Pete Golding, with a stern retort to the idea that the NCAA is going to investigate him and Ole Miss’s tampering allegations:

MIRAMAR BEACH, FL – Ole Miss coach Pete Golding, at the center of a high-profile NCAA investigation into alleged tampering, has informed the NCAA he will expose rampant tampering in the sport if sanctioned, a person close to the situation told USA TODAY Sports.

Golding declined comment to USA TODAY Sports when asked Wednesday if he threatened the NCAA — but spoke at length on tampering problems in college football.

“I think a lot of things make headlines,” Golding said. “There’s a lot more people involved that everybody might not know. I’m not gonna sit up here and say whatever we did or we didn’t do, was it right or was it wrong? But, you know, when you go through what we went through (with tampering), and what you’re seeing day-in and day-out, some things you feel like shouldn’t matter that, you know, they’re making a big deal about.”

In truth, it’s the offseason, so there is probably more being blown up about this than it would receive were it during the season. But, for some reason, Golding is the first coach to get really called out on it AND have the threat of NCAA investigations to follow. Tampering has been alleged for as long as the portal and NIL have been a thing, but something about this has a stink to it.

Is it that no one can believe Ole Miss is this good? You don’t hear the same for the Indianas and Miamis of college football who thrive off this, so why Golding and Ole Miss? Is it because Golding killed Alabama’s defense and King Saban is giving the thumbs down from afar?

If Golding decides to sing, let me be the first to say it’d would make me happy to give me more blogging fodder, but do I think anything would happen to anyone as a result?

Nah. But it would worth buying some extra popcorn, wouldn’t it?