re: The Tunsil issue

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People forget that the NCAA is not bound by the criminal justice system....they ARE the system.

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Agreed, but they have to give at least some miminal appearance of a fair process or risk some Congressman pushing to have hearings on the NCAA's misuse of its authority. I don't think there is much risk of a pushback against the NCAA here, because public opinion, outside of Ole Miss's fan base, isn't likely to see the NCAA as abusive because the public has seen the texts and heard the admission about taking money, not to mention being aware of the violations Ole Miss has already agreed occurred. On the other hand, unless there is some reasonable explanation for the texts and Tunsil's statement, public pushback will come if the NCAA does little or nothing.