re: Auburn fans: Was your admin really torn about playing Cam?

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The NCAA doesn't sit players

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Someone needs to tell this to Jeremy Bloom who was PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM FOOTBALL BY THE NCAA because he wanted to ski in the Olympics.

Try to represent your country? frick you!

Your dad asks or 6 figures to deliver you to a school? No problem!

The scary thing is......to some very intelligent people, this bullshite makes sense.

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Someone needs to tell this to Jeremy Bloom who was PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM FOOTBALL BY THE NCAA because he wanted to ski in the Olympics.

Try to represent your country? frick you!

Your dad asks or 6 figures to deliver you to a school? No problem!

The scary thing is......to some very intelligent people, this bullshite makes sense.

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Yeah but wasn't Bloom taking money from corporations to train? If so, that takes care of his amateur status.

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Seriously what I expect to come from this is a huge MELTDOWN in TD when Auburn and Cam are cleared and they are holding the crystal football in Jan. That is seriously what I expect to come from all this.
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Maybe you're right but then again, the problem is clearing Fig Sr. He has already stated the discussion of money did come up at MSU. That much they know. Now they are looking to see what discussion of money may have happened at Auburn. At any rate, I really don't see the NCAA allowing this to even break out of the seed. The "kid didn't know" defense won't and shouldn't fly because if they allow it now-they will send the WRONG message. It only a matter of time!!

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The "kid didn't know" defense won't and shouldn't fly because if they allow it now-they will send the WRONG message.

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They have already allowed it.
They already did send the wrong message......the NCAA doesn't care.

The only organization I've seen that has said it was Auburn's decision was the SEC through Slive. I haven't seen anywhere that the NCAA said anything along the lines of - proceed with caution/Do it if you want, but...., etc.

The only thing we know is that there was a meeting with the NCAA last week(Thurs I believe) and we played him on Saturday, leading me to believe we're clear for now.

Could something happen to us? Sure, but no one knows for sure at this point. All the rival fans are just making opinions based on what they want to see.

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Not really. After the preseason consultation with the SEC, NCAA, and attorney it was pretty clear that unless something new, something big came up Auburn was/is in the clear. We worked from the worst case scenario on this one, meaning that we worked under the assumption that MSU and Cecil did talk about pay for play.

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Only one flaw in this theory-Why is the NCAA investigation and conducting interviews NOW if this was all discussed with them preseason as you claim?

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Yeah but wasn't Bloom taking money from corporations to train? If so, that takes care of his amateur status.

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Why is that any different than Quarterbacks who take a couple million to play baseball and then decide to go play college football?

Come to think of it, what a really great scam!!! Just get your best recruits to play baseball, get them drafted for a nice 6 figure bonus that gets paid directly to them - no parent middleman - and then in a couple of years bring them back to your school. TOTALLY LEGAL AND NCAA APPROVED!!!

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The Newton'smet with the NCAA in Auburn on thursday and we are FINE.

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so you really think that's the way it works, huh? the NCAA met with them and they said, "we're innocent" and the NCAA said, "cool, then you can play saturday". i'm actually starting to feel sorry for you fans. you're being played like a fiddle.

I don't understand why it matters if he played or not. If their other wins are going to get vacated IF he is found to be not eligible, then what does one more game matter.

I understand the punish could be more severe. But simply looking at vacated wins, then it really doesn't matter.

Auburn basically said by him playing that we are innocent, so even IF he is found to have taken benefits our punishment will be the same whether we play him or sit him. So, let's just continue the fun ride.

This is what I've been told from someone who played at Auburn in the 70s and donates not millions but enough to know a lot of the top dogs over in the Athletic Dept. He's worried because a lot of the same people who were in charge during the 80s (Pat Dye Era) are back to calling a lot of the shots in the Athletic Dept. again including Pat Dye himself. Basically, Tuberville kept Dye and his cronies out of the Athletic Dept. as long as he could, until he finally gave them a reason to fire him. Gene Chizik = Jay Jacobs, both puppets that will do whatever Pat Dye, Lowder, Jimmy Rane and others tell them to do.