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re: What Will Be The Actual Consequences For Ole Miss?
Posted on 5/3/16 at 3:45 pm to cardboardboxer
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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Posted on 5/3/16 at 3:50 pm to DeltaDoc
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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.
It's always refreshing to find intelligence on this board.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 3:56 pm to DeltaDoc
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Completely disagree...based not on OM being an "up-start" but Ole Miss being from Mississippi.
Eh, I don't think the SEC sports media cares about that. Maybe the New York Times is pissed at the state, but The New York Times won't be trying to interview Ole Miss commitments. At most they will do a big expose that won't lead to dick and then move on.
What will screw Ole Miss is the fact that SEC football journalists (locally and nationally) are front running fans for the most part. Unlike all other parts of journalism where the reporters pretend to be impartial, in college football we get a guy or three for every major program that does nothing but follow that program and therefore ties their fates to the success of that program.
It will be these jock sniffers who hound Ole Miss recruits when they commit to Ole Miss and not the Texas or Alabama that they cover. It will be these guys who make life hell for anyone associated with Ole Miss.
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