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At the end of the day, Ole Miss is doing what they have to do. I'm starting to believe that we probably did approach the idea of firing Freeze for lesser penalties and were told or advised that the penalties would be the same regardless. If that is the case, it would make sense to try and keep the coach that the players committed to playing for and trying to fight off an additional year of a bowl ban. If you are going to try and protect Freeze, there has to be a scapegoat. Where we screwed up is not paying off Farrar to keep quiet and take the blame. I see why Farrar and his lawyer want to fight this, but at the end of the day he was the one that was really careless. There was zero chance that he was going to survive it all. This is just a guess on my part, but I'm assuming the alumni who were going to take care of Barney are also the ones who are being disassociated with the school so now they have no reason to spend money to protect the school and pay Barney. Which again, big screw up on our part.

Upvote.

Very sensible and logical perspective.

Your people should've paid Barney enough to not only shut him up but also enough to make him not care one bit about coaching again in his life time. If Barney wants to continue his coaching career, then he will fight Ole Miss for making him the scapegoat.

Shoulda paid the man enough to make leave the country and live a life of luxury in a place where no one gives a shite about football.