2017 SEC Off-Season Thread

[EasyMoney]

didn't listen to finebaum but he did hire a 2019 recruit's dad last week. that's what I thought you were talking about.


http://www.elevenwarriors.com/colle...es-father-of-top-2019-dual-threat-quarterback




and nobody is telling a HS coach he can't get ANY college job. He just can't get a college job at the SAME SCHOOL one of his kids enrolled in the past or future 2 years.


So for an IMG coach it will be a little tougher since so many get recruited but for a typical HS coach (like Rashan Gary's in NJ) that might put out 1 or 2 D1 kids/yr there's an obvious reason for the rule.

Oh my god, for the 3rd time now, Harbaugh did not hire Michael Johnson Sr. to his staff. That is the coach you are alluding too. Yes i get that was reported that way but its pretty widely known at this point that in the end that man did not take a job with Michigan and instead he took a job as the Oregon WR coach. You siting an OSU message board with outdated facts doesn't make it true. The guy ended up at Oregon, not Michigan. And on top of that the reason that he didn't end up at Michigan is because it would've been non coaching roll until the NCAA approves the 10th coach proposal, which may not happen now until next year.

My other point is that every single year the Michigans, Ohio's, Bama's, Florida's, FSU's ect of the world almost all offer kids at IMG, St Thomas aquinas, Del La Salle, Don Bosco Prep, Buford, Bishop Gorman, and several other football powers across the country. So if you make this rule then those teams can't pursue any kids from those schools, hence those high school coaches have far less room to move on to a collage job. Allthough I'm sure Harbaugh will find a way around and will continue to piss off the NCAA and SEC.

Take a team like Cass Tech in Detroit. Not a single year goes by that players from that team don't sign with Michigan, so under this new rule any coach at that school would never have a chance to be a coach at Michigan cause Michigan isn't going to go 3 years without recruiting kids from that school.

 

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Oh my god, for the 3rd time now, Harbaugh did not hire Michael Johnson Sr. to his staff. That is the coach you are alluding too. Yes i get that was reported that way but its pretty widely known at this point that in the end that man did not take a job with Michigan and instead he took a job as the Oregon WR coach. You siting an OSU message board with outdated facts doesn't make it true. The guy ended up at Oregon, not Michigan. And on top of that the reason that he didn't end up at Michigan is because it would've been non coaching roll until the NCAA approves the 10th coach proposal, which may not happen now until next year.

My other point is that every single year the Michigans, Ohio's, Bama's, Florida's, FSU's ect of the world almost all offer kids at IMG, St Thomas aquinas, Del La Salle, Don Bosco Prep, Buford, Bishop Gorman, and several other football powers across the country. So if you make this rule then those teams can't pursue any kids from those schools, hence those high school coaches have far less room to move on to a collage job. Allthough I'm sure Harbaugh will find a way around and will continue to piss off the NCAA and SEC.

Take a team like Cass Tech in Detroit. Not a single year goes by that players from that team don't sign with Michigan, so under this new rule any coach at that school would never have a chance to be a coach at Michigan cause Michigan isn't going to go 3 years without recruiting kids from that school.

ok, gotcha cranky. i was not aware he went to oregon instead of michigan. in the end it doesn't matter because MORE than 2 years will be gone before his son enrolls...so in this case as long as the QB doesn't try to enroll early (JAN 2019) he can join his dad at Oregon. Obviously the press wanted to make it a Harbaugh story about skirting the rules by a few months but instead it's Taggart doing it. Either way it's completely legal even after the rule goes into effect (assuming it is passed). BTW, the way some college hoops programs have skirted the rule is sending kid Juco for 2 years but they take a chance that the kid returns to same program.


and the rule will not just cover hiring a coach. It effects non-coaching roles as well including "analyst" or "director of football operations" or hiring a mom to supposedly edit together opponent film. It goes beyond an onfield coach....thank Harbaugh for all this if you find it negatively impacting to coaches, parents, and siblings of D1 athletes.


and, of course certainly schools will be affected more than others. No coach at Hoover HS in Bham will ever be able to coach at Bama or Auburn or Troy or UAB or South Bama but there will be 100 other schools that are fine to join. Same with Pittsburgh's Central Catholic knocking out Pitt, Penn St, WVU, Ohio St, Mich, etc, etc. I don't think it has a far-reaching impact unless you're an IMG guy but kids that go to IMG will have this rule also in place for their previous "real" high school in cases where they transfer before starting public HS.

more compliance hires coming for the ncaa. thank Coach Khakis...it sounds like you're a big fan of his.

