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Report: Ole Miss faces charges by NCAA for rules violations
Ole Miss faces charges for dozens of rules violations that span across three sports, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports.
In a story from Pat Forde, the Rebels have gotten a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA enforcement staff that alleges 30 violations in football, women’s basketball and track and field.
Due to the fact that the NCAA doesn’t comment on investigations that are current or pending, the number of violations for each of those respective sports is currently unknown.
In October 2014, Yahoo Sports reported that the NCAA was conducting an investigation of Ole Miss that stretches back before head coach Hugh Freeze arrived in Oxford in 2012.
The school has 90 days to respond to the allegations, per standard NCAA protocol.
Folks, is this really surprising to anyone? For the last 50 years, what has Ole Miss had to sell? Anything? They’ve been irrelevant excluding a couple years from the Mannings…
So all of the sudden Reverend Freeze comes in and lands a couple top 5 classes just out of the blue?
Still bitter about the beat down from 2014? 0 rushing yards was it?
It will be 0 rushing yards for Ole Miss shortly. And just before the last weekend of recruiting. Don’t worry, none of the recruiters from other schools will mention it to your hot shot commitments.
abandon ship!
This is their huge weekend, perfect timing by the NCAA. Not surprised at all.
Didn’t realize there was another Laremy Tunsil that played for the black bears before Freeze
The Tunsil case has already been resolved. Found nothing. Swing and a miss. This is kind of fun actually.
Myles Garrett just beat Tunsil again.
Yes they did find things on Tunsil. Rental cars he didnt pay for, issues with a loan he was given, etc.. He paid his price by having to sit out.
Dude he was suspended for 7 games they found a lot. Unpaid loans, unpaid rental cars, plane tickets, etc.
The 7 game suspension should not be mistaken as being the end of the matter as far as the NCAA is concerned… History proves otherwise.
Just because the NCAA is done with tunsel doesn’t mean the NCAA doesn’t punish Ole Miss for it.
When did Garrett actually beat Tunsil? What, one holding call? Congratulations.
Hey Al, I told you so. LMAO
Also, all these are pre-Freeze.
How do the sanctions work depending on what happens? I’m assuming they would be put in place now and affect things going forward though?
Could forfeit games from when the violations occurred if serious enough. I’m told all football violations are minor/secondary. Big deal being made about nothing.
Ole Miss won two games that year. We are really worried about forfeiting wins.
my guess on this is that there will be a wide range of self-imposed penalties. One or more people are going to get fired or re-assigned. I don’t see how there can be so many complaints without forfeits but they could all be of such a nature that the same roster and coaches would have been eligible anyway. We will see. The NCAA rule book is a tyrannical document in that you can’t operate everyday on a common sense basis, you have to know everything that can’t be done and everything that has to be backed up by paperwork, etc.
According to SDS, his name is Ole Miss.
“…an investigation of Ole Miss that stretches back before head coach Ole Miss arrived in Oxford…”
I assume Freeze legally changed it. Or maybe there is no editor who reads the posts before they go live.
It’s been obvious for a while now that SDS does not have anyone to proof read their articles before posting… If they do, I’ll sure be glad when the proof reader advances to the third grade…
Yet we all keep right on reading…
of course we do, we all want to be the first to witness the accuracy. ;)
“Pre-Freeze”
^^^^^^^^^^^^
What I did,
right before,
I didn’t do anything.
But it does not pre-date Freeze’s time as an assistant at OM. You are going to be surprised how many current Rebels took the ACT at Wayne Co. Something about a pattern of inappropriate conduct and lack of institutional control.
Nice!
If that is the case then some NCAA investigator is going to have a full time job, dealing with the Freeze era Mega Bag man shenanigans. But don’t worry, you guys will still win the party.
What was it like watching us win ANOTHER NC?
Dating back to pre Freeze….meaning infractions started before his arrival and continued throughout his tenure….not that they were committed before he got there then just stopped!!
It certainly shouldn’t be surprising to anyone since Ole Miss long ago fired the coaches involved and self-reported.
Ha, not really.
Not at all their recruiting was a major red flag since Hugh F got there. You don’t just go from no recruiting to top 5 every year and the biggest names all of a sudden switching at the last second. Everyone knew Ole was cheating on the recruiting trail
Well, if you have proof to back yours claims, you should give it to the NCAA. I suspect that you are just another anonymous internet poster making baseless accusations though.
dude the NCAA just presented Ole Miss with their proof. It isn’t baseless when the NCAA formally charges you.
You might want to see if you can erase that post once you see the charges. Nothing in the letter received matches the baseless accusations wscott just made.
exactly
Just google the article about Treadwell tweeting the picture with his hand on a pile of 100’s during his visit to Oxford. I would put it on here, but the moderator takes forever to approve. Happened late 2012, not during the Nutt era.
