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I'm going to address the pick itself and what it means for Miami later. For now, I want to explain what's been going on with Ole Miss and Hugh Freeze from the beginning, and how it all culminated in what you saw last night.
First of all, we all knew Tunsil was bought from day 1. Along with Treadwell and Nkemdiche.
Tunsil's recruitment was focused on three teams - Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. All the sudden, he takes a trip to Oxford and decides that's the place for him. The information at the time was that Tunsil signed with Ole Miss for $100k and national championship game tickets. Ole Miss was obviously paying their players, and it was more than just $100 handshake money.
Looking at their class a few years ago, it's one that even their coach couldn't explain. They basically had the best signing day and their best recruiting class ever, coming off what was in fact a mediocre year with a fairly unproven head coach. There was no logical reason that suddenly all these uncommitted 5-star recruits would all decide to go play for OleMiss.
Hugh Freeze was coaching at a place called Lambuth College in 2009, when Coach Saban won his first National Title at Alabama. Freeze enters the SEC a few years later, with no resume, at a place with little tradition, little history, modest facilities, in a barren area of North Mississippi.
Freeze immediately starts beating LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Florida St., and Texas for top recruits. Hugh Freeze and Ole Miss are dirty as can be, and those involved in dealing with them know this. However, that doesn't explain why Tunsil would burn the place down last night if they were in fact, holding up to their end of the bargain.
OleMiss really started landing guys after the NCAA basically demonstrated they wouldn't do anything to punish offenders.
Auburn and Cam Newton mortally wounded the NCAA, Miami finished them off, and North Carolina wrote their epitaph. I'm sure many will spit on the NCAA's grave. They're irrelevant without the means to enforce rules, so Ole Miss had little to worry about other than possibly losing Tunsil.
OleMiss' heralded 2013 class is the one that raised so many eyebrows. Of their 27 signees, over 10 did not commit until January or February. That's not really uncommon. Until you look at who the players were, and consider the happenings of a well to do Ole Miss booster at that time.....
In December 2012, OleMiss booster Dickie Scruggs was freed from prison after appealing a ruling tothe U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Here's a 2007 Wall-Street Journal piece about Scruggs legal issues. Here's the relation to Ole Miss:
It's no surprise tha tOxford is rallying to Mr. Scruggs's defense. Oxford and the university have benefited immensely from the success of Mr. Scruggs, an alumnus of the Ole Miss law school. A music building at the university bears the names of Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs. In 1998 the couple pledged $25 million to help raise salaries of liberal-arts professors.
Mr. Scruggs moved to Oxford four years ago from the Gulf Coast town of Pascagoula, Miss. He earned hundreds of millions of dollars representing state attorneys general in a landmark, $206 billion settlement struck with tobacco companies in 1998. More recently, he has played a leading role in battling the insurance industry since Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi's coastline in 2005. The home he keptin Pascagoula was destroyed in the storm, along with the home of his brother-in-law, former Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, who is retiring from the Senate. Going back to the recruiting class after December, these are the players that committed/signed.
Kailo Moore (4*)
Laquon Treadwell (5*)
Quincy Adeboyejo (4*)
Jordan Wilkins (4*)
Herbert Moore (3*)
David Kamara (3*)
Robert Nkemdiche (5*)
Marcus Robinson (3*)
Laremy Tunsil (5*)
Arshad Jackson (3*)
Austin Golson (4*)
Antonio Conner (4*)
Prior to January 2013, Ole Miss had four commits rated as 4-starby Rivals. One was a QB from Jackson Prep in Jackson, and another was a RB from Memphis. The other two were JUCO guys (Nick Brassell - previously kicked offteam at Ole Miss, and Lavon Hooks).
AustinGolson was a FSU commit for over a year. He decides to flip to Ole Miss late in the process.
Tony Conner was seen as Bama's for months, but many expected his signature to be a tough pull out of South Panola.
Robert Nkemdiche originally committed to Clemson in the summer. He then decides he wants to reopen his commitment. He ends up signing with Ole Miss where his brother plays. However, word begins to spread that their father was offered a position at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
What attracts all those stars to a place with very little history, especially recent history like Ole Miss, coached by a guy entering his third season of FBS coaching with an overall record of 17-8? That's the ironic part. Tunsil's step father didn't want him to jeopardize his future by making it look fishy, so instead he ratted him out to ensure his future was in jeopardy. Makes no sense.
The NCAA determined that Tunsil received extra benefits that included "the use of three separate loaner vehicles over a sixth-month period without payment, a four-month interest-free promissory note on $3,000 down payment for purchasing a used vehicle, two nights of lodging at a local home, an airline ticket and one day use of a rental vehicle".....among other things.
So here's the bottom line... the only unanswered question I have is why Tunsil decided to out everybody last night. If anybody pays a price for it, it'll be kids in the future who come to play football for Ole Miss who had nothing to do with any of it. It just appears petty and sleezy on Tunsil's part to do what he did last night. A night that should've been about him, and all the people who helped him get where he's at.
Laremy Tunsil obviously knew something was in store for him last night, and it wasn't going to be in his favor. So he was already prepared to take everyone down with him with every passing pick that he didn't hear his name called. This is a characteristic of Laremy Tunsil the man that warrants further analysis.
