them. Of course, at this point it's not going to end well for them regardless.
 

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And then you had this little nugget dropped by Finebaum on WJOX this morning.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sa...es-much-hugh-freezes-story-calls-escorts/amp/
I wonder if Finebaums opinion leans more toward Freeze's behavior all the way back when he was at the HS level? It barely got mentioned, I only saw it suggested a few times on FB. But supposedly after Freeze's resignation some young ladies took to twitter suggesting some inappropriate behavior during the years while they were in HS. Normally a man who force feeds his faith into as many microphones as he can get in front of his mouth is normally hiding something. There's no telling the skeletons in this man's closet.
 

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I wonder if Finebaums opinion leans more toward Freeze's behavior all the way back when he was at the HS level? It barely got mentioned, I only saw it suggested a few times on FB. But supposedly after Freeze's resignation some young ladies took to twitter suggesting some inappropriate behavior during the years while they were in HS. Normally a man who force feeds his faith into as many microphones as he can get in front of his mouth is normally hiding something. There's no telling the skeletons in this man's closet.
The adage of "a leopard just doesn't change his spots overnight" comes to mind. And it appears Freeze may have issues going back to his Briarcrest days.
I'm just wondering if some of this "pattern of behavior" that led to Freeze's resignation was so damning that Bjork and Vitter Thompson got it was important to "get it out, kill it, and move on" before much more digging could be done. Bjork stating "this has nothing to do with NCAA investigation" makes me think that he had Vitter both had worries what other issues Freeze could have "in that closet" that could present as an NCAA issue.
 

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I wonder if Finebaums opinion leans more toward Freeze's behavior all the way back when he was at the HS level? It barely got mentioned, I only saw it suggested a few times on FB. But supposedly after Freeze's resignation some young ladies took to twitter suggesting some inappropriate behavior during the years while they were in HS. Normally a man who force feeds his faith into as many microphones as he can get in front of his mouth is normally hiding something. There's no telling the skeletons in this man's closet.
Does anyone suspect Freeze's conduct, whatever it was, bordered on (or crossed over into) criminal? I guess I could be wrong, but I don't think Freeze walks away from a $16 million buyout over anything less serious. And if it is criminal, and OM is still covering it up for him, watch out.
 

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I wonder if Finebaums opinion leans more toward Freeze's behavior all the way back when he was at the HS level? It barely got mentioned, I only saw it suggested a few times on FB. But supposedly after Freeze's resignation some young ladies took to twitter suggesting some inappropriate behavior during the years while they were in HS. Normally a man who force feeds his faith into as many microphones as he can get in front of his mouth is normally hiding something. There's no telling the skeletons in this man's closet.
Go back a few pages in this thread, and there are several posts about it, or do a Twitter search for "Hugh Freeze Briarcrest."
 

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Does anyone suspect Freeze's conduct, whatever it was, bordered on (or crossed over into) criminal? I guess I could be wrong, but I don't think Freeze walks away from a $16 million buyout over anything less serious. And if it is criminal, and OM is still covering it up for him, watch out.
The solicitation thing is enough to get any coach fired for cause if the school wants to do so. Freeze was never going to quit, and Ole Miss didn't want to look even more guilty by firing their head coach.

They used this as an excuse to fire him while continuing to deny the NCAA violations.
 
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