re: 2010 Auburn took away all fear of the NCAA

I think the main aspect of 2010 compared to now is being missed. Before 2010, there was not a college that would not sweat bullets if they knew the NCAA was going to potentially look into them. Now, the NCAA is a running joke; nothing more than a punchline.

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In 2010, Scam Newton and the Auburn Tigers won the NCAA championship. They did this while playing, by the NCAA's very own rule book, an ineligible player. Instead of cooperating with the NCAA investigation into Newton and his pastor father, Auburn lawyered up with the Birmingham firm Lightfoot, Franklin, & White, LLC. Auburn spent over two million dollars in having the firm successfully defend Newton and the university. The immediate reward was a national title (as well as a new roof on a, "ahem", condemned church owned by one Mr. Cecil Newton, among other things). The long term ramifications? The NCAA was exposed as having no teeth anymore if a university lawyers up. Recruiting is back to being like the Wild, Wild West; full of hired guns. The inner workings of college football recruiting are reaching levels of illegality beyond what many would ever dream was really occurring at alleged institutions of higher learning.

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Would you mind letting us know which Finebaum caller you are. Just want to put a voice and a name with a stupid post.

Actually the fear of the NCAA was taken away when Bama lawyered up and said "f*** you" to the NCAA during the multiple smoking fires early in Saban's tenure. You may remember the book scandal, Julio & Ingram's new "boat buddy", the "hand-delivered with no stamp" C&D letter to the T-Town menswear guy, the Trent Richardson house sitting gig, and the disappearing car after a hit-and-run...good times. They proved that the NCAA can do virtually nothing when you lawyer up and obfuscate and deny, deny, deny.

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In 2010, Scam Newton and the Auburn Tigers won the NCAA championship. They did this while playing, by the NCAA's very own rule book, an ineligible player. Instead of cooperating with the NCAA investigation into Newton and his pastor father, Auburn lawyered up with the Birmingham firm Lightfoot, Franklin, & White, LLC. Auburn spent over two million dollars in having the firm successfully defend Newton and the university. The immediate reward was a national title (as well as a new roof on a, "ahem", condemned church owned by one Mr. Cecil Newton, among other things). The long term ramifications? The NCAA was exposed as having no teeth anymore if a university lawyers up. Recruiting is back to being like the Wild, Wild West; full of hired guns. The inner workings of college football recruiting are reaching levels of illegality beyond what many would ever dream was really occurring at alleged institutions of higher learning.

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TRANSLATION: I'm scared.

Sad to Say this is true. I was in North Carolina working and when all the UNC stuff was first brought out a guy said I'm glad this isn't the NCAA from 20 years ago.
Back then you cringed at rumors. Honestly now, I read it, disregard it. Cam was never "proven" to have had issues but something happened and whether it was at MSU or AU is irrelevant. The NCAA did the sweep under the rug job like I've never seen. Never saw an investigation take ONLY 3 days either. I guess we'll have to wait until Mullen's book where he told us he would tell the whole story.

No one is even nervous about this group in the NCAA headquarters nowadays.

youre incredibly bad at this. truth be told the NCAA had it's teeth removed starting when bama broke out the lawyer wagon on them and then scheduled their own post season in Hawaii way back in 2002, I believe it was. it was one of the cases that led the NCAA to this opinion "the NCAA in responding to Alabama's textbook appeal called Alabama a "serial repeat violator" with an "abysmal infractions track record" and an "extensive recent history of infractions cases unmatched by any other member institution in the NCAA."

NCAA on Bama

What Auburn proved to the rest of the College World was you do not roll over and let the NCAA screw you. Auburn proved they did nothing wrong and allowed the NCAA to conduct the most thorough investigation in NCAA history. Not only did the NCAA have their investigators on the job, the National and State Press and every toothless Bammer tried to find something on Auburn.

Auburn did not take a Plea Bargain when the story first came out, which would have derailed their Championship run. It still kills the Bammers to this day.

play the off season song kitty

Bamascoop and his partner Redfish, tried everything to get AU to sit Cam down. Even fellow bammer and buddy Ian Fitzsimmons put his career on the line trying to derail AU. I really think it is the biggest disappointment in the sidewalk and alumni Bammers lives. In Bamascoops case, that is saying a lot.