Bjork's Statement In Today's (2/11) C-L:

[Titles 'R Us]

I don't have a link because I don't want to subscribe to the C-L, but Bjork pretty much put the entire NCAA probe to rest today in a detailed statement. What he said in no uncertain terms was that CHF is in no way implicated in any of the football allegations and (paraphrasing here;)

that until Tunsil's activities on his own with the loaner, etc. were discovered, (and reported), the NCAA was ready to sign off with the previously-resolved women's basketball and track allegations (self-imposed sanctions were already accepted and still are for those sports) and there will be no surprises there;

that Ole Miss and the NCAA worked together on Tunsil's suspension and that that was out in the open with nothing else withheld and no second letter about anything coming ;

that the rest of the football allegations concerned David Saunders, who was given the eight-year show cause because his pattern began at Ole Miss and continued at ULL;

that Ole Miss had fired the women's track coach and an assistant as soon as their improper activities were discovered and before they had ever coached a game;

that Ole Miss would soon release every allegation and give full transparency as soon as every person involved in every allegation had a chance to respond for Ole Miss's response to the NCAA;

that he was confident in the integrity of the staff and the fairness of the outcome and that Ole Miss had instituted for the future a paper trail program for the vehicles of every athlete on the team and that increased awareness of compliance regulations for acceptable and unacceptable benefits would continue;

and that there was nothing for Ole Miss fans to be concerned about; there was nothing new to any of this that had not been presented before and that Ole Miss could not wait to reveal the allegations and the school's response to them to demonstrate after three years and once and for all that the athletics program was on sound and ethical footing.

[WildRebel]

Pretty quiet around the boards. Seems as there might be more to what we/I originally hoped. Based on a lot of speculation, but seems we may lose scholly's and possible bowl ban. Maybe why Freeze kept a few over the last couple years? I hope we come out with minimal sanctions but this could hurt down the road. Hoping for the best.

[rhapdog]

that Ole Miss and the NCAA worked together on Tunsil's suspension and that that was out in the open with nothing else withheld and no second letter about anything coming ;

that the rest of the football allegations concerned David Saunders, who was given the eight-year show cause because his pattern began at Ole Miss and continued at ULL;

Most of what you said was spot on, except for the number of football allegations before/after Coach Freeze. The allegations against Tunsil comprise 5 of the violations. There are 13 being levied against the football program. 4 are concerning "staff prior to Freeze," which are rumored to all be concerning David Saunders. The remaining 4 are explained in an article at ESPN.com, and are all low level violations, were self-reported, etc.
Not sure if I'm allowed to post links here or not, but the location of the article is at: http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... tions-ncaa

Apparently Ole Miss has already self-imposed some penalties for some of these as well.

Of the 13 violations involving football, four involve the current staff and were self-reported by Ole Miss, which also took steps to self-impose penalties in some cases, sources told ESPN.com. Those four violations are a violation of the "bump rule," which says coaches can't have contact with a recruit during a designated non-contact evaluation period; an improper recruiting video made outside the locker room; a person the NCAA considers a booster illegally transporting a recruit to campus; and a stepfather of a recruit having his lodging paid for during an official visit. That last rule has since been changed by the NCAA.

The booster out of Memphis, who is said to have "illegally transported a recruit to campus, is a landscaper that doesn't even have a degree from Ole Miss, doesn't have football season tickets, and has never made donations to Ole Miss. He works with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and took a couple of players to an Ole Miss game as well as to AR and AR State games. He transported players we didn't even offer, but one was offered. He was just helping out kids he mentored in the program. Crazy stuff going on.

When it all comes out and gets settled, there are going to be a lot of very unhappy State and Bama fans, because they all think we're really paying players, etc. Wishful thinking on their part.

[Titles 'R Us]

Pretty quiet around the boards. Seems as there might be more to what we/I originally hoped. Based on a lot of speculation, but seems we may lose scholly's and possible bowl ban. Maybe why Freeze kept a few over the last couple years? I hope we come out with minimal sanctions but this could hurt down the road. Hoping for the best.

There is nothing 'more' to come out. This is it. We will not have a bowl ban. ULL, which used Saunders for several years to manipulate ACT scores, did not receive a bowl ban. That was the most serious of charges. His punishment was an eight-year show cause. If we lose any schollies at all, it will be minimal. We self-reported all of this, and Tunsil did all of his stuff on his own, knowing better. There is no reason to give any credence to all the doomsday stuff the Bullies are circulating. That's their wishful thinking. Bjork has already said publicly that Ole Miss can't wait to release all of the allegations and show where the university stands. He wouldn't say that if he weren't confident in a successful outcome. It's unfortunate that Bjork made a bad hire of the women's basketball coach in the first place. That's what started all of this and because the NCAA stuck around for three years, they found a few minor, secondary violations that all schools have. The haters--State, 'Bama, LSU, etc.--have read a ton more into the release of the letter than is there. They would like to think that no one comes to Ole Miss for any reason other than being paid. Major league B.S.

[rebeljim]

Pretty quiet around the boards. Seems as there might be more to what we/I originally hoped. Based on a lot of speculation, but seems we may lose scholly's and possible bowl ban. Maybe why Freeze kept a few over the last couple years? I hope we come out with minimal sanctions but this could hurt down the road. Hoping for the best.

There is nothing 'more' to come out. This is it. We will not have a bowl ban. ULL, which used Saunders for several years to manipulate ACT scores, did not receive a bowl ban. That was the most serious of charges. His punishment was an eight-year show cause. If we lose any schollies at all, it will be minimal. We self-reported all of this, and Tunsil did all of his stuff on his own, knowing better. There is no reason to give any credence to all the doomsday stuff the Bullies are circulating. That's their wishful thinking. Bjork has already said publicly that Ole Miss can't wait to release all of the allegations and show where the university stands. He wouldn't say that if he weren't confident in a successful outcome. It's unfortunate that Bjork made a bad hire of the women's basketball coach in the first place. That's what started all of this and because the NCAA stuck around for three years, they found a few minor, secondary violations that all schools have. The haters--State, 'Bama, LSU, etc.--have read a ton more into the release of the letter than is there. They would like to think that no one comes to Ole Miss for any reason other than being paid. Major league B.S.

I agree 100%, gonna be a lot of sad folks when they find out all this is just a bunch of baloney. Having said all that, and even though I don't think so, I pray I'm not wrong.