Did anyone really expect the SEC to come down hard on Auburn?
Gene Chizik, getting a Gatorade bath from Cam Newton and other AU players, has taken the "friendly" out of the rivalry with UGA. (Associated Press)
Auburn looks like the SEC’s best shot at having a team in this year’s BCS championship game, which also would help the conference’s chances of getting two teams into BCS bowls. And that translates to a lot of dollars for the conference.
Nick Fairley is a big part of Auburn’s success on the field.
So should anyone really be surprised that the SEC chose not to suggest Auburn suspend its defensive headhunter for the blatant spearing in the back that was only the most egregious of several late hits he delivered to Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray?
Instead, the conference is handling the matter “internally with the institution.” That means any disciplinary action is up to Gene Chizik, the same guy who during the fracas at the end of the game with the Dogs was stirring it up on the sideline and allowing Fairley and one of his assistant coaches to dance in celebration on the field.
Asked by The Macon Telegraph what he thought of the conference’s inaction on the matter, UGA athletic director Greg McGarity said, “I probably better not comment on that. I need to stay away from that. I don’t want to get into any type of trouble or conflict with the conference office.”
Which is a diplomatic way of saying he thought the conference blew it.
I’ll say one thing for Chizik: He’s changed a lot of UGA fans’ view of the so-called friendly rivalry between Georgia and Auburn, as Darrell Huckaby notes on the Dawbone site. Said Huckaby: “I think Gene Chizik has taken the friendly out of the rivalry forever — not because he played a player who most of the nation feels will eventually prevent the Tigers from being able to count the victory in their long and storied history, but because of the way he and his team conducted themselves throughout the contest and particularly at the end.”
I’m sure Darrell will be bombarded with AU hate mail for that, as have any of us who’ve questioned any of the actions of Tiger players and coaches.
Speaking of which, has there ever been a more thin-skinned bunch than Auburn fans, who have been all over the blogosphere and talk shows the past few days trying to equate Bulldogs players running out on the field with Fairley’s cheap shots and taunting?
I like the way MrSEC put it: “Auburn fans need to stop trying to defend the indefensible. As if a team dancing on someone’s logo is reason enough to risk injuring someone. How incredibly stupid. … By defending Fairley’s helmet-to-back shot, it makes it appear as though AU fans would defend anything and everything done by someone in navy [and] orange.”
But I guess that’s what comes from being perpetually the second-ranked program in your state thanks to the school over in Tuscaloosa.
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timthebrave
November 17th, 2010
1:20 pm
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!! enjoy probation
5150 P.O.A.D
November 17th, 2010
1:21 pm
H2Fish
A flag doesn’t have to be thrown for the SEC to review the tape and know what players left the Bench to rush the field. That is a League thing just like suspending FAIRLEY for plays that were not flages in the game or on NFL plays that were not flaged too. UGA broke SEC RULES(hahahaha) when many on the bench rushed the field. You know the SEC will not do anything and risk a SEC team not being Bowl elidgable and losing to an ACC team because the SEC team broke the rules.
Be honest UGA should have 1/2 the D and O line suspended for the plays in the Auburn game. If you can’t admit that UGA is GUILTY as HELL for rules violations then you are just too wrapped-up in the dawgs to admit the TRUTH.
SEC Football
November 17th, 2010
1:21 pm
Auburn and South Carolina may be playing in this year’s SEC Championship Game, but, face it, they are just doormats to the football houses of Alabama and Florida.
Roll Tide!
November 17th, 2010
1:21 pm
We’ll take care of Auburn Saturday after Thanksgiving. By the way, having graduated from The University, our cross state redneck rivals have never had any class. Chizik chomps on his gum just like one of the cows from the Agriculture Department.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:21 pm
“HAHAHHAAH!!!!!! enjoy probation”
Huh, I had no idea I was going to court….
timthebrave
November 17th, 2010
1:22 pm
hahaha….you won’t be going to bowl games for a long time after this year so enjoy it now
1eyedJack
November 17th, 2010
1:23 pm
@HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
Have fun staying up to midnight to watch your pitiful team play in the Cheese Sandwich Bowl out in fairy land.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:23 pm
Roll Tide!
99% of Bama fans reside in prison ( Bernie Madoff), trailer parks and waffle house.
I can’t wait to see all the Bama retards crying and pulling out their mullets.
“Chizik chomps on his gum just like one of the cows from the Agriculture Department.”
Better than what you inbreds to do cows. How’s beastiality working out for you?
