OT- Ole Miss SEC

[iahawkeyes17]

they always joke if you aren't cheating you aren't trying in the sec well thanks to tunsil's big mouth after draft day flood gates are open for ole miss. Couldn't find but great article on "bag men" in sec few years back about boosters who pay players in sec and few posters from sec schools say that was all BS. Well After ole miss debacle I think it's safe to say the bag man is alive and well and sure is prevelant for most sec schools and just not heard of with out idiots like tunsil spouting their mouths off.


http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ole-mi...-tunsil-s-5-parents--4-loaners-201151321.html

 

[mlb1399]

This is more proof that the NCAA needs to start paying the people that sacrifice their bodies and brains for them to make billions. The idea that a head coach can make millions but a player getting $300(I know it's currently illegal) is ridiculous. Everyone is getting rich off the players.

 

[meatloaf55]

They were actually already under investigation before all the Tunsil stuff at the draft. They found that their old assistant coach (saunders or something) was fixing ACT scores for some high level recruits. They also got busted for housing recruits and their families on visits and providing monetary benefits to a number of recruits in some amount (less than $20,000 total). This was investigated by the NCAA and Ole miss was scheduled to provide their responses May 27. They were required to be forthcoming about all of the possible violations. These (above) were the findings and they put themselves on probation and volunteered to remove 3 scholarships each year for 3 years. The reason Turnsil is a BIG deal is because all of this was discovered before the Tunsil admission and text screenshots. They were caught not being forthcoming with the investigation because nothing about Tunsil was included. Maybe they don't have enough evidence on the Tunsil situation but if it's determined Ole Miss knew about the payments to Tunsil's family and withheld that from the NCAA investigation they could be seriously dinged.
To me the biggest deal is the faulty ACT scores to get recruits eligible.

I don't have any specific link and some details might not be exactly correct but that is the gist of it. If you look it up on google I'm sure you can find news on it. Also seems convenient all this Ole Miss news is coming out the same day Baylor fires Art Briles

 

[WORTHYWISH]

So, we should hear something from the NCAA in 3 years? When will we hear about UNC's lack of punishment? 4 years from now?

 

[And1Hawk]

This is more proof that the NCAA needs to start paying the people that sacrifice their bodies and brains for them to make billions. The idea that a head coach can make millions but a player getting $300(I know it's currently illegal) is ridiculous. Everyone is getting rich off the players.

I think there is a lot of support for providing football players with additional money. The problem is Title IX which is ludicrous in today's world. The big money maker football and men's basketball to a lessor extent has to support every other non revenue/profit making male and female sport. This would include having to make additional payments to all athletes. So if you are going to give each football player an extra 5k, you'd better plan on giving that to each athlete on the men's & women's diving team even though they produce little to no revenue.

There needs to be a ground swell to amend Title IX first to make the law much more reasonable and work fairly within the constructs of business which is what the big time athletics side is today. You could break the law into 2 classifications; revenue making vs non-revenue making sports. The equity checks for male and female sports applied to the non-revenue side. The revenue making programs receive flexible guidelines including the ability to pay players. Any gender in a non-revenue sport that complains simply has to find a way for their sport to make money to switch classifications. It's that simple.