According to an ESPN report, Ole Miss officials determined the text message conversation between the former Rebels' offensive tackle and Ole Miss assistant athletic director John Miller that was posted to Laremy Tunsil's Instagram account the night of the NFL Draft did happen last year.
A stunner.
Ole Miss officials have determined that a text message conversation published to Miami Dolphins rookie Laremy Tunsil's Instagram account during the NFL draft did happen last year, sources told ESPN's Outside the Lines, but the school is still looking into whether the messages were altered before they were published.
In the conversations, which supposedly occurred in February and April 2015, Tunsil asked Ole Miss assistant athletic director John Miller for money to pay rent and his mother's $305 utility bill. Miller responds to Tunsil's request by replying, "See Barney next week," an apparent reference to Ole Miss assistant athletic director for high school and junior college relations Barney Farrar.
Farrar told ESPN's Joe Schad last month that he has not given Tunsil money and that Tunsil did not ask him for money. According to Farrar's Ole Miss biography, he "plays a vital role in recruiting, which has helped Ole Miss land three straight top-15 signing classes."
A video was also tweeted out from Tunsil's personal Twitter account on the night of the NFL Draft that saw him taking hits from a bong while wearing a gas mask. It was a bizarre evening and it was a large part in why Tunsil — once projected as the top overall pick — to fall all the way to the Miami Dolphins at No. 13.
Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze, shockingly, said he knew nothing about what happened to Tunsil on Draft night.
The SEC, baby!
