Ole Miss

[SoonerorLater]

This might explain Mississippi's recruiting success over the last few years

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--ncaa-to-formally-charge-mississippi-with-rules-violations-193911274.html

[rock on sooner]

Hmmm, is that a smoke signal or just smoke?

[S.PadreIsl.Sooner]

SEC! SEC! SEC!

[ObiKaTony]

If anyone believes saban isnt pulling the same crap
You are delusional. Abc has been running stories for 5 years on this crap. Poor ole miss isn't the face of sec, and don't think for a second that espn contract is holding any investigation up. 3 years ago I saw 3 5 star mlbs from Boston/ny area coming to bama, give me a break.

http://www.campusrush.com/nick-saban-alabama-college-football-recruiting-1340326030.html

[Mazeppa]

It's business as usual in the mighty SEC.

[Blue]

Beautiful blondes, great campus, ehhhh... that's all I got.

Stadium is garbage. Gotta be paying.

[Jacie]

On a related note, there is a huge shortage of university cars and SUV's at Notre Dame, which forced the football team to press into service the team big rig in order for the coach to visit a recruit.

Report: Notre Dame truck visit may have been violation

Sam Cooper By Sam Cooper
Dr. Saturday

Did Notre Dame commit an NCAA violation by parking its equipment truck outside a recruit’s home?

According to ESPN.com, the Irish may have violated NCAA bylaw 13.4.3.5 when coaches publicized a Thursday morning trip visit to Savannah, Georgia.

The coaches were visiting five-star athlete Demetris Robertson, who tweeted a video of the 18-wheeler parked outside of his house.

According to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy, who spoke with “compliance officials from schools in three different Power 5 conferences,” the Notre Dame program could run into trouble for promoting the visit.

Notre Dame is under the impression that everything about the visit was legal because the truck “served as transportation” for a coach to visit a recruit. For the record, the trip from South Bend to Savannah is more than 900 miles.

"We believe this to be permissible and not to be in violation of bylaw 13.4.3.5 on the basis that it served as transportation of a coach to visit a prospective student-athlete,” a school spokesperson told ESPN.

No word yet on whether the hockey team may have to drive the Zamboni to visit potential recruits.

[birddog]

What took em so long? Did the ncaa just draw a name out of a hat when they looked over the sec's business?

[dwarthog]

I'm skeptical that much if anything will be done. The NCAA no longer has much of a bite.

[swardboy]

What part of this is news? They offered Cam Newton's dad $180,000. Weren't they offering $'s to Marcus Dupree's "advisor" way back in the day? For some reason it seems only Auburn gets hammered in the SEC by the NCAA.

[Sabanball]

Let's not kid ourselves, ALL coaches--including Stoops and Saban--occasionally break the speed limit, but when they signed both Laremy Tunsil AND Robert Rkimdiche several years ago it told me that something really serious was going on at Ole Mi$$.

[rock on sooner]

I'm skeptical that much if anything will be done. The NCAA no longer has much of a bite.

Welp, ifn the NCAA puts their dentures back in and stand up so's their brains
aren't under pressure then maybe something might take place...

[rock on sooner]

What part of this is news? They offered Cam Newton's dad $180,000. Weren't they offering $'s to Marcus Dupree's "advisor" way back in the day? For some reason it seems only Auburn gets hammered in the SEC by the NCAA.

I thought the offer to Newton's dad was $225-250K and I read somewhere that
Dupree's "advisor" was offered a really sweet ride to pass on to Marcus.....as to
Auburn getting hammered more, I'd suggest Auburn hire 'Bama's defenders!

Sabanball is right, though, most big time programs will "overstep, er, oversign"
SEC schools appear to do it more than others...Bama, LSU, Mississippi schools
are at the forefront....some years 30-35 signees and then comes grayshirting
or "this player is better than this one, so adios" or some small infraction and
"yer outta here..."

[Sabanball]

There is no such thing as legit or legal 'oversigning'. The NCAA has a hard limit and in our case the conference has a yearly limit(25/yr) on top of that, plus any eligible back-counters. If you exceed either of those numbers you are in violation of the rules.

As for gray shirting, some of you really have it overblown. All it amounts to is a 4 month delay in enrollment. The kid still gets a full ride scholly, and it is usually only used if a player is injured his senior year in HS, which allows him to rehab and hit the weight room. It's actually seldom used, we last used 2-3 yrs ago for Bradley Bozeman and next offered it to Riley Cole this year, who was the number 3 or 4 LB on our board and only held offers from Wake Forest and South Alabama(and now, evidently....Oklahoma). Both involved HS injuries and in neither case was a full scholly pulled. When you consider that many, if not most, freshman red shirt anyway in the big time programs like yours and ours, it's not really that big of a deal.

[Pride1Mom]

Gee! What a surprise!! Does anyone think that anyone in the SEC is honest?