 

[EasyMoney]

ok, gotcha cranky. i was not aware he went to oregon instead of michigan. in the end it doesn't matter because MORE than 2 years will be gone before his son enrolls...so in this case as long as the QB doesn't try to enroll early (JAN 2019) he can join his dad at Oregon. Obviously the press wanted to make it a Harbaugh story about skirting the rules by a few months but instead it's Taggart doing it. Either way it's completely legal even after the rule goes into effect (assuming it is passed). BTW, the way some college hoops programs have skirted the rule is sending kid Juco for 2 years but they take a chance that the kid returns to same program.


and the rule will not just cover hiring a coach. It effects non-coaching roles as well including "analyst" or "director of football operations" or hiring a mom to supposedly edit together opponent film. It goes beyond an onfield coach....thank Harbaugh for all this if you find it negatively impacting to coaches, parents, and siblings of D1 athletes.


and, of course certainly schools will be affected more than others. No coach at Hoover HS in Bham will ever be able to coach at Bama or Auburn or Troy or UAB or South Bama but there will be 100 other schools that are fine to join. Same with Pittsburgh's Central Catholic knocking out Pitt, Penn St, WVU, Ohio St, Mich, etc, etc. I don't think it has a far-reaching impact unless you're an IMG guy but kids that go to IMG will have this rule also in place for their previous "real" high school in cases where they transfer before starting public HS.

more compliance hires coming for the ncaa. thank Coach Khakis...it sounds like you're a big fan of his.

As long as we are thanking Harbaugh for this new rule can you remind me where did Jeremy Pruitt come from? Not this time but the first time he was hired at bama. Oh thats right, he came from the very same Hoover High School that you mentioned. I forgot, it's only a big deal if Harbaugh does it not if Saban does. Nor anyone else for that matter. Lovie Smith literally just hired an IMG coach like last week. Notre Dame also hired a IMG coach within the last month. Lets move on to Auburn. Their LB coach is named Travis Williams. He came from a high school in georgia in 2014 and Auburn signed 2 kids from that high school in that class and the next class. Auburn also hired Del Mcgee in 2013, came from a Georgia high school. Daryl Jones was a high school coach in Georgia that was then hired by Georgia. Hell Gus Malzhan got his college start with Arkansas after coaching a high school in Arkansas. Right now isn't the "director of player development" at Bama a guy named Kerry Stevenson? He came from a Alabama high school. The truth is this is a story because its Harbaugh. These college coaches have been hiring high school coaches for years and it was never a second thought.

 

[DeadLast]

As long as we are thanking Harbaugh for this new rule can you remind me where did Jeremy Pruitt come from? Not this time but the first time he was hired at bama. Oh thats right, he came from the very same Hoover High School that you mentioned. I forgot, it's only a big deal if Harbaugh does it not if Saban does. Nor anyone else for that matter. Lovie Smith literally just hired an IMG coach like last week. Notre Dame also hired a IMG coach within the last month. Lets move on to Auburn. Their LB coach is named Travis Williams. He came from a high school in georgia in 2014 and Auburn signed 2 kids from that high school in that class and the next class. Auburn also hired Del Mcgee in 2013, came from a Georgia high school. Daryl Jones was a high school coach in Georgia that was then hired by Georgia. Hell Gus Malzhan got his college start with Arkansas after coaching a high school in Arkansas. Right now isn't the "director of player development" at Bama a guy named Kerry Stevenson? He came from a Alabama high school. The truth is this is a story because its Harbaugh. These college coaches have been hiring high school coaches for years and it was never a second thought.

Good point. The Harbaugh rule won't stop universities from raiding high schools for good coaches. Auburn will add three more high school coaches to their staff by the end of this week - T'Sharvan Bell (Jones County), Brian Blackmon (Opelika) and Shelton Felton (Crisp County).

 

[rolltide]

As long as we are thanking Harbaugh for this new rule can you remind me where did Jeremy Pruitt come from? Not this time but the first time he was hired at bama. Oh thats right, he came from the very same Hoover High School that you mentioned.I forgot, it's only a big deal if Harbaugh does it not if Saban does. Nor anyone else for that matter. Lovie Smith literally just hired an IMG coach like last week. Notre Dame also hired a IMG coach within the last month. Lets move on to Auburn. Their LB coach is named Travis Williams. He came from a high school in georgia in 2014 and Auburn signed 2 kids from that high school in that class and the next class. Auburn also hired Del Mcgee in 2013, came from a Georgia high school. Daryl Jones was a high school coach in Georgia that was then hired by Georgia. Hell Gus Malzhan got his college start with Arkansas after coaching a high school in Arkansas. Right now isn't the "director of player development" at Bama a guy named Kerry Stevenson? He came from a Alabama high school. The truth is this is a story because its Harbaugh. These college coaches have been hiring high school coaches for years and it was never a second thought.

