re: Executive Producer of HBO's Real Sports is a bammer

HA!!!!!!!

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Did AU players get paid? Maybe (probably IMO) but excluding all evidence to the counter and including, of all schools, a Bama player to say he had never been paid makes more sense now. Sorry but that's obvious.

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It was two totally different stories. Prothro has joined the lawsuit to sue the NCAA for not paying them to use their likeness. That story was how NCAA athletes generate millions of revenues, but see none of it. Sorry that Prothro didn't get paid anything, but it is the system we currently play under. For whoever it was that said it painted Bama in a negative light you could not be further off base.

How would have parading 10 players that say they didn't get paid have refuted the 4 players that said they did? I'm sure you could find 500 former Alabama players that will go on record and say they didn't get paid. Does that mean the Albert Means case is total bullshite? Barner logic is astounding.

btw... in case you forgot Bama and au won the last two BCS championships. Probably had something to do with why both were picked to be featured on their program. Former au players were willing to spill the beans so HBO didn't have to go much further than them.

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How would have parading 10 players that say they didn't get paid have refuted the 4 players that said they did?

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Because those guys also have said that anyone that says that got paid at Auburn is full of shite.

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I'm sure you could find 500 former Alabama players that will go on record and say they didn't get paid.

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Yes...if there weren't convictions in a court of law...really just "he said, she said", than the 500 players saying that players don't get paid at Bama would carry some serious weight. Unfortunately for Bama, the Means thing happened and nobody but Hunter's dumb arse refutes it...it's a dead story.

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Barner logic is astounding.

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Funny, I was thinking that you comparing Means to 4 guys claiming they were paid with no names, no specifics and all evidence to the counter excluded, astounding.

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btw... in case you forgot Bama and au won the last two BCS championships. Probably had something to do with why both were picked to be featured on their program

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Yes.

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Former au players were willing to spill the beans so HBO didn't have to go much further than them.

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Yes but they did...and found many players that said not only did they not get paid, but anyone saying they did were full of shite. But you already knew that.

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With all due respect, this HBO piece has been nationally criticized by fellow journalists. Some even called it shady journalism.

The fact that the executive producer is a Bammer is very noteworthy.

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The fact you started this thread is very noteworthy...the fact the sky is blue is noteworthy as well, or even that it's going to rain today. What's your point Sherlock? The enitre world has "conflicting interests", you're too delusional to see that by thinking if someone related to UA said something, then OMG they're out to get us.

Geez dude, you stepped down to the level of that AU douche bag '77 that is on here with this one.

Your whole argument is based on the assumption that all players are created equal, and thus, everyone or no one was paid. I think the issue here is that even if they had gotten the obligatory "not paid" interviews, it still doesn't counter the people who were paid. It doesn't work like that.

Hunter has never said we didn't pay Means. His argument has been all along that a booster did it, and that our coaches weren't involved. The other point is that there were other schools involved who weren't punished.

Why don't y'all talk about Auburn's shitty PR?

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Reading comprehension isn't your strong point

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36 on my ACT says otherwise.

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No where in the bio does it state he grew up a Bama fan.

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Logic isn't your strong point

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shift blame from the truth

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Truth is established by fact...there is no more fact to support the 4 former Auburn players' claims than there is that you aren't jerkin' it to old Richard Simmons "Sweatin' to the oldies" VHS tapes. There is also about as much fact to support the idea that the executive producer had a pro-Bama agenda. Logic suggests though that all 3 might be true.

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shoot the messenger

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The messenger in this case is a fricktard, hellbent on buttsex with dead farm animals. Why would I NOT want to shoot that messenger?

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its disarming

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It really is a nice picture...I am flattered that you would have spend a couple of hours working on something about Auburn.

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If the Bammerham News did an 8-page expose of Bama that included interviews from Auburn players saying they never got paid, excluded Bama players saying the same thing but INCLUDED 4 Bama players saying they got paid...then yes, I would draw the following conclusions. 1. It wasn't a fair piece of journalism and was actually irresponsible. 2. The fact that the Publisher was an Auburn grad is noteworthy.

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Unless I missed something the HBO story was about NCAA rules violations due to the current NCAA system. I think the majority of people watching that piece are smart enough to know that not all student athletes get paid including at au. Someone please explain to me how having a few au players on their saying they got nothing at au would make what the other 4 said any less credible? There is no way those guys can say they know for a fact nobody at au during their time there was paid anything, and it would be foolish for them to go on camera and say that.

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Because those guys also have said that anyone that says that got paid at Auburn is full of shite.

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Did you believe Clinton when he said he didn't have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky?

And assuming that the players who have come out and said they didn't get paid, wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that they weren't privy to the players who were getting paid?