What's the story with Dogra? How's he connected with this?The only thing I hate is that he didn't mention Ben Dogra one time.
The NCAA’s misguided mandate of amateurism results in rampant cheating in order to succeed in college football. So the point of all of this isn’t to determine if Ole Miss was cheating. That’s a given. The point of the NCAA’s investigation could only prove whether or not Ole Miss was any good at cheating. (Spoiler: Not at all.)
“The problem at Ole Miss was that the head coach was searching his own name on Twitter every damn day,” a former staffer in the Ole Miss program said. “He became fixated on the criticism. He never got it, never understood it’s just part of the job. And most [head] coaches don’t give a s... about what’s said about them on social media because they aren’t reading it anyway.”
Rather than ignore that somewhat customary noise, Freeze made the biggest public relations gaffe of his career. In a since deleted tweet, Freeze wrote, “If you have facts about a violation, send it to compliance@olemiss.edu. If not, please do not slander these young men or insult their family.” [sic]
“Nothing will haunt us more than that stupid tweet,” a source at Ole Miss said.
"Tell everybody but Alabama"Interesting read. My only quibble is that it suggests that the NCAA's ability to look the other way to arrive at a predetermined conclusion is a recent development.
It's a recent development for the fans that haven't had firsthand experience with the NCAA's investigative side.Interesting read. My only quibble is that it suggests that the NCAA's ability to look the other way to arrive at a predetermined conclusion is a recent development.
The NCAA's investigative side is quite a bit like shady, investigative journalism where they're guaranteed to "find" a story - if they don't find a real one quickly enough, they'll just invent one and report that.It's a recent development for the fans that haven't had firsthand experience with the NCAA's investigative side.
The funny thing about the Ole Miss penalty is that the NCAA was able to ignore evidence that a key witness(Leo Lewis) was lying, and evidence that he took money from other schools' boosters (State, and others).It's a recent development for the fans that haven't had firsthand experience with the NCAA's investigative side.
I think he also took issue with the NCAA forcing a player to come talk about the recruiting violation (having promised him immunity from NCAA punishment) while that same player has a liable suit pending against him. The NCAA cannot protect a player from civil suits, but they made him speak to the committee anyway, knowing that what he said would cost him later. "Who was the NCAA actually trying to protect here?"Can someone sum up the content so I can decide whether or not this is worth my time reading?