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And the genius couldn't use one of his burner phones to call the hookers.

Wow.

That dadgum student athlete #39 made them do it.

"Mars’s letter prompted Ole Miss to self-report the information to the NCAA and distribute the phone declaration form to the football staff. Of the 29 people who filled it out, the school says, none reported using a burner, prepaid or pay-as-you-go phone during their time at Ole Miss." - yea, like they would admit to it........seriously? That's like saying people on public assistance don't use drugs because they all say they don't..........

How can I read this or pull this up article without having to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal?

This should be easy to run down - request financial records from all of the targets, find out where they purchased to phones and subpoena the records from the carrier. Most electronic communication these days is extremely difficult to anonymize, and I doubt these fools were practicing the kind of advanced tradecraft that would make this difficult to track. My guess is that they went to a big box store and paid for the phones with either their university or personal credit/debit card and used the SIM that was provided with the phone.

However, if these guys bought unlocked phones with cash from stores with limited security or via private sales and used a variety of SIM cards this could get tricky. When I worked overseas, I'd buy an unlocked phone from a street vendor in country with cash and purchase the SIM card from another street vendor. When I was getting ready to leave I'd remove the battery, destroy the phone and toss the parts in trash bins around town, then I'd break the SIM card and flush the parts down the toilet in my departure airport.

I think the only way the NCAA will figure this out will be reverse targeting.

If a man will cheat on his wife he will cheat on his business partners, employer or anyone else he comes in contact with. It's a fact !!!!!!!

That a boy KF. This should appease some of your JPS critics.

And to think, the former coach probably went to church every week, sat in a Bible study, and tweeted constantly about his faith. it was all a lie. all of it. he needs to find the faith he touted for so long

@9:44, and he'll cheat the state out of taxpayer's money

Ole Miss confronted the coaches in August. But how many former coaches did they confront
like Freeze, Farrar and Kiffin?

9:57 - he had faith, it was just in himself

1. If Freeze set up a burner network, why didn't he use it to call whores?

2. Essentially, the article says that Mars sent official communication (by text message) that he was going to go public within hours because he was impatient. Then, he sends a letter 3 weeks later saying the same (sent to another attorney because the first seems to have blown him off). Then, Ole Miss asks for the proof he claims so that they can submit it to the NCAA - whom they are already contacting about the situation - and Mars won't provide it? Hmmmm. Sounds like a lot of talk to me. Maybe he is still trying to figure out venue. Third times the charm.

Hugh Freeze had some big time shortfalls and it seems that Mars do too.

Mr. 9:28: you need to check your racisist comment " all people on public assistance.........". Keep in mind that many doctors, farmers, business people, developers, builders along with the financially insecure receive public assistance.

Late to the party rosie, i mean kingfish?

Mr. 9:28 made no mention of race...it's pretty clear that any problem with race is yours. Just sayin'.

"When I was getting ready to leave I'd remove the battery, destroy the phone and toss the parts in trash bins around town, then I'd break the SIM card and flush the parts down the toilet in my departure airport. "

You must be in a VERY interesting business to require all this James Bond maneuvering. When I traveled overseas I used my phone to say good night to my kids in MS. No need to hide anything.

And 10:23, YOUR racism is showing. Nowhere in 9:28's post did he mention anyone's race. YOU assumed he meant black people because YOUR stereotype is that only blacks collect welfare or use EBT cards. Any sentient mammal knows there are disreputable members of ALL ethnic groups.

Go Coach O.....

On the flip side 10:23, Elon Musk (the billionaire) is one of the largest recipients of public assistance. The FedG has been propping Tesla up for years.

Freeze has yet to say anything publicly about apologizing to his wife or family or anyone else for the hookers. For a man who tweeted everything and was very vocal it seems that they may not have been for him, but for the recruits.

