How could the bears have handled this worse ?

[thatsbaseball]

With all sincerity how could they have botched this whole thing any more than they have ? When you just step back and pause for a second, it's been one of the most incredible displays of ineptitude in the history of major college athletics. Top three...maybe top two.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Tear down their statue of James Meredith, build a large trebuchet and launch the statue through the NCAA office window with a threatening note attached?

 

[tatedog]

They haven't hired Sylvester Croom. Yet.

 

[drt7891]

I have never seen a major university go to such lengths

With all sincerity how could they have botched this whole thing any more than they have ? When you just step back and pause for a second, it's been one of the most incredible displays of ineptitude in the history of major college athletics. Top three...maybe top two.

To deceive and manipulate media, fans, and players. Until they decide to own this problem, it will likely continue. The Network will still be there. Their world will still revolve around signing day. Until the administration says "NO MORE," it will still be acceptable to cheat and defend criticism the way they have.

That's evident by how deep they've dug in to protect everyone. This ain't over yet...

 

[thatsbaseball]

From what I've seen so far...just give them a little time

 

[Shamoan]

the only way it could have been worse from their perspective is all this coming out during the season and after the COI meeting. thats it. they have pretty much miscalculated at every step and as a result, they look like idiot amateurs as an administration.

 

[patdog]

Well, let's see:
Continue cheating even while under investigation- check
Make inflammatory accusations against Lindsay Miller with no evidence - check
Get into a confrontation with NCAA investigators while being interviewed - check
Refuse to fire or discipline coaches even after they've been named in the NOAs, hell, even promote them - check
Blatantly lie to multiple media members about the contents of the 1st NOA, even though you know they'll find out - check
Blame the former coach, who you're under contract not to say anything disparaging about, whether true or false - check
Put all your eggs in the basket of an obvious fraud and charlatan - check
Call hookers from your university cell phone - check

 

[horshack.sixpack]

I assume that they are in no man's land with so many high dollar donors expecting to be protected in this process and the thought of Ole Miss losing their donations, so far, being more important to the administration than the university's reputation and well being, as a whole. They seem to think that they are somehow smarter than everyone else and that whatever these donors offer they must perceive that losing it would be worse than just being contrite and taking their lumps. As it stands, it appears that they are just content to burn it all down around them.

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[thatsbaseball]

Even if we have an emotional interest in seeing them fail and these never ending screw ups are like gifts that keep on giving, when you stop and take a step back you have to ask what in the hell were these dumb 17s thinking. I keep telling myself there has got to be so much more stuff out there on them that they are delirious with fear of the whole truth coming out. Wow just wow.

 

[bulldognation]

You assume Ole Miss Engineers can build a trebuchet.

 

[seshomoru]

Hold my beer....

It all comes out that Bdork and Vitter leaked the number knowing there were more. It will also turn out they had conversations with Matt Luke about it prior to setting Hugh up to make sure he knew what would happen and that he would be ready to step into the head coach role. All hell will break loose among their fan base.

The only thing that that would be better is if they ran it by Archie first.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Where there's a will ..........post about Bdork

And anyone that says otherwise is being stupid . He showed steady leadership in this entire saga with freeze and was the only one that looked like a leader in that press conference last night . Vitter looked like a timid deer . And who is going to back up bjork if we fire him ? We literally have no one to do that . Bjork is going to give us what we need and that is a search for an outside coach to come in and take over . All this good ol boy network ole miss committee **** is dead and gone . Tell Archie thanks but no thanks this time . No more ole miss lifers as coach . Bjork is going to find and hire his own guy and he's going to do a great job . Hell, bjork is the one that stepped up and found out this **** about freeze . The guy is a great leader and anyone that says otherwise is being emotional and dumb.

 

[sayit]

Tear down their statue of James Meredith, build a large trebuchet and launch the statue through the NCAA office window with a threatening note attached?

I literally laughed out loud at that. Reply of the day.

 

[dog12]

the only way it could have been worse from their perspective is all this coming out during the season and after the COI meeting. thats it. they have pretty much miscalculated at every step and as a result, they look like idiot amateurs as an administration.

That's what I was thinking last night . . . I wish Nutt's lawyers would have waited until Monday, August 28 to tickle the Ole Miss "leaders" with the info concerning the phone call.

That way, the can of sh*t would have opened up with more effect (i.e., during the season).


I mean . . . Ole Miss hasn't even started practice yet.

This would have been much better if it had occurred during the season . . . maybe around the first game.

 

[BiscuitEater]

It all comes out that Bdork and Vitter leaked the number knowing there were more.

Pat Forde, in breaking the story says .."Yahoo Sports inquired last week with Freeze and Bjork about a call at 8:34 p.m. on Jan. 21, 2016, to a Detroit number that is linked via various websites to a Florida-based escort service. Freeze told Yahoo last Friday that the call had been brought to Ole Miss administrators’ attention by former coach Houston Nutt’s attorney, Thomas Mars, and that they had questioned him about it. Freeze told Yahoo he had no idea why the call was on his phone records."

Bjork told Yahoo on Friday that after receiving the information from Mars, the school had pulled records of Freeze’s cell calls and plowed through 39,000 calls without finding another instance of a call to the 313 number. However, the school kept digging through the records and must have found additional troubling information.

When do we find out what constitutes 'additional troubling information?'

 

[kendesu]

After yesterday's revelations, this Ole Miss fan is concerned about the contextualization of campus landmarks and political correctness.

 

[SedLexDuraLex]

It's not a major university.