yes, or course, but Harbaugh flaunted it and now the NCAA is pissed. It's been a practice since LSU hired Pistol Pete's dad but the NCAA got pissed at Harbaugh so they're trying to get a rule passed around it.


we're on the same page here...except that it's a potential rule change because of them scapegoating Harbaugh...it's not just "a story" because of Harbaugh.


and, yes, you can go back forever and keep citing examples of when a school hired a recruit's coach, parent, or sibling but all you're doing is proving that there is significant cause to stop this practice


(somehow you're again here to defend Harbaugh. just go to Ann Arbor and suck his dick and be done with it)

 

[EasyMoney]

yes, or course, but Harbaugh flaunted it and now the NCAA is pissed. It's been a practice since LSU hired Pistol Pete's dad but the NCAA got pissed at Harbaugh so they're trying to get a rule passed around it.


we're on the same page here...except that it's a potential rule change because of them scapegoating Harbaugh...it's not just "a story" because of Harbaugh.


and, yes, you can go back forever and keep citing examples of when a school hired a recruit's coach, parent, or sibling but all you're doing is proving that there is significant cause to stop this practice


(somehow you're again here to defend Harbaugh. just go to Ann Arbor and suck his dick and be done with it)

I guess the difference we have is i don't see a reason to stop this practice. If they are that hell bent on it imo it should only be that you can't hire a coach the same year as a recruit is going to sign. I can see possibly making that a rule but to not allow a school to recruit an area for 3 years in just dumb to me.

and yes i'm defending Harbaugh, cause none of the shit he does was originally done by him but no one cares until he does it. He wasn't the first to hold camps. They are just making up rules because he does stuff. Summer camps, Spring practice not at the university (which lets be straight up honest here, its not about the well being of the kids, its about the sec not wanting non sec schools to come into their region of the country) Now we are on to hiring coaches, which a large percentage of college coaches have done for years but now its a big deal cause Harbaugh did it. I could see the argument slightly if, like i said, Harbaugh would've hired Partridge the month before Gary signed but he didn't. He hired him over a year before Gary signed and year after Peppers had signed (yes Jabrill peppers went to the same high school). No one seems to give two shits that Saban is grey shirting top 100 peospects or that people that played at Ole Miss come out and say, yeah they paid me. I won't even speculate how it is that a decent chunk of the bama roster is driving $30-40,000 cars cause that's all speculation but if i'm the ncaa that would be something id atleast like to ask a few questions about. But no, instead lets fuck with who Harbaugh hires cause he is ruffling some feathers.

 

[rolltide]

every year the Tide have had a handful of guys elevate their play despite being minimal contributors in previous seasons. Last year was Dion-Hamilton, Harrison, Harris, Bo Scarb....in addition to some freshman, of course.


Fox did an article based on talking to some insiders on who to look for in 2017. I'll give my thoughts next to each:
http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...mack-wilson-terrell-hall-scott-lashley-022117


Terrell Hall - I was surprised he was the first name listed and I expect it will be his 2018 season where he makes a Tim Williams type of impact.
Quinnen Williams - no doubt he's on the list especially with so many DL departing.
Scott Lashley - I probably wouldn't put him on this list as I think it will tough to break the lineup wtih both #1 JUCO kid and Leatherwood coming aboard
Anfernee Jennings - played really well in some spot roles late 2016 but I rate at least 2 ILB higher than him
Miller Forristall - played a lot as a freshman and has a lot of work to do. with OJ leaving he will be penciled in as starter at TE as a true soph but, IMO, he played enough as a freshman that he shouldn't be on a watch list for 2017
Mack Wilson - my #1 guy. This guy will be a monster and maybe the hardest hitter in college football. If he can stay away from the helmet-to-helmet shots he will be an All-American
Nigel Knott - someone has to step up for Hump and since I don't rate Averett too highly there will be a lot of opportunity for Knott, Carter, Mayden. One of them will emerge but will know more after Spring game. Knott was the highest rated of the 3 coming out of high school followed closely by Shyheim Carter


Bama loses so many defensive stars that most of the new contributors have to be on that side of the ball. The big hole to fill on offense is Cam Robinson so it will either be a 1-for-1 or we will see Jonah Williams move to the left and then either Lashley, Baker, or Leatherwood at RT.