After all, this is just the beginning of Laremy Tunsil the man.
First of all, we all knew Tunsil was bought from day 1. Along with Treadwell and Nkemdiche.
Tunsil's recruitment was focused on three teams - Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. All the sudden, he takes a trip to Oxford and decides that's the place for him. The information at the time was that Tunsil signed with Ole Miss for $100k and national championship game tickets. Ole Miss was obviously paying their players, and it was more than just $100 handshake money.
Looking at their class a few years ago, it's one that even their coach couldn't explain. They basically had the best signing day and their best recruiting class ever, coming off what was in fact a mediocre year with a fairly unproven head coach. There was no logical reason that suddenly all these uncommitted 5-star recruits would all decide to go play for OleMiss.
Hugh Freeze was coaching at a place called Lambuth College in 2009, when Coach Saban won his first National Title at Alabama. Freeze enters the SEC a few years later, with no resume, at a place with little tradition, little history, modest facilities, in a barren area of North Mississippi.
Freeze immediately starts beating LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Florida St., and Texas for top recruits. Hugh Freeze and Ole Miss are dirty as can be, and those involved in dealing with them know this. However, that doesn't explain why Tunsil would burn the place down last night if they were in fact, holding up to their end of the bargain.
OleMiss really started landing guys after the NCAA basically demonstrated they wouldn't do anything to punish offenders.
Auburn and Cam Newton mortally wounded the NCAA, Miami finished them off, and North Carolina wrote their epitaph. I'm sure many will spit on the NCAA's grave. They're irrelevant without the means to enforce rules, so Ole Miss had little to worry about other than possibly losing Tunsil.
OleMiss' heralded 2013 class is the one that raised so many eyebrows. Of their 27 signees, over 10 did not commit until January or February. That's not really uncommon. Until you look at who the players were, and consider the happenings of a well to do Ole Miss booster at that time.....
In December 2012, OleMiss booster Dickie Scruggs was freed from prison after appealing a ruling tothe U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Here's a 2007 Wall-Street Journal piece about Scruggs legal issues. Here's the relation to Ole Miss:
It's no surprise tha tOxford is rallying to Mr. Scruggs's defense. Oxford and the university have benefited immensely from the success of Mr. Scruggs, an alumnus of the Ole Miss law school. A music building at the university bears the names of Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs. In 1998 the couple pledged $25 million to help raise salaries of liberal-arts professors.
Mr. Scruggs moved to Oxford four years ago from the Gulf Coast town of Pascagoula, Miss. He earned hundreds of millions of dollars representing state attorneys general in a landmark, $206 billion settlement struck with tobacco companies in 1998. More recently, he has played a leading role in battling the insurance industry since Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi's coastline in 2005. The home he keptin Pascagoula was destroyed in the storm, along with the home of his brother-in-law, former Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, who is retiring from the Senate. Going back to the recruiting class after December, these are the players that committed/signed.
Kailo Moore (4*)
Laquon Treadwell (5*)
Quincy Adeboyejo (4*)
Jordan Wilkins (4*)
Herbert Moore (3*)
David Kamara (3*)
Robert Nkemdiche (5*)
Marcus Robinson (3*)
Laremy Tunsil (5*)
Arshad Jackson (3*)
Austin Golson (4*)
Antonio Conner (4*)
Prior to January 2013, Ole Miss had four commits rated as 4-starby Rivals. One was a QB from Jackson Prep in Jackson, and another was a RB from Memphis. The other two were JUCO guys (Nick Brassell - previously kicked offteam at Ole Miss, and Lavon Hooks).
AustinGolson was a FSU commit for over a year. He decides to flip to Ole Miss late in the process.
Tony Conner was seen as Bama's for months, but many expected his signature to be a tough pull out of South Panola.
Robert Nkemdiche originally committed to Clemson in the summer. He then decides he wants to reopen his commitment. He ends up signing with Ole Miss where his brother plays. However, word begins to spread that their father was offered a position at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
What attracts all those stars to a place with very little history, especially recent history like Ole Miss, coached by a guy entering his third season of FBS coaching with an overall record of 17-8? That's the ironic part. Tunsil's step father didn't want him to jeopardize his future by making it look fishy, so instead he ratted him out to ensure his future was in jeopardy. Makes no sense.
The NCAA determined that Tunsil received extra benefits that included "the use of three separate loaner vehicles over a sixth-month period without payment, a four-month interest-free promissory note on $3,000 down payment for purchasing a used vehicle, two nights of lodging at a local home, an airline ticket and one day use of a rental vehicle".....among other things.
So here's the bottom line... the only unanswered question I have is why Tunsil decided to out everybody last night. If anybody pays a price for it, it'll be kids in the future who come to play football for Ole Miss who had nothing to do with any of it. It just appears petty and sleezy on Tunsil's part to do what he did last night. A night that should've been about him, and all the people who helped him get where he's at.
Laremy Tunsil obviously knew something was in store for him last night, and it wasn't going to be in his favor. So he was already prepared to take everyone down with him with every passing pick that he didn't hear his name called. This is a characteristic of Laremy Tunsil the man that warrants further analysis.
After all, this is just the beginning of Laremy Tunsil the man.
