re: Interesting tweets this weekend from the Memphis Commerical-Appeal

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On Auburn, the NCAA and Jovon Robinson
By Kyle Veazey on September 11, 2012 2:29 PM

At his weekly news conference today, Auburn coach Gene Chizik was asked a question about the presence of the NCAA here in Memphis, where Jovon Robinson, his now former running back, played high school football.

"I have one thing on my mind, and that's winning a football game this week. I'm not getting into that," he told the reporters, according to Charles Goldberg of al.com's Auburn Bureau.

It was a question avoided. Here's another: Since Friday, The Commercial Appeal has been asking Auburn if it has received notice from the NCAA of an inquiry into its football program. Given the amount of NCAA activity that we've outlined in our pages over the past month, the question makes sense. All Auburn spokesman Kirk Sampson will say is this:

"We are are not going to discuss what the NCAA may or may not be doing in Memphis or elsewhere."

Which, of course, does not answer the specific question -- whether Auburn has or has not received notice. I've continued to ask the question, either by email or phone message, to the compliance director, the athletic director, the university attorney, the university spokesman, the school president and two members of the board of trustees. No response, save for the university spokesman referring me to athletics. It's up to the schools themselves to acknowledge whether they've received such notices from the NCAA, a spokesperson for that organization confirmed to me Monday.

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