When Mississippi shocked the college football world and signed the No. 7 recruiting class in the nation in February 2013, it didn't pass the smell test for a lot of people in and around the sport.

Three years later, we can say with reasonable certainty that their noses did not deceive them. There was a questionable odor coming from Oxford then, and it is lingering over Hugh Freeze's program to this day.

The school finally released its NCAA Notice of Allegations on Friday, more than four months after receiving it, and also its own 154-page response to those allegations. The contents: 28 alleged violations in three sports, 13 of them involving football, nine of them during Freeze's four-season tenure.

Eight of the football allegations are Level I, the most serious kind, and include academic fraud from the Houston Nutt Era. Seven of the nine allegations from the Freeze Era are tied to that breakthrough 2013 recruiting class – star offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil in particular, who flipped from Georgia to the Rebels late in the game – or the recruitment of prospects in that class.

Oh, and here's the kicker: this Notice of Allegations doesn't deal at all with Tunsil's draft-night debacle from last month, when his Instragram account suddenly produced an alleged text exchange with an Ole Miss football staffer asking for money on two different occasions. That element of the investigation is believed to be ongoing.

So, yeah. This is by no means the end of the ongoing saga.

The school largely agrees with the current set of charges, but is contesting the overall characterization of the case and the specifics of a few of the violations. Basically, Ole Miss wants the football allegations listed as "Level I-Mitigated" in hopes of avoiding a postseason ban. The school argues for a pat on the head for investigating itself forthrightly, and for the dated nature of some violations. It pawns a lot of the problems off on "rogue former employees or boosters."

The NCAA Committee on Infractions will weigh the merits of Mississippi's response, and the merits of the charges, at some point in time. Nobody can be sure when, while Tunsilgate II simmers behind the scenes.

But after reading the charges, one thing is clear: Tunsil and his family were living a rather blessed life for much of his time as a Rebel. There were boosters ready, willing and able to make sure of it.

(This is not to argue the moral right or wrong of college football players receiving little of the tens of millions of dollars they generate. This is simply pointing out that the guy was being taken care of on many occasions.)

There was a good deal of lamenting poor Laremy's plight when those draft-night texts came out and he was allegedly asking Ole Miss football operations director John Miller for money to pay electric bills and rent. Poor kid was just trying to make ends meet, for himself and his family.

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Come to find out, the poor kid spent more than seven months driving various loaner vehicles from an Oxford car dealership that had ties to Ole Miss athletics. In August 2014, Tunsil took his 2002 Impala in for repairs and kept a 2012 Nissan Titan loaner for 10 weeks. On another occasion in 2015 – after being told to Just Say No to Loaners by the university compliance office – Tunsil kept one for nearly three months. Then there was a third loaner he used for a month, and a fourth for another month. And then there was the Dodge Challenger that Tunsil actually "bought" from the dealership with a $3,000 down payment he never really put down.

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