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OleMissCub · Mar 31, 2017

Holy crap, there is a six page thread over at ED titled "self imposing a second bowl ban" that is so off the charts bonkers that it was too funny not to bring here. Some highlights:

Heard from a distinguished State alum yesterday he's talked to a couple of om lawyer friends saying that om will impose a second bowl ban soon. They are attempting to self inflict enough wounds so the NCAA doesn't come for the full pound of flesh.

What's a two year bowl ban when you are staring down the barrel of a two year death penalty?!?

Desperation. OM is a man on his death bed trying to make a deal with God for a few more years. Ain't gonna happen. The end is near.

3-5 Year Bowl Ban, 30-45 Schollys and 5 year Show Cause .... going by matrix on first NOA.

When this case goes to the COI, the Committee will have two options. Option A could hang UM with up to 300 scholarships lost which would penalize UM's student athletes for multiple decades and a 15-20 year long penalty is a little much. Option B makes the organization look ineffective and stupid AND it craps on the investment of its members when this matrix was being formulated.

then they go into talking about how Ole Miss may be kicked out of the SEC

In 10 years, or maybe ALOT sooner, my prediction is that UNM is no longer "a valued member of the SEC". (*** on the "valued")

Here's some scenarios that make this happen. It's really simple.
- They can't stop cheating. The SEC office doesn't like he negative publicity and boots them.
- The sanctions are so crippling that one or more of their athletic programs are shut down (multi-year death penalty OR they have a budget problem.) As has been stated before, if you lose $40 million of a $90 million budget, something has to give. You can't fly the tennis teams, golf teams, etc all over the US if you don't have the money to do it. Start shutting down sports that run in the red and only field teams that normally make money (football, maybe men's basketball, MAYBE baseball) and I don't think the SEC puts up with it.
- The SEC sees a legitimate way to dump them and not lose SEC Network money since we are still in MS. They add a school in a new state, expand their footprint and increase the market ($1.25 per subscriber, or whatever it is.).
- Perhaps the most likely of all the scenarios: The sanctions are crippling. They become the laughing stock of the SEC. 3-9 (0-8) normal seasons, 5-7 (1-7) good seasons - thanks Vandy. They think, if we were in the AAC, CUSA, MW, whatever these USM-Esque conferences decide to call themselves that year, we could go 12-0 and get in NY6/Playoff games. Isn't that what their goal is. Play for championships at any cost? That's what got them in this situation to begin with.

I know there's a lot of people who say Never. But the thought of being irrelevant for 20 years isn't going to put butts in the new high school bleachers of Vaught-Hemingway. They won't go to the Big 12 to go 6-6 or 8-4. If they leave, they will want to dominate Rice, Marshall, FAU, San Jose St, etc and have consistent 10+ win seasons. Long term slow incremental planning has never been a strength of The Network.

If TCUSN gets ejected from the conference, then goodbye egg bowl, and good bye having as much fun beating anybody else for the rest of our lives.

You are correct. However in the event that Ole Miss gets kicked out of the SEC I think there will be a lot of hard feelings as there are many that exist right now already. I do think that would cause the Egg Bowl to not be played for awhile. Especially with Ole Miss knowing that we would likely destroy their ass for several years in a row.

I imagine that if Ole Miss left the SEC they would most likely end up in the AAC and basically be in the same situation as USM and who knows what happens to the Egg Bowl then? I think being out of the SEC plus us possibly playing USM would force them back into the rivalry.

colorphase bear · Mar 31, 2017