The Cam Newton Saga: Even by SEC standards, it’s bizarre

Hiring mercenaries is bad business. Always has been.

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Second

Herbie Hancock,

Junk, you say. Checkout the overall BCS records: OSU 5-3, UGA 2-1. We won’t talk about total National Championships….

One is the lonliest number…

Oh ya, we beat Oregon on the Rose Bowl last year and remind me where UGA played?

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This stuff has been going on for years. Now, since we live in a 24/7 news cycle, can these things be brought to light. It’s basic economics. The supply of superior talented athletes is small. The demand is through the roof. No wonder they get paid under the table. It’s not even illegal to pay these people. This is basic capitalism 101. It’s sad, but as long as, the PapaJohns.com bowl president is making over 600k to put on a bowl game of two 7-5 teams money will rule the world. This should be shocking to no one.

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He will play…They will win…..they will deny……I pray they are right……I know lot’s of good Auburn folks… But, Go Dawgs…..If we show, we got a chance…..

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Probably not first!

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Heisman-type, program changing QB’s are very hard to find and even more expensive to sign!

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Allbarn is in BIG trouble…. goodbye perfect season, hello death penalty.

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Auburn is in some serious trouble

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WELL Answered your own question id say

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Mark

Is this a record for you? This is your 4th straight post about Newton. ALL NEWTON ALL THE TIME!

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http://www.pricezack.wordpress.com has two interesting articles about Cam Newton’s recruitment. Very interesting reads.

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blood pressure has had a nice ride this week & I’m not even an Auburn fan.You want to see fights break out at a game? Just let it be AU vs UF in the SEC Championship Game.Sad but true & I’m talking about in the stands.

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Auburn: from 9-0 to 0-9 in one week! Well done losers.

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What’s the line on Wake Forrest this weekend?

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Tech/Miami…….??? Anybody care ?

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Looks like auburn is paying players again, just like the old days. They will be going down hard when all the facts come out. I’m glad Richt runs a clean program and isn’t paying runners $200,000 to get a QB.

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Cam will play…….This goes away…….Nobody stepping forward, so it’s just fodder.

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I would love to see Dawgs upset them, with CAM….But At this point, only the Ga. people would care about our win……..Folks love a good car wreck…….

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Muddy, chances are most of this stuff is true

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Lots of questions….no clear answers.

Auburn has to play Camzilla. There’s nothing to be gained by not playing him. If he’s dirty, they’ve already played 10 games with an ineligible player. If he’s clean….or at least clean enough to be eligible at Auburn, then they carry on with their quest for the Crystal Ball.

But……Vegas taking a big game off of the board due to rumor and innuendo…..sure does make me wonder…….

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Smyrna Jacket…..Dan Mullen confirmed that the only “recruiters” MSU are the coaches/assitant coaches

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First!!

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Roll Tide, that may apply to the IRS but not the NCAA under improper benefits. NCAA can penalize how they see fit. Remember, the NCAA is for the most part unregulated and “allows” student athletes to compete

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Does anyone honestly believe that something shady isnt going on here?

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I think we are all a combo of hypocrites and fools. We all act like we don’t see that our previously dirt poor 5 star recruits drive around campus in beautiful SUV’s. We also keep follishly buying into the purity of the game and that these guys are there(at school) to get an education to carry them through a lifetime but we all know that the big shot recruits are there to get noticed by the No Fun League. F.Y.I the falcons are going to be exposed as the frauds of the NFL tomorrow night.

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dawgrific bama has limo to!!! just saying…..WDE!!!

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@ simpledawg 2:31…But……Vegas taking a big game off of the board due to rumor and innuendo…..sure does make me wonder……. Me too! Now folks at Auburn can keep saying lies,rumors all they want to.But when the big boys in Vegas do this? Well,enough said!

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Mark, how much heat would CPJ get IF Tech is a LOT better without #9?

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The reference to barners as something derogatory has always been humorous to me. We are in the state of Alabama where agriculture was for the most part the bread and butter of our economy. As far as I understand agriculture and animal sciences still provide us with the food we eat. Therefore if you can only come up with barners as a slanderous term for Auburn fans I think you should stop eating as a barner might have had a hand in some production of your meal.

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Sounds like Cam might have a few screws loose.

