Ole Miss was slapped with another bowl ban last Friday on top of their self-imposed 2017 postseason non-participation as part of the NCAA Committee on Infractions’ punishment report for Rebel football. The decision to withhold Ole Miss from postseason play for another season was arbitrary and heavy-handed, meant to appear exemplary for any other schools out there that may hold whiffs of paying players compensation commensurate with labor expended. It’s not even commensurate pay, which is the greatest injustice of all.
In the wake of the COI release, the NCAA announced that any Ole Miss football seniors wishing to transfer out of Oxford would be fully capable of doing so without forfeiting a year of eligibility in the process.