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

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If the NCAA decides to make an example out of Ole Miss this could be pretty bad....think SMU

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Worst case scenario, it will be akin to USCw. However, the catalyst here is Mississippi's extremely un-PC politics that is drawing negative attention nationally.

The NCAA could address SEC cheating via Ole Miss without drawing any negative attention to itself nationally because Ole Miss is in Mississippi.

If I were an Ole Miss fan, that is the single issue that has me worried...not whether or not they have them dead to rights on cheating, but whether the NCAA even cares because they know OM, of all schools, is a really easy mark.

This was the USCw Punishment:

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LOS ANGELES -- The NCAA threw the book at storied Southern California on Thursday with a two-year bowl ban, four years' probation, loss of scholarships and forfeits of an entire year's games for improper benefits to Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush dating to the Trojans' 2004 national championship.

USC was penalized for a lack of institutional control in the ruling by the NCAA following its four-year investigation. The report cited numerous improper benefits for Bush and former basketball player O.J. Mayo, who spent just one year with the Trojans.


The coaches who presided over the alleged misdeeds -- football's Pete Carroll and basketball's Tim Floyd -- left USC in the past year.

The penalties include the loss of 30 football scholarships over three years and vacating 14 victories in which Bush played from December 2004 through the 2005 season.

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The NCAA says Bush received lavish gifts from two fledgling sports marketers hoping to sign him. The men paid for everything from hotel stays and a rent-free home where Bush's family apparently lived to a limousine and a new suit when he accepted his Heisman in New York in December 2005.

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What potentially makes Ole Miss different here (AT LEAST ON PERCEPTION) is that there is evidence that the actual Ole Miss coaching staff has been actively involved in the cheating. Moreover, if there is cheating going on, one could even link it all the way to the Athletic Director in this case.

So, who knows...as I stated before in this thread, it is just people reading the tea leaves right now.