yeah, it's crazy. i think i heard about it around ~2 years ago, because a friend of mine clued me in to the coverage. at the time we both worked in "The Academy" and are both into watching the ways in which academia is being used as a tool of neoliberalism to maintain the capitalist structure, so the granular details of federal Temporary Assistance aka direct distributed money for need families--which Mississippi rejects 90% of to keep its underclass even more desperate--be pipelined to do capital investment for university expansion of sports infrastructure with that money was like... i dunno, the holy grail of corruption and graft. i mean, it was so bad that some of the central figures got caught, indicted, and convicted. if you're rich, white, famous and still manage to end up hip deep in shit for screwing over broke minorities in mississippi... you really went too hard.

the fact that it was an NFL grifter with hundreds of millions of his own money that pressured for and brokered the deal while also pocketing a few million from the cut as a sweetener was just chefs-kiss

the university, the state apparatus, and some aspects of sports media have done much to try and memoryhole it through underreporting, both to protect the institutions as well as a bankable celebrity property/"local hero" from a connected family (Favre)... but the fact that the shitwizard in the middle decided to roll over and cooperate after facing 35 YEARS in prison, releasing tons of communications and texts has troubled those attempts... because a lot of shit is now public record.