It will be a very talented defense but extremely young and kicking off against Florida State could mean Saban is <.500 for first time since the Dolphins in 2006. I give FSU a very good chance of winning that game. If Bama wins then they will start 5-0 for sure before aTm in October.

 

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insanity of the bible belt. Fernando Bryant fired today because there was a picture of him holding an alcoholic beverage 3 years ago...this after a 2-month background check...

LOCUST GROVE, Ga. -- Just 20 days after he was hired, former NFL corner back Fernando Bryant was fired from the head football coaching job at Strong Rock Christian School because of questionable social media posts, according to his termination letter.
Bryant informed 11Alive's Alec McQuade that the private Christian school asked him to resign on Feb. 19 after parents had raised issues about his past on social media. When Bryant refused to resign, he was terminated. The administration did not provide Bryant a specific post that was the reason for his termination.
"I was led to believe it was my wife’s [post]. They never showed it to me or never said anything other than a parent brought it to their attention," Bryant said.
Bryant's wife, Amber Bryant, was a television personality on Bravo's show Mother Funders, a show that follows a PTO at Bethlehem Elementary School in Locust Grove, Ga.


The termination letter, provided to 11Alive by Bryant, explicitly stated social media as the cause of his termination.
"This letter will confirm that Strong Rock Christian School has made a decision not to move forward with your employment in the position of head coach of the football team and physical education teacher. As we discussed, after we made the offer to you, some within our parent community raised concerns regarding your family’s public presence on social media and the internet and questioned whether the postings and information were consistent with our Christian values. We’re sorry that our relationship had to end before it started. We wish you the best," the letter stated.
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Bryant said that the school employees must be Born-Again Christians, but they never explicitly stated employees could not drink. They also never made any sort of social media guidelines known to him.
A source within the football program provided 11Alive with a screen shot of the social media post on Amber's private Instagram account that the parent allegedly sent to the school's administration. Bryant gave 11Alive permission to show the picture. In it, the Bryants are posing together holding what he admits to be a bottle of alcohol.
This is the photo:

Bryant said the picture was taken three years ago at an event for Bemagazine, an internet magazine. He said they were taking the picture for sponsors.
"Are you for real?" Bryant said when the picture was shown to him.
The source inside the football program told 11Alive the school had seen the post before Bryant was hired.
Bryant's termination letter was handed to him 20 days after he had signed his contract to be the head coach and physical education teacher. Bryant, who was a former defensive backs coach at Limestone College, had turned down two college coaching jobs and one high school head coaching job to accept the job at Strong Rock Christian School. He had already been introduced and began his coaching duties. He was set to begin working out with the team later in the month.
The interview process for the job lasted two months, according to Bryant. During the process, they not only searched his background and history on social media, but his wife's as well.
"I don’t know if they went back three years," Bryant said. "I know they went through her social media and everything. They actually called her in and spoke with her during the interview process, so I don’t really know, to be honest."
Bryant said he may pursue legal action against the school, but he is still exploring his options.
"It is a little disheartening. I went through a long process," Bryant said. "I don’t understand it from the standpoint of the day they hired me to the day they said they couldn’t have me as their head coach. Nothing had changed. Nothing changed from the standpoint of anything they knew about me."
Bryant said the school did its background checks, and he's concerned about the influence possibly one parent had on its decision to fire him.
"If one parent or one part of a school can control it that much as far as Christianity, it makes you wonder what times we’re in," he said. "I am a Christian, that’s the one thing that gives Christianity a bad name, when we start passing judgment on each other."
Bryant said the backlash against him and his family could have to do with the show his wife was on, but the school already knew about it and had seen the show. The show was discussed during Bryant's interview.
11Alive reached out multiple times to Strong Rock Christian School, which is in Locust Grove, Georgia, for comment. When Athletic Director Phil Roberts answered a phone call, he said he was at practice and would have no comment on Bryant's termination at this time.
In an email that was apparently sent to the school's parents on Monday and obtained by 11Alive, School President David D. Mann announced that Bryant would not be the coach.
"We will respect Coach Bryant's privacy by not discussing the reasons that he will not be joining us," the email read.
Bryant, 39, was a first round pick in the 1999 NFL Draft out of Alabama. He played 10 seasons, spending time with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers, where he won a Super Bowl. He had 472 total tackles and seven interceptions in his NFL career.

 

[ChrisParadise]

Known Fernando a long time. This was result of one single parent that didn't like him and had enough power to get rid of him. Sad but it's a private school they can do as they please. He will get a much better job. Strong Rock was a rising program with a lot of money and starting to get and develop d1 athletes. The backlash of this will probably ruin all they have worked for.

