It's time for The Mailbag, presented by Whitney McNutt of Tommy Morgan Inc. Realtors, Edition 156.

I asked for your questions. You delivered. So here we go...

If you paid your own players out of your own pocket, they'd own you. Literally, it would take one disgruntled player (or parent or handler) to expose it and you'd be done. Make no mistake; it likely happens somewhere, but it's a recipe for sheer disaster.

Florida is a very good job that been's great under great coaches. But people have failed there. I've always believed Mullen was borderline elite, but I'm questioning that now. His handling of quarterbacks has been odd, to say the least. Further, Georgia is elite right now. So is Alabama. He's losing those recruiting battles with alarming regularity. In fact, if you go by Rivals.com recruiting rankings, he's behind almost the entire SEC in recruiting.

Personally, I think the events of this week marked the beginning of the end for him at Florida. I'll be surprised if he's still there in 2022.

I'm going to be honest. Get really fit. The leaner you are, the better. When you have an opportunity to get sun, get it. But get fit. A bald head is so round. So if your body is also round, you look like a snowman. Throw in pasty skin and it's a tough look to overcome. So get really fit.

Don't fight it. Once it's basically gone on top, it's time to shave. Maybe you're not ready to shave it all the way off, but you need to get it really short on the sides. The Bozo the Clown look is rough.

Obviously, I don't know your age or your status or whatnot, but I'd also suggest getting rich. Women care about looks more than they say they do, but they're smart enough to care about money much more.

Nothing I can say on this topic satiates anyone. You guys want me to say the league is fixing games, that individual officials are intentionally making/missing calls to change the outcomes of games. That's not an accusation I can support, and I'm not willing to throw away my credibility and/or any future career endeavors to make what I view to be baseless accusations. I just don't think they're very good at what they do.

Honestly, neither, but if you made me pick one, I'd pick the Stones. I know it's sacrilegious to say this but The Beatles do nothing for me at all.

Yes, the Heisman thing is basically over. It's not fair to Corral, but he's not winning the Heisman, barring incredible games against Texas A&M and Mississippi State. To do that, he's got to be healthy. So yes, if Ole Miss is in command Saturday, it needs to do everything it can to not get Corral hit.

I'm not at practice, so it's impossible to really say. But it can only be a few things. It could be evaluation. It could be development. It could be they can't learn the offense well enough to operate tempo. It could be a combination thereof. Whatever it is, they've got to figure it out moving forward. It's a huge issue this season that Ole Miss simply couldn't develop wide receiver depth.

Clearly, I was wrong. It's weird. The source on that was strong and, even weirder, it was confirmed by someone inside the program (as in at every practice). However, he hasn't played a down and we're two-thirds of the way through the season. It's a question that I suppose needs to be asked but it's such an odd question to ask.

"Hey, Lane, I was wondering if you could comment on a non-scholarship player who hasn't played at all at Ole Miss?"

See, it's just really awkward.

This is going to sound like a copout, but it's the truth: I don't know anyone. I talk Ole Miss football with you guys. That's it. I don't go anywhere here or do anything. I don't go to lunch. I don't belong to any clubs. I don't golf. On Tuesday, I left my house to go to the Manning Center for a press conference and I drove to Oxford High School to pick up my son. That was an active day for me in Oxford. So I simply don't know what the public mood is other than right here on RG.com.

That said, if you made me guess, I'd guess that sure, there's some of that, although that's quite the assumption that Lebby, in a hypothetical world where he replaced Kiffin, would just open up the Manning Center for the GOBs to patrol at their whimsy.

I do agree with you about Kiffin's comments. I do think he senses a reluctance by some to totally buy in, but in complete and total fairness, I've yet to get a sense that Kiffin himself is completely and totally bought in. I still think both sides are in a bit of a Covid-delayed feeling-out process.

That is strictly an opinion. I could be bad wrong. I don't know. I've never had this conversation (or any conversation, really) with Kiffin and I don't know the GOBs, either. Maybe someone more "qualified" could weigh in.

Old man strength, even for just a few seconds, is a real thing. But most 85-year-olds are pretty frail. That said, I think I'd lean with the old man over the 8-year-old kid.

Probably 6-2. You wouldn't beat Alabama. You would likely beat Auburn, but you played Tennessee and Arkansas to the final play and won both games. Your margin isn't exactly wide.

