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JoMo MoJo

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Slice was no friend to any school not named Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Tennessee and LSU. I’m sure he would have had every other team removed from the SEC if he could do it unimposed.
 
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ababyatemydingo

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tired said:
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True story.

My wife and I got invited to the '97 Liberty Bowl by some friends of ours who had been given 4 tickets by his company. So, we're standing in a LONG food line in Mid-South Coliseum for quite a while, and this guy comes up to us. He'd seen that the ladies were obviously a little frustrated, because that long line was moving so slowly. I had no clue who he was. was in nice slacks and a white shirt. No tie. He began talking to us. Just general chit chat. After about 15 minutes, he invites us to come and eat in this room off to the side of Mid-South. We were starving at that point, it was gonna be about another 30 minutes in line if we stayed in that food line, so anything sounded good. He took us to the CUSA VIP room, where all the CUSA brass were dining. Was a huge food spread. Just about anything you wanted. Prime rib. Lobster, etc...He stayed and ate lunch with us, and after we all finished, he got up and put on his blue blazer. It had his name tag on it. CUSA Commissioner Mike Slive. He was a very genuine dude, back then.
 
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maroonmania

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Guess I'm biased against him by the lasting image of him sitting stoically while everyone else in the Hump cheered Jarvis Varnado for breaking the all time NCAA blocked shot record. That, and the whole way the Cam Newton fiasco went down. He was certainly no friend to MSU.
 
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Moe Cabelle

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He was not a friend to MSU.

I dont know if it was because he had a close relationship w kuhatte at the time or what, but he let us be the sacrificial lamb to the ncas before protecting umiss under exciting new ways of cooperating with the ncaa. The cam affair was atricious from the “do nothing” approach at first to the “midnight suspension” being immediately lifted. To top it off, he allowed msu to be perceived as a wrong doer, when he was just pissed the matter went public. Nope, things have been much better for msu since he retired.

Having said that, thats life on earth- may he rest in peace.
 
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I'm convinced he orchestrated the in-season suspension the way it happened. It forced the NCAA to give a carte blanche in a high pressure situation. No way could the NCAA come back and punish Auburn and Newton after they gave him the go ahead.
 
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TV broadcast just showed a stat that was interesting.

When Sluve took over in 2002 the SEC distributed $92M to its members.

When he retired in 2015: $455M

Holy smokes.

I heard from a friend in the MSU Adminiatration that we got a check for about $41,000,000 last year.

Wow.
 
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