Coming up with twenty-one in Vegas is a nice hand; blackjack pays three-to-two. But having your bluff called in Indianapolis, and showing twenty-one to the NCAA, is another matter entirely.
Twenty-one: That’s what we have today, as the NCAA issued its Notice of Allegations to the Ole Miss football program. The final formal allegations set forth a jaw-dropping twenty-one Level-One violations, including the career- and program-killer: lack of institutional control.
The allegations at Ole Miss reveal a university and athletic department whose actions are brazen, comprehensive in their filth, sometimes hilarious, but even worse, rankly amateurish.