There are 1 or 2 of you who hate Ole Miss about half as much as me.
I've been telling you guys that they've been under investigation, in a number of sports, for several years. A major part of that investigation has involved academic fraud - specifically, ACT fraud. A former coach at Ole Miss, and of late at University of Louisiana Lafayette, David Saunders had rigged a fraudulent ACT scheme at Wayne County, MS High School through an ACT proctor to assist prospective student athletes with their scores.
Through the NCAA's prolonged investigation at Ole Miss into several M/W sports - including the football program - this scheme had come to light. This led the NCAA to ULL, where Saunders had been a FB coach the last several years (he's now at a MS JC after ULL fired him due to the investigation).
This ULL secondary investigation came to light late last year, after the public response document that ULL filed with the NCAA. Ole Miss' AD has admitted in a newspaper article that at least 3 sports, including football, have been involved in an investigation, but other than that, their lawyers will not let anything more in terms of actual documents to be public until there is no other alternative.
In ULL's public response before the new year, ULL had some suggested self-imposed penalties regarding their academic fraud (ACT) involving Saunders and several players, in addition to Saunders being fired. The NCAA today rejected ULL's suggested penalties and increased those, as well as giving David Saunders worst show cause indictment ever proffered by the NCAA at 8 years. ULL got 3 year probation, lost 11 scholarships, had multiple recruiting official visits eliminated for several years, had to vacate a season's W-L record, among other things.
Note, that Hugh Freeze worked directly for Saunders at Ole Miss in 2006.
Saunders worked for Hugh Freeze in 2010, before going to ULL. My intel says that Ole Miss has continued this rogue ACT stuff, knowing the Saunders formula despite him not being there, including players on their current team.
The ULL issues penalized today by the NCAA only came to light, according to the NCAA documentation, from the investigation of like issues according to the NCAA report today at other member institutions (Ole Miss).
Ole Miss is next, and they know it.
Keep in mind that Ole Miss had these issues in more than one sport. This doesn't even include illegal inducements, etc. What I've heard is that three SEC schools, and at least a couple of schools outside the SEC have complained to the NCAA about Ole Miss in the illegal inducement category.
And you ask Magnolia...well, why are they balls to the wall right now throughout the country? Because they have known it's coming, and they want to survive it with the best class they've ever had, no matter what the "cost".
Think about it like this. You're the fraternity rush chairman, and you know that your fraternity is about to get the ban to exist on campus, or some such. You can slough it off, or you can go balls to the wall and get the best pledge class ever without forewarning them that they're going to live off campus, and try to work through the three to four years of difficulty by having some damn good pledges. Best case scenario, pledge the best you can get, and work through it.
http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/Lousiana-Lafayette Public Decision.pdf
I've been telling you guys that they've been under investigation, in a number of sports, for several years. A major part of that investigation has involved academic fraud - specifically, ACT fraud. A former coach at Ole Miss, and of late at University of Louisiana Lafayette, David Saunders had rigged a fraudulent ACT scheme at Wayne County, MS High School through an ACT proctor to assist prospective student athletes with their scores.
Through the NCAA's prolonged investigation at Ole Miss into several M/W sports - including the football program - this scheme had come to light. This led the NCAA to ULL, where Saunders had been a FB coach the last several years (he's now at a MS JC after ULL fired him due to the investigation).
This ULL secondary investigation came to light late last year, after the public response document that ULL filed with the NCAA. Ole Miss' AD has admitted in a newspaper article that at least 3 sports, including football, have been involved in an investigation, but other than that, their lawyers will not let anything more in terms of actual documents to be public until there is no other alternative.
In ULL's public response before the new year, ULL had some suggested self-imposed penalties regarding their academic fraud (ACT) involving Saunders and several players, in addition to Saunders being fired. The NCAA today rejected ULL's suggested penalties and increased those, as well as giving David Saunders worst show cause indictment ever proffered by the NCAA at 8 years. ULL got 3 year probation, lost 11 scholarships, had multiple recruiting official visits eliminated for several years, had to vacate a season's W-L record, among other things.
Note, that Hugh Freeze worked directly for Saunders at Ole Miss in 2006.
Saunders worked for Hugh Freeze in 2010, before going to ULL. My intel says that Ole Miss has continued this rogue ACT stuff, knowing the Saunders formula despite him not being there, including players on their current team.
The ULL issues penalized today by the NCAA only came to light, according to the NCAA documentation, from the investigation of like issues according to the NCAA report today at other member institutions (Ole Miss).
Ole Miss is next, and they know it.
Keep in mind that Ole Miss had these issues in more than one sport. This doesn't even include illegal inducements, etc. What I've heard is that three SEC schools, and at least a couple of schools outside the SEC have complained to the NCAA about Ole Miss in the illegal inducement category.
And you ask Magnolia...well, why are they balls to the wall right now throughout the country? Because they have known it's coming, and they want to survive it with the best class they've ever had, no matter what the "cost".
Think about it like this. You're the fraternity rush chairman, and you know that your fraternity is about to get the ban to exist on campus, or some such. You can slough it off, or you can go balls to the wall and get the best pledge class ever without forewarning them that they're going to live off campus, and try to work through the three to four years of difficulty by having some damn good pledges. Best case scenario, pledge the best you can get, and work through it.
http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/Lousiana-Lafayette Public Decision.pdf
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