re: Barney placed on administrative leave

Jackie's been in and out of Oxford and an enforcement agent or something. If I recall, she's been involved for four years. I can make some calls and find out for sure what her role is and if it's increased recently.

Nvm

Are there still people out there who think we'll get off easy? Because they're dilutional as hell. We're about to get hammered.

Somebody please remind me to never again venture into SEC Rant land.

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FWIW I hear she is a nice lady, all business, and she's good at what she does.

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So from what you've been told, she's waging a personal vendetta against a football program with an entirely new staff based on a situation that involved two football programs six years ago? And after four years of investigating, she can only come up with nitpicky stuff in the NOA?

She doesn't sound nice at all. She sounds emotionally driven, unprofessional, and completely ineffective at her job.

Hugh Freeze (and the entire athletic department by association) made a mistake by their attempt to "comply by exemplary standards". Either by naivete or hubris, they essentially did the equivalent of letting the police into your home without supervision to build a case around you.

Now they have an infestation of NCAA, reluctant to leave until they "finish their investigation".

If I was Hugh Freeze, I would frame everyone on the defensive staff for providing improper benefits. That way, he doesn't technically have to fire them (because he wouldn't anyway) and the NCAA would get the pound of flesh that they desperately seek and the matter would be sorted out more quickly since I suspect that the delay is the result of the lack of credible leads being tossed to the investigators (thanks, Steve).

Take the scholarship reduction and possible bowl ban since a bowl game isn't guaranteed with Taylor Youngbloods starting on the defense anyway and allow the ESPN talking heads to mix Ole Miss into discussions with universities such as Penn State and Baylor and other cases that almost received the same scale of treatment by the NCAA.

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PLOI - Letter of Intent of some sort? (NLOI - full title is National Letter of Intent and Scholarship Agreement Form)

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Preliminary letter of inquiry.

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except that we don't rape people around here

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Loaner cars, booster transportation, rape. It's all the same to the NCAA.

The difference between UNC and the other schools hit recently vs OM , is that they didn't bend over and beg the NCAA to wreck that arse like we are. I'm afraid they're going to make an example of us, simply because we're letting them. I hope I'm wrong, but our lack of a spine has me both worried and embarrassed.

I have to agree. I think we should have found the best lawyers money could buy and shut the door in NCAA face. It's like we welcomed them to come on in like the neighbors little kid, who you know is going to plunder in every drawer in your house just being nosy. Even if you think you have every step covered and they could find nothing, you still don't welcome them in you're house with arms held wide open. They will dig!