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So, you are telling me a part-time tutor is solely responsible for "leading these athletes astray"?

Not a State fan by any means, but this is kind of a stupid allegation that athletes were paying students/tutors to take quizzes for them.

If you don't think this happens at every school across the country with regular students, you're living under a rock. Not saying that to justify or condone the action, but this is hardly MSU's fault when students across the nation cheat in the exact same manner.

Amazing- a SEC school self-reports instead of lawyering-up. And determines and offers penalties that the NCAA accepts. A class act rather than a 5-6 year dumpster fire that results in the CEO (Chancellor), AD, Head Coach, coaches and fans being fired or resigning or disassociated from the program. Kudos to the MSU President, AD and coaches for showing how to respond to a mistake made by a athletic department tutor.

Cope more, leg humper apologists!

A “MISTAKE made by an athletic department tutor?” No chance anyone higher up knew it was happening? Own it, cow dog.

Some "athletes" do not understand a "code of ethics". Quite frankly I put SEC football in the same category as the NBA. If you watched the thugism of teh Miami hurricanes this past Saturday against Florida you might agree. What in the hell is all of the grandstanding and gangsta bling before the damn game is even over? WTF ?

So shouldn’t the students be removed from the university for cheating? I have not seen that anywhere.

Amazing--MSU tells the NCAA that a tutor "lead astray" a dozen athletes at up to $350 a pop for taking tests,etc., and the NCAA takes their word for it that there was no one in the athletic dept. in on it. No follow-up on who paid the money, who put the tutor together with the athletes, etc. Maybe the money came from the same jr. college coach who happened to have an extra $10,000 to give to his good friend Leo Lewis. I guess we'll never know since the NCAA turned (another) blind eye to msu. Kudos to the msu president, the AD and coaches for getting the NCAA to accept their version of this "mistake."

It is an open secret that most of these semi literate athletes wouldn't have made it to college without cheating. But you all love to watch them play ball.

As an LSU alum living in Mississippi, I say thank goodness for quality programs like LSU basketball and football where honor and integrity always come before winning. Unlike Ole Miss and State, the Tigers would never allow such shenanigans on its campus...wink, wink....

Too much money in college athletics, period.

The legion of "boosters" who are trying to act like bigshots are really just has-beens or never-will-bes just trying to feel important, but guess what - the university doesn't give a shit about you, and if you lost all you money today, they wouldn't answer the phone if you called.

Get over yourselves.

@1:10 you are exactly right. Power 5 college football is about on the same level as the NFL or NBA when it comes to thuggish behavior of the players. It's almost unwatchable. With each passing season, I care about it less and less.

The moral of the story is: what goes round comes round. Shit stinks no matter where it falls and it generally falls on everyone at some point in time.

1:37. What was your 40 yard dash and how much did you bench coming out of high school?

Oh, right. No need to post whatever weak numbers they were. You must have concentrated on "academics." So, what the hell are you doing in this state? This is a football state, just like Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. If you don't like it, then move to New York or whatever the hell that state is called up north.

BRING ON THE FOOTBALL!

It was solely the tutor's fault-

I love college football and baseball. I always have and always will. More than college ball is the enjoyment I get from high school football and also baseball. that being said there is not one single D1 program in the country that doesn't "bend the rules". Not a single one. Find one that is 100% legit and within the guidelines of the NCAA and I will buy you a steak dinner.

Although all schools do it, on line courses make it easy to do, athletes or non athletes.

Except for Alabama(2:15)

I can tell you now, Mississippi State University does not intentionally cheat. To the obvious UM fans, get over your arrogance and quit complaining that your incompetent leaders can't even admit wrongdoing. "Accepting a version". LoL Do you not think the NCAA didn't investigate it thoroughly enough. You are dumb, if you really believe they didn't. Suck ass and get over it. There may be larger infractions orchestrated by State, but they are smart enough to hide them. Some folks know how to keep their damn mouth and shut and not brag about breaking a rule. Rebs to Rags.... What a joke of a business. GO SUCK AN EGG.

There is a long history of tutors scamming athletes......I'm just thankful the leg humper leadership was so open and forthcoming about this situation of a rogue tutor. Down with tutors!

@1:10

I didn't see the game. Can you give some examples of the thuggish behavior in the UM/UF game?

Better to be a leg humper than a pompous prick.

So much hate here. Can't we all be friends? By the way, I understand the tutor has moved to oxford, where she will work to make the UM athletic program academically superior.

Cow Dog?

Plantation Momma!

Somebody in maroon has become a little sensitive after enjoying a few years of throwing rocks from their glass house.

How quickly we forget Waynesboro ACT Tech.

"if you have facts about a violations, send it to complaiance@olemiss.edu. If not, please do not slander these young men or insult their family"

I hope that one of these days a university that is hit with NCAA rules violations that result in a significant loss in revenue will file a civil lawsuit against anyone that knowingly and willingly participated - employee, student or booster. A school that gets a bowl ban for a couple of years is hit hard in the pocketbook in numerous ways. Hit a coach, graduate student or player with a multi-million dollar law suit and it will help curb this type of crap.

