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... that a high profile football school (and current Nat'l Champion in this case) underwent (i) an organized, systematic, and widespread attack of innuendo, rumor, half-truth, out-and-out lie, and character assassination in every possible medium of interpersonal and electronic communication, from sea to shining sea, and simultaneously (ii) had the FBI and a team of NCAA investigators scratching and digging and poking and prodding and looking under every theoretically possible rock/pebble/grain-of-sand for evidence of wrongdoing, month after month after month after month after month ...
... and ended up with a public letter from the NCAA basically clearing them of all allegations?