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Are Ole Miss fans a cult?

By Thomas K. Stark

Oct 4, 2014; Oxford, MS, USA; Mississippi Rebels fans rush the field after a win against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. The Rebels won 23-17. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 4, 2014; Oxford, MS, USA; Mississippi Rebels fans rush the field after a win against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. The Rebels won 23-17. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dec 22, 2015; Oxford, MS, USA; Mississippi Rebels head football coach Hugh Freeze talks with Mississippi athletic director Ross Bjork during a mens basketball game between the Rebels and the Troy Trojans at the Tad Smith Coliseum. Mississippi defeated Troy 83-80. Mandatory Credit: Spruce Derden-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 22, 2015; Oxford, MS, USA; Mississippi Rebels head football coach Hugh Freeze talks with Mississippi athletic director Ross Bjork during a mens basketball game between the Rebels and the Troy Trojans at the Tad Smith Coliseum. Mississippi defeated Troy 83-80. Mandatory Credit: Spruce Derden-USA TODAY Sports /

QUESTIONING, DOUBT, AND DISSENT ARE DISCOURAGED, OR EVEN PUNISHED

Does anyone remember a Clarion Ledger beat reporter named Riley Blevins?  Riley was attempting to do some real journalism, something that seldom happens over at the Clarion Ledger, when it comes into alleged improprieties that involve Ole Miss.

Lindsey Miller, the stepfather of Laramy Tunsil, was involved in a skirmish with Tunsil, supposedly over the fact Tunsil was receiving illegal inducements from professional agents.  Given that Tunsil was entering his junior season at Ole Miss as the potential first round pick in the next NFL draft, it was a big story and Blevins jumped on it.

Suddenly, and with little warning, Blevins is gone from the Clarion Ledger.  Was he asking too many questions? Perhaps getting a little too close to the truth?

We’ll never know for sure, but the prompt manner in which Blevins was taken out certainly resembles cult-like behavior.

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