"When a school discovers an NCAA rules violation has occurred, it must declare the student-athlete ineligible and may request the student-athlete’s eligibility be reinstated. "

^from the PR this week.

If we knew about these allegations since at least July, why did we wait to rule him ineligible until this week? Are we saying we believed Roger's was acting on his own as Cecil previously claimed up until this week? Does that mean Cecil just came clean this week?

It's been my understanding we knew about everything the whole time but didn't pay/deal with Roger's so we weren't worried about playing him.

Maybe I'm missing something...

This post was edited on 12/3/10 at 10:08 am

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Posted by fishcraze

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Posted on 12/3/10 at 10:09 am to PuntBamaPunt

quote:
Maybe I'm missing something...

have you checked cam's backpack

j/k

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Posted by WDE24

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Posted on 12/3/10 at 10:12 am to PuntBamaPunt

Fair question. I am guessing AU's position will be that they did an initial investigation and beleived Cam to be eligible. After new information was learned and their investigation was completed (on Monday :winkwink:) they consulted the conference and the NCAA and determined a rules violation had occurred. They declared him ineligible and immediately requested reinstatement. Obviously there was a lot of communication going on between AU, the SEC and the NCAA behind the scenes and the timing of this ruling and announcement was orchestrated.

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Posted by PJinAtl

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Posted on 12/3/10 at 10:13 am to PuntBamaPunt

I think the real key in the PR was that Auburn and the NCAA agreed on certain facts. I have a feeling that AU was looking at things one way all season, and now as more things have come out through the NCAA interviews some new facts have come out. Maybe Auburn was looking at things one way all along, the NCAA comes ina says they see it this way (starting around AU homecoming game) and the interim weeks they have been going back and forther because there isn't enough proof one way or another so they finally say "we can both agree to things happening this way..." and by agreeing to that, Auburn has to admit to something being not particularly on the up and up as they had been saying for so long.

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