 

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move along, nothing to see here folks

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NCAA alledges #OleMiss staffer connected a recruit to 2 boosters who paid the kid $13,000-$15,600 (AND that player didn't even sign with OM)



Hugh Freeze once called allegations against Ole Miss 'slander.' The Rebels are now bowl-banned.


The coach’s since-deleted tweet from 2013 has aged poorly.

by Alex Kirshner@alex_kirshner Feb 22, 2017, 5:56pm EST

The Ole Miss football program is in boiling hot water. The Rebels will play the 2017 season under a self-imposed bowl ban, they announced Wednesday, after NCAA investigators hit the program with eight new compliance allegations. More than half of the 21 charges Ole Miss is facing are Level I allegations, the most serious type.
A couple of years ago, Ole Miss started to land a lot of elite recruits, after previously not landing nearly as many. This led to plenty of internet calls that the Rebels must’ve been cheating, and head coach Hugh Freeze didn’t appreciate them.
In 2013, Freeze tweeted:
If you have facts about a violation, send it to compliance@olemiss.edu. If not, please do not slander these young men or insult their family
That tweet’s since been deleted. And in light of recent events, and some not-so-recent events, it’s aged terribly. Ole Miss isn’t contesting that Freeze’s program has committed violations, though it disagrees with the NCAA over how much and many.
Ole Miss stated publicly on Wednesday that “there is sufficient credible and persuasive evidence” of three violations under Freeze’s watch, including two Level I infractions. The NCAA made 13 allegations against Ole Miss last year, and Ole Miss hasn’t contested the evidence on several of them. Nobody here is saying Ole Miss did nothing wrong.
Freeze has already expressed regret over his tweet.
"Do I regret doing that? Absolutely," Freeze said last summer at SEC Media Days. "When I sent the tweet about compliance, I had good intentions.”

 

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from SBNation ... might have to start calling him Hugh Dubose

[h=4]These are allegations whose evidence Ole Miss isn’t contesting:[/h]1. Hunting on a booster’s land: According to the school, the NCAA alleged that a recruit went hunting on private land near Ole Miss’ campus that was owned by a booster during his official visit in 2013. The student-athlete also went on “two or three” occasions after he enrolled, and the access to the privately owned land was arranged by the football program. This is alleged a Level III violation. A Level I is the most serious classification
2. Ole Miss paid for the lodging and transportation of recruits: This allegation deals with a former Ole Miss staff member who impermissibly convinced prospective student-athletes to come on recruiting visits by paying for lodging and transportation, the NCAA says. This is classified as a Level I violation, if it sticks. Via Ole Miss:

Between March 2014 and January 2015, a former staff member (Former Staff Member A) impermissibly arranged for recruiting inducements in the form of lodging and transportation for one prospective student-athlete (Prospective Student-Athlete B) (who enrolled at another institution) and his companions on several visits to campus and for the impermissible transportation of another prospective student-athlete (Prospective Student-Athlete C) on one occasion. The total value of the lodging and/or transportation between the two prospective student-athletes is alleged to be $2,272. It is also alleged that the football program provided approximately $235 in free meals to Prospective Student-Athlete B (who enrolled at another institution) and Prospective Student-Athlete C and the friends of Prospective Student-Athlete B during recruiting visits in this same timeframe.
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3. Former staff member knowingly committed recruiting violations: Between March 2014 and February 2015, a former staff member committed these violations and provided “false or misleading information to the institution and enforcement staff in 2016,” the NCAA believes. This is also classified as a Level I violation.
[h=4]Ole Miss is contesting this one, partially:[/h]4. Boosters having contact with a recruits, as well as giving cash payments: In the fourth allegation, between April 2014 and February 2015, a former staff member, the same from the allegation listed above, initiated and facilitated contact between two boosters and a recruit. It is also alleged that the boosters provided the recruit with cash payments during this timeframe, between $13,000 and $15,600. This is also a Level I allegation.
Ole Miss adds that it is evaluating the evidence to support the cash payments, and the school will make a determination over the course of the next 90 days.
[h=4]Ole Miss is contesting the rest of these allegations in full:[/h]5. Impermissible merchandise: A former staff member allegedly arranged for the family friend of a recruit to receive merchandise from a store that’s owned by a booster in 2013, during one occasion. Another former staff member also arranged for two other recruits to get merchandise in 2014, 2015 and 2016, the NCAA says. The value of the alleged “impermissible recruiting inducements” is close to $2,800. This is Level I, as well.
6. Current Ole Miss coach had illegal contact with recruit: In 2014 a current Ole Miss coach allegedly had “impermissible, in-person, off-campus contact” with a recruit, the NCAA says, which is classified as a Level III violation.
7. Booster provided a recruit with money and food: On “two-to-three” dates that are unspecified between March 2014 and January 2015, a booster gave a recruit money, food, and drinks, along with the recruit’s “companions,” the NCAA says. This allegedly occurred at the booster’s own restaurant. The monetary value of the food and drink was between $200 and $600. This is also a Level I allegation.
8. Hugh Freeze violated “responsibility legislation”: Per the school, this isn’t based on the Rebels’ head coach being personally involved in violations, but he is seen as responsible for things his staff members are alleged to have done. Ole Miss says:

