New CL fluff piece. Wow.

[fishwater99]

How can they keep this up?
You can't have exemplary cooperation with the Tunsil draft day pay for play being new info involving coaches and an assistant AD.

Will Ole Miss' 'cooperation' pay off?

- Ole Miss believes its efforts during the NCAA’s previous investigation means the school should receive the designation of "exemplary cooperation" from the committee on infractions. The school referred to the phrase 16 times in its response to a notice of allegations.

 

[121Josey]

I haven't read the piece but the whole "exemplary cooperation" is from the introduction to their response. It's a huge pat on the back for the compliance department. I just don't understand how checking the football parking lot for unregistered cars is "exemplary cooperation". And the response states that the coaching staff knew about the cars. Exemplary indeed.

But "exemplary cooperation" is how T$UNil swindled them over and over and over again. "Exemplary cooperation" is their statement in the response that they will continue the loaner car program.

 

[jb1020]

Yeah, I think they can hang that schtick up after Draft night

Bjoke/Freezus say sometime in Feb/March - Hey NCAA, here's everything we know, 250+ interviews, over $1mil spent getting to the bottom of this, we've disassociated with 8 boosters, we're just awesome people and thats a fact.

Draft night in April NCAA says- Hey Bjoke/Freezus, did you guys cover this pay for play scheme you have going on between an Associate AD and this "Recruiting Specialist" in those millions of hours of interviews?

Freezus :hides behind bible:

 

[57stratdawg]

Isn't one of the charges against OM that they knew Tunsil was getting benefits DNF didn't do anything about it?

Where was the exemplary cooperation then?

 

[ckDOG]

They spin well.

Bjoke/Freezus say sometime in Feb/March - Hey NCAA, here's everything we know, 250+ interviews, over $1mil spent getting to the bottom of this, we've disassociated with 8 boosters, we're just awesome people and thats a fact.

Draft night in April NCAA says- Hey Bjoke/Freezus, did you guys cover this pay for play scheme you have going on between an Associate AD and this "Recruiting Specialist" in those millions of hours of interviews?

Freezus :hides behind bible:

It's exactly how I would spin it if I were them, but if the NCAA isn't completely brain dead they will look at those interviews, investigation dollars, and booster disassociations as clear evidence of a systematic failure to monitor or control the folks involved in and associated with your athletics department. It simply doesn't take that much time or money to make sure everything is on the up and up if you have a good system and culture already in place. They had to spend that much time and effort because of the **** show that is getting uncovered, not because a few mistakes were made or a bad apple or two slipped through the cracks.

But they made a pretty flyer summarizing the process, so what do I know?

 

[gptdawg]

Didn't they committ violations while under investigation? Exemplary indeed.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

Well the 'foom folks counter that Tunsil's situation was completely legal. So I guess no reason to report legal things to the NCAA, just report the illegal things = Exemplary Cooperation!**

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[Shamoan]

sure, i made mistakes by dunking the cat in the toilet 8 consecutive times, but i went straight to my room for punishment when told to do so. that type of cooperation should pretty much should negate any penalty mom.

 

[121Josey]

Didn't they committ violations while under investigation? Exemplary indeed.

The CL say that TUNS reported 13 (insignificant) violations. Funny that Bjerk said on Finebam that the number was 40. 40 and 14 do sound a lot alike.

 

[patdog]

Exemplary cooperation is just the usual UM PR strategy. Decide on your story & repeat it over & over. If you say it often enough, people will believe it. No matter how deep the ******** is.

 

[Chesusdog]

They're hoping it works like their "Freeze isn't in the NOA" lie. Tell it enough and people will print it as truth.

 

[121Josey]

They're hoping it works like their "Freeze isn't in the NOA" lie. Tell it enough and people will print it as truth.

You've got to hit 'em back with the "Freezus is in the response to the NOA. How is that?" Then tell them that you also don't see "wins vacated" in the response to the NOA.

 

[coach66]

Well, you would think they couldn't look any worse but yes, yes that can.

Nm

 

[engie]

The part that I don't understand is -- it is NOT their place to define their level of cooperation. It's the most OM thing ever though. I imagine they thought it up from here.

Although Banowsky, who also is commissioner of Conference USA, called it "a serious case," harsher sanctions such as a bowl ban weren't considered because the case was "narrow in scope" and because of the school's cooperation. He praised Mississippi State for its aggressive internal investigation."The university did a great job once they became aware of (the violations), of taking necessary action once they found the scope and severity of the problem and then owning up to it when they got to the hearing (with the Committee on Infractions in April)," Banowsky said, adding, "We wanted to go out of our way to let folks know we were very appreciative of the way the university responded. That's how it should be.

 

[tatedog]

The cooperation was so exemplary, in fact, that Bjork got to decide when the investigation was concluded.

 

[patdog]

It is the most UM thing ever. They're lobbying hard for credit from the NCAA for cooperating with the investigation. It's a pretty hard sell when the way they've handled every allegation is deny, deny, deny, then when the evidence is overwhelming, admit that mistakes were made but nothing was intentional. Exemplary cooperation is what we did with the Redmond situation or what Saban did when he found out his assistant coach was cheating.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Just a bunch of DINDU NUFFINS.

 

[ShrubDog]

I see where the CL did an open records request so they could report 10 secondary violations at MSU. Only 2 were for football.

This is exemplary journalism.