re: OcCam's Razor

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Meanwhile, Bill Bell hasn't yet said whether or not he ever talked directly to Cecil.

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Have you been under a rock the last two days?

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A new name entered the fold Thursday when Kenny Rogers shed more light in a radio interview concerning the weekend of the Egg Bowl last year in Starkville. That new name is Bill Bell, yet another former letterman at MSU in the 1980s, and he says Newton’s father, Cecil Newton, asked for money in exchange for Newton’s commitment to MSU, according to ESPN.com.

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LINK

The story, according to Rogers, Bell and Bond goes like this:

1) Cecil met with two MSU coaches with Rogers present at the Hilton Garden Inn the night before the Egg Bowl. At this meeting, Cecil asked the MSU coaches for money for his son to play ball at MSU.

2) The Sunday after the Egg Bowl, Cecil asked Rogers if he thought the deal would happen. Rogers called Bill Bell and left him a voice mail asking him to follow up.

3) Bell confirms that he received a call and says he was in contact with Cecil.

4) Bell let John Bond know about his conversation.

5) Bond informed the MSU Athletics Dept.

All 3 men have more or less corroborated their part of this storyline. Either all 3 are lying or their all conspiring to paint the same lie.

And now the NCAA and the FBI are reviewing this storyline. They'll be talking to those 2 MSU coaches to get their side of the story. They'll ask Bill Bell to turn over whatever evidence he does or doesn't have. Phone records. If Cecil's phone can be tied to Bill Bell's phone, Cecil has some major league explaining to do. This has only just begun.

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enraged, dan mullen, urban meyer, bond, bell, rogers, the sinister red elephant club, the new york times, espn, fox sports, yahoo, and the fbi engage in a smear campaign.

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Yeah. Everybody knows how the REC-controlled... well... the entire rest of the country, which the REC controls... hates victimized kids who try to do the right thing.

Especially when they're poor and in dire straits, but not so dire as to prevent them from indignantly turning down a horrific offer of a six-figure payment.

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If Cecil's phone can be tied to Bill Bell's phone, Cecil has some major league explaining to do.

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Correct. Like I said, I don't know if Bell is necessarily claiming yet that he did talk directly to Cecil, or that he is getting phone records to prove that.

If he did, it feels like the whens and the wheres and the specifics would have been in that ESPN.com article.

You have to admit, this was thrown in the middle of an existing article in a very "by-the-way" fashion by Forde. If there was a direct, strongly stated quote from Bell, or if Bell specified when and where, then that would have been included.

I'm not saying Bell and Bond are lying at all. I'm sure they're the most reputable of people, and they're absolutely doing the right thing, no matter what.

Rogers is the one that could be lying. To us and to Bell and Bond.

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Seems to me like Rogers changed his story Thursday so that it would coincide with theirs.

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Or he heard about Bond speaking with the FBI and said "oh shite". Hired himself a lawyer and came clean. He probably had every intention of protecting Cecil until the FBI got involved. He's more interested in saving his arse than the Newtons.

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Or he heard about Bond speaking with the FBI and said "oh shite". Hired himself a lawyer and came clean. He probably had every intention of protecting Cecil until the FBI got involved. He's more interested in saving his arse than the Newtons.

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OR, much more likely: The guy that has a history of lying is lying, and the guy that doesn't isn't.

Why do you automatically assume that Rogers is the one that has come clean and that Cecil hasn't?