In a statement released on Wednesday afternoon, a lawyer for former Ole Miss assistant coach Barney Farrar claimed the university and its legal counsel conspired to make his client the fall man in its response to NCAA allegations. Attorney Bruse Lloyd claims that “university decision makers decided to lay the blame on Coach Farrar in an attempt to deflect NCAA’s probe from them and offer up Coach Farrar as a sacrifice to curry favor with the NCAA.”
In the public response issued on Tuesday, Ole Miss argued that Farrar acted as a rogue agent while committing alleged violations that include knowingly facilitating large cash payments from boosters to former recruit Leo Lewis, who’s referred to in the response as “Student-Athlete 39.