Honest question re Ole Miss and NCAA....

Too many hypotheticals. Will have to wait and see what happens.

Not only will Hugh not survive this but Bdork will be gone as well.

No coach could survive an AD run pay for play scheme... Dumb question.

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if it is indeed 1-2 year post-season ban and 15-20 scholarships, with AD run pay schemes, can Hugh survive it?

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Depends on whether he gets a show cause or not.

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Further, if he does survive, can he maintain what he built if his honey-hole is dry?

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Not at chance

nobody can answer that right now.


WTF is wrong with people? When they drop whatever the penalties are we'll know a little more but not even then.


Watch things play out from the sidelines and soak it in. That's my plan

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what good would a 1 year post season ban provide?

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Nothing, unless the team wins the conference or goes to a big bowl that year. Then it stings. The punishment is a good way to prevent a cheating program from benefitting from the current momentum before the other punishments decimate whatever they tried to build on top of cheating.

The main punishment is scholarship restrictions, or if the NCAA puts a show case on the coach forcing the program to fire him. All that separates programs in this sport are the coaches, so if you get your once in a lifetime coach and you are forced to fire him that is basically the modern death penalty.

Ole Miss knows that, which is why they aren't playing by the old rulebook. The old rulebook would have expected them to fire Freeze when they put out a voluntary punishment as a way to atone to the NCAA and hope to convince them to accept their suggestions for how to punish them. Ole Miss is kinda going "frick that, you are going to have to FORCE us to kill our program," which is very ballsy.

We will see how it plays out, up until now I have been rooting for them but I think it's probably better for the sport for them to get hammered. Whatever little parity Ole Miss is creating for itself goes away for every non blue blood ten fold if the Ohio Sts and Texass of the world think they can tell the NCAA to frick off too. It is the ultimate prisoner's dilemma.

The only way Freeze isn't at Ole Miss is if he is show caused. Which is what morons think will happen.

Of course he would survive. Like it or not, the biggest crime by far is the Saunders mess. Without that the rest of this would almost certainly result in minor punishment. If there is any scheming by other coaches or ADs then they fire them and move on, though I don't know that they get the proof they need.

Can he maintain? I dunno, its a challenge no matter what, ask Malzahn and Miles. Things can start to get away from you and Ole Miss isn't a traditional powerhouse. I think he can keep us competitive in the long term regardless but who knows.

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Ole Miss knows that, which is why they aren't playing by the old rulebook. The old rulebook would have expected them to fire Freeze when they put out a voluntary punishment as a way to atone to the NCAA and hope to convince them to accept their suggestions for how to punish them.

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Nobody would fire a good coach for what Freeze is currently accused of. If you go down the list of accusations, there is literally nothing connected Freeze that is worthy of firing. Let's not be silly.