TeeteringBrink

Ole Miss fans don’t take Willis seriously and probably don’t even listen to him. It took me exactly one podcast to realize he is a waste of time and I haven’t tuned in since.

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Why would Florida not have standing to prevent an ineligible player from playing in a game in Florida?

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Because the law requires a party to show a “particularized interest” in a matter to have standing, and another school doesn’t have any such interest. The NCAA as a governing body would, but not individual schools or opposing players.

Let’s say a school has a rule against missing curfew or smoking weed or whatever, which requires an offending athelete to be suspended and ineligible to play. Whether the school enforces or waives that suspension against a player is between the player and his school; other teams have no standing to get involved.

One thing I haven’t seen in media accounts of Dabo’s press conference is the following direct quote beginning at 21:45 of his statement:
“Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this isn’t tampering. I don’t know. … So if it’s not, my apologies.”

Attorneys often advise clients to insert language like that into accusatory statements. The difference between a positive assertion of fact and a mere expression of opinion, can often be the difference in a suit for defamation. Clever move by Dabo to slip it in, knowing that the media will run with the sweeping accusations instead of his plausible deniability ploy.

Another thing the media hasn’t picked up on: About 20 times Dabo said Ferrilli was “signed,” but he artfully avoided saying exactly what was signed. Notably, he did NOT claim that any NIL and/or rev sharing contract was ever signed. And he did NOT claim that the player ever signed a formal request to withdraw from the portal. Those are the important documents if you’re going to claim tampering, and Dabo never even claimed they were signed. If they existed, he could have easily shown the receipts, which he didn’t.

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The appearance of a conflict of interest

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This is where it helps if you put something into your head before letting words come out.

Most “conflicts of interest” requiring recusal involve the judge being related to one of the parties or lawyers, or having a financial interest in the outcome of the case. Recusal issues are decided on an objective standard, not the subjective musings of message boarders. Recusals are exceedingly rare unless there is bias for or against an actual party to the case.

Ole Miss isn’t a party to this case. Sure, it has a derivative interest in the outcome, just as any rival of Ole Miss might also have. Many judges go to a law school different than where they go to law school. See where this is going?

My closest circle of friends in law school did their undergrad at MSU, Vandy, LSU, and Itawamba. One of those is a sitting federal judge and no one would ever suggest recusal of him on such flimsy grounds, if he were sitting on this case.

Off the top of my head I can think of only one case where a judge recused on account of where she went to law school. It was a case challenging Harvard undergraduate admissions, and Harvard College was a party. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself not because she had undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard, but because she has served on the Board of Overseers when the admissions policy was adopted. Two other justices with Harvard law degrees did not recuse. And Chief Justice Roberts also did not recuse even though he had gone to both Harvard Law and Harvard undergrad (Leverett House, IIRC).

There is no legal basis for recusal in this case. Get over it.

The parties to the suit are Trinidad Chambliss and the NCAA. Good luck trying to recuse a judge from that case on account of where he went to law school.

That’s an excellent summary, although I’m slightly more optimistic than you are about the NCAA reversing course on appeal this week. Also, I don’t think it matters whether the case is removed to federal court; the Complaint and attached exhibits make a pretty compelling case that the NCAA botched this one, regardless of where the case is heard.

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unbiased source

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Funny, you’d think an unbiased source writing an article on this topic might mention the little detail that CLEMSON HAD NO SIGNED CONTRACT with the player.

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The bigger concern if I’m OM is their coach offering an average LB $2M.

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If you really believe that we’d pay $2 M to that LB for one year, you’re gullible to the point of being an idiot.

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There was no real medical issue and Ferris state refused to lie on y’all’s behalf.

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The Ferris State head coach and Assistant AD for Sports Medicine both submitted written statements supporting Chambliss’ appeal.

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it's bullshite that people are being given so many extra years.

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He’s played in only three years. Sat out all of 21 and 22, played in 23, 24, and 25.

Bruh I didn’t come to trash talk, just correcting a misimpression that was gaining speed.

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A Menace to Sobriety

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You two are either completely fricking wasted

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we’re the happiest we’ve been in months and absolutely fired up about the future.

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You should be. You’ve got the coach you want and a $40 M roster assembled by the Portal King, which should virtually guarantee you a spot in next year’s championship game. If you don’t frick it up ….

After a player has entered the portal, as Ferrilli did, they are fair game to contact. By definition that’s not tampering.

If a player has not entered the portal, it is tampering to contact them, make offers, or attempt to induce them into the portal.

I realize it’s hard for some people to understand these distinctions.

LSU is likely spending $20M+ on staff and $40M on their roster this year, which probably is as much if not more than any other team in the country. They have a right to expect at least 10-2 or 11-1. Anything less would be a pisser.