re: South Carolina gets NCAA Notice of allegations in men's Bball

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If I remember correctly, Sexton never missed any playing time

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I can’t remember how many games (wasn’t many) but he sat and got reinstated. I won’t pretend to act like I can tell you why he was reinstated with a slap and the AU guys sat all season.

Auburn is in the clear

AU will receive a NOA. I also think Bruce will get a 5-10 game suspension just for the optics despite the university cooperating, sitting players for a whole season (a season plus 10 games for Purifoy) and self-imposed recruiting restrictions.

Alabama should be good - we self imposed once we figured out the severity of it

2/12 - Miss St (L)
2/16 - Florida (L)
2/19 - Texas A&M (L)
2/23 - Vandy (W)
2/26 - USC (W)
2/2 - LSU (L)
2/5 - Auburn (L)
2/9 - Arkansas (L)
2/14 - Ole Miss (W)
2/15 - Kentucky (L)
2/20 - Norfolk St (L)

We tried to lose to Vandy, USCe and Ole Miss they just refused to let us. Pretty selfish.

Not to mention when this happened was the same time we made the final four. So we didn't exactly suck when the violation occurred to begin with.

Don’t think he was referring to SC

BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT I thought only LSU and Willy Wade were the only cheaters.

I think any penalties will be light for all schools involved. Auburn self-imposed some very stiff penalties already, so unless they hammer a lot of schools, I do not see any additional penalties. We had a coach accept money, that is a big deal, but so did others.


Blazer, referenced in the original U.S. Attorney’s Office complaint as “Cooperating Witness 1,” leveraged a connection with Atlanta-based clothier Rashan Michel to meet college basketball assistant coaches. Among those Blazer met—and allegedly paid off to ostensibly direct future NBA clients his way—were former Auburn assistant Chuck Person, former Alabama administrative staff member Kobie Baker, former Oklahoma State and South Carolina assistant Lamont Evans, former Arizona assistant Emanuel “Book” Richardson and former USC assistant Tony Bland.

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Blazer’s information could also spill over to college football. In the 2019 trial of Dawkins and Code, Blazer testified that he paid football players from seven different schools in violation of NCAA rules. Blazer testified that he made payments anywhere from hundreds to several thousands of dollars to players at Alabama, Michigan, North Carolina, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Penn State and Pittsburgh.

Forgive my ignorance, but are these the guys that convinced PJ to leave early because they told him he’d get drafted?

shite, we got put at a competitive disadvantage with his early departure.

Auburn sat two players for an entire season, fired 3 coaches, missed an entire recruiting class and had the players pay back the $$. They served their time for any sanctions the NCAA may hand down. They will likely get a Level I and have to serve a probation stint. But I doubt they have to go through any more sanctions.