re: Oher blindsided, gaslit by Tuohy family; wishes he had gone to Tennessee

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This whole thing wreaks of a shakedown for a cash grab. The timing of this with the release of his book isn't a coincidence.

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I agree. I told my wife this and she thinks I am just siding with the family because I don't want to think negatively of them. This doesn't change the fact that I think the whole thing was shady from the get go, with them being boosters and Hugh Freeze just happened to be his high school coach ad then his college coach.

Was he taken advantage of? Only in the sense that this family wanted him to attend their school -- circumventing NCAA rules, but that's common at Ole Miss.

Would he have been successful had they not intervened? Tough to tell, but probably not.

Still shady though.