According to CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd, Ole Miss denied Shea Patterson’s claim he made in his transfer waiver.

Dodd reported that Ole Miss told the NCAA that Patterson was “not the victim of egregious behavior” from a Rebels coaching staff member for objecting his immediate transfer to Michigan.

Dodd’s report linked Hugh Freeze’s departure to the circumstances surrounding Patterson’s claim.

It’s clear that staff member is former coach Hugh Freeze. Ole Miss’ contention is a reaction to a two-year old amendment to an NCAA bylaw that allows a transferring athlete to be eligible right away if he was “a victim of objective, documented egregious behavior by a staff member …”

According to the amendment, if “the previous institution [Ole Miss] supports the waiver, staff may grant immediate eligibility.”

According to Dodd, Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork said that Ole Miss wouldn’t have opposed the transfer waiver if it didn’t have “a legitimate reason.”

Who knows what will unfold with Patterson’s eligibility. His attorney, Thomas Mars, is involved in a war of words with Ole Miss.

Mars told the Detroit News that after the Rebels formally objected Patterson’s transfer waiver that, “If I didn’t know better, I would have thought Ole Miss hired Pinocchio to write its response to Michigan’s waiver request.”

Perhaps we’ll get an NCAA ruling on Patterson’s 2018 status in the coming weeks.