Yeah except for the fact that the all these violations come from an era before Freeze and the majority are toward the woman’s basketball and track. Ole Miss still is going to finish with a top 5 class and don’t expect the football team to have any post season bans. The only violation tied to the Freeze era was Tunsil, who sat out the first 7 games of the season, issued resolved.
When a VOL fan has something to say about recruiting violations, take notice that he is an expert on the subject.
LMFAO!!
Kind of like Tennessee…
Kind of like Tennessee..
LMAO!
I raise you!
LMAO! LMAO!
Where has everyone been? This is old news. The football part of this predates Hugh Freeze and the current administration. The rest is track and women’s basketball (which is why both of those coaching staffs were let go). Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Still getting the deep rectal exam investigation. Yall convinced and/or confident the NCAA finds nothing amiss with recruiting?
Violations at Ole Miss? And I thought all these great recruiting classes was for the Ivy League education level academics!!!
When has the Ole Miss women’s basketball program had “great recruiting classes”? Anyone who follows sports very closely at all knew this was coming because the women’s basketball coach was fired and Ole Miss self-reported. The football violations are few, secondary in nature and don’t involve anyone currently employed by Ole Miss.
You know that for sure?
Yes.
As many have said, this isn’t news. Ole Miss has released statements about this in the past.
Perfectly timed release before NSD. Hope we don’t have something major here… but in 3 sports… that is kind of surprising. Should be interesting to see what the actual charges are…
It shouldn’t be surprising. It has been reported for years.
Ill say it lets wait to find out what the charges here are, but it doesn’t look good for ole miss and Hugh freeze.
It doesn’t affect Hugh Freeze at all. It doesn’t look good for the Ole Miss women’s basketball program.
It might not “involve” Hugh Freeze, but you’re a little overconfident if you think this doesn’t affect him…
Yes let’s see what happens to lsu@ a&m @br after they investigate Shaq’s claim!!
oh, I’m sure they’ll look into it. Shaq says he was joking, though I always though he was smarter than thinking he could crack a joke like that and expect people wouldn’t take it serious. Time will tell.
What happened to Treadwell tweeting the picture with all the cash while he was visiting Oxford in late 2012? Just asking…. I never heard if that was resolved or not.
While it may not have involved coach freeze it can definitely affect him, like specifically scholarship reduction and post season ban. Im not saying that is the case just things that can happen.
Right before signing day, too.
It won’t stick. They still will have a great class. Now if they are paying recruits (i.e. the tu thonghorns), they may suffer, and lose a couple.
As indifferent as I am towards ole miss, ya gotta admit that the timing is a little suspect to be honest…
the timing will allow it to be a tool used by some coaches in the two days that they have left. Fortunately, many of Ole Miss’s biggest recruits are on campus this week so they can show them the actual letter and show that there isn’t really anything there as far as football goes. I imagine that the staff has been telling recruits that this was coming so that they won’t be blindsided anyway. It is not like this is big news. The big news was when the woman’s basketball coach was fired before he coached a game.
Well that’s fortunate for ole miss if you are correct.
He’s not…. there will be more to come.
Here we go again.
We had a coach by the name of Dennis Franchione who was horrible about “playing fair”. Coach Fran was a moron!
I feel your pain…. :(
Fortunately, Ole Miss fired the coach before he coached a game and self-reported. Ole Miss has been pressuring the NCAA to go ahead and get done with this for quite a while.
Wishful thinking at it’s finest.
I like it!
Glad he left Tuscaloosa for Aggie land. In this case his leaving was your loss and our gain! The school had bought a bunch of Coach Fran bobble head dolls. They had a promotion at a basketball game where you could buy a doll and whack the head off with a golf club. I think they actually made a profit off of it.
Coach Fran was the epitome of let down. How do you ruin Reggie McNeal?
How did we go from R.C. to DF?
Dark times, I tell you. Dark times, my friend..
Other SEC Teams; Enjoy this while you can. This isn’t going to lead to what you think it is. If you do some digging you will find out that all these are old news. We cleaned house before Freeze got here in all of the listed sports. I’ll be surprised if we are hit with anything that wasn’t already self reported. Happy Friday
Pat is simply trying to stop the storm that every one of yall know is coming. Ole Miss is not your little brother anymore. Just be ready when we play yall next year.
You be ready! Kyler Allen won’t be here at Kyle Field to suck it up!
BTHO Ole Miss!
so the guy he beat out will be playing? ok
No Allen Murray (since they are a prima dona power couple) both got beat out by Hubenak in practice. That’s the reason why they transferred…. Ole Hubey was beating them out and Sumlin’s promise of them playing early was deemed a break in “trust” (see KA’s tweet about trust).
if I can recall. Your boy hubenak played most of if not all of the game against ole miss in which he only managed to put up 3 points
I correct my mistake Allen played most of the game but Hubenak played some. My B
Yea….. Hubenak played late, and sparingly.
