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It is quite apparent from this video that the utmost arrogance still permeates the program. Maybe the NCAA should relook at and enhance these penalties.

Hell, they got off extremely light.

As an ole miss alum, I am disgusted by the entire gang in O-town. If the “Big Boosters” have all the money and really run the show , then let the pay for everything. The “little fish” like me need to spend our money elsewhere. Admin needs to fired and the boosters involved should be named and banned by the university. I’m done until the entire house is cleaned from top to bottom. If money really talks, then in this case lack of it will speak even louder.

I hope all the attorneys involved are working pro bono if not the legal fees are going to be greater than the lost Bowl revenue. The thing they should be irked about is the slap on the hand that Brother Freeze received when he was the one that opened the door for every booster with an extra $100 access to the dressing room

I think it what they meant by "delusional defiance."

The Rebel's crimes don't compare with Texas A&M spending $75 million on Jimbo.

I told yall Patterson was going to abandon ship. Michagan, A&M, LSU...Southern Miss...where will he land.

Why is there ALWAYS some Ole Miss fan saying something along the lines of "well, what we did doesn't compare to what x, y or z did".
Does that really justify the lack of institutional control and make you some sort of victim?
Why is the A.D. still employed there?

you would leave too if they cut off your allowance

Take a look on the TV at the small crowd size at MHSAA's Championships being played at Vaught-Hemingway....might be foreshadowing of next year's home game crowds for the Rebs.

Hubris, in all things thy name is Ole Miss.

The new NCAA matrix for penalties was supposed to be implemented in the OM case. A Level One violation would carry a loss of two to four scholarships. With 15 Level One violations, OM could have faced 60 lost scholarships and that is before considering the Level Two violations.

OM received less than one scholarship loss per Level One violation. OM skated better than Dorothy Hamill on this case. For Vitter to complain is to pander to his constituents.

The Ole Missus' plantation in Oxford is due for a shameful house cleaning. "We're better than you because we think so" doesn't work anymore. The sorority/frat boy arrogance of the last 60 years is old news and reeks of bigotry and hatred. The university's very moniker is a racial slur, and the "on-field" mascot "Rebel" is a symbol of the Never! philosophy that says we're the F-you school....we won't EVER believe in integration and equality because we're building a haven for whites only in Oxford....but shhhhh, don't talk about it out loud. Much of the state is quite tired of the sick, blind-faith culture that only leads in one thing: How to cheat, lie, deny, and cover-up despicable unsportsmanlike conduct - and now the very leadership gloats because the soft, limp NCAA that has zero legitimacy anymore. It will be open-season for college recruiting going forward.....why not take the chance? There's no penalties! And hey....you might just win a championship! So it's now MORE than worth it to break any/all rules to get it done.

Vitter is a damned fool. Bjork is waiting for his pink-slip. The faithful are still jacking off and blaming State. Moving right along...

Yawn

Dilly,Dilly!

Can you Butler Snow. Understand that a family from Wayne County hired a lady to coach players before they took their ACT's. Even installed new field at Wayne High!

2:43, Growing up in the South, I learned a long time ago something about the typical good ole Mississippi boy: The amount of independence he proclaims is in inverse proportion to the amount he possesses. This ignorance, masked over by the traditions of Ole Miss, is passed on from generation to generation. The rest of the South has long ago moved on and prospered.

Vitter is gone in January

Yeah, Ole Miss administration controls the football program about as well as they control under age drinking in the grove and in the stadium. Wouldn't send my kids to that school if it was the easiest school to get into and cheapest school in the state. Oh, wait. It is.

There are classes all over the state in many of your top high schools where they teach the basics of taking the ACT. Just check out many of your local high schools.

There are private tutors all over the state who teach students to do the best they can on the ACT. They teach different things; you can even buy books that guide you through the test taking process. Go get you one.

There is nothing illegal with this practice, and you can find workshops for many other tests available.

If you know so much about everything, how do you not know this 6:13? Many high schools get new fields,
having nothing to do with ACT testing . Go worry about something else.

11:34 - Instead of taking that irrelevant rabbit-trail, perhaps you should read the reports, findings and sanctions. It's not at all about coaching kids up to prepare them to do their best. It's about cheating to ensure a favorable outcome.

