College football 2016 offseason thread

I remember some folks raising some eyebrows at Freese's first recruiting class.

 

See what happens when you beat Alabama two years in a row? You get put in your place. Now go sit back down at the kids table, Ole Miss.
You're better off ripping off the mob than embarrassing Alabama.

 

Ole Miss is fortunate somebody doesn't hire a PI to follow around that program for a year.

 

It's one of those things that is kind of accepted that all the big schools cheat (whether it's technically cheating or not). Read more than a few stories about big time players living with high school friends at really sweet off-campus digs (paid for by the friend's parents) or a parent moving to the college town for a new "job" after the kid signed the LOI. I also think some coaches don't even have to ask boosters to step up. Maybe someone connected to program hosts a recruiting "preview" talking about the players they are "hoping" to get.

 

Not true! You mean all the big schools, EXCEPT my alma mater and/or subject of my fandom.

 

I'm totally shocked that a middling program hired a new coach who had spent one year as a head coach of a Sun Belt school, then suddenly had the No. 1 rated recruiting class might have broken some of the rules.

 

It's all revenge for The Blind Side, can't you see?

 

The revelation in my post is not that Ole Miss has been cheating.

It's that Schad's "source" was wrong again.

 

Vols fans' eyebrows are still raised: No. 1 JC recruit Kongbo signed a FAA with UT, but has not sent in his LoI, because apparently his father is still in negotiation with Ole Miss for a job on the Ag School faculty and daddy refuses to sign the LoI. Kongbo turns 21 in June, and won't need parent's approval after that, but yet OM is still mucking up matters.

 

Vols fans' eyebrows should be raised for another reason:

Suit: Tennessee has 'hostile sexual environment'

My thought is this quickly goes away, but it doesn't look good at the moment.

 

It gets worse:

Lawsuit accuses Tennessee football players of beating up teammate who'd helped rape victim

 

I'm greatly enjoying Harbaugh's (very effective) efforts to get under the SEC's skin. He's exactly what college football needs right now, regardless of what he does on the field.