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and newton drives a scooter….http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.thewareaglereader.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cam-crop.png&imgrefurl=http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/08/scootin-newton/&usg=__hbxdEh6p8bTikQR_DgksJaB6PLk=&h=290&w=465&sz=135&hl=en&start=3&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=hS85Dq8I947lpM:&tbnh=80&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscootin%2Bnewton%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D935%26tbs%3Disch:1

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To coin a poker phrase, Awbun is “all-in”. They’ve just waiting to see what cards the NCAA has. And judging from the past, the NCAA plays for keeps.

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SCAM Newton

Fig Newton

Camburglar

Thug

take your pick

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The only hypocrites are those in the NCAA. They have an iron clad monopoly on high school football players and they exploit that to the highest possible level.

If Newton got $250k to play for Auburn more power to him; I’d take it if I were him.

However, the stolen laptop is bad. He was likely stealing from a fellow poor student. That’s bad and not easily forgiven.

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I knew that was coming, but an unpaid traffic ticket, selling a jersey, etc. IS NOT NEARLY THE SAME as openly recruiting someone who has ALREADY been in major trouble. Plus, that horribly cheesy and hideous limo……….

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Without question, this is the most bizarre thing I’ve heard of in relation to college athletics. I seen a lot in my years but this takes the cake, er, laptop.

As questions about real reporting, it takes time, patience and willing participants to put together a piece like this. Unfortunately, it seems like many of the participants are either ghosts of whispered statements or never really had anything worth saying in the first place.

Like I said on Tony’s page, can we just play a little football and let the soap operas end?

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First – Straight Jacket, get a life or your going to need a Straight Jacket.

Second – Buckeye – who invited you to this party? Get a life and enjoy beating up the ‘lightweights’ year in and year out in the Big 10 + 1.

Finally, who cares about the Auburn QB. That stuff will work it’s way out one way or another. Personally hope he does play. If we win – we win and if we lose we lose (but no excuses from the Tigers if we do win).

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“Can Newton is eligible to play, Cam Newton is eligible to play”. Well we’ve figured out Auburn’s response strategy….”maybe if we can just say it over and over again, it will become true.”

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oh good lord, take your grand-standing somewhere else you envious acc and big ten whiners!

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hardy-har-har, what a knee-slapper whip cream, you techie in a not-so-good-disguise!

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I fear that when this washes out “Rev.” Cecil and/or his church got their collection plate hit for well less than 200K and Cam knows nothing about what really happened. I’m still having trouble believing “sources.”

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This is the most rediculous situation in the history of the SEC. All the other schools are drooling and laughing and the fact of the matter is none of them have clean hands. Not even the Saintly one Mark Richt. I heard that the year Stafford came in that that incoming class set an all time record for money that it cost at UGA. So there, there’s you a rumor to chew on. Point is, the gang piling on Auburn and the Newton’s right now would never have seen the light of day if he hadn’t turned out to be a good QB. If he’s been like Reggie Ball everybody around the league would have loved him. I hope he suits up Saturday, I hope he hangs 60 on Georgia. I hope he wins the National Championship and comes back next year to reapeat. Chew on that Dawgs, Gators, Tigers and every other kind of animal that slithers in the SEC.

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If Mark Richt were the luckiest man alive, Florida would’ve continued their turnover troubles against us.

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We need to bring back Roy Kramer and Phil Fulmer, dang it we’re just not getting away with half the stuff we used to.

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I love college football, and after closer examination of this case, I am ashamed of that. The NCAA has a flawed system that allows everyone but the athletes to benefit financially from college football. Some of these kids, and that is what they are, come from poverty situations. Once at school, they can practice, attend class, study, eat meal plan food and play football on Saturdays. Why not give athletes a stipend? The amount could have a floor and a ceiling, and could be determined by parents’ income and grades. What we ask of them is unfair.
I hope and pray that the Cam drama turns out to be nothing but sour grapes, and I wish him the best, wherever he goes and whatever happens.

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Lots of rumors but not much by way of facts. The only “source” who let his name be used (Bond) is now backpedalling. I’ll tell you one thing–I wish Richt would show the same kind of fire that Chizik shows when the bullies from Florida take their cheap (and illegal) shots.

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It wasn’t a payoff.
It was a tithe to a church.
Tax deductible.

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The police got everything back for me but my laptop. Dawgrific where do you think it might be?

