Dabo Swinney's allegations have given the NCAA the easiest setup ever to hold Ole Miss accountable for tampering allegations.
To make it even better for the organization, Fresno State also claims to have receipts of its own.
However, the whole narrative has left the college football world divided. The first half believes it was high time everyone stopped playing in the gray area, and Ole Miss should be the example.
The other half is digging in their heels on not making Ole Miss the convenient pawn when tampering has been running rampant.
If there's anyone that should be taking the fall, it should be the NCAA.
Analyst proposes a solution for tampering
That is exactly why ON3's Ben Garrett didn't hold back a single punch on the NCAA when talking about making Ole Miss's Pete Golding the fall guy.
"It's ridiculous that this has just become an Ole Miss thing. Because you and I have maintained our position on this tampering. Tampering, bad, should not be allowed, but everybody is doing it, and nobody is enforcing it," Garrett said on Game Runs Deep.
"To make this an Ole Miss thing, when you know what happened with Demond Williams, you know what happened with Hollywood Smothers, you know what happened with Darian Mensah. But because of Luke Ferrelli and Ole Miss, and Dabo calling Ole Miss out, now it's an Ole Miss thing."
Garrett proposed that "selective enforcement" would only hurt college football and tarnish the NCAA's reputation even further. The real solution would be to enforce it in all schools.
"It's not just Ole Miss doing it, it's everybody. There should be a system where this is allowed for nobody. But if you go back to just 'Let's make one school the example'. It's gonna be exactly what was going on under pay under the table era."
The NCAA’s ruling on Ole Miss will effectively set the ground rules for the new era—determining whether college football remains a structured sport or devolves into a lawless free-for-all.