Anotherview
November 17th, 2010
1:23 pm
Come on Tim, at least quote your stories correctly. The report was that a source told a reporter that he was told by Cecil Newton that a discussion about money took place. Now, that third hand story, if you assume it is accurate, could mean a number of things. One possibility is that Cecil asked for money, but there are many other plausible ones as well. Regardless, that isn’t new news. At least not to AU or MSU or the SEC or the NCAA. But let’s go one farther. There has not been one shred of evidence or accusation that AU did something wrong. Don’t you think as much as people have been all over this story for the past two weeks that if AU was paying there would at least be some smoke (or at least fog) there? It doesn’t pass the sniff test. AU may eventually be implicated. I don’t know that they won’t. My point was that you don’t know that they will. You’re just perpetuating the same tired rumor and innuendo that others are. You have nothing substantive.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:24 pm
“they are just doormats to the football houses of Alabama and Florida.”
What is Bama and Florida’s record this year??? LOL
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:25 pm
“Have fun staying up to midnight to watch your pitiful team play in the Cheese Sandwich Bowl out in fairy land.”
Insult fail, retard.
LAKE OCONEE DAWG
November 17th, 2010
1:25 pm
Superhomer:
IT WILL ALL BE TEMPORARY JUST LIKE REGGIE BUSH’S DEAL…SEC WEST WILL BE FORFEITED WHEN THE FACTS COME OUT…MOST AUBURN PEOPLE I KNOW ALREADY EXPECT THE WINS AND THE GREAT SEASON TO BE OVERTURNED BECAUSE A DAD SAW A CHANCE TO MAKE SOME MONEY OFF OF A TALENTED SON….SHAME ON THE PREACHER….
Ah oh!
November 17th, 2010
1:25 pm
The SEC is crossing it’s fingers that if something is going to happen to Auburn, it happens sooner than later. That way LSU can go to the SEC Championship and be an eligible contender for the Nat’l Championship. Cam, Gene, Fairley and Auburn are 4 black eyes for the conference. How often would the FBI waste their time on college football? You can’t sell your children in the US anymore.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:25 pm
“you won’t be going to bowl games for a long time after this year so enjoy it now”
Unless you have proof, you should really shut your vagina.
75-76-DAWG
November 17th, 2010
1:25 pm
Enter your comments here
YardDawg
November 17th, 2010
1:25 pm
I agree; the rivalry is now a little more emotional. I too now put AU on the same level as the Gators.
Kyle
November 17th, 2010
1:26 pm
UGA Alum….I dont doubt for a minute your love of UGA and that you are a proud Dawg…..that said- so am I. I have nothing against AU winning the game. I do take strong issue with how one of their players conducted themselves and how their coach reacted to it. There is no place in this game for the likes of Fineley nor a coach like the one AU has now. This used to be a friendly rivalry- but no more. I wish nothing except bad thisgs for this player, this coach, this team and anyone associated with this university. Fans booing a hurt player show the lack of class that this university breeds. If you think I am wrong for feeling like I do- so be it. I would be willing to bet many more share my views. Yes we are 5-6 and I can list a few reasons why that is…starting with players geting in trouble and being suspended for games but win or lose they are my team. I am not going to trash my team…5-6…12-0…0-12….they are my dawgs
I-DOG
November 17th, 2010
1:26 pm
I’m not worried about Auburn’s play, I am mortified at UGA’s this season. This is the worst team since 1993 and that team didn’t have near the talent that this one does. This might be the biggest underachieving UGA team since the 70’s. I can’t think of one that did less with more.
With a head coach making $2.8 mill and a d coordinator at $750K, the results were the worst possible results imaginable. I know, you can argue that losing ALL the games is the worst possible result, but is it really?
Let’s assume you allowed me to pick a high school staff off a team from New Hampshire (let me at least pick one with a winning record the last 3 years). Install them a month prior to Spring practice last year at UGA in Lieu of this highly paid staff. Do you think they would be any WORSE then 5-6 this year? I don’t. Pay them a total of $500,000 for the entire staff and save $3,000,000 plus and I honestly think the results would have been at least as good with the same schedule and the same players. I’d lay even money that they could get to at least 5-6 with the best WR in college football, the best in history of UGA football.
That high school staff could still beat Louis. Laf., maybe just maybe TN game could have been lost, but I would submit that we would have had at least a 50-50 chance to beat Colorado with the unknown high school staff, so that puts us even for the year. We would still beat Vandy, probably KY, and we would have beaten ID State, so what has $4,000,000 plus in salaries bought us? Maybe one more win than the worst possible season that a high school coaching staff could have gotten with this same talent and same schedule.