Booze,Hookers,Cocaine,Cars,…..What good time it is to be an Ole Mi$$ Rebel!
All jokes aside, I wonder if it’s death penalty worthy? SMU has yet to come back from that.
Sad..
I’ve never heard of a women’s basketball team receiving the death penalty. Since Ole Miss fired the coaches and self-reported as soon as the school found out about the shenanigans, I doubt there will be anything anywhere near that serious. More than likely there will just be a ban on the SEC and NCAA tourneys.
30 NCAA violations in 3 sports….. How many male and female teams are in 3 sports? Some of it has to be football related…
Maybe my math is wrong…
some of it is football related. There are some secondary violations involving a prior staff before Freeze came in. The vast majority of the allegations (and the most serious ones) are concerning women’s basketball team and there are also some involving track.
dream on goober…oops grover
You had me committed at Booze,Hookers…
This tag is such a joke! This article is a rehash from last year released the day of our most important recruiting weekend. They have the nerve to feature a football helmet when The major violations are around women’s basketball against a coach who never coached a game and involves players who never played in a game. The track team is also involved in the more important violations and the track coach is no longer employed by the school either. Their are minor violations in football that pale in comparison to the ones Lane Kiffin committed during his stint making love to the Tennessee fans in Knoxville. Give me a break. Ole Miss football starts consistently beating Bama, LSU, Tennessee, Humper Tech, and others and SDS has to do their best to slow the momentum in Oxford! Good luck with that!!! See what happens on Wednesday!
I know you’re still livid, as you should be, over beating Bama 2 in a row. But please explain how you figure winning one year in a row, or 8 times over 20 years considered as “consistently” beating someone?
hahahaha consistently beating LSU? as in… 1 in a row? as in we spoiled your undefeated season last year? as in we are 11-5 vs Ole Miss this century? dream on little brother….
This rag is such a joke! This article is a rehash from last year released the day of our most important recruiting weekend. They have the nerve to feature a football helmet when The major violations are around women’s basketball against a coach who never coached a game and involves players who never played in a game. The track team is also involved in the more important violations and the track coach is no longer employed by the school either. Their are minor violations in football that pale in comparison to the ones Lane Kiffin committed during his stint making love to the Tennessee fans in Knoxville. Give me a break. Ole Miss football starts consistently beating Bama, LSU, Tennessee, Humper Tech, band others and SDS has to do their best to slow the momentum in Oxford! Good luck with that!!! See what happens on Wednesday!
Calm down. It has nothing to do with “this rag”. It is being reported everywhere. The NOA arrived today so that much is news. What was in the NOA shouldn’t be news since Ole Miss fired the coaches, self-reported and has kept this entire thing in the open.
one more time please. make sure it sticks
That’s what I’m saying lol he’s said the same thing on every single post. We get it guy you’re 110% sure nothing will happen to the football program.
“They have the nerve to feature a football helmet when The major violations are around women’s basketball against a coach who never coached a game and involves players who never played in a game.”
You’re on a primarily football website…….called Saturday Down South. Do you not even get the reference? Some common sense should tell you that a football helmet or football-related picture would be featured, but they don’t teach common sense in Oxford anymore, do they?
Hope there’s nothing to this.
There is plenty to this. There have been firings and readjustments. There are very serious allegations involved- in women’s basketball and track. Football violations are relatively minor and old. Basically they took the little piddling violations that every school has every year and included them with the letter on wbb and track.
Meh. Probably not much is going to come of this as far as the football program is concerned. Secondary infractions that were self reported. Of course, Bama thought they would get off lightly and the NCAA threw the book at us. Best of luck to y’all.
As an LSU Tiger fan, I sincerely hope that the things that Grover and Air Rebel are saying are true and this is all much ado about nothing.
Besides, I don’t want you guys to be giving me no “if it wasn’t for those NCAA…” excuses when LSU kicks your Rebels butts next season… Peace!
This is old news and won’t effect the football program. All the violations are from the Nutt era.
Ha,ha,ha yes it will…..
Wasn’t there an Alabama whistleblower not too long ago saying Ole Miss was going down? I’m pretty sure SDS had an article on it.
yep, but he reversed his claim.
Geezus guys, you all act like you’re happy about this….this is a black eye for the SEC, not just Ole Miss. I don’t understand the celebration about this, now if it was FSU, I could see it
When it comes to recruiting time no one cares if you are SEC or not SEC. No one likes a cheat
Interesting that a state fan would say that since your team just got off probation and is the most recent team to receive ncaa probation.
We are very glad. We have known this for a long time and are glad that the ncaa finally got off their rear and sent out a letter. We aren’t glad that we hired the coaches that were guilty, but are glad that they are long gone and glad that this can all be put behind us soon.