10:23 - public assistance and drugs have a race? I mean other than cocaine being white, I was unaware...maybe you have an underlying prejudice here...

anyone who wears their Christianity on their sleeve as a way to look good is a fraud

Dang, 9:43 AM, did you work for the CIA? Are you Jason Bourne?

(I wonder how many coaching staffs have Edward Snowden-like computer wizards as contract consultants?)

As I understand it Mars put this together while working for Nutt. In the beginning all Nutt wanted was a public apology. Can't do it. So we have Freeze calling whore houses, for years. Then Nutt wants the apology plus $5000,00 to set up a fund to help stop this cheating in the state. No can do. So now they have the burner phone deal. I think the NCAA, despite 2-3 years working on this, had no idea about the burner phones. If Mars got former recruits to give him phone records it would not be hard to put together the burner phone deal. You don't need the phones or records from them - you have phone records from the kids they were calling on days when it was against the rules to be making these calls. So once again the NCAA thinks they are ready to had out the penalties only to find even more corruption and of course coverup by the Webles. I have always thought the AD would be fired at the end of this, but now I think the President (Chancellor, Head Frat Boy, whatever the title) has gotta go also. It's not the cheating, it's the fact that there does not seem to be one honest SOB in the whole place.

I believe the cheapest most secure burner phone would be an Apple Ipod connected to wifi using a free text and call app or Imessage with a made up account. I think the only way to trace that would be for Apple to give up the information which would not happen without a Supreme Court order. With all the old Apple devices laying around its ridiculous to think the NCAA can police the use of burner phones.

To 9:43 a.m. - we actually do all our business overseas and some of it is interesting. I'm dumbfounded at the lengths you go ........ absolutely amazing. We normally just pack the burner phones, bring them home and dump them at the office in the garbage after we take out the sim, battery and whack it with a hammer. Little secret -- it's easier than what you're doing!

As a journalist, KF surely knows not to go into a discussion of 'Mars' without identifying who Mars even IS.

3:37 - gotcha, our group's policy is to never take a domestic phone or SIM card overseas or to bring foreign items back with us. Oh well - dif'rent strokes...

Who says Freeze DIDN'T use burner phones to call hookers? I'm betting that for every one call made on his official/personal phone(s), he made twenty - or a hundred - on burner phones.

If you think back to ANOTHER loudly-"Christian" man who allegedly used hookers (Lewis Nobles, past President of Mississippi College), the amount alleged to have been embezzled for that purpose, was around $400,000.00 (about $800,000.00 in today's Dollars). Even at ten thou a trick (in today's Dollars), that's 80 tricks. If we double the expense to twenty thou per trick (plane tickets and hotel suites, ya know...), that's still at least forty encounters, and surely 80 phone calls, to line all of this up.

And that's just the elderly Lewis Nobles, a man who probably made one-twentieth the salary that Freeze was getting. A big, young, strapping football coach, with millions of Dollars at his disposal, and a travel schedule which takes him all over the place, surely has the stamina, the funds, and the opportunity, to avail himself of many, MANY more hookers than did the frail and relatively poor Nobles.

And, let's remember that secret slush funds are commonplace in Football - slush funds which can be diverted at the discretion of those who hold them - with NO accounting for expenditures, since the money's origins, and even its existence, are secret.

My personal guess is that there were HUNDREDS upon HUNDREDS of phone calls, getting women lined-up for "The Great Football Hero". The calls made on his official cell phone may have been just the tip of the iceberg.

All that time spent cat-chasing, might explain why Freeze, a man who, during his entire adult life, has had easy and unlimited access to the best workout facilities imaginable, looks like a sixty-year-old, and not like the 47-year-old he actually is.

8:28, your naked attempt to tie all that hookerage to beaver himself, alone, is transparent and typical of the black bear apologist approach to this whole, sordid mess. Rational people clearly understand that the bookers were, in large measure, for recruits. Yes, beaver Swaggart partook of the shewbread, no doubt, but the goodies were for the recruits.

9:06, I went to Delta State, and then to Tulane, for my 'terminal degree'.

