Van Jefferson knew that his future would be in limbo but with everything going on in Oxford, Mississippi he needed to get out.
After a near five-year investigation by the NCAA the Ole Miss football program was hit with a show cause penalty after the NCAA deemed Ole Miss showed “a lack of institutional control and fostered an unconstrained culture of booster involvement in football recruiting.”
The football program was fined, received a two year bowl ban (2017-18), a scholarship reduction through 2018-19 and a show cause order for five coaches. Oxford, a place that Jefferson chose to spend his college years at had become toxic and he needed to leave.