Before I get to the content, let me qualify something. I'm obviously new to the board, but I love MSU football. I did my under and post grad at MSU in engineering, leaving in 2009 (saw a lot of disheartening times). But I never had hatred for UM, until all this blew up the last few years. I've got family and close friends that pull for UM, and they're just regular guys like me. As the NCAA stuff has developed, I've talked to them less about it, partly out of respect and partly out of fear that I don't want to find out their part of the crazies.
I must confess, following UM's story has caused me to pay more attention to them the last couple years than I did my entire life before the investigation. That's how I got involved with this board (been reading here for a couple years now). I'll also occasionally see what their side and the national media are saying to "catch" them in lies by just simply doing a Google search.
This morning, I was checking things out, and I came across a couple stories on RCR. I don't want to link anything to their sites, so I'll just copy/paste (forgive the length of this post). Anyhow, this guy doesn't seem to fit the narrative. He may have in the past (didn't look up too much more), but he certainly doesn't seem to now. Wonder what Ben, Chuck, Neal, Steven, and Yancy would have to say about this. The guy who wrote the articles is Jim Lohmar ("Here's why Ole Miss won't find out anything about the COI for several months" and "Not long for this world, Hugh Freeze dared too much"). Here's some quotes from the articles. Again, nothing we don't know, just funny to see it coming from UM media.
From Here's why Ole Miss won't find out anything about the COI for several months:
"We frankly have no idea what happened in a Covington, Kent. hotel meeting room on Monday and Tuesday of this week, because no one who was in the room is saying anything at all. That’s to be expected. Ross Bjork flatly declined comment on Tuesday afternoon as the meeting broke up, before everyone involved packed up and left. The Clarion-Ledger‘s poor Antonio Morales thus sat around in a hotel lobby in Kentucky for two days while Hugh Freeze, Matt Luke, Ross Bjork and a bunch of attorneys gave him the cold shoulder."
"There’s nothing to be gained from speculation or divination about the movements of Monday and Tuesday. How did Leo Lewis’ testimony jive with what he’s previously said? We don’t know. What does it mean that everyone packed up and left almost immediately after the proceedings ended? We don’t know. Will this turn out better or worse for Rebel football? We don’t know.Let’s try something here. Let’s try to guess at what further, if any, sanctions the NCAA may levy against Ole Miss, over and above what Ole Miss has already self-imposed. Personally, I think further scholarship reductions and recruiting restrictions are coming down the pipe. That’s likely and frankly justified, at least within the kangaroo court context of the NCAA violations policies. It’s stupid, but the world is stupid, and the NCAA is consistently one of its most egregious offenders. A postseason ban for 2018? That’s one of the harsher punishments to stomach, because it just might drive Shea Patterson off the reservation. A show-cause for Hugh Freeze? That doesn’t matter anymore, so don’t get worked up about it."
From Not long for this world, Hugh Freeze dared too much:
"Hugh Freeze is gone. Done. Over. Finished. The sword stroke that terminated five years in Oxford. Five tumultuous years cannon-shot forward by a COME AT ME BRO tweet regarding the 2013 recruiting class. A class that was snared through nefarious NCAA means. A class that rocketed into the ether of the AP poll in 2014 and 2015, only to plummet to hell in 2016. A class that would spur a years-long NCAA investigation into the most private lives of student-athletes, coaches, and extended families. A class that produced three first-round NFL Draft talents. A class that launched itself out of an Atlanta hotel room window."
"Hugh Freeze could recruit. Well, Hugh Freeze, with the help of non-compliant assistants and boosters and enticements, could recruit. He nabbed Robert Nkemdiche, Laremy Tunsil, and Laquon Treadwell all in the same class. As their respective stars ascended, so did Freeze’s. They all went in the first round. Nkemdiche believed he could fly. Tunsil found other means of reaching the same altitude. Brother Denzel Nkemdiche became the court jester."
I must confess, following UM's story has caused me to pay more attention to them the last couple years than I did my entire life before the investigation. That's how I got involved with this board (been reading here for a couple years now). I'll also occasionally see what their side and the national media are saying to "catch" them in lies by just simply doing a Google search.
This morning, I was checking things out, and I came across a couple stories on RCR. I don't want to link anything to their sites, so I'll just copy/paste (forgive the length of this post). Anyhow, this guy doesn't seem to fit the narrative. He may have in the past (didn't look up too much more), but he certainly doesn't seem to now. Wonder what Ben, Chuck, Neal, Steven, and Yancy would have to say about this. The guy who wrote the articles is Jim Lohmar ("Here's why Ole Miss won't find out anything about the COI for several months" and "Not long for this world, Hugh Freeze dared too much"). Here's some quotes from the articles. Again, nothing we don't know, just funny to see it coming from UM media.
From Here's why Ole Miss won't find out anything about the COI for several months:
"We frankly have no idea what happened in a Covington, Kent. hotel meeting room on Monday and Tuesday of this week, because no one who was in the room is saying anything at all. That’s to be expected. Ross Bjork flatly declined comment on Tuesday afternoon as the meeting broke up, before everyone involved packed up and left. The Clarion-Ledger‘s poor Antonio Morales thus sat around in a hotel lobby in Kentucky for two days while Hugh Freeze, Matt Luke, Ross Bjork and a bunch of attorneys gave him the cold shoulder."
"There’s nothing to be gained from speculation or divination about the movements of Monday and Tuesday. How did Leo Lewis’ testimony jive with what he’s previously said? We don’t know. What does it mean that everyone packed up and left almost immediately after the proceedings ended? We don’t know. Will this turn out better or worse for Rebel football? We don’t know.Let’s try something here. Let’s try to guess at what further, if any, sanctions the NCAA may levy against Ole Miss, over and above what Ole Miss has already self-imposed. Personally, I think further scholarship reductions and recruiting restrictions are coming down the pipe. That’s likely and frankly justified, at least within the kangaroo court context of the NCAA violations policies. It’s stupid, but the world is stupid, and the NCAA is consistently one of its most egregious offenders. A postseason ban for 2018? That’s one of the harsher punishments to stomach, because it just might drive Shea Patterson off the reservation. A show-cause for Hugh Freeze? That doesn’t matter anymore, so don’t get worked up about it."
From Not long for this world, Hugh Freeze dared too much:
"Hugh Freeze is gone. Done. Over. Finished. The sword stroke that terminated five years in Oxford. Five tumultuous years cannon-shot forward by a COME AT ME BRO tweet regarding the 2013 recruiting class. A class that was snared through nefarious NCAA means. A class that rocketed into the ether of the AP poll in 2014 and 2015, only to plummet to hell in 2016. A class that would spur a years-long NCAA investigation into the most private lives of student-athletes, coaches, and extended families. A class that produced three first-round NFL Draft talents. A class that launched itself out of an Atlanta hotel room window."
"Hugh Freeze could recruit. Well, Hugh Freeze, with the help of non-compliant assistants and boosters and enticements, could recruit. He nabbed Robert Nkemdiche, Laremy Tunsil, and Laquon Treadwell all in the same class. As their respective stars ascended, so did Freeze’s. They all went in the first round. Nkemdiche believed he could fly. Tunsil found other means of reaching the same altitude. Brother Denzel Nkemdiche became the court jester."
