re: As The Grove Burns: Laremy Tunsil Edition (Updated with Text Messages Link)

I imagine if a coach was shown to have given a recruit a "burner phone" it would be one of the highest level of violations a coach could make, perhaps besides lying to the NCAA.

You have an impermissible benefit (value of phone/prepaid card) and its use would hide an unknown amount of minor violations regarding recruit contact. The NCAA doesn't punish minor violations if the school self reports and deals with them by punishment guidelines but attempting to hide them to protect the coach from recruiting restrictions would probably be an ethics violation. I would see a show cause in that coaches future. I haven't heard anything about an allegation of this against Ole Miss so this is all hypothetical I guess. That would be a doozy though