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

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Tunsil still has to be considered an outlier type of recruit for OM.

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Definitely, or at least that was the case in 2013. I assure you, I was as nonplussed as anyone else when Tunsil picked Ole Miss.
The ostensible reason was the guarantee that he'd start as a true freshman, something more established programs could not promise.

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his text messages and confirmation of the message seems to also indicate improper benefits.

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While the loaner car was undeniably an improper benefit — anyone who knows how the system works knows that auto dealerships are integral to the booster network; drive by any athletic dorm parking lot — the context or authenticity of the text messages has yet to be established. Re the controversy surrounding what exactly Tunsil confirmed or did not confirm at the presser, log on to any sports blog for the continuing dialog.

I once worked for an Alabama shadow booster in our mutual hometown in east Mississippi, so I've witnessed these under-the-table handouts. Since you claim to know a bag man, does it make any sense for an elite athlete to text a coach when he needs off-the-record funding, when all he has to do is call his bag man on a burner phone?