To summarize: The NCAA ain’t backing down. The school ain’t backing down. Even the boosters ain’t backing down.
SB Nation can confirm that lawyers representing two individuals who would fall under the NCAA’s official classification of booster are prepared for litigation against the university.
Ditto for the Nuttster, who’s also got a lawyer.
Damn it, where’d y’all hide the popcorn?
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UPDATE: Don’t blame Hugh.
Blame Barney.
Get The Picture 
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Hugh Freeze should set up a new email for any boosters with any info on cheating
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Never gets old.
When he’s back to coaching high school, maybe he’ll still get emails to that address.
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Let the Games Begin!
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Freeze is dirty. He bought Tunsil and now has gotten caught. Freeze stealing Tunsil from Georgia caused Georgia a big problem in the OL. Having Tunsil would have completely changed the UGA team with Tunsil at one tackle and Theus at the other. Go get ‘im NCAA and get Ole Piss while you are at it.
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RE Tunsil, it takes two to tango…glad he went to Ole Miss.
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Not me.
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Me either. If Tunsil had been under the influence of someone like a Mark Richt instead of a Hugh Freeze he might have turned out to be a good kid as well as a good player. Long term it would have been in Tunsil’s best interest to go to Georgia. Instead he sold himself to Ole Piss for a few thousand bucks and is having his name trashed all over the media.
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Dis bout to git good.
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Still can’t figure out how North Carolina gets away with the the most egregious ongoing academic fraud in history without penalty. Or even a hit to their reputation for academic excellence. But I can’t wait for the mud to start flying in Oxford.
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Careful man, we’ve got some major tar heel sympathizers on here. They’ll probably be dropping by shortly.
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Ole Miss will be interesting, I do not believe they are any worse than a few other schools in the West but they can’t be bothered with competing against little Ole Miss.
It isn’t shocking UNC a premier ACC school managed to escape, and Ole Miss little brother in the SEC may get hammered. Don’t mess with the Red Elephant club.
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I’ll bite. The NCAA has no jurisdiction over academic issues like this. That’s for the acccredation folks to handle.
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Tell that to Jim Harrick.
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It’s for BOTH to handle.
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It’s still an ongoing investigation but yeah, I’m surprised they haven’t lowered the boom. I really hope they smash UNC because they deserve to take a huge hit to their academic reputation over this.
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The reason is the UNC issues are academic and system wide (i.e. not specific to athletes, all students had access and some took these courses). These types of issues generally do not fall under the ncaa jurisdiction, but more so the school accrediting agencies, and others like that.
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If this was happening to the Dawgs, we would have already imposed a 4 year bowl ban, given up 50 scholarships, and spotted the opposition 14 points to start each game over the next 4 years, while admitting guilt in the UNC academic fraud case as well
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We may have implemented the SMU death penalty on ourselves.
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hahaha. So true. And asked for more donations.
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And Returned our 1980 natty, given back Hershel’s heisman and barred Mark Richt from church.
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Definitely the polar opposite of the “roll over and play dead” Georgia Way.
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That’s the irony. We all lamented the Georgia way, yet we’re critical of O’Ms putting up a fight. They’re dirty as hell, but I hope they give the NCAA their due. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I hate cheaters but I hate the NCAA even more. (BTW…I in no way think the things UGA self imposed for are comparable to the violations OMS is accused of. That’s some serious, bad stuff, Oxford).
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Part of it is just perception. No one ever thinks that their team is as bad as the other guys. But it also has to do with how some situations were handled in the past. Like AJ Green being suspended 4 games for selling a jersey that was his own property. Or Gurley fessing up to signing gear and the PR debacle that was compared to Johnny Football signing stuff and just keeping his mouth shut and not suffering any real punishment for it.
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Manziel vs Gurley was very much determined by how the Athletic department’s at each school elected to handle the investigation.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenheitner/2014/10/29/todd-gurley-at-mercy-of-ncaa-with-little-chance-to-return-before-auburn/#70f58feb693e
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Meh. Wouldn’t surprise me if those lawyers show how incompetent the NCAA really is, which will infuriate me even more that we hung Gurley out to dry over a thousand dollars for his own signature. McGarity and company are polishing their Good Guy Championship trophy as we speak…..
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McCheap threw Gurley under the bus to save the swimming coach.
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But more importantly, the did it to save the fees associated with a lengthy legal challenge.
The NCAA knows where The Georgia Way’s priorities are and will call their bluff every time.
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^^This.
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A large case of Stupid has broken out at that institution and it will continue to it’s draconian finish. A monument with a gas mask will be dedicated in front of the stadium this fall, after all, that IS what they are fighting for, isn’t it? Well, isn’t it?
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Winter is coming.
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It’s like finding your big brothers porn stash.
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Am I the only person that saw this headline and had visions of Minnie Driver singing this song with a bad Russian accent in Goldeneye?
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“Who strangled the cat?”
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Let’s try this again-
“Who strangled the cat?”
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Ole Miss is going to skate by with little or no penalty.
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This could be the straw that broke the camels back. If the NCAA can’t get these guys then a rode map for how to handle the NCAA has ben drawn and only UGA will ever be screwed again and that will a self imposed screwing.
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The Chair of the NCAA Infractions Committee happens to be SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. Sankey is on the committee through 2019.
With SEC revenue at stake, Sankey is Mississippi’s ace in the hole. I don’t expect to see any significant penalties assessed while he is there.
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Ole Miss gets a slap on the wrist, Freeze discovers he is no longer coach, and things roll on.
Savvy lawyers on the OM part, litigate, delay, etc., until the crap blows over and a new target is in sight.
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