Although we disagree, according to the NCAA, Coach Freeze has not rebutted the presumption that he is responsible for his staff’s actions. This is charged as a Level I violation.
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9. Ole Miss lacked institutional control: The NCAA alleges the university lacked institutional control and “failed to monitor the conduct and administration of its athletics program.” Ole Miss says:

This charge replaces the more limited failure to monitor charge in the January 2016 Notice of Allegations. This is charged as a Level I violation that we will contest.
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[h=3]From last year, here’s our accounting of the initial 13 allegations:[/h]1. Two former Ole Miss assistants helped fix recruits' ACT scores.
By any measure, this is the top of the ticket.
The NCAA says previous coaching staff assistants Chris Vaughn and David Saunders instructed recruits to take the ACT college entry exam at a specific high school in Wayne County, Miss., in June 2010.
As they were taking their tests, Vaughn and Saunders instructed the recruits to leave blank any answer space for a question they weren't confident about answering correctly, the NCAA says. This would, in turn, allow the correct answers to be filled in later, giving these players higher scores -- presumably so they'd qualify to play at Ole Miss.
As a result, the NCAA says three Ole Miss players competed while they weren't really eligible during the 2011 season, and one of those players continued to play while ineligible for three more seasons, through 2014.
Ole Miss agreed in its response that the testing fraud happened, though the school was light on details of what exactly went down. Ole Miss says there's no evidence that anybody at the school with the exception of the two former assistants was involved.
2. Some Ole Miss booster gave a family member $800 in cash in August 2014.
The juice of this allegation depends mostly on the means of financial transfer. Was the alleged payment delivered in a duffel bag? A wad of cash? A wire transfer? Venmo?
Ole Miss has responded affirmatively, that a booster met the family member in Oxford's airport and handed him $800. Airports are somewhat clandestine.
This family member is referred to throughout the NCAA's allegations and Ole Miss' response to them as "Family Member 1." Based on everything we've known for months, this appears to be Tunsil's stepfather, and Tunsil appears to be listed as "Student-Athlete 1." He personally told the NCAA about much of this.
3. A trio of Ole Miss assistants cheated in recruiting six players in 2010.
The allegations here focus mostly on Vaughn and Saunders, but also on current assistant Derrick Nix. (Ole Miss agrees Vaughn and Saunders were involved in them but says the NCAA has overstated Nix's involvement.) In total, the NCAA says $1,750 in impermissible benefits reached six recruits.
The aim of the help, according to the NCAA, was to help the recruits with transportation to a summer class that would aid their eligibility status with Ole Miss. (Meals were also involved.)
Ole Miss is in trouble for helping prospective student-athletes get to class.
4. Players got a lot of help with car loans.
All under one allegation, the NCAA outlines four automobile-related charges against Ole Miss, all occurring between 2014 and 2015. They're all fairly boring, relating to plumb loan deals players got on cars.
Three of the four are against Student-Athlete 1, Tunsil. There's one other car allegation against a non-Tunsil player.
The NCAA estimates the car arrangements resulted in $7,495 of impermissible benefits altogether. Ole Miss agrees this happened.
5. Ole Miss made personalized hype videos for recruits.
The NCAA claims head coach Hugh Freeze, in 2013, directed an Ole Miss video staffer to take pictures of recruits in the Rebels' indoor practice facility, wearing official team apparel, and then had the pictures incorporated into "commercial-style" videos to be played for the recruits and their families while they were on visits.
6. Assistant coach Maurice Harris helped link recruits with a booster who was giving them impermissible benefits.
The NCAA alleges -- and Ole Miss accepts -- that a booster who also volunteered at a local high school gave several recruits what amounted to $2,250 worth of "recruiting inducements," including lodging, transportation and meals.
Maurice Harris, still an Ole Miss assistant, facilitated $485 out of that total and knew of the booster's relationship with Ole Miss prospects, the NCAA estimates.
7. Ole Miss put up a player's family members in hotels and various rental properties without getting payments.
Ole Miss admits to $2,253 of extra benefits having gone out to a player's family (and an associated boyfriend) in the form of free lodging around Oxford.
8. A “failure to monitor” charge, which Ole Miss suggests is now morphed into a broader allegation of a lack of institutional control.
Ole Miss agrees that the loaner cars went out improperly, but it denies that it negligently failed to keep track of what was happening.

