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re: CAMGATE - What YOU need to know
Posted on 11/15/10 at 12:49 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 11/15/10 at 12:49 pm to Ace Midnight
Not a question of if, but when: Cam Newton will be declared ineligible.
From Clay Travis today.
From Clay Travis today.
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Auburn's defense to a prospective athlete receiving an improper benefit will be composed of three parts: a. that Cam Newton didn't know his father solicited funds -- the most crucial part b. Newton didn't attend the school his father solicited funds from and c. no funds ever changed hands for Newton to attend school at Auburn.
It's not a bad defense given how woeful Auburn's options are, but it's a desperate one that is doomed to fail. Why? Because if accepted, the defense would open up a hole in the NCAA rulebook that you could drive a Brink's truck full of cash through. If the NCAA accepts this defense to its bylaws, it would mean that any recruit's family was free to shake down the schools that were recruiting him so long as the family claimed the recruit was unaware of it and the player didn't end up attending the school.
Think about how ridiculous this would be.
Grandmother's across the country could call up head coaches, demand hundreds of thousands of dollars from those coaches, and then there would be two options for the coach: a. the money comes, the solicitation works and everyone tries to keep quiet once the player arrives on campus or b. the money doesn't come and the player remains free to play somewhere else. Whereupon the grandmother calls a new school and repeats the solicitation.
Plainly, this argument is going to fail.
This post was edited on 11/15/10 at 12:54 pm
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Posted on 11/15/10 at 12:57 pm to tuck
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a. that Cam Newton didn't know his father solicited funds -- the most crucial part b. Newton didn't attend the school his father solicited funds from and c. no funds ever changed hands for Newton to attend school at Auburn.
Someone help me with this. If you solicited funds from one school, why wouldn't you from the school he attended? doesn't make sense.
Posted on 11/15/10 at 2:59 pm to tuck
This is beyond absurd. Cam should be done playing. Period, the end.
The SEC should step in by now.. but if not them, then the NCAA needs to.
The SEC should step in by now.. but if not them, then the NCAA needs to.
Posted on 11/15/10 at 5:42 pm to tuck
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Auburn's defense to a prospective athlete receiving an improper benefit will be composed of three parts: a. that Cam Newton didn't know his father solicited funds -- the most crucial part b. Newton didn't attend the school his father solicited funds from and c. no funds ever changed hands for Newton to attend school at Auburn.
It's not a bad defense given how woeful Auburn's options are, but it's a desperate one that is doomed to fail. Why? Because if accepted, the defense would open up a hole in the NCAA rulebook that you could drive a Brink's truck full of cash through. If the NCAA accepts this defense to its bylaws, it would mean that any recruit's family was free to shake down the schools that were recruiting him so long as the family claimed the recruit was unaware of it and the player didn't end up attending the school.
Think about how ridiculous this would be.
Grandmother's across the country could call up head coaches, demand hundreds of thousands of dollars from those coaches, and then there would be two options for the coach: a. the money comes, the solicitation works and everyone tries to keep quiet once the player arrives on campus or b. the money doesn't come and the player remains free to play somewhere else. Whereupon the grandmother calls a new school and repeats the solicitation.
Plainly, this argument is going to fail.
Agree
The argument has to fail... even if this were fantasy land and Auburn were innocent of any wrong-doing... you can't allow a system with this kind of massive loophole for paying kids
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