I hate Football, which I consider an evil corruptor of educational institutions. And I hate Ole Miss, which I consider to be a DISEASE - not a school. My family would have a lot more money, had my parents' generation, and half my cousins, opted for other schools. Ole Miss is where they learned to drink, smoke, and be trivial, conformist, socialite FOOLS. I dislike Ole Miss grads who live around Jackson. And I can tell when someone from that disease of a college is behind the wheel of a car, before I see the Ole Miss car tag. They even DRIVE, in a reckless and self-entitled manner.

I was at a big family party, a few years back. A late-middle-aged (and flat-broke) cousin (who was in a top sorority at Ole Miss) was liquored up, and delivering a "hilarious" monologue - at ear-splitting volume - about a recent trip to a casino. Something about her brother (a KA at Ole Miss, naturally, and also flat-broke) passing out, drunk, on a blackjack table, or a roulette table, or something. A cousin from the Midwest looked over at me, and whispered, "Everything about this story MAKES MY SKIN CRAWL!" And that, pretty-much, describes my own feelings about Ole Miss and its people: makes my skin crawl.

That "Black Bear", by the way, should be the mascot for a Headstart Center, or, at best, for a public high school on the bad side of a blighted town. For such mawkish, infantile imagery to be associated with the state's supposed "Flagship University", says truly pitiful things about the state of Mississippi. That Bear is so trite, it should insult the intelligence of anyone who actually belongs at a 4-year college.

I'm not sure why it's better or worse, if the hookers were for the recruits, or for the Coach. But then, I don't give a flyin' puck about games, and so don't know the pecking order which applies to the peccati e peccatori of Football.

But since you're obviously a lot closer to the situation, can you explain to me, why 18-year-old football standouts - guys who, presumably, have state-of-the-art bodies - need prostitutes? I mean, besides being in phenomenal physical condition, they have all that Football hero status, and have had it for years. Surely, 99.9% of them have been getting all the nookins they can handle, for a long, long time. What do hookers have, that cheerleaders don't (besides STDs and drug habits)?

And, if the phone calls were about lining-up 'shewbread' for the recruits, then wouldn't that mean even MORE CALLS than I was guessing? Aren't you telling me that I'm even more right about this than I'd thought? ...like maybe there were THOUSANDS of calls, most of them made from burner phones?

'Beaver Swaggart' is a perfect name for that bloated old thing. Thank you! I'll repeat it.

WOW 12:15 AM, I agree with everything you wrote in your essay---Ole Miss ruined my cousin's life with alcohol and final killed him---he was also a KA and finally ended up sleeping on the streets---he died last year drunk on the streets of Vicksburg. I don't blame Ole Miss but drinking on that campus is out of hand.

I also went to Delta State---and I don't drink at all but I am broke.

12:15 AM - you are my kind of person. I despise Ole Piss just as much as you, and no, I didn't go to MSU (for those of you out there that automatically assume that). I've got two boys that are in middle & high school, and I would only allow them to go to Ole Piss over my dead body. Even if they received a full scholarship there, I'd rather pay my hard-earned money to send them somewhere else to avoid that whole shit show atmosphere up there. UMC is a different story as long as they get an undergraduate degree somewhere else. I ain't got nothing for Ole Piss and Oxford.........flagship university my ass!!!

9:06..."hookerage" Best. Word. Ever.

These stupid, cheating dung beetles( new mascot)are the gift that keeps on giving. They are the laughing stock of college football.
Whores, burner phones, payoffs, etc. Gotta be movie there.

With "flim flam" in your cheer who is surprised? Anybody read the book by that title?

