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Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:22 pm to MrAUTigers
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pulling up some nothingness from a decade and half ago.
That's just sad.
How sad is it?
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:24 pm to A Lite
coming from you? Expected.
ETA btw, you never answered my question. Since the end of the disco era, who is the most penalized SEC school?
ETA btw, you never answered my question. Since the end of the disco era, who is the most penalized SEC school?
This post was edited on 3/14/19 at 9:25 pm
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:29 pm to jawjaTiger
Auburn gives $250k to Cam's dad to fix up a church and win a title in football...LSU steals $800k from Cancer victims to prop up a shite top-10 basketball team. At least we're in the people hepping business...
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:29 pm to MrAUTigers
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coming from you? Expected.
Let's review:
auNeck players do not attend the college they play football at.
The coaches abuse mentally affected children and make them play football simply to make money off of them. Kenny Irons says hi.
Massive pay for play schemes are revealed by former coaches and drunk, sweet bitch coach goes "fishing" with buddies and loses pants regularly.
But, by mentioning any of this in a bash Bama thread is expected of me?
Silly auNeck; stop playing the victim.
This post was edited on 3/14/19 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:30 pm to A Lite
You are still dodging the question like an LSU fan.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:31 pm to MrAUTigers
What a nothingburger. Probably a yellow one, too.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:32 pm to MrAUTigers
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You are still dodging the question like an LSU fan.
Let's take a plane ride to Louisville.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:32 pm to jangalang
I asked him who the most penalized SEC school has been since the disco era ended and he comes with decade and a half old articles about Auburn. 
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Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:36 pm to MrAUTigers
He even showed a conversation btwn brothers that was published. Infallible power move material right there.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:36 pm to MrAUTigers
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I asked him who the most penalized SEC school has been since the disco era ended and he comes with decade and a half old articles about Auburn.
It's a pattern, auNeck, a pattern that continues up through Cam Newton's time and to this day.
At this point, we are just educating younger fans of football about how sorry and nasty your football program was and still is to this day.
Here, read some more:
Bowden talk
leaves much
to consider
Terry Bowden's house in Auburn was about 5 minutes from the football complex. It was a modest, beautiful two-story home with a huge back deck and outdoor speakers that always gave you the soothing sounds of James Taylor whenever company was over.
During summer visits that took place in that relaxed setting, most often between Auburn beat writers and Bowden, the Tigers' former coach would talk about many topics. Off the record, of course.
The subjects I remember best concerned Rodney Garner, an assistant coach whom he fired; Wayne Hall, another assistant whom he fired; Jackie Sherrill, Mississippi State's coach who didn't care for him too much; and, of course, his father, legendary Florida State coach Bobby Bowden. I'm sure there were plenty of others.
The point is, Bowden loved to talk. And his behind-the-scenes stories were interesting. So those of us who covered Auburn during that time loved to listen. During my years on the Auburn beat — at THE DAILY in 1993-95 and in Birmingham from 1996-98 — I visited Bowden's home most every August I can remember. The food was good, and the conversation was lively.
"They can run me out of town eventually, if they want to," I remember Bowden saying, "but I'm not going to cheat. I'm just not going to do it."
Thus, I raised an eyebrow this week when the Opelika-Auburn News printed a two-year-old interview done with Bowden at his home concerning allegations of systematic cheating at Auburn before Bowden's tenure there and the gradual dissolution of it under his watch.
It should be no secret to anyone that Bowden inherited a corrupt program. The NCAA had nailed the Tigers for paying mediocre defensive back Eric Ramsey, with such lurid tales of secret, gas-station meetings with paper bags and cash that 60 Minutes found it worthy. That's how our state was adorned with the timeless phrase, "Keep it down home, Cuz," which was uttered to Ramsey by then-AU assistant Larry Blakeney, who currently is Troy State's head coach.
At least one other Auburn player, Vincent Harris, told another newspaper that other Tiger players were being paid, too, during head coach Pat Dye's era in charge. So, let's state for the record that we know cheating was going on.
The new can of worms is this: Bowden speaks of an elaborate setup in which up to 50 Auburn boosters donated $5,000 each to pay players, that a former assistant (gee, any guesses?) kept a black book with who paid what to whom, and that players were given $12,000 to $15,000 to sign.
But suppose his story is true. Suppose Bowden did "honor" these payments to Auburn players he inherited as he "phased out" the cheating. Let's just, for the sake of argument, star tailback Stephen Davis received a salary from Auburn before and during Bowden's watch. Isn't Bowden just as guilty for not reporting such violations and honoring them while he "phased" them out?
The NCAA likely won't come after Auburn for this. (They're too busy trying to fry Cliff Ellis and his basketball program, anyway.) The four-year statute of limitations is past, and unless the NCAA can prove an ongoing pattern of booster cheating (involving well-known trustees, Bowden says) then there's not much that the ol' governing body can do.
We're left to simply debate: Was he telling the truth two years ago?
Auburn's actions lead one to believe that he was. After all, why did it keep Hall on its payroll several years after his firing?
(Hush money? You decide.)
And by paying off Bowden's mortgage on his beautiful home after his firing, it stipulated that he must not say anything derogatory about Auburn.
(Hush money? You decide.)
But besides bringing back old memories and old issues, perhaps the best question is why the Opelika-Auburn News chose to print a sensational, off-the-record conversation two years after the fact.
Is it relevant? You decide.
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Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:38 pm to A Lite
I don't see a single place in Auburn, AL that you can sling those rocks.
Get over yourselves.
Get over yourselves.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:38 pm to jangalang
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He even showed a conversation btwn brothers that was published. Infallible power move material right there.
It was two mentally disabled children that the auNecks illegally made play a brutal game to earn money off of them.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:39 pm to A Lite
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It's a pattern, auNeck, a pattern that continues up through Cam Newton's time and to this day.
Yet Auburn hasn't been on probation in a long time. You should call the FEDS with your information.
In the meantime, is it three or four times that bama has been on probation since Auburn's last?
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:39 pm to jawjaTiger
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I don't see a single place in Auburn, AL that you can sling those rocks.
Get over yourselves.
Sure you do. And you know what, it's a lot easier to see clearly now that the trees are gone.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:40 pm to MrAUTigers
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Yet Auburn hasn't been on probation in a long time. You should call the FEDS with your information.
In the meantime, is it three or four times that bama has been on probation since Auburn's last?
Just educating those that are unaware, auNeck. I know you don't have any issue with that.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:41 pm to A Lite
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It was two mentally disabled children that the auNecks illegally made play a brutal game to earn money off of them.
Seek help.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:45 pm to MrAUTigers
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Yet Auburn hasn't been on probation in a long time. You should call the FEDS with your information.
TideRag members about to go full scorched earth on Auburn.
This post was edited on 3/14/19 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:52 pm to A Lite
I would rather us plant 10,000 trees in Tuscaloosa for logic and Peace and have just one Updyke go on the Plains to destroy a whole Forest, if the University of Alabama would purge itself from institutional stupidity (accepting unqualified "student's")...in a heartbeat. How is this helping?
Also, Auburn is squeaky clean.
Go frick yourselves.
Also, Auburn is squeaky clean.
Go frick yourselves.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:14 pm to MrAUTigers
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I am going to get DJ Fluker to read that for me.
Junior Rosegreen, Brent Fullwood, and James Brooks can join in on the fun.
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