“Move along folks nothing to see here” LOL. If this was self-reported and dealt with already by the school the NCAA would have washed their hands of it already.
They’ll probably vacate the 2 wins of Houston Nutt’s last year.
In all honesty nothing to be worried about all football violations predate Freeze’s arrival at Ole Miss. If it were severe they would have done an exclusive investigation into the football program itself not bunch it into an investigation primarily focused on Women’s BBall and Track. Timing of this is very suspicious as well.
The only person who seems to know anything is the Grover guy, he’s commented on almost everyone’s post. See what happens guys, since there are few others backing what he’s saying I would be willing to bet there is a little more to this story than he’s insinuating.
Seriously, a lot of people know about this. This isn’t something new that just appeared out of the blue. Anyone that follows ole miss very closely has known about this for quite a while.
Nobody on this site knows what this will mean for Ole Miss down the road. Ole Miss fans are denying everything as usual and other fans are laughing….Either way I wouldn’t be surprised to see recruits start changing their mind.
bummertime, once again, you’ve lost your mind. Duh, my name is bummertime and I think either way I wouldn’t be surprised to see….shut yo face!
You have got to be the dumbest poster on these boards.
Yeah… That was pretty dumb. Like, absurdly so.
InUrFace my 3 year old nephew can come up with better insults than that.. Do yourself a favor and just don’t comment on here anymore.
This is old news and is all from the Nutt era. It is mostly targeted at the women’s basketball and track team. Only 3 violations are targeted at the football program and they are all pre date Freeze’s arrival. So for all you that pray every day that the NCAA gives OM football the death penalty, it ain’t going to happen lol.
good luck with that armygoob.
We only pay for 5 stars !!!
These are only secondary violations (5 of 30) mostly pre-Freeze, so to bad :) haters !
What happened to Treadwell tweeting the picture of his hand on a pile of cash whilst visiting Oxford in late 2012? I never heard if that was resolved or not.
There never was an investigation into that, it was all speculation.
Nothing to see here… Just speculation about a hand on a pile of 100’s that happened while Treadwell was visiting Oxford.
Since, these are from your awesome coash H. Nut – you tell me :)
This happened during late 2012, which was after Freeze took the position.
Pretty sure that is not an NCAA violation. Stupid, but not a violation.
If the NCAA cracked down on stupid, most football programs would shut down.
Who didn’t know this was coming?
Apparently, Grover eats dinner with Freeze, all the assistant coaches, as well as the boosters and can personally testify that none of them are actively engaged in cheating.
where is Alcompto?
I think that Hugh Freeze was clean from the cheating but it doesn’t mean that there is not a dirty booster involved. I wish that I could say that there are certain schools immune from this problem, but every one is susceptible.
Alabama and Auburn just breathed a sigh of relief, now they got some easy recruit pickins’.
Everyone knew.
The question is will the NCAA do anything about schools like Auburn and Ole’ Miss paying players to sign with them.
It’s amazing how you have proof of Auburn paying players but yet the NCAA didn’t find anything..
I am a born skeptic and I do not go easily for conspiracy theory but I do believe the adage, “where there is smoke, there is fire”. The government tracks internet chatter to track terrorists and if the widespread chatter regarding OM cheating were on the subject of Isis, this country would be on Red Alert.
The rumors and accusations are not just from their in state rival or a few schools that have lost a recruit to OM. They are universal and viral, in and outside the SEC. It will be good to see it come to a head.
Lmao cheating a** Rebels!!!! Where you at rebel_landshark?
Nice, to bad it’s not about the football program !
Looks like you shouldn’t have trolled so much about cheating…….As it appears Ole miss was the one cheating..
I’m just glad that Alabama was not caught in anything like this. If that happened the NCAA would get so mad that they would take at least 20 scholarships away from both Ole Miss and Mississippi State.
^^ I CantHelpIt if I’m laughing, cuz that’s funny right there ^^ …
I heard Cow College was getting the death penalty for thinking it would only cost $100,000 to get someone to play there. You’d have to pay me at least a million just to compensate me for having to smell cow patties everyday. LOL!!!
How old are you 12?
I honestly don’t think he’s even that age. Shame on his parents for not keeping him off the computer because he’s clearly not of age to be on here.
Let’s have a mock draft to see who gets all the Ole Miss recruits!!! Dibs on Shea Patterson!
Wouldn’t it be fitting if Olé is forced to vacate a few wins and the 2 that they bragged about in 2014 & 2015 against Alabama… Hmmmm..and they threw that QB from Florida under the bus… Lol….I wish SDS allowed us to upload sounds..I would surely upload the sound of a cricket!!
Vacate what wins? The violations are before freeze, and we didn’t beat Bama before freeze since Eli was here.