Here's the Godfrey article.

[DogStuckAtUM.sixpack]

Hahaha. Neal's salty because national writers aren't racing to retweet it.

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[Xenomorph]

Good thing about skunks is that they're easy to smell and avoid, eh Neal?

 

[PBRME]

If I was on twitter I'd let Neal know it's because they've learned the smell of ******** coming out of Oxford. This one is pretty rank.

 

[DawgInThe256]

It appeared on my Twitter feed because Bruce Feldman liked it. Feldman loves him some Ole Miss.

 

[aTotal360]

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you can't get fooled again. -GWB

 

[grimedawg1]

Two options with this story:

1- Godfrey is speculating so a mountain of words can be written to confirm Ole Miss' general story or
2 - Someone from the Ole Miss side has provided Godfrey transcripts related to a process that is supposed to be confidential.
I am sure the COI will be very, very impressed.

 

[FQDawg]

The article says both that we offered him $80,000 and that he took $11,000 from us. That's quite the Friends and Family Discount Leo gave us. It's how you know he bleeds maroon.

 

[Snave]

that's a lot of water to carry. Hope Godfrey got the ole bagman treatment.

 

[AlCoDog]

They know they are 17ed at this point, so they have shifted their focus to trying to bring State down with them.

 

[Lucky Dawg]

57StratDawg touched on this, but the thing that sticks out to me the most, besides the obvious stench of fear and BS, is the supposed quote from Sheridan:

Sheridan also asks Lewis if he was ever “fixed up with a lady” while visiting Ole Miss.

That is supposedly from AUGUST 10, 2016. The NCAA was already hot on that trail. Ole Miss is screwed.

 

[Xenomorph]

When you're staring 60 over 5 in the face, pissing off the COI more doesn't matter.

 

[Go Budaw]

Every Ole Miss website has known for awhile that Godfrey was writing this article. Does anyone doubt Ole Miss gave these confidential documents to Godfrey and conspired with him to toss this Hail Mary?

How will the NCAA feel about that if true?

None of what "everyone on OM sites knows" matters. The fact is, the leak could only come from 2 places. OM or the NCAA. If it came from the NCAA, Godfrey could disclose the source through a third party and have the entire case thrown out due to the NCAA violating confidentiality protocol. He hasn't, and everyone knows where his diploma is from so no one from the NCAA would ever give him anything. It 100% came from OM, and the NCAA knows it.

 

[Moe Cabelle]

That's exactly what it is.

They are throwing everything at the wall in their final attempt before the COI in hopes to get lewis to entirely discredited, or raise awareness of their stance (its unfair!), and at minimum... get State busted also.

I had to quit reading, but I did glance through the section that say they heard all the "state paid Leo" testimony, and opened and closed an MSU investigation ala Cam Newton. I'm digging that, but I'm sure that makes them go bonkers.

Frankly, I'd love to see Godfrey discredited. Some of their folks act like he's an Einstein and he's gonna get this all fixed.

 

[Drebin]

Reb lurkers jerking off over this:

Fact: The NCAA has closed the Leo Lewis/Mississippi State case and has given MSU the all clear. There will be no Matlock moment at the COI hearing.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Egg Bowl is going to be fun this year boys!

 

[Dawgzilla]

The only thing I found interesting was that the NCAA (allegedly) opened an investigation into MSU regarding Lewis, and then quickly closed the investigation (allegedly) due to lack of credibility.

Godfrey claims this is completely contrary to the Enforcement Staff's claims in the UMiss case that Lewis is extremely credible. Well, Godfrey is (allegedly) overlooking that there is an awful lot of evidence corroborating Lewis' testimony against UMiss. Perhaps there is none backing up his claims of receiving money from MSU booster(s). Whatever, just because they weren't willing to pursue a case against MSU does not mean that there is anything improper with the allegations against UMiss.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

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[Moe Cabelle]

I tell you what's weird. Neal has quite the affection for Godfrey and his talents. He practically blew him on air refering to his genious and so forth.

With that set up, I can imagine that Neal will be quite salty without some traction in the media following his build up.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Reb Supremacists attempting to lynch Leo Lewis' eligibility

Link.

Not even a good try.

 

[Moe Cabelle]

Hey - everyone though it was cool that Cam skated.. obvously did NOT recieve funds from Auburn. I like it.

 

[o_dawgnabit]

It's going to be hard for the exemplary cooperation spin to happen when they clearly leaked NCAA transcripts to media...

 

[Shamoan]

hey neal, if it wasnt a retread of known information and allegations, it might be a big deal, but its not. all that is left now is date night with the ncaa.

 

[FQDawg]

A Lady?

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[maroonmadman]

I'd be willing to bet a weeks pay this is just the ole miss media's opening shot folks. Get ready folks, more to come.....

AND prepare yourself for YEARS of 'we got screwed and y'all got away with it' from the ole miss clan.

 

[HD6]

So is Mike Sheridan only racist towards Ole Miss players, because he sure seemed to accept Leo's testimony at face value.

 

[rem101]

Would have been a good article if the NCAA didn't already respond with "we believe leo and find him credible, but thanks for your concern"

 

[Col. Forbin]

I'd be willing to bet a weeks pay this is just the ole miss media's opening shot folks. Get ready folks, more to come.....

