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Not to give Finebaum credit for anything but he did predict a few months back that Ole Miss would be announcing something major like this but they would wait 2 or 3 weeks after NSD to do it.
You know that every school is doing this stuff. It's just a matter of who gets caught.
Appears that Ole Miss was sloppy and too brazen in their shenanigans, plus they were a "little brother" program that dramatically improved in a short period of time. Too much attention.
21 infractions, most are level-1, staff directly implicated, cash payments, HC failure, lack of institutional control, poor cooperation with investigation. Very bad. NCAA likely to come down hard. May rule 3 year post season ban & settle on 2 years (loss of about $15M post season revenue) and probably 20+ scholarships. Maybe other recruiting restrictions. Maybe allowing players to transfer out freely without penalty. Maybe a show cause for staff directly involved, maybe for Freeze too and/or suspension. Probably five years probation. Probably disassociation of involved boosters. Punishment package is likely to be severe and it'll take the program a very long time to recover.If that's all they get slapped with (11 scholarships docked over 4 years and a one-year bowl ban), they got off easy.