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re: Miss State LB Leo Lewis received $21,000 before National Signing Day from 2 SEC schools
Posted on 8/25/17 at 11:54 am to Ancient Astronaut
Posted on 8/25/17 at 11:54 am to Ancient Astronaut
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Sounds about right. 10k makes sense for Lewis. Crazy how this is all going against State now.
Lol. They MIGHT get probation and lose some visits over this. Ole Miss will be lucky to have a football team in 3 years.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 11:54 am to yatesdog38
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Steven Godfrey isn't an OM writer... He is an OM bagman writer
And here's an example of some of Mr. Godfrey's work at the Daily Mississippian before he made the big time. From 2003:
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Love thy neighbor, hate thy inbred Cajun
by Steven Godfrey
The Tight End
November 20, 2003
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that."
-- Sportswriter Bill Shankly, 1981
Before I start the usual column, let's get this out of the way: I quit smoking this week, therefore my disposition ranks somewhere around a weekend in the Neverland Ranch guest bedroom. Shut up and read.
Students of Ole Miss, get your butts in gear for this game.
I mean it. A higher power came to me in a dream last night and decreed the following 10 orders.
You are to do the following as soon as you're done reading this.
1) Leave class immediately. This is no time for higher learning.
2) Organize your Saturday schedule to where you can prance through the Grove, drink copious amounts of alcohol and still be in the stands one hour before kickoff.
3) Find one piece of furniture you're not attached to. Drag it into the yard for Saturday night's celebration (or wake).
4) Buy red clothing. Buy red face paint. That goes for you, too, debutantes.
5) Stock up on the essentials: toilet paper, airplane bottles of Fighting Cock and a change of underwear.
6) Do not sleep Friday night. At dawn, cover yourself in red, head to toe.
7) Notify next of kin. March to the stadium.
8) Stop for one second. Realize this is the biggest football game you'll ever witness and take a moment to revel in the true beauty that is coming of age in this blessed town at this blessed university.
You could be fighting a war in some third world country right now (or living in Starkville), but instead you're at a game you can tell your grandchildren about.
9) Enter Vaught-Hemmingway.
10) Unleash holy hell.
You want a pep talk? Bulletin board material?
I'm your man, so if you're not fired up by the end of this column, ask for your money back.
Remember that cutesy-poo Ole Miss motto of "Open Doors"?
Well, shut 'em. Lock and load folks, because the Cajuns are coming.
It's come to light that in villas such as Jackson and Biloxi, LSU fans are flooding talk radio and Internet chat rooms with a barrage of heavy handed insults.
How they got computers mystifies me, but I've been hit with a ton of e-mails from faithful Rebels throughout the South who've been attacked by Tiger disciples claiming this Saturday to be a "pushover win," a "rout," a "cake walk," a "lubricated rodgering in the gang showers," if you will.
In the words of Nappy Roots, "Aw naw. Hell naw. Y'all done up and done it."
Perhaps you faithful readers have forgotten my all-encompassing disgust with anyone or thing from Cajun country.
I might have my hands tied on the NFL front (thanks Falcons), but allow me to parlay my hatred of the Bayou onto the college front.
If you're annoyed by these slope-headed goobers in purple and gold, do not raise a hand in anger.
Remember to be sympathetic, because if a Cajun is insulting Ole Miss, he or she is probably having to do it by reading off a cue card written in phonetics while suffering through a bout of syphilis.
Also understand that there isn't much going on in central Louisiana (other than daily reenactments of "Deliverance"), so this is all that these gene pool bonanzas have going for them.
You try copulating with your cousin/sibling/household pet more than twice a week.
Eventually you have to move onto barnyard animals, then inanimate objects and finally just a Glamour Shots portrait of Matt Mauck.
It gets repetitive.
Really, it's a simple mathematical formula: anytime you take the intellectual gold mine that is redneck America, multiply it by everyone's favorite foreign culture (the French) and add on a gorgeous landscape of mud that's slowly sinking into the Gulf Of Mexico.
You're bound to get annoying people.
But exercise patience with Louisianites, or just jangle your car keys.
They'll watch in awe.
The only alarming claim coming from the Kitty Kat elite is that "we'll take over the bars and parties, just like we do in every other town we go to. We rule the rowdy!"
Uh, that might not be a good idea. Technically Mississippi is the "Hospitality State," but a single drunken insult or aggressive move toward an Oxford bar employee or police officer will most definitely get you a down-home welcome, via a Mag-Lite to the teeth.
