Their best hope at this point is to try to push forward with lawsuits and attempt to continue a narrative, created by their legal defense, using OM-friendly media.
At first, their crack legal team set out to discredit Leo's testimony in earnest while stating that Freeze and Ole Miss had established an unprecedented culture of compliance with lists and check boxes and everything. They attempted to argue down the severity of the Level 1 allegations to try to get them reduced to lesser offenses. Additionally, they clung to the hope that they were showing exemplary cooperation and that they NCAA would take that into consideration and reward them by granting their wishes and apologizing for their inconvenience.
Didn't happen. Not only did the NCAA maintain the levels for all offenses and deny them exemplary cooperation, they also flat out dismissed the notion that Leo wasn't a credible source.
The next attempts were to build up the Rebel Rags lawsuit... hoping that somehow they could punch enough holes in Leo's story in a court of law as to deem his testimony questionable. They only needed the ability to get him on the stand before the COI hearing date was set. Their hope was that this would have taken place by now, thereby influencing the COI to disregard the allegations brought forward that involved his testimony.
Didn't happen.
Then there's the conspiracy factor... that somehow Lewis, Miller, Jones, Mullen, Robertson, NCAA were all working together in some capacity to do additional damage to Ole Miss beyond what they had brought upon themselves through their own admitted actions.
Also not happening.
Now that they are aware that the NCAA is going to move forward with the Leo evidence, they have no choice left but to attempt to drag MSU into it by association. This latest barrage of stories is a last ditch effort to kick up enough dust around Leo that somehow the NCAA will turn its ire against Mullen and MSU. Godfrey's revelation that the NCAA briefly opened an investigation into the Leo payments from MSU only to close it
citing there wasn't enough credible evidence to support its continuation has them boiling mad. If anything, that has them convinced that the NCAA and MSU are working in conjunction to bring down Ole Miss.
This last ditch effort is the equivalent of Hans Gruber trying to get that last shot off before falling from Nakatomi Tower.