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Well, since sanctions make their way to Tuscaloosa about every ten years or so you might be due. Ole Miss cheated. I admit it. How much of it was known by the current coaches, we may never know. How bad a punishment will we get, I will wait and see. Don't be the Bama fan that acts like their program doesn't have money flowing around it. There are plenty of reasonable Bama fans who know it, accept it, and still love the school and its team.

I am not the fan that says we don't pay kids......but I am the fan that says nothing either way about it. I don't brag about being clean, and I don't brag about the REC getting players. Unlike the many Ole Miss fans, who at the beginning of this whole mess, stuck their heads up high and proclaimed they weren't cheating. Any post proclaiming they were was met with ridicule, or posters were called "salty" because OM fans, at that point, could not be proven wrong. Now that they HAVE been proven wrong, now some want to use the "everyone" does it" defense. If those people that proclaimed total innocence hadn't been so arrogant and condescending trying to "protect" the image of your program, then maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

At each stage, many OM fans have looked at the situation through homer glasses, and tried to convince everyone of us that it isn't bad, or someone was lying......from the Tunsil suspension, to the Step-dad NCAA conversations to the NOA, seems that many have proclaimed there was nothing to each, yet each has causes y'all harm. Even when the man, sitting in front of millions of people proclaimed he was paid by coaches, some of the more faithful still tried to convince us, "he didn't say that" or "it came from a special fund" or "he was confused" in a effort not to admit guilt.

These reasons above are why most rivals fans are having fun at your expense...........I asked a 7-7 coach one time why everyone seemed upset with OM.....his answer "they are operating outside the accepted norms". Many folks have used the "80 in a 70 MPH zone, while OM is doing 100 analogy" my buddy says this is EXACTLY what he meant.

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Posted by Dorsal-Fin

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Posted on 7/8/16 at 3:34 pm to We_R_The_Tide

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Many folks have used the "80 in a 70 MPH zone, while OM is doing 100 analogy"

I totally get what you are saying but there were false/unfounded accusations being thrown at us before any formal documentation became public. I agree that OM fans that were claiming total innocence early on were in denial and there isn't much defense other than half the other posters claiming complete innocence too. It's BS, boosters are part of college football.

The thing that frustrates a lot of fans is that our situation is being equated to situations like SMU or some other unprecedented case. We downplay the severity of it all, not because we think we are innocent, but because compared to many of the investigations over the past decade, what we did is busch league. The level at which we have cheated doesn't warrant much more than the sanctions we proposed, otherwise we would've proposed something way worse. We are going 90MPH not 100 and everyone else is still going 80. We got caught, big deal. Let's pay for it. People are buying into the "Ole Miss is only winning because of cheating and corruption" conspiracy which is obviously false if you know anything about the game. I get it. It's fun and I would probably do the same thing. I will tell you that it can get old having the little achievement we've had dwindled down to cheating when half the division has more talent, better facilities, and more accomplished programs.

Personally, I haven't said much about it because I don't know the details and neither does anyone else. Everyone on here would be defending their school the same way we are so I don't see a problem with it. Just wait til the ish is official damn. But I know nobody will.