Quite the laundry list here.
… The list of impermissible benefits Tunsil has received in Oxford is lengthy and more than just the one loaner car which had been previously reported. It was about three of them, over a six-month period without payment. A four-month interest-free promissory note on a $3,000 down payment for purchasing a used vehicle, two nights of lodging at a local home, an airline ticket purchased by a friend of a teammate and one day use of a rental vehicle were also among the impermissible benefits Tunsil has received in Oxford. Tunsil was also apparently less than truthful with the NCAA when first asked about all these things, and the NCAA is a lot like a mother in this regard: lying only makes it worse.
Which begs the question: how is Tunsil back?
Get The Picture 
“Cause he plays for someone other than Georgia?
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My thoughts exactly.
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Yep.
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Whew.. Good thing he didn’t sign some autographs or he would really be in deep trouble..
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The NCAA will allow you some stuff, but if you profit off your name and likeness, they will go all apeshit on your ass. They own that.
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Didn’t he boldly ask on twitter a couple of years ago, something to the effect of “if you have any proof let’s hear it, otherwise shut your mouth”?
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That was Coach Hugh Freeze advising people to contact the Ole Miss compliance department if you knew of any recruiting wrong doing. Like being put in the customer service black hole of Comcast.
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Because we don’t have an AD who is more than willing to get undressed in front of the NCAA…
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DOOH! The above should read “Because Ole Miss doesn’t”
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How is Tunsil back? He’s not wearing red and black, that’s how.
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So Ole MIss is the first professional team in CFB? This is well beyond signed memorabilia, a summer job, tatoos, etc. It isn’t shower rape but you could at least take the newly turned professional out of play like you did Houston for a simple, lingering prescription effect. Given Freeze’s comments and the Rebels’ continuing denials, where is the institutional control?
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you mean ‘raises’ the question.
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Thank You. I was too chicken to say anything, even though I know that the erudite good Senator is ‘man enough’ for a gentle reminder.
I hope…
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its pedantic but “literally” drives me crazy for some reason.
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I’m reading this list and all I’m thinking is that the NCAA really needs to be shot into the sun. The car stuff is way out of bounds. No problem here, that is a clear violation of amateurism and since we’re still clinging to amateurism then he deserves the punishment on that alone. If our guys can’t ride around in free cars, he can’t either.
The rest of it? Give me a break. You can’t take a plane ticket purchased by a friend of a teammate? If I was good buddies with my roommate in Reed Hall and he wanted me to go ski with him or something and his parents just happened to have the jack to pay for my ticket, I would get to go. Why can’t a football player? Lodging “at a local home” for two nights? So… he stayed at somebody’s house? Would shacking up be considered an impermissible benefit? And yes, I get that those scenarios could be taken advantage of by a “rogue booster” or an agent or some garbage like that, just like the terrible scourge of AJ Green selling his bowl jersey for more than it might have fetched otherwise. But just like the AJ Green jersey deal, these “violations” seem ridiculous to me. If the NCAA playbook is written to eliminate any possibility of corruption to the point of absurdity, then it needs a page one rewrite.
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Yeah, well…yeah.
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Welp, now we know how he flipped on signing day.
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Is that what we were looking for though? I suspect that no amount of Ole Miss punishment for this particular, very personal cheating on their part, when taken in light of our own persecutions at the hands of the NCAA, would appease us.
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Tunsil was a done deal for UGA on signing day as much as anyone I’ve seen. Then, almost inexplicably, he flipped to the Rebels. And he wasn’t the only one to go Ole Miss’ way that left everyone scratching their heads. Then there were the predictable denials and bowed backs from Freeze about there being no proof of any wrongdoing. Well, coach, you were saying…
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There’s a reason that freeze rhymes with sleaze. The most backward program in the most backward state in the country all of a sudden lands a top recruiting class and there’s nothing fishy? Riiiiight. ole miss might actually be dirtier than auburn.
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Just glad he is an ole Miss problem not an UGA problem.
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Contrast this to a case at Georgia.
In 1982, a Parade All-American TE named Sorrells reported to UGA for his freshman year. He had a knee injury early in the season, and was red-shirted.
It turned out UGA was a bad fit for him. One of his main complaints was that the Georgia staff enrolled him in easy classes that weren’t an academic challenge to him and he was insulted. He was miserable at UGA, and, during the 1983 football season, he started leaving campus and going home, to be encouraged by his parents to return to campus. After a few of these, he made up his mind, and told the UGA staff he was back for the rest of the season, but he was transferring as soon as the season was over.
He transferred to Tech, started school and football there in the fall if 1984, and was a backup tight end the rest of his football career there.
At some point during his 4 quarters at Georgia, a ‘booster’ named David Roberts helped Sorrells get a car loan for an old, used, 1974 car. When Sorrells got behind on the payments, the same ‘booster’ paid off the remaining $500 on the car note.
When the NCAA contacted Sorrells in the fall of 1984, he was truthful.
The NCAA penalty invoked?
The player was not penalized at all.
UGA was given 1 year of probation, and stripped of 7 scholarships for both the 1985 and 1986 signing year.
(Bear in mind that the NCAA was already rather annoyed at UGA [and Oklahoma] at the time over the tv-rights lawsuit that went to the supreme court. The verdict was decided 27 June, 1984. By August, both the UGA basketball and football programs were under investigation. Coincidently (cough) Oklahoma was also investigated starting that fall. What they found there was such a laundry list that it took until 1988 to finish the investigation and the NCAA dropped the hammer on them and Barry Switzer resigned.)
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It is no coincidence that when they surveyed college Head Coaches as to which coaches they would want their son to play for that the coaches for Georgia and Oklahoma were the top selections. The NCAA will never forgive us for that lawsuit.
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Thanks for the history on that, 83dawg. I actually worked with Dave Roberts, though I only knew him from about 1988-94 (he’s quite a bit older than me, and eventually I worked my way up the food chain in the company and didn’t work with him any more). I had always heard the rumor that he was complicit in a violation, but didn’t know any details.
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Wow. I always kind of chuckled when folks would write Ole Mi$$ when referring to Tunsil, but it turned out to be pretty accurate.
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