re: Just how bad is the denial?

NCAA saw Ole Miss's out of control cheating and while it couldn't prove rock hard evidence on everything it saw going on, all it needed to do was find enough to roast you. We have seen this before with U$C. Where the charges were just the tip of the iceberg of the lack of institutional control, but that is all the NCAA needed to get its hands on to destroy the whole thing.

You can keep your head buried in the sand all you like. Every charge OM gets will be well deserved. Not only for the massive cheating, but also for thumbing their nose at the NCAA through the whole process and daring them to do something about it.