AND prepare yourself for YEARS of 'we got screwed and y'all got away with it' from the ole miss clan.

and my response to them would be:

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[Lawdawg.sixpack]

In legal terms:

 

[coach66]

Yep....

nm

 

[OliveBranchDAWG]

What exactly is the point of this article? I mean beside the obvious homer spin, I can't think of a reason for it. I believe it potentially creates more damage for OM fans because Godfrey continues to paint them as the victim, and gives their cultish fanbase & media more reason to bury their heads in the sand and deflect blame to MSU.

I'm amazed after all the blatant violations and "mistakes" made by OM coaches, boosters and administration they continue to redirect blame at everyone but themselves. It's screams immaturity. Where have the adults gone?

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

This is what I don't understand. The NCAA finds SA #39 to be credible and the OM faithful to be idiots. If OM had anything on LL they would have submitted it months ago and not waited to drop some bombshell information right before the COI.

How can these rebs be so dumb?

 

[Shamoan]

we need a countdown clock to kickoff and 9/11 (Eastern time of course)

 

[johnson86-1]

What exactly is the point of this article? I mean beside the obvious homer spin, I can't think of a reason for it. I believe it potentially creates more damage for OM fans because Godfrey continues to paint them as the victim, and gives their cultish fanbase & media more reason to bury their heads in the sand and deflect blame to MSU.

I'm amazed after all the blatant violations and "mistakes" made by OM coaches, boosters and administration they continue to redirect blame at everyone but themselves. It's screams immaturity. Where have the adults gone?

I think UM is under the mistaken impression that people will care. If it was OSU and Michigan, this article would probably at least cause some people to question the process.

I'm not sure why they would provide the NCAA further evidence of people associated with Ole Miss breaching their obligations of confidentiality with respect to the investigation if they realized that ultimately, nobody would care.

 

[ShrubDog]

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[DerHntr]

Why did this take a year to write? It's the OM response reordered and reworded slightly.

 

[00Dawg]

It's also Armani's spin.

I'd have taken what he described as Mullen protecting his program, not making Leo a puppet.

 

[DawgESQ]

I've said from the beginning that the Ole Miss faithful are right, there is a lot of dirty money in college football, and yes, Mississippi State has probably contributed their fair share, BUT if you're on trial for DUI and claim you know lots of other people that drink and drive, you're still guilty.

Mississippi State isn't on trial. We aren't 16 days away from our final hearing before the COI. Our head coach wasn't fired for using a state plane and phone to go get hookers. We don't have a former coach suing because we lied to the press about him and breached our severance agreement. We don't have 20 pending level one infractions (not including Leo Lewis) ranging from ACT fraud to paying players.

If your Hail Mary is that other people cheat too, good luck. In the end, the really concerning thing for Ole Miss is not what State did, it's that they have no defense. They'll head before the COI in 2 weeks basing their case on the honesty of a now disgraced coach.

If we end up "rue-ing" in a year or two, then we deserve what we get, but until then, court is in session.

 

[J-Dawg]

nm. Actually the C-L article was a Sammon article.

 

[Dawgtini]

Reb lurkers jerking off over this:

Fact: The NCAA has closed the Leo Lewis/Mississippi State case and has given MSU the all clear. There will be no Matlock moment at the COI hearing.

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[johnson86-1]

I've said from the beginning that the Ole Miss faithful are right, there is a lot of dirty money in college football, and yes, Mississippi State has probably contributed their fair share, BUT if you're on trial for DUI and claim you know lots of other people that drink and drive, you're still guilty.

Mississippi State isn't on trial. We aren't 16 days away from our final hearing before the COI. Our head coach wasn't fired for using a state plane and phone to go get hookers. We don't have a former coach suing because we lied to the press about him and breached our severance agreement. We don't have 20 pending level one infractions (not including Leo Lewis) ranging from ACT fraud to paying players.

If your Hail Mary is that other people cheat too, good luck. In the end, the really concerning thing for Ole Miss is not what State did, it's that they have no defense. They'll head before the COI in 2 weeks basing their case on the honesty of a now disgraced coach.

If we end up "rue-ing" in a year or two, then we deserve what we get, but until then, court is in session.

Ole Miss is not about to get hammered because they were cheating. They are about to get hammered because they were cheating at a level that would allow them to pick off top rated recruits with no connection to them from blue blood schools' back yards.

I get why they think that leaves them unable to compete. If all the non-blue blood schools are allowed to do is cheat at the same level as the blue bloods, it will be almost impossible to go steal a recruit from a blue blood's natural recruiting area while blue bloods will often be able to dip into Mississippi and steal a recruit.

But that's no different than the situation would be if nobody cheated.

And it's mostly no different than if the NCAA said everybody go cheat to your heart's content.

Under any scenario other than Ole Miss gets to cheat more than power house programs, the power house programs have an advantage, and the only way the non-powerhouses can compete is to get a really good coach that is really good at evaluating and developing talent. That's obviously a lot harder to do than finding a coach willing to go balls to the wall with cheating in exchange for a multi-million dollar salary, but it's just the way it is. If you can't stomach the fact that some schools have built in advantages that are extremely hard to match, college sports aren't for you. You need to pick a professional sport a salary cap and draft.