Should Ole Miss Worry About the NCAA Investigating Laremy Tunsil?

It's typically a risky proposition when a program opens the door to the NCAA amidst reported allegations, and it appears that the altercation between Ole Miss star offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil and his stepfather Lindsey Miller last month has done just that in Oxford.

According to Riley Blevins of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, NCAA investigators spoke with Miller on Friday about his allegations against Tunsil and the Ole Miss football program.

Miller and Tunsil were both arrested last month after Tunsil allegedly assaulted Miller at the Tunsil home in defense of his mother, Desiree Tunsil. According to Miller, the 6'5", 305-pounder who originally hails from Lake City, Florida, left the scene in a yellow convertible with multiple agents. 

The contact with agents wouldn't be an NCAA violation, but the ride would be classified as a minor impermissible benefit.

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If you believe Miller, there's more to the story.

According to Blevins, Miller is singing like a bird, alleging that agents have given Tunsil cash, clothes, covered car insurance payments and more.

As RedditCFB noted on Twitter last week, Miller seems intent on tearing his stepson down.

Should Ole Miss—which has offered full support to the NCAA during the investigation—be worried about this situation?

Absolutely. 

No program in America is squeaky clean, and the incident between Tunsil and Miller essentially sent the bat signal to the NCAA offices in Indianapolis for investigators to come to campus and look around.

When officials come to town and start turning over rocks, you never know if they're going to turn over the wrong (or right) one and open up a huge can of worms.

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Remember what happened with former Georgia wide receiver A.J. Green?

Green was rumored to be part of the agent-related party drama that enveloped many SEC and ACC stars in the summer of 2010 but flatly denied those rumors and said that he had "never been to Miami," where the parties took place.

It didn't matter.

NCAA officials walked through the door that the rumors created and found that Green had sold his Independence Bowl jersey from the previous season. That cost the star the first four games of the 2010 season.

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In Tunsil's case, not only is the NCAA in town to investigate the matter, but some of the agents involved could be considered witnesses in the legal case involving Tunsil and Miller.

That's huge, because while the NCAA doesn't have subpoena power, the legal system does, and that could hand the NCAA another agent-related case on a silver platter.

Is this Tunsil mess going to lead to Ole Miss getting the Death Penalty or something so severe that it leads to the destruction of the football program? No, leave that talk for message boards. If this case leads to anything more, it's likely to be agent-related drama similar to the 2010 scandal that hit specific players at Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and others.

But Miller opened the door for the NCAA to come down and investigate some rather serious potential infractions. 

That's bad news for the program and something that should definitely concern the Rebels.

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Barrett Sallee is the lead SEC college football writer and college football video analyst for Bleacher Report as well as a host on Bleacher Report Radio on Sirius 93, XM 208.

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