This is from a 6/20/16 Sports Illustrated article (very detailed) regarding the Ole Miss situation. The article references 'Academic Fraud' as the label placed by the NCAA on the ACT activity. Here's part of that report:

"Few will argue that the allegations related to ACT fraud during Nutt's tenure are the most serious of the charges against Ole Miss. The fraud was allegedly orchestrated by former Ole Miss staff member David Saunders and assistant coach Chris Vaughn in 2010, according to the Notice of Allegations. The Notice states that three Ole Miss recruits were guided to a rural Mississippi testing center by Vaughn. According to the NCAA, Saunders arranged for the ACT testing supervisor to "complete and/or alter their exam answer sheets." The recruits experienced five to eight-point jumps in their test scores. (Saunders has already been given an eight-year show-cause penalty by the NCAA for orchestrating an ACT fixing scheme at the same testing center and providing extra benefits to a recruit while at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.)"

That sort of 'assistance' is in no way related to taking a class on how to prepare for the ACT. The OM Faithful can paint that however they like. They can claim it was old news and happened during their prior favorite coach's tenure. They can claim Mississippi State fabricated it all. They can claim the boys just scored 8 points better after being encouraged and told they are valuable and that their lives matter. But, at the end of the day, it was ACADEMIC FRAUD.

Freeze always referred to it as 'The Narrative' and claimed everybody else was just jealous of his recruiting ability and success. We see how that worked out.

Lastly: Where are the names of the (supposedly disassociated) boosters? Bjork said they had already been 'disassociated'. Who are they? (Besides "NoooBaddy Cannon")

Lots of comments by Ole Miss fans and sports analysts that have not read the findings of fact by COI.

If the NCAA or a university wants to end the problem of " rogue boosters", the penalty should be permanently banning said booster from the college campus of his favorite school and all games of university sports , at home or away for life.

Coaches or "rogue boosters" who pay for prostitutes or alcohol for recruits under age 17 and 21, respectively, should be criminally charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor or illegally serving alcohol to those underage.

It's not a punishment for the booster to be publicly embarrassed. His community likely already knew the rogue booster was an arrogant asshole.

6:53pm The fan base for all things Oxford is delusional. They don't even realize how ashamed, or at least humbled they should be, of the school's own history. You would think they would want to move on from that history completely, yet is is furthered by each generation. The name Lamar for instance is held up like some kind of distinguished historical public servant connected to the development of the school.....when in fact he owned over thirty slaves and personally filled the articles of secession for the State of Mississippi. The college's identity rests firmly on the "pride" of never giving up the Confederacy's purpose, or "heritage". Even the incoming US Attorney (recommended by the outgoing US Senators from Oxford of course) is named Lamar - which is so sad. They have a real identity problem it seems, and are intoxicated with their own self-delusion that they represent something special.

Does IHL have a role here? Can they clean the slate on their own?

8:46am Excellent question.....but sadly, they're the Oxford foxes that guard the hen house that is Mississippi. They have numerous legacies on that board directly connected to the school's image and "heritage". You'd think SOMEONE would be screaming conflicts of interest....but not in Mississippi....where you're not born and bred, but rather born and inbred.

If only Ole Miss Admins worked as hard to control their program and boosters as they worked to control the playing of Dixie and the carrying of flagpoles or banners in the stadium...

Not one in fifty OM fans agrees with sanctions or wants anything to change. They're like mamas in poor cities. They just don't want their boy to get caught. If they can figure out a way to continue this crap under the radar, they are perfectly fine with that. Meanwhile, 49 in 50 will continue to ignore personal responsibility/accountability and continue to blame everybody else for their dilemma.

Just look at the number who say shit like "Everybody does it" and "Them damned leg-humpers did this to us!"

11:34
Do high schools have students transferring to Wayne County High? Do they have a tutor who also Is the proctor giving the ACT exam? Big Problem!

The arrogance, the entitlement, the pride is terrible. They believe they should be allowed to do anything they want and not be held accountable. This is embarrassing. I'm an Ole Miss graduate who has worked for what I have, and have taught my kids to work and be accountable. I'm embarrassed by our athletic department. They need to be fired. All of them need to be fired. Bjork and Vitter are unable to stand up and be men and take responsibility for the despicable actions within our program. We have embarrassed ourselves enough. It's time to stop.

MSUX is next.