On quarterback Chad Kelly “I’ve been asked all morning about what he needs to do to improve, and I have to be – his last seven games past year were pretty good, and I don’t know that I can look at a lot of things and say, man, you’re doing this really poorly, or – he did everything for those last seven games pretty solidly”. “Could we have been better?” “Our compliance team is working extremely hard to seek a resolution to this case.and also into the events from the NFL Draft night and we look forward to the conclusion of this entire process”.
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Freeze said he “can’t comment on anything that’s ongoing with the NCAA”.
The fifth-year head coach kicked off a 2016 he’d probably like to forget when the NCAA alleged his program broke 13 different rules ranging from academic fraud to facilitating payments to the families of Ole Miss players.
The Rebels self-imposed a double-digit reduction of football scholarships prior to Tunsil’s statements for previous infractions.
Freeze said he was not at liberty to discuss why Wenzel left the school.
“I think that we have those two spots”. All of us have one in regards to us going on in the world and in our world with the NCAA. It’s obvious the allegations have come. “No one looks forward to it more than I do”.
The truth, he said, “is probably somewhere in the middle”.
But as one reporter noted when asking Freeze a question on Thursday, Ole Miss invested more than $1 million in preparing a legal defense to help create its response, yet that response repeatedly cited carelessness, ignorance and/or miscommunication as major contributing factors to the violations.
Just minutes before Tunsil was expected to be selected as one of the top picks in the late-April draft, his social media accounts were hacked, revealing video of what appeared to be Tunsil smoking pot with the aid of a gas mask. Kids still make mistakes, and he did. “I can tell you I have absolute zero interest in cutting corners for success”, he said. They’ll be held accountable – he’ll be held accountable, even as he points out that some of the violations were made by boosters, people “outside the building”.
MS tight end Evan Engram speaks to the media at the Southeastern Conference NCAA college football media days, Thursday, July 14, 2016, in Hoover, Ala.
“We have talked to our players about the pitfalls of domestic violence and all the things going on with drugs, alcohol, and the atmosphere of agents and things that are around our sport”. “But we don’t worry about outsiders”. It doesn’t matter, we have people taking care of that. “We show up to work every day to get better and work toward our goals, which are winning in Atlanta and competing for a national championship”.
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“Our defensive line led by D.J. Jones and Marquis Haynes and Fadol Brown and Issac Gross being back, we believe we’re really, really talented there”. We have a gift box at our place, and in that gift box goes things we should learn from the gifts of others.