By "Stupid, cheating Dung Beetles", are you referring to that "bear" thing? (which looks like a cheap stuffed animal, left on a makeshift "memorial" pile, at the spot where a cop shot a Hoodrat)

Or, are you referring to the equally moronic 'Landshark' under consideration? What the puck is a 'Landshark', and what does it have to do with Ole Miss? Does it refer to the personal injury lawyers who come out of Ole Miss? Maybe it depicts the arrogant, incompetent, greedy-guts doctors the school produces? Crappy authors, who seem unable to make money writing about anything other than "colorful" Southern pathos, or injustices done, once upon a time, to black people? Lobbyists, maybe? Bad drivers? Bad drivers killing people while driving drunk? Drug dealers? All of those things typify Ole Miss. But do any of them count as 'Land Sharks'?

"Many sick people have always been among the poetizers and God-cravers; furiously they hate the lover of knowledge and that youngest among the virtues, which is called "honesty." They always look backward toward dark ages; then, indeed, delusion and faith were another matter: the rage of reason was godlike-ness, and doubt was sin."

Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

This morning at 4:32, a fellow realized he had a quote written down somewhere and he posted it. If he takes his eyes off the text, he won't be able to repeat it and God knows he has no clue what it means.

Every day You learn new information about a lack of Institutional control at Ole Miss and a widespread WILD WEST attitude looking for the next hired gun.

Burner phones are just an example of lack of institutional control. These incidents with Ole Miss forced to take action after the facts are made public demonstrate a lack of leadership by Ross Bjork.

Landsharks? Bah! They look like they are imitating a rooster with the hand on the helmet thing. Rooster Cogburn would be a more fitting mascot!
Because of his drunkenness and questionable use of firearms, aging one-eyed (wearing a distinctive black eye patch) U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) in the Indian Territory (future Oklahoma) has been stripped of his badge by Judge Parker (John McIntyre) at the territorial capital of Fort Smith for excessive violence, fatness and drunkenness, complaining he had "gone to seed"!. But he's given a chance to redeem himself after a shipment of highly explosive nitroglycerine is stolen from a transporting troop of United States Army cavalry. Rooster agrees and eventually tracks the outlaws, led by Hawk (Richard Jordan) and his gang, along with Rooster's former scout Breed (Anthony Zerbe - who had earlier betrayed the Cavalry troop escort to be ambushed at a creek crossing by Hawk's cutthroats), to a church mission at the remote settlement of Fort Ruby in the Indian Territory. The village had been overrun earlier by the gang who camped overnight plying the Indians with liquor and gambling, who then killed an elderly missionary preacher who protested, Rev. George Goodnight (Jon Lormer) and a number of the local Indians. The Reverend's spinster daughter, Miss Eula Goodnight (Katharine Hepburn), wants to join Marshal Cogburn to track the criminals down, becoming his unwilling partner along with her student Wolf, the son of one of the deceased Indians, who aspires to be one of the first Indian lawmen and United States Marshal.

I don't know what a land shark is, other than the brand name of a cheap beer. Strange. Dung Beetles gets my vote with The Burner Phones a close second.

I mean, come on! That one movie is er'thing Ole Miss! Liquor, lawless renegades, a preacher (Hugh Freeze?), a missionary, overtones of both "The Help" AND "The Blind side".....it's Ole Miss to a T!

Yeah, I don't get the whole Landsharks thing. Maybe in past seasons when Ole Miss' defense was actually good could they justify that abomination. But here lately, their defense is more like Swiss cheese. Maybe they should adopt the Green Bay Packers' cheese heads headgear. That would be much more appropriate instead of that rooster head gesture they do. Once again, they have become the laughing stock of the SEC on so many different levels.

We could all probably agree that the "Founding Fathers" of the "Landshark" schema, being the Ole Miss Football defensive squad, chose the name "Landshark" as per the definition in the Urban Dictionary: "A Ho that uses her teeth on your Johnson". So there, Rebel Nation, explain THAT to your little kids "throwing up the fin"!

What is unbelievable is that the Ole Miss faithful have yet to become outraged at THEIR ADMIN., THEIR COACHES, and THEIR ALUMNI, for destroying THEIR PROGRAM. Its someone elses fault! It is really unbelievable.