Things that are true

[RutherfordBHayes]

To borrow from B&B or Brandon or whoever, let's have a "things that are true", since a few of our BearShark friends MAY be coming out of the cave of denial into the bright sunshine of acceptance.

I'll start with the obvious:

MSU has nothing whatsoever to do with your problems. Mullen, Sankey, Sankey's daughters, or Templeton never called the NCAA or controlled them. If you step back and think about it, it's silly to even suggest as much. Yes, your NCAA mess is your own doing. They came to about 50 of your former recruits and asked them questions about your illegal recruitment. A few of those former recruits are at MSU. Those kids told the truth, MSU isn't involved at all.

Also:
Steve Robertson simply took advantage of the biggest sports story in our state in 20 years. The Clarion Ledger, Daily Journal, etc. are too lazy to investigate. Steve's contacts in recruiting tipped him off, these other news outlets ignored him, so he exposed it and has continued to do so. Steve didn't drive the investigation. He reported it. That's all. Simple really. Blaming him for all of this is silly.

 

[patdog]

The irony is, Steve didn't really want to investigate it. He tried to get Mississippi media to go with it & they refused, so he figured he'd have to do it himself or it'd never get done.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

When is bob back?

 

[RutherfordBHayes]

Also:
Bears, your website media will not report bad news. I suspect they are afraid. None of them are hardworking guys. They rely on cozy relationships with your AD personnel, and they won't risk that. They would rather protect "sources" than give their paying customers unpleasant information. They'll wait for someone else to break it, then run back to their source for the spin. Rinse, repeat.

That's why they're so wrong so often. Their "sources" take advantage of them to spin news because there won't be any repercussions after they lie. (Exemplary cooperation, opportunity fund, Farrar is clean, Leo Lewis tapes, no bowl ban, ad nauseum)

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

My thing that is true.

The NCAA has credible evidence to prove that your university has committed TWENTY ONE level one violations. 21. XXI.

If you don't think there are that many more that the cannot prove because your current and former players won't cooperate then you are as dense as concrete. All of your high level recruits accepted improper benefits. Every. Single. One. And your coaching staff knew about every single bit of it.

 

[CEO2044]

To be mad at an 18 year old for telling the truth is the stupidest thing to me. Totally understand if he were busted lying, but so far the people claiming that are the ones that keep getting caught in lies allegations that are never proven true. At 18, if I had NCAA investigators questioning me and my eligibility threaten if I lied, I would have done the same. I don't see the integrity they keep bragging about in deceiving investigators. To not snitch on your little brother for hitting you? Okay. To lie to a cop or an investigator? I'm personally not going to. Especially when I could be affected.

But hey, apparently integrity isn't always doing what's right. (I can't see Yogi Berra even explaining that one.)

Coincidentally, they can't see how their letdown was intensified by those in power who know the truth, and instead of being truthful and addressing the problems, have purposefully deceived them time and again to keep the money flowing in and the wins coming.

The funny thing is, these same people are STILL deceiving them, and in turn making things so much worse. I just can't believe they keep doing this to themselves. And I can't believe people pay to hear that- I've surmised more truth with no sources. I would be PISSED if I paid these people for insider info, only to get sunshine, and after years even have some tweet out that they knew of some of the troubles but never reported, and worse bad-mouthed the ones that they knew were telling the truth. And STILL are.

Also, I've only seen Yancy's screenshots, but how do you write all day for years and not be able to spell basic words? How does spellcheck not help him out? I'm always amazed at terrible spellers, but how does one get his job without being able to spell? School of Faulkner, my ***.

I think most of the logical fans packed it in a while ago, but it's insane to me to see so many still clinging on to something I can't find the word for, even with so many reputable sources are laying it out so plainly. It's truly been incredible to watch.

 

[RutherfordBHayes]

My thing that is true.

The NCAA has credible evidence to prove that your university has committed TWENTY ONE level one violations. 21. XXI.

If you don't think there are that many more that the cannot prove because your current and former players won't cooperate then you are as dense as concrete. All of your high level recruits accepted improper benefits. Every. Single. One. And your coaching staff knew about every single bit of it.

Think it's 14 or 15 Level Ones (a dozen or so that they admit to). Carry on.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

What you said is correct. Steve TOOK ADVANTAGE of the story as in writing a book about it. The Rebs are saying, "Steve is an obsessed, junkie MSU beat writer who was obsessed with bringing us down."

No, he's actually an author now as well.

 

[RutherfordBHayes]

Hating on the media is juvenile.

What is Bo Bounds supposed to do? Say everything is peaches? He's a sports TALK radio host. This is the State's biggest sports story in years.

Your hate for the Clarion Ledger is silly. That's the biggest bunch of sleep-til-noon, rewrite-what-others-write, make-two-phone-calls, and call it a day rag that ever existed. They're just an echo chamber.

Wolken, Forde, etc., well, that's on you. They took it personally because your head coach and AD called them and lied to their face. But they're still just printing facts.

They're just doing their jobs!

 

[AssEndDawg]

Think it's 14 or 15 Level Ones (a dozen or so that they admit to). Carry on.

Gotta love that they will admit to a dozen level 1 violations but fight "Lack of Institutional Control". What do they think that means?

 

[MaroonNation]

You know Bob will be mum on all of this.