re: MSU, Ole Miss rivalry takes interesting turn with message board poster (Coach34)

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Med - so ULL got hit with Head Coach sanctions, bowl bans, TV bans, etc. b/c of Saunders?

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ULL was hit with scholarship penalties and a lot of vacated wins.

All I mean in this convo is that Saunders lack of cooperation after he was fired was never removed from the allegations or reduced from Level 1. It was included in the very last NCAA document as one of the infractions that led to ULL's penalties. So Ole Miss fans can't assume that OM won't be held liable for Saunders and Vaughn lying to the NCAA after being fired from Ole Miss.

This started with an OM fan saying that there aren't really eight Level 1 violations because two of them were Saunders and Vaughn lying and not cooperating after they were fired. He said Ole Miss can't be held liable for those and that those two violations would be thrown out.

I then showed where the NCAA made the same allegation against ULL, ULL then agreed that it is an infraction, cited Rule 19.2.3, and agreed it was a Level 1 violation. The NCAA included the allegation in their final penalty document. It was never reduced or thrown out.

Ole Miss has refuted the allegation, so maybe the NCAA will go along with that, even though they penalized ULL with the same allegation. ULL never argued against it.