re: Auburn beating Alabama has historically meant very little

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jvilletiger25

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I didn't see any Auburn fans crying when Bama boosters paid an Auburn player to set them up. Still won games in the 90s.

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You got it backwards, it was AU who paid to set Alabama up. Bama paid no one to set AU up.

AU's probation was before the NCAA started taking away scholarships - all you got was a bowl ban. If you had lost ~30 scholarships then have the NCAA admit they made a mistake but OOPs too late to redress the issue - it would have been much different. Then the NCAA was mad because they were embarrassed so they redoubled their efforts to "get" Bama. They also used the window to intensify the penalties.