BleedGopher
Well-known member
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2008
- Messages
- 62,396
- Reaction score
- 19,236
- Points
- 113
per CBS:
Allegations aimed at Ole Miss for providing impermissible benefits to football players, most notably former five-star offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil, are not going away. Following an NFL Draft night fiasco and recent testimony from Tunsil's stepfather, it has only gotten hotter in Oxford, Mississippi, over the last few months.
In an extensive look at the Ole Miss situation published Wednesday by Sports Illustrated, Tunsil's stepfather, Lindsey Miller, went on the record to Pete Thamel detailing how the Rebels allegedly provided a variety of benefits to Tunsil and his family.
He summarized Ole Miss' process as "like that movie Blue Chips," referring to the 1994 movie that showed how a basketball team's booster program arranged for impermissible benefits for some high-level recruits, including paying for one family to move into a new home and arranging for a job for that player's mother.
"Among the things Miller says he told the NCAA: Ole Miss had an intricate system in which the school arranged for Tunsil and his family through boosters to get loans, money and free lodging at hotels and residences around Oxford. He claims he told the NCAA of benefits that spanned nearly three years," Thamel writes.
"Included among them: Miller says he told the NCAA that he and Desiree Polingo -- Tunsil's mother and Miller's now-estranged wife -- moved from Lake City, Fla., to the Oxford area in 2014 along with Miller's two sons from a prior relationship thanks in part to financial assistance from Ole Miss coaches and boosters."
http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...ls-ole-miss-alleged-extensive-extra-benefits/
Go Gophers!!
Allegations aimed at Ole Miss for providing impermissible benefits to football players, most notably former five-star offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil, are not going away. Following an NFL Draft night fiasco and recent testimony from Tunsil's stepfather, it has only gotten hotter in Oxford, Mississippi, over the last few months.
In an extensive look at the Ole Miss situation published Wednesday by Sports Illustrated, Tunsil's stepfather, Lindsey Miller, went on the record to Pete Thamel detailing how the Rebels allegedly provided a variety of benefits to Tunsil and his family.
He summarized Ole Miss' process as "like that movie Blue Chips," referring to the 1994 movie that showed how a basketball team's booster program arranged for impermissible benefits for some high-level recruits, including paying for one family to move into a new home and arranging for a job for that player's mother.
"Among the things Miller says he told the NCAA: Ole Miss had an intricate system in which the school arranged for Tunsil and his family through boosters to get loans, money and free lodging at hotels and residences around Oxford. He claims he told the NCAA of benefits that spanned nearly three years," Thamel writes.
"Included among them: Miller says he told the NCAA that he and Desiree Polingo -- Tunsil's mother and Miller's now-estranged wife -- moved from Lake City, Fla., to the Oxford area in 2014 along with Miller's two sons from a prior relationship thanks in part to financial assistance from Ole Miss coaches and boosters."
http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...ls-ole-miss-alleged-extensive-extra-benefits/
Go Gophers!!
