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Matt Luke’s recruiting success is a good sign Ole Miss won’t be buried by its NCAA punishment

Matt Luke has no damn business having a recruiting class ranked in the top 15, even this far out from National Signing Day.

Ole Miss’ ability to recruit should be crippled in the immediate wake of the NCAA’s heavy-handed reprisal. The two-year bowl ban will be over by the time this year’s signees show up on campus, but the Rebels are still dealing with a deficit of scholarships and a surplus of negative PR after the NCAA handed down its punishment last December.

Yet here we are. After a red-hot month on the ‘crootin trail, Luke’s 2019 class ranks 14th in the country, per 247 Sports.