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The NCAA was already on campus, Tunsil was suspended for seven games, the altercation with his stepdad and its aftermath was out there, so Ole Miss' 2016 class took a big hit?
Perception may have dropped that class from #5 to #7; it's always possible.

That was before Tunsil admitting to getting paid on national television.

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Do the media hound FSU's recruits with questions like, "Are you a potential rapist?" FSU's recruiting is rolling right along.

FSU is not the same thing as Ole Miss. They are a blue blood program, journalists in the sport will actually protect them because "college football is better when FSU is good."

Meanwhile Ole Miss is the upstart that is trying to crash the blue blood party by cheating. People don't take kindly to that, so they will go out of their way to hassle Ole Miss recruits to "fix" the problem.

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Posted on 5/3/16 at 3:45 pm to cardboardboxer

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FSU is not the same thing as Ole Miss. They are a blue blood program, journalists in the sport will actually protect them because "college football is better when FSU is good."

Meanwhile Ole Miss is the upstart that is trying to crash the blue blood party by cheating. People don't take kindly to that, so they will go out of their way to hassle Ole Miss recruits to "fix" the problem.

Completely disagree...based not on OM being an "up-start" but Ole Miss being from Mississippi. The Religious Liberty legislation signed into law this spring in MS has the entire country lampooning the state, and the NCAA trying to prevent State and OM from hosting regionals in baseball. Moreover, Mississippi's refusal to remove the confederate flag from its state flag is seen as bad nationally as well.

Ole Miss is an easy target, not because they are not a "blue-blood" program, but because they are from a state that is really easy to criticize at the moment.

If the NCAA pours the coals to Ole Miss, nationally, no one will bat an eye.

That is the "X factor" here that if I were an Ole Miss fan, I would be very concerned about. There are force multipliers in play for them that would only be in play for a few other schools...State being one of them.

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