re: Let's pretend for a moment that OM is playing by the rules.

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And do you honestly believe every major program in NCAA Div 1 play by the rules. Doubt if any SEC team outside of Vandy plays by the rules.

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It's not about playing by the rules, per se. It's about playing within the general vicinity of the rules.

I know the analogy is trite, but it's like speeding. If most people are going 50 in a 40 mph zone, it's pretty likely that nobody is going to get busted. If somebody comes screaming through doing 70 in a 40, they are probably going to get caught and made an example of.

When a program like Ole Miss is all the sudden getting kids over Bama, Auburn, Georgia, and LSU (among others) who are admittedly bending and breaking some rules here and there, that's going to raise some red flags.

Now it could be that all this is due to some incredible streak of coincidences, or it could be that they were blatantly flouting the rules. Time will tell