The University and the enforcement staff agree on the facts at the heart of both questions, but the University does not agree that these underlying facts constitute a violation of NCAA legislation and therefore denies Allegation No. 2.
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9. Ole Miss assistant Chris Kiffin let a player sleep on his couch without demanding $33 in payment for his services.
We've got a real bombshell here.

It is alleged that in the summer of 2013, Chris Kiffin, assistant football coach, provided [an unnamed player] with two nights' lodging at his residence. The monetary value of the extra benefit was approximately $33.
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There are a lot of questions around this. Did the player sleep in a bed? On a couch? On an air mattress? Was there a TV in the room? If so, how many inches was it?
It's fascinating that the NCAA devoted real man hours to figuring out the per-night value of a stay in an assistant football coach's home.
Ole Miss agrees this happened.
10. Kiffin talked to two high school players in an office when he wasn't allowed.
Ole Miss agrees that Kiffin spent 10 minutes speaking privately with two players about their recruitment in a high school office room in the spring of 2014.
Neither player actually committed to Ole Miss, and Kiffin was banned from doing off-campus recruiting for 30 days, which actually sounds kind of like a reward.
11. Kiffin had Ole Miss give recruiting benefits to a man who wasn't a player's "real" father, but instead was just a "father figure."
NCAA rules permit schools to pay for things when recruits take one of their five "official" visits to a campus, and those benefits extend to their legal guardians.
One recruit came to Ole Miss with a man whom Kiffin viewed as the player's "real" father, but was not his biological father. Kiffin "failed to make the distinction clear," Ole Miss says, and so the man and his wife received impermissible benefits in the form of meals and lodging, under the assumption he actually shared DNA with the recruit.
The NCAA calls this a Level II violation, but Ole Miss wants it to be Level III, the lowest level, and cites precedent to that effect.
12 and 13. The NCAA says Vaughn and Saunders, once they were already gone from Ole Miss, lied to investigators and weren't fully cooperative.
Two allegations are lumped into one here.
Both Vaughn and Saunders deny they were involved in the fixing of ACT scores, and the NCAA claims it has evidence that illustrates they're not telling the truth. The NCAA also says Vaughn had inappropriate contact with its enforcement investigators in 2013.
Ole Miss isn't taking any position, because both men were out of the program by the time the actions in question may or may not have occurred .
[h=4]So, there’s the whole list.[/h]Ole Miss is facing a whole bunch of allegations.

 

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Will Freeze get canned

 

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Will Freeze get canned

probably but mostly because he challenged the NCAA to find any wrongdoing thus embarrassing the university. Problem is that even Les Miles won't take that job now. They're likely looking at some significantly reduced scholarships and a few years without a bowl appearance, and possibly without even some TV time.


Dude is nothing but a scumbag high school coach...same as the guy in southern Alabama. Simply put they are the two most highly paid high school coaches in the nation. But he made Ole Miss relevant for a few years and beat Bama so maybe CNS can hire him on as an analyst when Werner declines the job

 

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@)

 

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how does title IX change a school's financials?

Bama football netted $47M profit in 2016. The other programs lost a combined $30M

 

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how does title IX change a school's financials?

Bama football netted $47M profit in 2016. The other programs lost a combined $30M

I hate Title IX!

 

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11 numbers to know about the FCS head coaching carousel


The head coaching carousel is about wrapped up, and there were 16 changes in the FCS ranks.

Some coaches left for FBS, some moved around within FCS (including the same conference), and some got hired from out of work. The path to a head coaching job is never the same. Here’s a by-the-numbers look at some of the trends from this FCS cycle:

Four head coaches left to become FBS assistants. Charleston Southern’s Jamey Chadwell became Coastal Carolina offensive coordinator as they elevate to FBS, Elon’s Rich Skrosky became FIU offensive coordinator, Eastern Washington’s Beau Baldwin became Cal offensive coordinator, and Indiana State’s Mike Sanford became Western Kentucky running backs coach / special teams coordinator, working for his son. Last year, four FCS coaches left for FBS, but two as head coaches.

