NtenseTiger

I believe he got the "can't explain" part right. I would imagine he used that phrase quite a few times during his NCAA interviews.

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Ole Miss hasn't fired Barney Farrar, which means they're confident they won't get caught. If they get caught lying to the NCAA to go along with this investigation, then the penalties will be so severe it's not even worth discussing them.

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Barney is claiming he didn't give any money to Tunsil. It's not a violation for a player to ask for money they do it all the time. It's a violation to give him the money he asks for.

Tunsil is probably through cooperating at this point. If Ole Miss can't prove there was money and the NCAA can't prove there was money then there was no violation. So they may be completely in the clear on that.

The only real issue here with money actually changing hands was the $800 package that Tunsil's step dad is claiming he received from "individual 7" at the airport. Individual 7 claims he doesn't remember texting anything about a "package" to the step dad.

The step dad produced the text messages and then went and bought a wal-mart gift card with the money to have paper proof of money he received that day. This was a setup from the very beginning by the step father who probably meant to blackmail Ole Miss or at least that booster.

This is how the NCAA works, they don't really go find anything. It has to come to them and with Tunsil's dad it came to them. If they don't have anything like that on Barney then the violation never happened.

I'll be surprised if anything can be proven on this but the NCAA can use reasonable suspicion if they choose to based on the conversation itself.