Ole Miss Busted

[AUChizad]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--ncaa-to-formally-charge-mississippi-with-rules-violations-193911274.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=tw

Sources: NCAA to formally charge Mississippi with rules violations
Pat Forde By Pat Forde
8 minutes ago
 
The NCAA has formally charged the University of Mississippi with dozens of rules violations in three sports, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports.

The school has received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA enforcement staff alleging roughly 30 violations in football, women’s basketball and track and field, sources told Yahoo. It is unclear at present what the breakdown is in terms of violations by sport. The NCAA does not comment on current, pending or potential investigations.

Calls to officials at Mississippi and the Southeastern Conference were not immediately returned.

This is the latest step in a long, laborious NCAA investigation, part of which predates football coach Hugh Freeze’s arrival at Ole Miss in 2012. Yahoo Sports first reported about the investigation in October 2014.

According to standard NCAA protocol, Ole Miss and/or other parties charged with violations have 90 days to respond to the allegations. Unless there is agreement on the facts and the case can be resolved by summary disposition, a Committee on Infractions hearing date will be established. The COI generally meets six times a year; it most recently met last week.

If there is a hearing, NCAA enforcement will present its case and the school can present its side. A Committee On Infractions report, detailing any penalties that are to be assessed, generally is issued six to eight weeks after the hearing.

Mississippi’s football recruiting successes in recent years under Freeze have taken the Southeastern Conference by storm – and rankled some rivals. Multiple SEC coaches and administrators have voiced concerns about Ole Miss to the conference office, sources said. Shortly before National Signing Day in 2013, Freeze took to Twitter and challenged anyone who had facts showing the Rebels were breaking rules to email the school’s compliance office.

Ole Miss’ current recruiting class is ranked No. 4 nationally by Rivals.com. National Signing Day is Wednesday.

This past football season, Mississippi offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil – one of the highest-rated recruits in program history – sat out seven games for accepting impermissible benefits. Tunsil, according to an Ole Miss release, was found to have accepted “use of three separate loaner vehicles over a sixth-month period without payment, a four-month interest-free promissory note on a $3,000 down payment for purchasing a used vehicle, two nights of lodging at a local home, an airline ticket purchased by a friend of a teammate, and one day use of a rental vehicle. In addition, it was determined that Tunsil was not completely forthcoming when initially questioned by NCAA investigators regarding the loaner vehicles.” Tunsil has since declared for the NFL draft and is expected to be a high first-round pick.

It was not the only controversy involving a star Ole Miss player last season. Defensive lineman Robert Nkemdiche, like Tunsil a five-star member of the Rebels’ breakthrough 2013 recruiting class, was suspended from the Sugar Bowl after a bizarre incident at an Atlanta hotel in December. Nkemdiche fell about 15 feet from a room at the Grand Hyatt, sustaining minor injuries after breaking a window. The junior was charged with marijuana possession. He also has declared for the NFL draft.

[Snaggletiger]

[Buzz Killington]

Let's see...

Who was the only team to beat the by god best team in the land maghty maghty crimpsum tide in the 2014 regular season?  Wait, didn't that same team beat them in the 2015 regular season as well?

[ssgaufan]

I was coming here to post this.  So...

Ole Miss faces charges for dozens of rules violations that span across three sports, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports.
 
In a story from Pat Forde, the Rebels have gotten a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA enforcement staff that alleges 30 violations in football, women’s basketball and track and field.
 
Due to the fact that the NCAA doesn’t comment on investigations that are current or pending, the number of violations for each of those respective sports is currently unknown.
 
In October 2014, Yahoo Sports reported that the NCAA was conducting an investigation of Ole Miss that stretches back before head coach Ole Miss arrived in Oxford in 2012.
 
The school has 90 days to respond to the allegations, per standard NCAA protocol.


Yep, sucks for them that they tried to play on bammers level without all the friends in high places.

[Townhallsavoy]

About fucking time.

Maybe we can grab a recruit or two from their list.

[Godfather]

It's ok they wrote a cease and desist letter, they will be fine.

[Kaos]

How can they hammer the Rebel Black Bears and completely ignore the paper trail from John Phillips to Luther Davis to D(umb as a box of) J(ello) Fluker? 

[Snaggletiger]

How can they hammer the Rebel Black Bears and completely ignore the paper trail from John Phillips to Luther Davis to D(umb as a box of) J(ello) Fluker?

@MarkEmmert

[Townhallsavoy]

How can they hammer the Rebel Black Bears and completely ignore the paper trail from John Phillips to Luther Davis to D(umb as a box of) J(ello) Fluker?

Or laptops, Peaches, coaches giving money to players, and agent parties.

EDIT - I forgot about the Arabic dude that posted albums of pictures with Alabama football players engaging in obvious rule infractions.

[Buzz Killington]

Tom Al-Betar says hi.

[AUChizad]

Or laptops, Peaches, coaches giving money to players, and agent parties.

EDIT - I forgot about the Arabic dude that posted albums of pictures with Alabama football players engaging in obvious rule infractions.

Don't forget #StruggleOverWit and Fluker's twitter admission and Hot Wheelz of Mobile

Take a trip down memory lane...

http://www.nevertoyieldfoundation.com/2013/where-theres-fire-theres-fire/

[Buzz Killington]

Those guys were onto something.  Too bad Saban's butt buddy from his Ellis Hugh days won't listen.

[wesfau2]

Don't forget #StruggleOverWit and Fluker's twitter admission and Hot Wheelz of Mobile

Take a trip down memory lane...

http://www.nevertoyieldfoundation.com/2013/where-theres-fire-theres-fire/

Just tweeted that @ncaa...maybe they'll answer the phone this time.

I'll hold my breath.

[The Prowler]

Knew it was coming soon or later. You can't continue to outbid bama for top tier recruits and not expect to hear from their buddies.

[The Prowler]

Ole Miss has known about this for about 3 years now (Good God, the NCAA moves slow)... this was one of my posts from 3 years ago talking about Ole Miss...

What do the skreets say about Robert Nkemdiche?

Ole Miss...like I've said before, they'll be the next SEC program to be hit by the NCAA, they jumped ahead of Miss St, Vanderbilt and uat.

[Snaggletiger]

Nothing to see here.  Joe Schad says most of the allegations don't involve football and the ones that do go back to the early Nutt days.

Joe's got this.

[Kaos]

For those that follow this sort of thing?  T-Town Tom still runs the stores, but as of  about 2014 he no longer posts pictures. Coincidentally his posting habits stopped when he was in the news again for having active players signing stuff at his stores in an article on CBSSports in January 2014.  Predictably that story quickly disappeared and nothing came of it. 

[Godfather]

In other news, looks like we will have to deal with Saban until 2020.

The NCAA Board of Governors unanimously voted to extend Mark Emmert's contract until October 2020, with an option to extend an additional year. Emmert has been president since October 2010.

[The Prowler]

Nothing to see here.  Joe Schad says most of the allegations don't involve football and the ones that do go back to the early Nutt days.

Joe's got this.

9 of the 13 football violations involve the time under Coach Freeze...Schad is wrong again.

http://collegespun.com/sec/mississippi-sec/report-ole-miss-football-cited-in-13-of-28-department-violations-by-ncaa

[AUChizad]

Now that signing day has passed, Ole Miss beat writers have finally let on that this is a little more serious than they were originally saying.

Take notes, Auburn beat writers.