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Cool…you got underwhelming Bulldogs into a story about SEC cheating. I was waiting for our daily “Richt isn’t fit to throw out my garbage” thread.
How does it feel to make a living trashing a good guy, Bradley?

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I’ve said it all week, I hope the kid is proven to be pure as the driven snow of anything he is accused of since leaving UF. I hope he plays Saturday and I hope we beat the brakes off Auburn…Go Dawgs!

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Belue and Bond – lyin’ to cover for each other? RULE OF THUMB and ANY OTHER BODY PARTS: When you invoke the “V-word” in sports, let the lyin’ begin. Two tools for the price of none.

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Mark –
Nice factual blog. The whole rush to judgement, anonymous sources, 24/7 coverage, etc. is not just confined to sports. You see similar things in politics. It seems to quickly result in people lining up on different sides of the issue (following their preset opinions) with an aversion to keeping an open mid.
There are a couple of other aspects of the Newton issue that you left out that could be interesting in the long run. According to the reports, Bond told MSU about the approach from Rogers (or whoever the middleman was) sometime in December 2009 or January 2010 and MSU reported it to the SEC at that time. Presumably they were following Slive’s “no one tattles on each other” rule.
Did the SEC office inform the NCAA in a reasonable period of time or did they try to bury it?

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Just in case you want to weigh in on this years Fulmer Cup Champions… just some info to get started…. by the way, it was won by an SEC team !!

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The Fulmer Cup, named after Tennessee Volunteers head coach and his school of well-behaved student-athletes, is an invention of EDSBS.

This page only tracks points officially given out by EDSBS. For a rough list of cases currently unscored, for our own reference mostly, please visit the Fulmer Cup Processing Station.

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1 2010 Scoreboard, FINAL
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2010 Scoreboard, FINAL
Also check out the all-time scoreboard, the 2006 scoreboard, the 2007 scoreboard, the 2008 Scoreboard, and the 2009 Scoreboard.

Rank School Points +/- Details
1st Georgia Bulldogs 20 — Fake IDs, drinking, disorderly conduct, obstruction, Domestic violence, Drunk with Fake ID, AD goes drinking, Refusing to give middle name, Underage DUI, Hit and Run
2nd Missouri Tigers 18 +8 Shoplifting, Bunch of Bullcrap arrests, DUI, DUI, Sexual Assault

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Whip Cream on Dawg Crap just face it sonny we play better football down South, we love football more down South, so by extension we will have more passion and yes more problems due to that very passion and love of the game…its life and sonny it ain’t going to change anytime soon. Is this ugly hell yes is it worth it to us as fans again hell yes. Dismissed.

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Everyone of the “allegations” is by a coward unwilling to stand up and announce his name and present ANY proof.

Bunch of cowards making up stuff. If it’s real – stand up and prove it.

Otherwise STFU.

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StraightJacket: isn’t your name an oxymoron?

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Sleaze is hardly a new thing in the SEC, especially UGA.

All of you UGAers get your heads out of the sand or wherever you have them
stuck and start worrying about the number one problem with UGA. At the rate
your athlete-thugs are being arrested, you’ll be lucky to have any football team by the end of the season.

UGA has made the state a laughingstock with its reputation as one big party
school with copious job opportunities for bail bondsman, and decent people are fed up with this. Get rid of the illiterate, undisciplined drunks and felons that Mark Richt recruits, and get rid of Richt too. Even with these illiterate jerkoffs, he can’t even win the division, much less the SEC, so what’s the point.

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Yep – Cam Newton is in way over his head – interestnig how these stories got legs after the Florida season hit choppy water

How SEC football operates compared to the rest of college football is like comparing major league hardball to a picnic game of wiffle ball

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Wow…..

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It was a legitimate tax deductible contribution.

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@Smyna Jacket: Read the SEC teleconference notes. The MSU recruiters are his assistant coaches. Cam’s recruiter was Kenny Rogers who’s the third party agent involved in shopping him.

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I am a Bama man but I say leave the kid alone. Had Fl any reason of knowing he cheated they would speak up for fear they would get zapped too. The mine games on these kids take their toll. I have been there and I wasn’t guulit either and it took 6 years to clean mine up and it was too late for me. Go Cam Newton. But still Roll Tide

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Since this situation has become the 2010 VERSION of Reggie Bush Redux, we will say what most folks are thinking, and the Auburn nation will sooner or later have to face the facts that someone in their “family” paid to the family of NEWTON in some or some fashion monies. These monies were paid to the church or churches in lieu for playing football at the University of Auburn. The second thing is this and it is going to hurt….Gene Chizik knows and approves the payment, whether or not he can be tied to it is not going to matter. There was someone somewhere who came to Gene Chizki and said he could get this 6 and half foot quarterback to come to Auburn and he was onboard.