State is known far and wide to be a very dirty program. I for one thinks it takes being dirty to compete with the really big cheaters.

@3:24: First you say msu doesn't intentionally cheat. Then you say msu may be guilty of larger infractions, but they are smart enough to hide it. Which is it?

I think cheating on a test in college should get you kicked out of school. The first time you do it, at every school. That said, almost no schools do that and I don't expect my school (MSU) to do it when no one else does. But I must say that when I went to MSU the one time I say someone cheat, I never saw the guy again. As I understand it the tutors are hired by the athletic academics department and they don't report to anyone in the athletic department, but to the provost. Apparently the tutor was a girlfriend of one of the players. I believe 100% that no full time MSU employee knew of or encouraged this type behavior. I hate that it happened but am very proud of the University for self reporting and for making a deal with the NCAA so they could get this over with ASAP. Contrast with the school up north who lied about their cheating for two or three years after they were caught and fought the NCAA tooth and nail. And then amazingly the AD who was one of the main liars (Maybe the AD wasn't aware of the cheating but he damn sure was one of the main liars) somehow got a promotion to go to A&M. Amazing.

5:31 You are out of your mind. The SEC team that has been penalized the 2nd worst in the conference behind Auburn is Mississippi. This is a school that altered ACT scores and hired hookers for players. I’m sure some of the recruits mothers were happy with that.

These comments are pathetic. the people commenting on this website are so ruthlessly mean for no reason at all. It truly is sad. The majority of Ole Miss and MS State fans are normal people and don't think or say these things, but these comments reflect so negatively on both fanbases and of course it is coming on JJ's notoriously evil comment section.

Should open up the flood gates for anyone wanting to report an MSU violation. Now that they are on probation for 3 years and repeat offenders, any more cheating that gets brought to light could be the end of MSU athletics. Somebody probably better let Howland know to take it easy for a while or this will get ugly.

Damn. 10 football players and 1 basketball player at least attempting to take college chemistry? Color me impressed!

Why weren't the cheaters expelled?

MSU only expelled the tutor?

Ruh roh.

10:27 I think cheating on a test should get you expelled, but apparently very few schools do that now. My wife teaches at a different University in this state. She said basically the first time you cheat you get zero on the test. Second time you fail the course. Third time, expelled. Why they need three chances, I have no clue. Same with dope. Get caught with illegal drugs you should be gone. If every school did these things the students would adjust to the new standard. That said, I don’t fault MSU for having similar rules to other universities.

Give Hughbert Freeze the tutor's phone number. She's gonna need spiritual guidance.

So tell me how this is different from a celebrity paying money ($500,000) to get their kid on a rowing team? At least in that instance the law went after them. Isn’t this the same? If you back out the, as one poster above said “ semi-literate” , and place a good kid who does more than that illiterate kid you would be doing society a great deal.

another poster said, “how much can you bench press or how fast you rank 40 yard dash” ..........bet he doesn’t have kids yet that have to sit in a public school and wait for the semi-literate kid to ATTEMPT to read at a 3rd grade level when he is in the 8th grade because momma say “ you don’t need to go to school to learn. You go to school to play ball. Somebody else gonna carry that load for you.” I think I’m pretty much saying it. You shouldn’t go to college if you can’t read and write....or speak in an indecipherable speech.

3 probations in 15 years. How do these players not get kicked out of school? Especially the one who never did any school work at all? Is there no code of conduct at MSU? Will MSU let them keep credit for the classes? Did the school give them an F in the classes? If so, are the players still eligible with the GPA and required NCAA progress towards a degree? Lots of questions MSU is covering up.

@8:40

Be fair, some of, if not most, of the hookers were for the coach, not the players....

@8:40

I think that you are confusing Ole Miss with Louisville. The former Ole Miss Head Ball Coach was the one getting hookers. Maybe he was hiring them, so that he could minister to them.

Let's all be real. College football and basketball are big scams. They are minor league franchises run by universities. Remove the non-profit tag from these sports programs and see how many get out of the business. Make the NFL and NBA pay for their own player training and development and make the universities get out of the business.

To get back on subject, MSU cheats like the majority of the other major universities do. State and Ole Miss need to stop ratting each other out though, so that they can continue to field competitive teams going forward.

7:25 You should really work for the NCAA. I bet the questions you asked, simply never cross their mind. Only intellectually motivated individuals would have come up with those questions. Great Job. You dumbass.

The players received an "F" and the grade for online chemistry.

MSU does not expel students for academic fraud. No standards have ever been set.

@ 1:42

LSU may actually be headed for trouble. i.e. John Paul Funes and Our Lady of the Lake. I think he paid $180,000 for an LSU offensive linemen and gave Rohan Daveys family some cash.