Two schools hired sitting FCS head coaches. Delaware hired Richmond head coach Danny Rocco — a move within the same conference. Richmond responded by hiring Chattanooga head coach Russ Heusman. Last year saw the same number of FCS head coaches move to another FCS head coaching job.

Three schools hired FBS assistants. Furman hired Air Force’s Clay Hendrix, Howard hired Maryland’s Mike London, and Indiana State hired Wyoming’s Curt Mallory. There were four such hires last year.
Four schools promoted from within to replace a coach. Charleston Southern promoted QB coach Mark Tucker, Eastern Washington promoted OL coach Aaron Best, Presbyterian promoted defensive coordinator Tommy Spangler, and Morgan State promoted interim head coach Fred Farrier to the full-time job. By comparion, last year 8 of the 19 changes led to internal promotions

Two schools hired coaches who were out of coaching work. UC Davis hired Dan Hawkins, who most recently was in media, and Lamar hired Mike Shultz, the former Texas State offensive coordinator.

Three schools hired sitting head coaches from Division II or Division III. That included Abilene Christian (NW Missouri State’s Adam Dorrel), Chattanooga (John Carroll’s Tom Arth), Elon (IUP’s Curt Cignetti). Last year, there was only one such hire.

Two schools hired sitting FCS assistants. Bryant hired Princeton offensive coordinator James Perry, and Lafayette hired Richmond offensive coordinator John Garrett.

76-8: New Abilene Christian head coach Adam Dorrell’s record at Northwest Missouri State, including three 15-0 seasons and DII national titles in the last four years.

9: Beau Baldwin spent nine years as Eastern Washington head coach, before leaving for Cal. Baldwin posted an 85-32 record, including a 13-2 national championship season in 2010.

24-5: New Howard head coach Mike London went 24-5 as Richmond head coach from 2008-09, before going 27-46 in six years at Virginia. He won the 2008 FCS national title with the Spiders.

112: Mount Union had won 112 straight regular season games before Tom Arth’s John Carroll team beat them in November. Arth went 40-8 in four years and is now the Chattanooga head coach.

 

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Mississippi State: Dan Mullen has received a new 4-year extension through 2021 that pays him $4.5 million in 2017. State law limits contracts to a 4-year deal. Mullen's last extension came in 2015. He earned $4.2 million last year.


Tennessee: FIU wide receivers coach Kevin Beard has interviewed for the Tennessee wide receivers job, according to Volquest.com. The site also reports former Falcons running backs coach Gerald Brown has joined the UT staff as an analyst. Brown worked with the Falcons from 2008-14 and worked on the Vols staff from 1983-88.


Vanderbilt: Former Wake Forest director of high school relations Warren Belin has rejoined the Vandy staff as outside linebackers coach, according to The Tennessean. Belin was a Vanderbilt assistant from 2002-09. He spent the last four years at Wake Forest, including the first three as linebackers coach.


Georgia: Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, running backs coach Del McGee has received a $75,000 raise to $350,000 annually, and head strength coach Scott Sinclair has received an $80,000 raise to $300,000.

 

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- Mike Gundy isn’t happy about the alleged NCAA violations at Ole Miss, considering the Rebels beat his team in the Sugar Bowl after the 2015 season.

“The first thing I thought about was (OK State’s recent experience with the NCAA),” Gundy told the Tulsa World, “and the second thing was the Sugar Bowl and my players and what they went through.”

Coaches don’t often talk about other schools’ violations, but Gundy thinks about it. It's worth noting Oklahoma State itself was on probation during the game.

“We’ll never know what we could have done in the Sugar Bowl if it was a level playing field,” Gundy said. “That is the truth. I’m not sure we would have won the Sugar Bowl, but we’ll never know.”



- South Carolina’s offense struggled last year, but instead of adding more, Kurt Roper is looking at cutting back.

“When we weren’t very good on offense, you do a lot of searching,” Roper said as South Carolina opened spring ball. “‘What’s going to make us better?’ And sometimes you add too much. When we went back and looked at ourselves offensively, we probably did too much rather than not enough.”

The Gamecocks were 116th in the nation in scoring last season, at 20.8 points per game, but they scored at least 30 in four of their last seven, including a 46-39 overtime loss to USF in the Birmingham Bowl. But what Roper does want to add is formation flexibility.

“We are going to try to be more multiple this spring and see where we are,” he said. “The conversation we had with the players the other day is, ‘We have to be in year two. We can’t be in year one anymore.’ We have to understand all the little things offensively for us to grow.”

 

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[FONT=&quot]Since 2007, Tennessee has seen four head football coaches, four men’s basketball coaches, two women’s basketball coaches and three baseball coaches.[/FONT]