Auburn doesn't do this.

You guys are professional level. I will give you that much. The mafia could take lessons from you.

"Keep it down home cuz".

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Arkansas

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Bobby Petrino cheated...on his wife. Arkansas broke no NCAA rules. Embarrassing OP. Should be edited

Auburn's been sanctioned more than anyone else, so this is a very peculiar thread.

Little TaterTot didn't know what the frick was going on when he got down on 'dem plains surrounded by No Pants Dye, Yeller Smeller Feller and the rest of the crew.

auNeckery


AUBURN, Ala. -- Former Auburn coach Terry Bowden said on
tape two years ago that boosters were funneling thousands of
dollars to football players when he became coach in 1993, a time
when the Tigers already were on NCAA probation.

"They were paying players cash, $12,000, $15,000 to sign,"
Bowden said on the recording. "All I was told to do was shake hands and say, 'Thank you. I appreciate
how much you love Auburn."'

Bowden did not make clear whether he reported the payment scheme
to the NCAA, but said on the tape: "When I came here, I put an end
to it."

Bowden's comments were reported Sunday by the Opelika-Auburn
News. A columnist taped the comments in a meeting about two years
ago, and a copy of the tape was made available to the Associated Press.

Bowden did not return a phone call to his home in
Orlando, Fla, seeking comment. He is currently a sports commentator for ABC Sports, where
spokesman Adam Freifield said Bowden contended the remarks were off
the record and had no further comment.

A statement issued by Auburn questioned why remarks made by
Bowden in 2001 are only now being reported. The columnist who taped
the comments, Paul Davis, said Tuesday there had been concern that
Bowden's remarks were "off the record" and not for publication.
Davis said Bowden has sent him an e-mail encouraging their
publication.

Bowden had no comment when reached Tuesday night by ESPN.com, where he is a college football analyst.

The school's statement also said Bowden repeatedly had certified
to the NCAA from 1993 through 1998 that "he was unaware of any
unreported violations of NCAA rules by anyone involved with the
Auburn football program."

Even though there is a four-year statute of limitations for NCAA
violations, there is an exception if the infraction is considered
"blatant". NCAA spokeswoman Kay Hawes wouldn't comment on the
specifics of the allegations.

William Muse, who was president of Auburn during Bowden's term
as coach, also said in newly released transcripts that he had heard
rumors of a pay-for-play scheme but that it was never verified
during the NCAA investigation. His comments were transcribed by
Auburn history professor Wayne Flynt for a book and were made
public recently by university archives.

Mitch Sneed, who became managing editor of the Opelika-Auburn News in
February, said Tuesday he decided to publish Bowden's taped remarks
after the recent release of the Flynt transcripts, which included
Muse saying Bowden told him much the same things that were on the
tape.

Muse also said he had heard there was "a network of alums who each had
agreed to provide X number of dollars per year for a particular
player and that there was a book that listed all of these
individuals and the amounts that they paid."

"There was even a rumor that, at one time, (an assistant coach)
was the keeper of the book," Muse said. "In fact, after he left
Auburn, Terry even told me that. But that has never been verified.
In the NCAA investigation, there didn't turn out to be any evidence
of that."

Auburn came under NCAA scrutiny when Pat Dye was head coach.
Tapes secretly recorded by football player Eric Ramsey disclosed
financial and other help being given to Ramsey in violation of NCAA
rules.

Dye stepped down after the 1992 season and the NCAA hit Auburn
with penalties that included scholarship reductions, two years of
probation and a one-year ban on television appearances.

Dye, currently a fund-raiser for Auburn, did not immediately return a
telephone message left at his office Tuesday.

Bowden resigned as coach during the 1998 season as his relations
with a powerful trustee, Robert Lowder, became strained.

On the tape, Bowden said 25 to 30 boosters would meet in
Birmingham and 15 to 20 would meet in Rome, Ga., and that they
would give $5,000 each. He said that when he arrived at Auburn, an
assistant coach was collecting the money.

On the tape, Bowden said he took a stand against the practice.
"I'm going to finish that deal. That's over with," he said he
told one of those involved.

Muse, amid his own difficulties with some trustees, left Auburn
two years ago to become chancellor of East Carolina. He resigned
that post Friday, taking a tenured faculty position, in the wake of
two critical internal audits.

No Athletic Department has been more "by the book" over the last quarter century than Auburn. Nobody.

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that's because every time the NCAA investigated bear, Auburn was put on probation.

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Go post disco era now.

Since then who has been the most penalized SEC school?

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auNecks football players don't go to college.

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I am going to get DJ Fluker to read that for me.

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Well, you sure won't be getting David or Kenny Irons to read it for you because neither one of them could read.

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In the midst of a comedown season from their undefeated ‘04 campaign, Auburn hasn’t been making much in the way of news, save for missing 23 field goals in the LSU game and having their coach sniping at booster’s lunches about ESPN and the BCS. They have, however, grown in one key area: quotability, suddenly becoming the best sound bite a blogger could ask for.

Exhibit A: The Irons Brothers interview. David and Kenny both go to Auburn, and both are evidently black belt insult artists, African-American school of fighting. We’re not paying for a subscription, but the full article is available on Scout.com. David gets the best backhands in on his brother, though, as seen in this excerpt. (Courtesy of readers whose names will go unpublished to avoid punishment at the hands of the Scout overlords. You know who you are.)

Do you and Kenny have any competition with stats?

“I just tell him to keep running like that and keep on running to the jungle. I told him I’d buy him a seesaw and monkey bars so he can swing around like a banana tree. He’s doing real good running to his jungle. I told him the end zone is his zoo and if he runs to the end zone he can be with all of his little animal friends. I just told him to treat the football like a banana. You treat the football like a banana and you won’t let anybody at the zoo take your banana peel. He was like, ‘Yeah, that’s true.’ And I was like, ‘Kenny, but it’s not yellow, it’s brown. Just think of it as an old banana and you’ve had out for weeks like you did at the house and it’s turned brown. Run with it and don’t let people strip it.’ He’s been running like a crazy wild child.

Do you think he looks like a monkey?

“He looks like somebody hit that kid 10 times. When Halloween comes around on Monday, he’s already got his costume. He’s already himself. I hope when kids come up to the door they don’t get too scared. I’m going to hang him up somewhere on the wall so everyone can see our Halloween decorations.”

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