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There are two reasons, and two reasons only, why Ole Miss would oppose a waiver request from its former star quarterback Shea Patterson to be eligible immediately at Michigan after he transferred there this winter.
The first is pettiness, a tradition ingrained into the college football consciousness as marching bands and bowl games.
The second, though is mind-boggling: Even after getting kicked in the gut by the NCAA for lots of rules violations and mocked nationally for its bungled, years-long campaign to blame its cheating habit on Houston Nutt, women’s basketball and track, Ole Miss still doesn’t believe it did anything wrong.