I watched Liberty play ULM. I think Ole Miss can keep it simple and run on the Flames and be fine. Willis is very good, but his supporting cast is average on its best day. I think Ole Miss beats Vanderbilt easily. It's the other two games that worry me, unless Ole Miss can get healthy here pretty fast.

I haven't watched them enough to comment. People I trust still think it's too early to completely judge Norvell. They say he's recruiting pretty well and might be close to turning a corner. I just haven't seen them very much and generally dislike Florida State, so I'm not the person to address that.

From my column Saturday night:

Speaking of fairness and/or a lack thereof, the SEC has to do something about officiating. I’m not going to sit here and do the fanboy thing of declaring the fix to be in or anything like that, but the officiating is atrocious. It feeds conspiracy theories and takes away from the overall product.

On Saturday night, it was was simply bad. There’s no other way to say it. It was inexcusably bad. Did it cost Ole Miss a football game? No, I personally don’t think so. Officiating wasn’t the reason Ole Miss got gashed at the line of scrimmage on defense in the first half. Officiating didn’t injure Drummond’s hamstring and so severely limit Ole Miss’ offensive personnel. Officiating didn’t blow coverages or jump offsides in critical moments.

But damn, it’s bad. I’m not sure it can be fixed, but at some point, the league has to at least pretend to try to be concerned.

I literally questioned it immediately. I was critical. You said there is "clear" video evidence where officials are "blatantly cheating." You don't think that's an emotional response? You think there's evidence of blatant cheating? Cheating? I can't go there. That's an awfully big accusation with no data to support it.

I think some people want me to throw away what little credibility I have left and go all-in on some rant where I talk about officials "blatantly cheating," to use your words. I don't believe that. I've covered the league for 25 years or so, and everyone believes the officials are screwing their team. Run a Google search and you can find reams of complaints from everyone, most complaining about Alabama getting calls.

But to this point, here in the Year 2021, no one has been able to prove a conspiracy. We can find hidden videos of Jan. 6 in Washington. Just this week, FBI surveillance footage from Kenosha in the Summer of Peaceful Protests has emerged that will likely result in a not-guilty verdict for Kyle Rittenhouse. Yet, no one has even made a specific allegation against any one SEC official for blatantly cheating.

I simply don't believe officials are intentionally throwing games. I believe that would come to light if it were happening. I have said there's inherent bias, there's some very real expectation bias and there's some general incompetence. I don't believe in the conspiracy theories that go beyond that. You're free to, but I don't. And I'm really not willing to throw my career away at this point.

I mean, would anything surprise you?

His team will be ready to play. I think you can bet on that. He'll deliver an impassioned speech and face a beat-up, tired team early in the day in front of a sleepy crowd. The scene is set for him.

I just don't think his team is close to good enough to pull it off.

But what if they're not ready? For it appears they're not ready. That begs the better question. Why are they not ready? Were they bad evaluations? Is it a development thing? Are they simply not ready to operate at this tempo? Is the offense too complicated for them?

Again, very few non-transfer recruits are playing right now. It's a little early, I suppose, to make a big deal of it, but I can't help but notice.

I think he is going to be a superstar and turn the Hornets into a perennial playoff team. I love his game.

I once said an Alabama game against ULM was losable and got fired from my radio show by Ken Johnson, who was/is a big Alabama booster. He didn't have the balls to do the firing himself, so he had his programming director, Tim Camp, do it over the phone. So, yeah, it's a different place.

That said, I don't know where the officials are from. I don't know how the league procures officials. I don't know how difficult that process is or isn't. I don't know what, if any, restrictions are in place.

I can try. Women's basketball doesn't move the needle here. We've covered it, almost with a beat writer one season, and the views were extremely minimal. If the numbers showed there was real interest, we'd re-evaluate what we do.

I do plan to take releases and the video off the FTP this season and make it much more prominent. She's recruited at a very high level and people who know about women's basketball believe this is absolutely a second-weekend NCAA Tournament team.

I don't know about Dykes, though I've heard his name flying around some. If Lebby landed in the SMU job, that would be a massive win for him. I think Lebby will be a head coach somewhere soon.

Kiffin has consistently maintained that he's going to take chances on fourth downs. He's consistently said he's not going to rely on field goals. There's no sign he's backing off that anytime soon.

As for the carousel, that's not for me to say. They're both excellent coaches. Is there a chance both leave? I mean, I guess so, but I highly, highly doubt it.

I can't speak to the leanings -- or lack thereof -- of anyone's fandom. I simply don't know.

