from Veasey:
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Lost in everything else surrounding this season's Mississippi State baseball team are the allegations about longer-than-allowed practices into which the NCAA has inquired. They were brought back up this weekend to those who were observant enough to read Ron Polk's note to his team posted in the glass case in the entryway to Dudy Noble Field.</font>
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<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Polk wrote that he had been told that the NCAA cleared Mississippi State. </font></p>
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<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">I checked with MSU athletic director Larry Templeton and compliance guru Bracky Brett to verify this. Both said they haven't heard a word from the NCAA since Brett sent MSU's response to the allegations in early March. </font></p>
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<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">So how did Polk fall under the impression that the NCAA had cleared his team? I asked him about that after Sunday's game, and he said that's what Brett told him when they ran into each other earlier this week. Pressed, Polk said Brett said something like - I'm paraphrasing here, and I think Polk was paraphrasing to me - "don't worry about it, you're going to be OK."</font></p>
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<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">What did we learn from all this? The NCAA has not returned its findings to Mississippi State, despite Polk's impression. But everyone surrounding the program, top to bottom, expects the program to be cleared because they just say the allegations plain aren't true.
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<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Lost in everything else surrounding this season's Mississippi State baseball team are the allegations about longer-than-allowed practices into which the NCAA has inquired. They were brought back up this weekend to those who were observant enough to read Ron Polk's note to his team posted in the glass case in the entryway to Dudy Noble Field.</font>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> </font></p>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Polk wrote that he had been told that the NCAA cleared Mississippi State. </font></p>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> </font></p>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">I checked with MSU athletic director Larry Templeton and compliance guru Bracky Brett to verify this. Both said they haven't heard a word from the NCAA since Brett sent MSU's response to the allegations in early March. </font></p>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> </font></p>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">So how did Polk fall under the impression that the NCAA had cleared his team? I asked him about that after Sunday's game, and he said that's what Brett told him when they ran into each other earlier this week. Pressed, Polk said Brett said something like - I'm paraphrasing here, and I think Polk was paraphrasing to me - "don't worry about it, you're going to be OK."</font></p>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> </font></p>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">What did we learn from all this? The NCAA has not returned its findings to Mississippi State, despite Polk's impression. But everyone surrounding the program, top to bottom, expects the program to be cleared because they just say the allegations plain aren't true.
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