Ole Miss released a response to the NCAA’s latest Notice of Allegations on Tuesday, and it’s no surprise that former off-field assistant Barney Farrar is unhappy with the Rebels’ portrayal of him as a rogue staffer under coach Hugh Freeze. The response said Farrar was “an outlier at the university and does not represent the culture of ‘doing things the right way’”.

In a responding statement released Wednesday, Farrar’s attorney, Bruse Loyd of Houston, said his client is being thrown under the bus by Ole Miss decision-makers.

“Coach Farrar would like to thank the Ole Miss alumni students and fans for their support and words of encouragement during this difficult time,” Loyd said, per The Oxford Eagle. “He knows that they are entitled to an explanation from decision makers at the university who chose this route. The Ole Miss community knows that university decision-makers threw Coach Farrar under the bus.”

Loyd’s full statement can be viewed here.

Farrar, who joined Freeze’s staff in Dec. 2011 and was employed almost five years, is alleged to have arranged for Rebels recruit Leo Lewis to receive impermissible benefits, including free transportation, lodging and merchandise from a booster’s store, as well as cash payments from boosters ranging from $13,000 to $15,600. To add insult to injury, Lewis signed with Mississippi State in 2015. Ole Miss has said that although the payments were not made, they were troubled by the finding. The school also says Farrar lied to Freeze when confronted about using an unauthorized phone to contact recruits.

Loyd has previously suggested Ole Miss could be looking at a punishment comparable to the “death penalty” from the NCAA.

“It is as close to a death penalty as you can get without having that actually happen,” Loyd said recently. “Coach Farrar has been questioned extensively, in fact, five times by the NCAA about those allegations.”