re: "There are only 2 schools in the SEC that currently do not cheat."

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after the whole Miami debacle it's too easy. The NCAA doesn't really care if you cheat they just care that you don't make it blatantly obvious,

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As a practical matter, this might actually be a reason to lend some credence to the coach's son's story - a reason why Mizzou would be the only SEC state school on that list that currently isn't doing any non-obvious cheating. Perhaps the Haith involvement in the Shapiro debacle was exactly it. Too close for comfort for that to be going on while Haith was our head coach. So our AD Mike Alden (who has a rep for being overly cautious when it comes to the NCAA) clamps down for an indefinite period on any sort of improper stuff no matter how minor and no matter how routine it is throughout the league, because the NCAA and media spotlight was trained squarely on a prominent Mizzou head coach.

Kind of an "uh oh, the boss is walking by, look busy" sort of reaction. "OK the media and the NCAA are all looking, don't give them anything to look at" sort of thing.

Then a few years later after Haith is gone and the Miami scandal is old news, that policy is still in place at Mizzou by default and at least one head coach is telling his fam (and who knows who else) "hey, just so you know, we are competing with one hand tied behind our back here."

Who knows, but its plausible.