Godfrey on Ole Miss & the NCAA...

[Xenomorph]

And the other half only had offers from Liberty and Jacksonville State.

 

[Xenomorph]

Damn, Freeze is gonna be ecstatic!!

 

[Cary Hudson's little bro]

There will be some well paid walk-ons **

This is what I'm afraid of...their boosters will not stop. They'll pay the tuition costs for top recruits.

 

[aTotal360]

But they'll all be "young men of the highest character".

 

[engie]

This is right. There is a point there that's a theoretical maximum penalty on scholarships and bowl bans. They CAN NOT hit them as hard as their structure says they will. I think we see them somewhat follow the structure, but redistribute the load so to speak...

So instead of taking 70 scholarships, they extend the probation length to the longest we've seen. Instead of taking so many years of bowls, they take more financial penalties and go harsher on the back penalties. We're going to see very long show causes handed down to every coach name involved IMO.

I'd love to see a half dozen years worth of pure forfeits rather than the toothless "vacated games" penalty I'm expecting. THAT would be an incredibly harsh penalty. The greatest of anything they could hand OM in the overall test of time.

 

[Wizard of bulldogery]

From my understanding not all will be treated the same. Not all level 1 penalties occurred under the new penalty matrix so they might get some love and instead only have 46 schollies and a 12 year bowl ban instead of 60 and a 15 year bowl ban

 

[57stratdawg]

http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/matrix.pdf

If they had 2, maybe 3, level 1's -- I imagine McCready would be close. I'm counting 15, but I'm not a great counter*

Good god. That link makes some Game Of Thrones scenes look PG.

 

[tatedog]

I love how that prick implies that unless you are a State or Ole Miss fan you have probably lost interest. Oh doesn't he wish.

 

[Xenomorph]

Oh well that's not so bad then. **

 

[codeDawg]

I get so damn tired of these litigious ***** threatening to sue somebody every time someone else hurts their feelings. It's a cultural thing with them. They act like they have the only law school in the country and that the court system is something that will protect them from their own actions. Good luck, *****. You messed up and the NCAA has a much bigger hammer than you do.

 

[tatedog]

I wonder how many of Ole Miss' actual attorneys attended Ole Miss law school? My guess is none. Ole Miss admins aren't smart enough to run a competent law school, but they are smart enough not to hire their own grads.

 

[dickiedawg]

Godfrey blocked me on twitter a while back for daring to suggest that he was more biased than Kyle Veazey. Veazey while on this beat was a paragon of impartiality.

To this day I think he's the only person that's ever blocked me.

ETA: Actually I went and found the tweet since I was curious. The Veazey comment wasn't what did it, it was a week later when I linked a post and called him out on said bias.