05_never_again
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Yep. It started to go awry when he recruited and signed Laquon Treadwell, IMO. That's one thing to sign a guy like Tony Conner (from Batesville, MS) or even a Robert Nkemdiche (Atlanta) or Tunsil (northern Florida).The cheating at OM was obvious because no non-brand school in bumfudge Mississippi picks up those kind of recruits coming off a mediocre season and Freeze handled the accusations with hubris -- basically daring everyone and their brother to come and investigate. Class jumps like that just don't happen and what was going on was obvious. However, you're right that even with those big pickups, he was severely undermanned and managed to out coach opponents.
What raises eyebrows is when you really go outside your footprint and start signing 5-star WRs from Chicago. That's what started shooting up red flags about SMU too, when they started going outside of Texas and pulled kids from places like Pennsylvania.