As for moving the league office, I'll be shocked if it happens. It's very established in Birmingham.

I asked Henry Parrish Jr. about this on Tuesday and he said they're still working on it and it's part of the offense. He said they're waiting on Kiffin to implement it.

It's really, really early. I guess, at this moment, given the rumblings, I'd bet on Spencer Rattler, but it's really, really, really early.

I don't have any. I don't understand it. I've actually queued up a podcast about it to listen to very soon. I had this conversation with Campbell (my oldest) the other day. She just invested in some. I suppose I need to. I'm not smart enough, I guess, to truly understand how it works.

I have no idea. I've freely said that I'm going to explore career options in a few years. In three years, we'll be empty-nesters. I'd be lying if I said I didn't think about that a lot. I'll be 54. I'll see what happens.

I've been very honest about this. We've loved Oxford. It's been a phenomenal place to raise a family. But we've been Campbell, Caroline and Carson's parents and not much else. That's been our identity, and that's wonderful. But when they're not here anymore, I'm not sure how much we'll have tying us here. When I think about Oxford with my kids gone and my parents gone, it feels really lonely.

Maybe the kids will live close by. Maybe my parents will live another 20 years. I don't have a crystal ball. So we'll see.

Maybe no one will want me. Maybe I'll want to stay. Maybe we'll want to go someplace new and get a fresh start. My parents moved from Ruston to Oxford in 2002 or so and I remember my mother being terrified about it. It turned out to be a great decision for them.

Maybe I'll just continue to be a homebody here and let this be a base of sorts while we go visit our kids wherever they end up. I simply don't know. Who knows what this field looks like in three years? Who knows what sites like this look like in three years?

I don't look that far ahead, but I often think about doing something completely different in a completely new place in the final chapter of my life. Perhaps that won't be realistic. Maybe that's just a fantasy. We'll see. I don't know.

Media has always been super liberal. I remember the morning after Bush-Gore in 2000, walking into the offices at the Mobile Register and the entire news room was triggered. I remember being surprised at the anger. I think social media has allowed media to rally together and peer pressure has emboldened their aggression toward expressing their views and cheering for their side. I think a lot of media operate in an echo chamber.

I don't know. I'm a very simple guy. I enjoy lighting the outdoor fireplace, pouring a glass of wine, locating Jupiter and Saturn in the skies and doing nothing. My kids being happy makes me happy. Listening to Laura talking to the girls makes me happy. Hearing Carson fired up after a soccer game makes me happy. Listening to Pat Hughes call a Cubs game on the radio is oddly comforting (not the television broadcast but the radio call).

Back when I traveled, I loved finding a nice steakhouse and sitting at the corner of the bar by myself. I know people say that's weird, but I loved that. I found it to be very peaceful. I like the serenity of the beach. I like a really good book.

But I have no idea what others overlook or don't. I lead a very simple, boring life. Maybe I shouldn't have, but I really let all that craziness in 2016 impact how I live and now a much quieter, private life is the norm for me.

I'm sure Ole Miss sent a video. I suspect all 14 programs send a video of missed calls every week. From what I can gather, there's a lot of dialogue every week between programs and the league office.

A bunch get processed. Several have already decided to leave on their own volition.

As for names, I don't think that's fair to the young people in question with a month left of the season.

It's a great question. I don't know. Apparently not.

I think Freeze delivered that much-anticipated Sugar Bowl and that outweighs everything for some. He made Ole Miss relevant, proved one could recruit nationally at Ole Miss, etc. He made Ole Miss feel great, delivered the Alabama win in 2014, etc. I think it's that simple for some.

As I've said, I have a very complex view of Freeze. I've been pretty honest about it.

I think it's just guys understanding the scheme better and getting impact players going on all three levels (Williams, Campbell, Springer/Reese).

I liked Wonder Years. I liked Growing Pains, Happy Days, Alf, etc. I grew up in the 1980s, and looking back, it was a wonderful time to be a teenager.

Kiffin didn't mention officiating Saturday night. He didn't mention it Monday. So there's really no catalyst for the story.

Again, it's my nature to want to blow up the big story and reveal the SEC to be the WWE or something. I just don't believe it. Is there bias? Yes. Did Auburn get calls? Yes. Does the environment factor in? I'd guess so.

But it's not a story because no one at Ole Miss has made it a story.

I don't know. It's huge, but it's so early and everyone is figuring it out. Ole Miss is working on it, but it's going to be difficult to make NIL a big advantage here, in my opinion.