It's time folks, and even though I wasn't born red and blue, I feel like this is the game I've waited my whole life to watch...while sober and in dress clothes (Man, that press box rule sucks).
Seriously though, exercise a reasonable amount of safety, act like an adult and remember one simple thing: It's just a football game.
Yeah, right.
It's too late for the Tiger nation to apologize.
Redraw the state lines, because we're not taking prisoners
Posted on 8/25/17 at 11:55 am to phaz
Wait so State was paying players and still had all those dog shite crootin classes?
Didn't even make it to Atlanta?
Implicated themselves just to start a shite fight with TSUN?
Sounds about right
Didn't even make it to Atlanta?
Implicated themselves just to start a shite fight with TSUN?
Sounds about right
This post was edited on 8/25/17 at 11:57 am
Posted on 8/25/17 at 11:57 am to Ancient Astronaut
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Crazy how this is all going against State now.
Apparently the claim against them has already been investigated and found lacking and Lewis will be playing for them next weekend. Meanwhile, OM still has a 9/11 appearance before the COI.
Not one single thing is going against State now.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 11:59 am to DingLeeBerry
Godfrey says the 650,000 is not a typo. If anybody in this world actually believes LSU offered a 4 star linebacker that, and he chose to go to MSU instead for 11,000......well.....
This post was edited on 8/25/17 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 8/25/17 at 11:59 am to phaz
Thats funny, because I actually am a rocket scientist.
But no, we're not. SR did what the other local media refused to do.
But no, we're not. SR did what the other local media refused to do.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:01 pm to SXV
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Additionally, new documentation submitted to the Committee on Infractions by attorneys for Ole Miss claims Lewis told NCAA enforcement he took $11,000 in benefits from his current school, Mississippi State.
So, OlMiss sent s letter to the NCAA to explain what LL had told the NCAA? Brilliant defense
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:01 pm to Saskwatch
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Didn't even make it to Atlanta?
did Ole Miss make it to Atlanta paying players?
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Sounds about right
yep
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:01 pm to skirpnasty
Leo Lewis could simply have denied the interview. He's contemplating not showing up to the COI so it's clearly an option. Other than the snitching, this was not LLs fault. Whoever compelled him to talk is to blame. He just got caught up in some other people's bullshite.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:03 pm to VivaZapata27
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He's contemplating not showing up to the COI
I guarantee you this is an OM wet dream.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:03 pm to VivaZapata27
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Leo Lewis could simply have denied the interview. He's contemplating not showing up to the COI so it's clearly an option. Other than the snitching, this was not LLs fault. Whoever compelled him to talk is to blame. He just got caught up in some other people's bullshite.
Was he not asked to talk by the NCAA? As a student athlete, he doesn't really have a choice unless he would have been ok with the NCAA telling him he's ineligible
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:03 pm to SXV
How is MSU somehow tied up in every single SEC scandal yet they never get in trouble????
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:06 pm to lsufball19
People refuse to talk to the NCAA all the time. Student athletes included. I've heard that Saban refused to let some of his players be interviewed. Why do you think he would HAVE to talk?
This post was edited on 8/25/17 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:07 pm to BHMKyle
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How is MSU somehow tied up in every single SEC scandal yet they never get in trouble????
They were on probation from 2004-2007 and had a bowl ban in 2004. Or do you just mean in the last 5 years?
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:07 pm to SXV
You knew MSU gave him money because Ole Miss did. I have no doubt MSU cheats. Based on their success they don't cheat very well, but they do cheat.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:10 pm to JustGetItRight
Yancy and Vampireb wrote this article and forwarded it to everyone in hopes it would be published...
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:14 pm to UncleFestersLegs
Ok everyone gets an upvote
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:15 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
There was a thread on another board which asked if there was any facet of this investigation that OM handled well? Or is there any way that OM could have handled this investigation worse?
I didn't think they could have handled it worse unless Hugh was hiring hookers to try and bribe the COI.
Then this. :bow
Thank You, Thank You, THANK YOU OlMiss for staying true to your gameplan and for re-writing the book on how to screw yourselves with the NCAA
I didn't think they could have handled it worse unless Hugh was hiring hookers to try and bribe the COI.
Then this. :bow
Thank You, Thank You, THANK YOU OlMiss for staying true to your gameplan and for re-writing the book on how to screw yourselves with the NCAA
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