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Star WR A.J. Brown announces via ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ clip that he’s not f***ing leaving Ole Miss after NCAA sanctions

Guess that’s that.

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The NCAA delivered its version of justice to Ole Miss on Friday. In the culmination of a years-long investigation, the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions handed Ole Miss a series of penalties for compliance violations: a bowl ban for 2018 (on top of a self-imposed ban this year), scholarship losses, and free transfers out for rising senior players.

One player who’s not going anywhere, apparently: receiver A.J. Brown.

That’s Leo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street announcing to his employees that he’s not leaving his firm in the midst of a federal investigation into its business practices.

“This is my home,” DiCaprio’s character, Jordan Belfort, says. “They’re gonna need a fucking wrecking ball to take me out of here. They’re gonna need to send in the National Guard fucking swat team, ‘cause I ain’t going nowhere.”

That seems like a definitive enough way to announce you’re not leaving a football program.

Brown, a sophomore, couldn’t have transferred freely even if he wanted to.

The NCAA requires most transfers to sit out a season before resuming game competition, but there’s an exception for players whose teams are postseason-banned through all the remaining years of their college eligibility.

Ole Miss’ 2018 ban means rising seniors will be allowed to leave and play immediately at new schools, but other players don’t qualify.

So Brown wasn’t likely to transfer anyway. But this is still a pretty firm announcement that he’s not looking to get away.

Another Ole Miss sophomore, safety Deontay Anderson, is suing the program and seeking immediate eligibility as a transfer. He claims he was misled while he was recruited. It’s not impossible for a player to get immediate eligibility through other means, but the standard NCAA waiver for postseason bans won’t apply to non-seniors.

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