Spencer Moncrief never played a collegiate
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By September of 2013, everyone in the room was familiar with one another
— Spencer, the brother of then Ole Miss and future Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Donte Moncrief, their lawyer, and the lawyers for Ole Miss and the NCAA’s enforcement team, headed by a man named Mike Sheridan. Multiple sources confirmed to SB Nation Donte was first summoned to meet with Sheridan and the enforcement staff because of a photo of the junior wideout driving a red 2009 Dodge Challenger — his older brother’s car — in April of 2013.As a result of that investigation, Donte Moncrief was ruled ineligible by the NCAA for receiving impermissible benefits the week of Sept. 16, 2013. Those benefits were defined solely as the
’09 Challenger, his brother’s car.The notice from the NCAA didn
’t break publicly. At the time, Ole Miss was on a bye before heading to play Alabama. But Moncrief’s future NFL career was now in serious jeopardy.On Sept. 25, Spencer met again with the NCAA, having been instructed by his attorney to answer any question, provide any document possible to get his brother eligible to play football in Tuscaloosa in four days.
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To prove I owned my car, basically,” he says. “They hung up my brother’s career for that.”This was the last time any of the Moncriefs would meet with the NCAA. Sheridan finally had his ace card on the Moncrief brothers, producing a copy of a stay folio (a receipt from a hotel visit that contains guest and financial information) that Sheridan
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My reaction to the NCAA was, ‘How the hell do you know anything about where I was at? How did you get the information to know that?’” Spencer said.Moncrief
’s attorney Jesse Mitchell immediately ended the meeting to find out. The NCAA has no subpoena power — it can’t demand that businesses, private individuals, or public bodies turn over documents. Yet somehow the enforcement staff was trying to pin Moncrief down by using his own financial records.What the Moncriefs didn
’t know was that Sheridan’s theory of Spencer being in two places in the same time had been debunked a month prior by the bank itself. Through a timeline pieced together by SB Nation, it seemed as if Sheridan was bluffing, trying to see if Spencer Moncrief would break.“
Except I did pay my note in Tupelo. And it was my car,” Spencer Moncrief told SB Nation. “I’m a grown man. I’m not a kid. I’m a grown man with a car that I let my brother drive sometimes. I have a degree; why can’t I afford a car?“
The entire process, I was like dang, because I drive a car, a nice car, I really felt like they were discriminating. Honestly. ‘He’s black, he Matt Overton Kids Jersey can
’t afford that car.’”