2/23: Reaction to the Ole Miss scandal, what the new allegations mean & what's next
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 23 February 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Bruce and Stew react to Wednesday’s news that the Ole Miss football program has banned itself from the 2017 postseason upon receiving new allegations of NCAA violations. They take a closer look at the details of the scandal (7:00), what it means for the program and head coach Hugh Freeze moving forward (15:00), and what could/should happen next (19:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Ole Miss receives its latest notice of allegations. |
| 0:03.0 | It is banned itself from the 2017 postseason. |
| 0:06.0 | We'll get into that on this edition of The Audible. |
| 0:17.9 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:22.2 | Bruce was just the last episode, I believe, that I was saying that it's a dead time in February. |
| 0:27.7 | We're scrounging for things to talk about. |
| 0:30.0 | Pretty big news dropped on Wednesday. |
| 0:33.5 | Yeah, so Ole Miss had about a 20-minute YouTube video with the Chancellor of the School and the AD, Ross Bjork, as well as Hugh Freeze, outlining what the notice allegations are. |
| 0:49.5 | To me, the two biggest takeaways off the top were one that they are sanctioned, self-sanctioning a postseason ban for this coming season, and two, the lack of institutional control that is also connected to Hugh Freeze, the head coach. |
| 1:06.4 | And that puts him in serious jeopardy there going forward. |
| 1:10.6 | You know, I wanted to ask you right off the top before we get into what all this means. that puts him in serious jeopardy there going forward. |
| 1:13.4 | You know, I wanted to ask you right off the top before we get into what all this means. |
| 1:15.6 | You've spent a lot of time yourself in Oxford, Mississippi, |
| 1:18.8 | and around a program obviously was a different regime, |
| 1:22.3 | but I think you probably know the psyche of Ole Miss fans better than certainly better than I do. |
| 1:29.5 | What is this like for them right now to have kind of gotten a taste of the big time with those two seasons and those winds over Alabama? |
| 1:39.0 | And now it seems like it's all coming crashing down. |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah, it's a pretty fascinating dynamic there. I mean, |
| 1:45.1 | I got to say, so I was around a decade ago, and a lot of those assistants were on at Ogeron's |
| 1:51.3 | staff. Now, what's interesting is they were in on some big time kids, but they never got them, you know, |
| 1:57.8 | and so it's easy to look back cynically and say, you know, the best players |
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