{"id":40046,"date":"2017-06-06T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=40046"},"modified":"2017-06-06T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:47:56","slug":"ole-miss-releases-statement-regarding-ncaa-notice-of-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-releases-statement-regarding-ncaa-notice-of-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Releases Statement Regarding NCAA Notice of Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It has been news for some time now that<strong> Ole Miss<\/strong> was in hot water regarding the 21 allegations frm the <strong>NCAA<\/strong>. Today Ole Miss released a <a href=\"http:\/\/athleticsworking.wp2.olemiss.edu\/\">125 page statement <\/a>regarding the allegations, and admits that several violations did occur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The University has accordingly imposed meaningful Standard core penalties. As detailed below, these penalties include: a post-season ban, which necessitates the loss of nearly $8,000,000 in SEC revenue; a double-digit reduction of scholarships; a more-than 10 percent reduction in off-campus evaluation days in each of two years; a nearly 20 percent reduction in official visits; a more-than three month prohibition on unofficial visits; the refusal to grant a staff member\u2019s request for a multi-year contract; the disassociation of involved boosters, including a prohibition on attending University home athletic events and a restriction on entering all athletic facilities; violation specific rules education; and a $179,797 financial penalty.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Essentially, Ole Miss went out back to pick a switch in hopes that self-punishment would lessen NCAA penalties. The University reinforces this idea throughout the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;As described in this response, the University has held those responsible accountable \u2013 many in unprecedented, public ways \u2013 and has taken institutional responsibility for what has occurred. The University firmly believes its bold corrective actions will make a meaningful and permanent difference.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Of the 21, the university is contesting seven. <strong>Paul Finebaum<\/strong> tweeted out what those will be.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">#<\/span>BREAKING<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ole Miss responds to the NCAA&#8217;s Notice of Allegations &amp; will contest 7 of the 21 allegations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z6zJhSt7PK\">pic.twitter.com\/Z6zJhSt7PK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014 Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/finebaum\/status\/872167635751981057\">June 6, 2017<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The statement released is a meaty 125 pages long, but the quick and dirty is that the university and athletics program&#8217;s intent is to protect <strong>Head Coach Hugh Freeze<\/strong> who in his time at Ole Miss since 2011 has a 39-25 record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;After careful analysis of the testimony and supporting records, the University has concluded that head football coach Hugh Freeze has met it and membership\u2019s expectations to emphasize and promote compliance and to implement strong and comprehensive monitoring&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The NCAA has 60 days to respond to the official statement.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been news for some time now that Ole Miss was in hot water regarding the 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":30882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2291,4868,41,5,642,4063,7694,10528,7067,4,3,753,655],"class_list":["post-40046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-head-coach","tag-hugh-freeze","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-ncaa","tag-notice-of-allegations","tag-official-statement","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Freeze_Presser-e1464730189160.jpg?fit=650%2C433&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}