re: Bill Bell confirms Newtons sought moneys

Aubbie : OK well this is just rumors, until I hear it from the Pope with one hand on the bible it can't be taken seriously.

LOL, Honestly this really sucks, I want LSU in the SECCG as bad as anyone but I like watching the kid play and something like this ruins the legend we are watching develop.

everyone assumes that every athlete is a broke kid from a broken home.

You don't have to be broke for a "high-priced European luxury car" to be beyond your means.

But that is most definetly a fair stereotype where black athletes are concerened. Yes, some stereotypes are perfectly reasonable.

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Yes, some stereotypes are perfectly reasonable.

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Want to know what pisses people off about stereotypes?

They are usually accurate. FACT.

If stereotypes were usually inaccurate, they would be useless and would not exist.

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This is not good for the SEC.

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I have a feeling the SEC may be starting it's own demise ... remember the Southwest Conference? Rampant cheating, teams reporting other teams, etc. The result was "no more Southwest Conference". I think 3 teams are currently under investigation, and now it's not looking good for 2 more. And of course Bama is constantly being looked at ( Bama fans). I don't think this ends well for the SEC.

Nah the SEC has been cheating for as longer than i've been alive, i doubt auburn getting set up by MSU would do the conference in.

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And to be honest with you, I don't want to be associated with a dirty program that would pay 200,000 dollars to secure the signature of one guy.

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Well, I was gonna say you could put a script A next to your name and become one of the good guys, but I guess this pretty much squelches that.

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the Southwest Conference?

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The Southwest Conference was a doomed venture regardless of the cheating scandals. A conference with schools from only one state (after Arkansas left) could not survive financially given the importance of attracting TV revenue. Even had Arkansas stayed, it ws still doomed. The Southwest Conference was quickly becoming irrelevant because no one outside of Texas except a few out-of-state alums was going to watch games on TV. UT might draw a more national interest, but it couldn't carry the conference alone. The cheating scandals may have caused the disintegration to accelerate, but the handwriting was on the wall already with the increasing importance of television markets.

Certainly a major cheating scandal is a bad thing for the entire conference, but given the overall financial health of the conference, I don't think it will cause the demise of the conference. The Southwest Conference experience is not apt. It wasn't cheating that doomed that conference, it was lack of TV draw and lack of TV revenue.

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Without Cam, AU is a mediocre team. . .and that is being very nice.

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I agree they probably arent as good, but the truth is, we really have no idea how good they are becuase we havent seen them without Cam this year.

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Although, if I were Chizik, I'd play the crap out of Cam and win the trophy and worry about this later.

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That might depend on the nature of what Chizik and company know. If they know that Newton is ineligible or very likely to be, they are also gambling with their own jobs, not just the risk of having to forfeit games and a championship.

That said, I would think that if Auburn chooses to play Cam, they have a pretty high level of confidence that Auburn hasn't done anything that will cause serious consequences to the careers of the decision makers. That doesn't mean that Cam won't ultimately be declared ineligible or that Auburn might forfeit games, but it would be a strong indicator that Auburn doesn't believe that there is the kind of involvement by Auburn itself that would lead to harsh penalities and loss of jobs by those who are making decisions on this at Auburn.