Busy day in Oxford, as Yahoo!’s Pat Forde reports that Ole Miss gave into players and family members that were pressuring athletics higher-ups into relaxing their transfer restrictions for the upcoming year, following the NCAA Committee on Infractions’ release of their sanctions on Rebel football.
Forde, who moonlights as the PR spokesman for Houston Nutt’s attorney Thomas Mars, reports that pressure mounted from players dissatisfied with Ole Miss’ stringent transfer policy in the wake of learning that they would not be allowed to play in a bowl game in 2018. From Forde’s report:
Faced with more negative headlines in a year full of them, the athletic department had an abrupt change of policy.