RR files response to KJ's motion

Geez, just don't think I have it in my to read all of that.

The NCAA cleared Tunsil just two days after the fiasco on draft night.

TWO DAYS!

Lots of people, including some on this Board, said Bjork was lying to the Reb faithful.

Looks like Bjork was telling the truth.

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If nothing else, it adds a very interesting wrinkle to why the school fought so hard to save Freeze. It was ultimately fruitless, but it makes substantially more sense now

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While knowing for almost a year of his private life issues...

But ultimately, adultery isn't normally a reason to fire a coach. I think after the past month we started looking for a way out and decided this would be the best way to get out without owing a buy-out

From my understanding, the Athletic Department knew of the rumors, and there were plenty of rumors, but nothing ever turned up when they investigated. The rumors were typically about a mistress(es) and not phone services though. I always took them to be rumors because Freeze was by far the most famous Oxonian, and the town is really bad at hiding gossip. If he'd had a mistress in town, the town, and certainly the AD, would've known.

Granted, if the "pattern" in his phone records was mostly on his university phone, it's hard to believe they wouldn't have looked into his phone records while checking on the rumors, if their investigative efforts are to be taken seriously. The phone call that brought Freeze down could look like a misdial by itself, but it's pathetically WAOM if it wasn't isolated on that phone. I'd hope for Freeze's sake and Ole Miss' that his shenanigans predominantly took place on a personal/burner phone so the school can realistically claim they weren't able to find anything.

I'm of the opinion that Freeze's issues in his personal life couldn't have been kept a secret forever, especially with how many enemies or other detractors he had, so it would've eventually bit us in the arse. In typical Ole Miss fashion though, it happened to come out at one of the worst possible times.

ETA: doesn't the university have to review phones issued to coaches periodically (monthly?) for compliance purposes?

I'm not sure how the NCAA could levy LOIC over a coach's personal issues outside of a Penn State situation, and, even then, the NCAA admitted they didn't go about that scandal the right way. Plus LOIC over sexual transgressions would set a precedent they couldn't ignore in their Baylor investigation. What jurisdiction do they have over infidelity? Calling an escort service isn't a crime in and of itself, even if the implied result of soliciting a prostitute would be a misdemeanor. We'll probably know soon enough who Freeze was calling and to what ends.

If the escorts were for recruiting purposes, even if Freeze didn't use a university phone, we're getting LOIC anyway, and we get nuked back to before the forward pass was invented. If the "pattern" was on his university phone though, this mess is somehow going to get more embarrassing

Yes it seems he is going that route and also that Rosebowl as the conduit of information of LM's RR allegations to KJ and LL.

Ross Bjork confiscates 2 coaches phones each month for a thorough review. Even the head coaches. He even takes up personal phones for review by compliance.

Only one call to the escort service was ever found. When they looked further after the call by Nutt's attorney, they allegedly found a sidepiece.