Following the 2015 college football season, the Ole Miss Rebels had soared to new heights, taking down Alabama and earning a trip to the Sugar Bowl, where the Oklahoma State Cowboys awaited them.

Coach Hugh Freeze and the Rebels capped off their impressive 10-3 season with a 48-20 beatdown of Mike Gundy’s Cowboys in New Orleans, but now, in the wake of 21 NCAA violations, that Ole Miss season is tainted.

Gundy’s Oklahoma State program went through an NCAA investigation in 2013 and 2014, but was mostly exonerated by the investigators, so he knows what Ole Miss is going through.

Still, the coach with the magnificent mullet said he feels that the loss to the Rebels may not have happened if both teams were playing fairly, according to the Tulsa World:

“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.”

Apparently, Gundy added, “we didn’t all play by the same rules. If everybody is playing by the rules and you get your butt kicked, that’s OK. I can live with that. But when it’s an uneven playing field, that’s not fair.”

Though Ole Miss may end up having to vacate some victories after the NCAA investigation, it’s clear that won’t exactly appease Gundy or the members of the 2015 Cowboys.