OT: Laquon Treadwell's commitment to Ole Miss makes more sense now

1/2 were pissed at how our coaches "could be so stupid"...then the rest of us all knew what was going on.

It happens all over the country, in more ways than people realize. In the end, not a big deal and probably not the only kid THIS YEAR that we lost due to "other" circumstances.

I've worked in college athletics for quite some time, there's only so much you can do. Just yesterday, I heard a story about a dad pimping out his own daughter who was on the welcome team (they've got all kinds of names for the group and literally every school has them)...giving her money to give to recruits, take them out, do whatever. School had no knowledge, just some crazy, rich, fan that thought he was helping his team.

We have crazy freakouts on MGoBlog all the time, can you imagine what that's like at the "MGoBlog of Ole Miss?"

Fact is, you can't control an entire fan base. If people want to cheat, they're going to cheat. The bigger issue is making sure coaches aren't involved and student-athletes are educated.

For every athlete that takes money, there are probably 10 more than turn down handouts. Hell, I remember when I was in college. Me and my best friend who played football at OSU walked back to his dorm...at the door was a box. Inside...a Rolex. He had no idea where it came from, it didn't even say anything other than "Go Bucks" on it.

Another friend who was at MSU had someone give him an envelop with $400 in it. Neither guy kept the gift or knew where it came from. Neither guy got another gift to my knowledge...but I don't think in either case anyone associated with the University knew about it until they turned them in. 

I think LTs exact quote was that Michigan wasn't "showing him the love." People took that as UM coaches not speaking with him when that is clearly not the case according to the wise TomVH. Also, Shane had a quote during the UA game along the lines of "Im recruiting LT but not sure what this dudes deal is."

Looks like we might know what "the love" means now.

I agree!!! I believe you have posted that before right? It would make a great tv special

Yeah, see, if they get those guys as well, there's definitely money changing hands. No way that many top-shelf recruits suddenly pick random Ole Miss.

I believe Nkemdiche's brother plays for Ole Miss currently and Ole Miss pulling a guy from Georgia is basically like us pulling a guy from Pennsylvania

Second, Anthony Standifer goes to Ole Miss who I believe is one of Laquon's best friends.

Given those points, it's still suspicious for the biggest sad sack in the SEC to be pulling guys in like that but there are definitely plausible reasons for them to pull in those two

Anytime a high profile recruit is flashing wads of hundreds .. It's suspicious. I don't care if the kid is black, white, green, yellow, purple .. It doesn't matter. Plenty of white kids and black kids come from wealthy families and plenty of white kids and black kids come from families that have nothing. Point is ... Anytime a high profile recruit flashes wads of hundreds right in the middle of recruiting season and decision dates .. It's suspicious. Even kids from wealthy families are rarely given thousands of dollars at a time to flaunt around. And with all the shady recruiting that has been proven to be true this is more so. Lastly, the way LaQuons recruiting unfolded was shady in itself. It's a miracle that Ole Miss suddenly lands the top recruits out of no where. One I could see .. But Tunsil, Nkemdiche and Treadwell? They could end up with that trio and how?

yea,him being black is what this whole thing is about.

Grow up

Negged for bringing race into this. ~100 comments in, and yours is the first to bring up race. Top reasons for why this pic raised a red flag in just about everybody's minds:

- Recruiting has been known to be less than virtuous over the years, especially in the south/southeast.

- A year ago, Treadwell seemed like a heavy Michigan lean. For whatever reason, he decided to go to Ole Miss, a mediocre school in the south. I'm sure many people wondered (and some may have commented, I don't know) if there were some shady dealings. However, we have had no real reason to think that he was under-handedly lured to Ole Miss - despite being a mediocre football school, their campus is beautiful (by all accounts), they do have a long (albeit rough) history, his best friend just finished his freshman season there, and their coach is known to be a good, enthusiastic recruiter.

- He claimed that Michigan coaches weren't "showing him the love." From TomVH, we know the coaches didn't cut off communication with him, so they must not have been giving him what he was looking for.

- A week before NSD, he posts a picture on his Twitter account with a handful of money, then quickly deletes it. There are obviously many ways he could have gotten that money, and we have no proof that he got that money from a booster (we don't even have proof that that was his hand in the pic), and it's possible he removed a perfectly legitimate picture of money to avoid speculation.

All of that adds up to raise some question marks, and none of that has to do with race.

Uh, where did you work in high school? 20 hours a week at a minimum-wage job wouldn't even net him 150.