re: What Will Be The Actual Consequences For Ole Miss?

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I don't think they ever intended to throw it in the NCAA's face. They intended to hide it.

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Oh yeah, they intended to hide in via buy-in from the whole community. Ole Miss figured out the flaw in the NCAA system is the whole self-enforcement thing. They thought if everyone agreed to stay quiet it would stay under wraps, and if the NCAA can't get anyone to testify then there is no case. It took a weak moment at the NFL draft to shatter that silence.

From their perspective the problem isn't that they cheated, the problem is they got caught.

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Ole Miss is the wrong program to do what you say. They aren't a sheltered blue blood, and they are high enough profile to make an example of.

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I don't disagree with that, but you have to understand their motivation.

This is a program that has been beaten down ever since integration. Until Freeze Ole Miss had not beaten Alabama more than 10 times in their ENTIRE history.

I think they saw the reality of the situation, the reality of the caste system that is college football, and said "either we cheat or we suck. Punishment or not let's cheat so we have someone to be proud of before they take it from us again." Freedom is another word for nothing left to lose.

I admire them actually, college football is a bullshite caste system and cheating is probably the only equalizer. I wish my program had that luxury, but in our state someone would dig up the dirt for the NCAA and rub their noses in it just to stop us.