I suppose Richt has earned one more season with what he did during his first 7 years, but I am not feeling too good about next year. Hopeful, YES!, but I don’t realistically think he can turn the ship around.
What will make it different?
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:26 pm
LAKE OCONEE DAWG
You don’t know any Auburn “people.”
Junkyard Crap
November 17th, 2010
1:27 pm
Hey Bill, your Bulldogs are a class act! 6 personal fouls during the Auburn game, 1 chop block (that was called – many more went uncalled) on Nick Fairley, your players stomps on the AU logo, 12 players arrested during the offseason, your AD was fired for getting a DUI with some girls red panties in his lap, and your 40 something year old D coordinator gives a college athlete the choke sign. You and UGA are a joke.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:27 pm
“I too now put AU on the same level as the Gators.”
Well, the Gators are a very good football program…..
Guess you mean we’re good now. LOL
Top Recruit
November 17th, 2010
1:27 pm
Auburn comes to the Dome in the State of Georgia.
Chop Block Specialist
November 17th, 2010
1:27 pm
hmmmmmm -
Cry Me A River…
(1) AU people are NOT defending the late hit. It WAS late. He WAS penalized.
(2) UGA people can’t seem to comprehend what a “Chop Block” is and how it can be much worse than a late hit. I suggest the writer of this so-called-article get a rule book and see how many rules UGA broke!!!
(3) The AU coach was primarily trying to get the player off of the field. The ‘dancing’ was incidental. Try actually WATCHING what happened.
(4) What Bowl game is UGA going to this year…. The Popcorn Bowl…. The Whiney Losers Bowl….The Don’t Play Hard Bowl…The Puppy Bowl…
(5) The “friendliness” went out the window with all the baby’s whining and crying and BLINDNESS to THEIR own player’s misdeeds.
(6) Go Tech!!!
(7) 49-31
TBone
November 17th, 2010
1:28 pm
All I have to say is that if the auburn fans really think that your team and coaches conducted themselves in a manner that represents your institution then I give a profound congratulations on winning the SEC west. But alot of folks are going to abandon the bandwagon because you don’t show any class. I’m just saying if you live in a double wide and have nothing to hang your hat on Go Cam Go.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:28 pm
Hey UGA fans,
If Auburn is so bad, why does your school, the one you didn’t attend, employ people who have child porn on their laptops?
droopydawg
November 17th, 2010
1:28 pm
Way to train these young men not just to become great football players, but great citizens. Chizik and Slive should have bile rise in their throats the next time either uses the phrase student athlete as opposed to athlete/future barfight arrestee.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:28 pm
“Auburn comes to the Dome in the State of Georgia.”
The one the Atlanta Falcons play in. Nuff said.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:29 pm
droopydawg
Your life must really suck.
Top Recruit
November 17th, 2010
1:29 pm
Auburn comes to the Dome in the State of Georgia. It ain’t the loveliest place on the plain.
LAKE OCONEE DAWG
November 17th, 2010
1:29 pm
5150 P.O.A.D:
YOU OBVIOUSLY ARE SEEING A DIFFERENT GAME THAN MOST OF THE SPORTING WORLD…WHAT CHANNEL DID YOU SEE SOME OF THESE THINGS ON….IN THINK YOU ARE A TECH GUY, AND WE GONNA GET US SOME IN ANOTHER WEEK….
Dogs Smell
November 17th, 2010
1:30 pm
If Auburn has anything coming , its a trip to Atlanta for the SEC Championship ! Oh and waht will that Ga team look like next year after defections and A. gimmie cash J is gone?
Anotherview
November 17th, 2010
1:30 pm
Kyle, for the record, I never boo a player. What AU was booing was that the guy was coming off the field, the coaching staff starts yelling at him, and he suddenly falls down on the turf injured. Whether it was a correct interpretation or not, what they perceived (and it was right in front of the student section) was that it was an intentional ploy to stop the clock without using a timeout. Please don’t tell me you don’t think the same thing would have happened in reverse. As for Chizik, I’m curious to know what you think he should have been doing. He kept his team on the sideline during the fracas. In my opninion, Fairley should have not been in the game at that point because the game was out of question and emotions were obviously running high.
Ron Mexico
November 17th, 2010
1:31 pm
Bill- Give it a rest. There was one dirty hit and he was flagged for it. The other hits fall under the category of “football”.
