OT - Ole Miss self imposes reduction in football scholarships
Mortification of the flesh, Opus Dei style. Thank you Dan Brown for your words of wisdom. #DivinciCode
The NCAA shouldn't allow it.
Oh wow, only some folks into creepy stuff are going to upvote that gif. At least you didn't put the James Bond one with him strapped naked to a chair and his boys getting constantly slammed.
Sounds like self-abuse.
"Double digit" scholarship reduction probably sounds a lot worse than it really is. I am guessing they will probably do something like OSU did. Loss of 12 scholarships over 4 years, for example, is 3 scholarships per year (82 total scholarships instead of 85). Most programs would barely notice the difference.
During the years OSU was being penalized, Michigan actually had less players on scholarship due to attrition from all the coaching changes.
It's not even 3 scholarships per year. It's 3 scholarships one time, with a refund on those 3 scholarships 4 years later.
Take Michgian's 2016 recruiting class, knock the lowest three guys off, and then add three more guys back in 2020 and you've got this "punishment".
3 in decimal is 11 in binary which is double digits.
Double digit = 3.0
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will do jack-squat to Ole Miss and Bama?
Figured as much.
I have to be punished for ignoring my girlfriend, so my self-imposed sanctions are banning myself to a strip club that serves beer.
"All but one of the 16 Level I violations arose from intentional misconduct committed by rogue former employees or boosters outside the University's direct control acting in contravention of rules education provided to them by the University,"
I like how if you end up on the wrong side of the fallout that you suddenly become a "rogue employee" in these instances, even in cases like this where there is well-founded belief that the failures which allow it to happen are systemic in nature. I have to imagine that - by law - Ole Miss has to provide more than "Don't get caught" in the way of rules education, but more and more it seems like that is about the only rule some departments and programs really emphasize.
The question is whether they tolerated it or participated in it. For the NCAA the question is whether they can prove either. I don't think we'll see many more cases like Tressel, where OSU provided the emails proving Tressel lied about knowing. Instead we have coaches expert in plausible deniablity, no matter how implausible it may be. Looking at you, Rick Pitino.
OLE MISS AD: So, um, yeah, we're going to have to do something. We got quite a few email responses on that address you gave out.
FREEZE: And the OSU option isn't available?
OLE MISS AD: Gene Smith called and said "that's my move".
FREEZE: And we are not in the same class as Alabama?
OLE MISS AD: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
FREEZE: Well, we only pay the top 80 players anyway. How about minimal scholarship reductions?
OLE MISS AD: That's what I was thinking. And now, you have less recruits to sign so you can spend more time with your family.
FREEZE: Uhhh, yeah, more time with the family. That's right. Thanks!
OLE MISS AD: Now where's the women's basketball coach? I have her termination papers ready!!!
a hole...
They do this the day after the Baylor fiasco where the eyes of the college football world are fixated on Waco. No one has any time to grill them.
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Wait, this is part of the punishment...
"a 10 percent reduction in off-campus evaluation days for coaches during the 2015 evaluation period; and a 12.5 percent reduction during the 2016 evaluation period."
They punished themselves by giving Hugh Freeze less time on the road and more time at home with the kids. Fucking Ol Miss
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Its OK, they'll just oversign anyways so its all good.
Remember when we played Alabama in Texas to open the season? A number of comments on this board reported how the Alabama fans were courteous and knowledgable about football. The real people in the south are not all terrible.
It is too damn bad how many of those people running the athletic programs don't play it straight. Don't they get it? They can compete and win plenty of games without resorting to under the table cheating, clandestine corruption, and enabling criminal activity.
College football can be a standar bearer for good values, sportsmanship and hard-fought competition, like Jim Harbaugh envisions.
Or it can turn into just another sad story of corruption and greed, only fit to feed the pathetic tabloid media.
Heaven help us.
I've always looked at self imposed sanctions as a child trying to half ass punish themselves in the futile atempt to avoid punishment from their parents.
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Have self imposed sanctions ever been enough? Even when Syracuse basketball fell on the sword the NCAA still imposed additional sanctions. I can't think of one case where the schools sanctions were enough, Missouri basketball pending.