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New lawsuit filed against Auburn
Posted on 3/8/21 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 3/8/21 at 3:49 pm
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A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former Auburn employee last week alleges that a former Auburn football player had a grade changed during the Fall 2019 semester that allowed him to remain eligible for the team’s appearance in the Outback Bowl that season.
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According to the lawsuit, Auburn “caused, or allowed to be caused, significant pressure to be placed on” a university professor to change a failing grade of D to a passing grade of C for a player identified as an Auburn football graduate transfer from Arizona State. Former Auburn tight end-/H-back J.J. Wilson is the only player from the 2019 team who fits that description.
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On Dec. 23, 2019 — a little more than one week before the bowl game — the professor of that course sent an email refusing to change Wilson’s grade. Between the time that email was sent and the New Year’s Day bowl game, however, “said professor was caused to change her mind, or simply changed her mind, and accordingly changed the grade,” which allowed Wilson to play in the Outback Bowl and allegedly permitted Auburn to add graduate transfers to its 2020 roster.
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Wilson had two receptions for 12 yards in Auburn’s Outback Bowl loss to Minnesota.
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The filing claims that Thomas’ knowledge of the alleged ordeal was one reason why his three supervisors wanted him fired or pressured to leave his position in the department. The lawsuit also alleges that none of Thomas’ supervisors, who were all reportedly aware of the “apparently pressured” grade change, were “ever threatened about their knowledge, nor were they ever threatened with termination, despite their failure to report it to Auburn University itself, just as Auburn has been accusing the Plaintiff of doing in its notice of termination.” It goes on to state that the “more gentle and respectful” manner in which his three supervisors were treated by the university, “as compared to the more antagonistic and disrespectful way” Thomas was blamed constituted race and sex discrimination against him.
This post was edited on 3/8/21 at 3:51 pm
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Posted on 3/8/21 at 3:52 pm to beaver
Oh this will be fun...
Posted on 3/8/21 at 3:55 pm to The Nino
well that is funny that the day after Rush Prost spilled everything on Bama and UGA that this comes out. Let impose penalties on the staff that was here at the time.
Posted on 3/8/21 at 3:59 pm to beaver
I’d be more upset if we weren’t changing grades
Posted on 3/8/21 at 3:59 pm to beaver
So said teacher just admitted to willingly altering a grade because of the "pressure"? 
Posted on 3/8/21 at 4:08 pm to HailToTheChiz
She better have a written confession from said coach/official that he made her do it
Posted on 3/8/21 at 4:13 pm to beaver
Any chance of hanging this on Gus and getting buyout money back?
Posted on 3/8/21 at 4:15 pm to beaver
Somehow we will face a more severe penalty from this than LSU will on their sex assault mill
This post was edited on 3/8/21 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 3/8/21 at 4:17 pm to beaver
And of all players to change a grade for, JJ Wilson should’ve been near the bottom of the list
Posted on 3/8/21 at 4:35 pm to Rig
This is nothing... would be easy to prove if there is an email as it would be in the archives. Auburn has checked an no such email exist. Auburn would not have fired him, if there was any truth to this.
“Mr. Thomas’s complaint does not include facts to support his allegations of discrimination, and Auburn will not further discuss the details of this personnel matter,” Auburn said in a statement released to AL.com on Monday afternoon. “However, Auburn is compelled to clarify that Mr. Thomas’s complaint includes egregious mischaracterizations regarding the academic record of a student athlete who was under his mentorship. Prior to filing this lawsuit, Auburn informed Mr. Thomas that this information was inaccurate.
His decision to make false and damaging statements about a student for his personal benefit cannot be ignored. Auburn will use all available legal resources to protect our students and to defend the University against the allegations in the complaint.”
“Mr. Thomas’s complaint does not include facts to support his allegations of discrimination, and Auburn will not further discuss the details of this personnel matter,” Auburn said in a statement released to AL.com on Monday afternoon. “However, Auburn is compelled to clarify that Mr. Thomas’s complaint includes egregious mischaracterizations regarding the academic record of a student athlete who was under his mentorship. Prior to filing this lawsuit, Auburn informed Mr. Thomas that this information was inaccurate.
His decision to make false and damaging statements about a student for his personal benefit cannot be ignored. Auburn will use all available legal resources to protect our students and to defend the University against the allegations in the complaint.”
This post was edited on 3/8/21 at 4:36 pm
Posted on 3/8/21 at 5:08 pm to Rig
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And of all players to change a grade for, JJ Wilson should’ve been near the bottom of the list
I think it had more with the ability to sign future gran transfers than it did Wilson
Posted on 3/8/21 at 7:28 pm to Poker Dough
Any chance of hanging this on Gus and getting buyout money back?
That does sound like "with cause"
That does sound like "with cause"
Posted on 3/8/21 at 7:32 pm to Sput
Is this professor implying that since JJ is black he must be too ignorant to pass his class???
Posted on 3/8/21 at 8:52 pm to beaver
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Auburn tight end-/H-back J.J. Wilson i
Gus doesn’t use a tightend, this is fake news.
Posted on 3/9/21 at 9:06 am to Rig
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And of all players to change a grade for, JJ Wilson should’ve been near the bottom of the list
especially just to be eligible for a bowl game that Gus never wins anyway... :)
Posted on 3/9/21 at 10:50 am to AuSteeler
I say this al . com should just go ahead and be called UofAL . com there is another Joseph Goodman article that I'm not even going to give the courtesy to link to that article. What a shill
Posted on 3/9/21 at 11:04 am to beaver
So let me get this straight: we need to pay them like pros but treat them like students. Weird
Posted on 3/9/21 at 6:17 pm to Sput
I think it had more with the ability to sign future gran transfers than it did Wilson
What?
What?
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:15 pm to Awesome Dave
Non athletes have grades changed for various reasons all the time
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:59 pm to TemperdTiger
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say this al . com should just go ahead and be called UofAL . com there is another Joseph Goodman article that I'm not even going to give the courtesy to link to that article. What a shill
Is that the one that bases his whole situation on race? I read that one earlier that called Auburn " the 'whitest' school in the SEC".
Yeah we may have rated first "in the SEC". But were well behind the bastions of racial hope like UCLA, Harvard, Columbia, and many, many schools in the California system.
But were so bad among the SEC. It was Auburn who had riots in the 60's and the governor was standing in the doorway of Samford Hall...
It's quite obvious after reading that stupid piece l.
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