There were at least three dirty chop blocks aimed at Fairley’s knees, by the UGA O-line. I’m sure you have also written multiple columns decrying those blocks and the players and coaches involved, right?
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:31 pm
droopydawg
Also, your school, the one you didn’t attend, had 12 players arrested THIS year.
timthebrave
November 17th, 2010
1:31 pm
Anotherview, The problem isn’t whether Auburn did anything wrong. I have no proof that Auburn did anything wrong. I have no proof that Cam Newton did anything wrong at Auburn..but there is plenty of proof coming out that Cecil Newton tried to get Miss St to pay for Cam Newton to play. Cecil saying that Cam had nothing to do with it won’t fly…It won’t matter…Auburn WILL pay for it and pay even more because they are sticking their fingers up at the NCAA and riding Cam Newton to wherever he takes you…You keep following behind someone who got thrown out of Florida…How messed up do you have to be to get thrown out of Florida…You put your cards in on him and see where it takes you. Probation is coming and the 2010 season will be taken from you.
A Murray
November 17th, 2010
1:32 pm
Come on CMR, let me wear a dress agaisnt the Techmites! PLLLLllllleeeeaaase!!!
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:32 pm
LAKE OCONEE DAWG
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA CRY CRY CRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go sell stupid somewhere else, crybaby.
Ah oh!
November 17th, 2010
1:32 pm
How come there’s no pro teams in the state of Alabama?
ARdawg
November 17th, 2010
1:32 pm
testicle test
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:32 pm
“I have no proof that Auburn did anything wrong.”
You aren’t smart.
I-DOG
November 17th, 2010
1:33 pm
Latest I have heard on the Newton scandal is that the father admitted guilt to the FBI and is trying to frame it that Cam didn’t know anything about it to protect his son. My guess is that Auburn will forfeit this season, the coach will be fired, and there will be severe penalties in terms of loss of scholarships and bowl appearances, worse than what USC got.
My guess is the only thing that Cam will suffer is that he will have to give the Heisman back (if he wins it), but he will make his millions in the NFL and he will move on with his life a lot easier than the coach, the father, or Auburn. Maybe that is how it should be.
Just my best guess on how this will all play out.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:33 pm
“How come there’s no pro teams in the state of Alabama?”
Because the UofAlabama doesn’t want anything to take away from their school.
1eyedJack
November 17th, 2010
1:33 pm
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!! is no Awbun fan. My guess is a yellow pimple poser in the GT library who is afraid to be affiliated with his own school.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:33 pm
“Just my best guess on how this will all play out.”
Geez, talk about another stupid blogger.
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
November 17th, 2010
1:34 pm
“My guess is a yellow pimple poser in the GT library who is afraid to be affiliated with his own school.”
Like I said, you’re not smart.
Anotherview
November 17th, 2010
1:34 pm
Well Tim, all I can say is that you are determined to spout rumor and sources as fact and declare a future that you don’t know will happen. The only truth is that we’ll all find out together. You may be right, and then you can tell the world “I told you so.” But you may miss by a mile. Time will tell.
Hollywould
November 17th, 2010
1:34 pm
Oh no, the georgia faithfull is pulling for bama. I am sure that will change the point spread. Bill and the rest of you losers need to get over it. Maybe your thugs should play harder. Whiners
LAKE OCONEE DAWG
November 17th, 2010
1:35 pm
HAHAHHAAH!!!!!!
PROBABLY KNOW MORE OF THEM THAN YOU DO…KNOW WITH YOUR BIG BROTHER ALABAMA WINNING THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP LAST YEAR YOU GUYS HAD TO GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING TO CATCH UP….GOT TO ADMIT YOU GOT THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN BUY….THINK IF HE WAS GONNA CHARGE MISS. STATE 100000 TO 180000 HE IS WORKING ANY CHEAPER FOR AUBURN….THATS A LOT OF MONEY TO HIDE…GONNA BE HARD TO DO WITH THE FBI BOYS PROWLING AROUND….THINK ITS GONNA BE EMBARRASSING…..
how2fish
November 17th, 2010
1:35 pm
5150 P.O.A.D and yet they have not done so…..seems they see things differently than you or I as I think there is overwhelming evidence that Fairley should be suspended…so tell you what hold your breath and wait a week….then you’ll be able to shut up for yet another year….
Mark Richt
November 17th, 2010
1:35 pm
Anyone know where I can apply for a coaching job?