The Auburn family can forget about the brother playing football with the Jacksonville Jacguars as the source of money to repair any church in Newnan, Gene Jr. made $300,000.00 from the day after the draft in 2009 until he was cut in 2010. The purchased Gene Jr. made offset any form of major gift to the church unless Gene Sr. was acting as his agent also and took a major cut of his money.

The facts are Cameron Newton was treated like a celebrity from the day he signed at UF up until today. One can assume that from the time he left UF as he was going to be either suspended from school or kicked out for cheating up until the day he was signed, he or his daddy were told if he kept his nose clean he would be taken care of and get paid to sign with a major school. It looks like the folks at MSU were the ones who go screwed over and they were outbid by Auburn.

Folks, somebody got paid. We all know this case is just one of many many that happen everyday in the Big World of College Football. Every school pays somebody whether the adminstration knows it or not, some parents are promised jobs, some donations, some others receive various gifts, if you do not believe it then you live in a fantasy world.

Gene Chizik is too invested in this season and he and every Auburn fan knows that without Cameron Newton and his athletic ability that Auburn is at best a 5-5 football team. Any diversion or change in the system or support at Auburn leads directly to a self admission of guilt.

This situation stinks and anyone without blinders on can see this kid was treated with soft gloves throughout his career and when the spot light hits you it does not only reflect your great qualities, it also magnifies your flaws and shortcomings.

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Stolen laptop, cheating on his school work, 13 or 14 traffice violations @ UF. Yeah this kid is quality. Two words for you war chickens, Reggie Bush!

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I’ve got to say as a UNC alum, we could’ve paid him $200k AND gotten him the grades to remain eligible. To all recruits for sale: we’re hiring!

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Next they’ll be accusing him of something really really vile, even worse than anything he’s been accused of already.

Like voting Democrat.

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It would be nice if there WERE some facts here to “speak for themselves.” There is nothing but unsubstantiated rumors from either unnamed sources or people with reason to be making “sour grapes” accusations. The only fact we have is that someone apparently leaked Cam Newton’s academic records in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Beyond that, when someone shows substantiated claims by named sources, you’ll have a story.

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I hope if he got all that money he spent it wisely. You know, a new grill for his teeth, some spinners or rims for his car and some gold bling to hang around his neck and a set of diamond earrings so he can look good while in prison or the homeless shelter. But I guess he can always become a preacher like his dad and live in their new church and beg for donations and pass around the collection plate since theres a sucker born every minute. I look foward to watching him on TV soon, you know, Americas Most Wanted, Lock-Up Raw or some stupid reality show. Oh well, if you look at his picture and see what I do, well really what do you expect the outcome to be anyway.

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Cameron Newton currently has the Birmingham Media doing his battles for him:

Kevin Scarbinsky
Charles Goldberg
John Solomon
Will Collier
Paul Finebaum….

Heck if the AJC had gone to great lengths to defend A J Green in his case, he may have made it without missing a game this year too…..

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if he is ineligible then Abunrn’s whole season is down the crapper anyway so what does it matter to them if Cam plays another game while ineligible.

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Unnamed sources???Voicemails. Let us hear them and prove where the call came from and who made it. This is so sad. Jealousy and winning at all costs is what this is all about. NCAA, SEC and FBI should walk away from this. It is a disgrace for all three organizations to entertain these allegations. I am a Penn State fan. JoPa is the man.

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The second thing is this and it is going to hurt….Gene Chizik knows and approves the payment…

If the story is true, I seriously doubt if Chizik knew anything about it. Most likely it was a wealthy Auburn alumnus or booster who paid the money.

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Thank you Muddy 32 their all haters florida was not going to play the man they wanted brantley so grow up haters and be men haters have no good end!!

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Mark Richt is praying by the minute that Cam Newton will be declared ineligible for the GA-AU game, so maybe he can get an upset and go to a bowl game, saving his job.

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What does Miss. State have to gain by reporting any of this? Think about it. No coach wants the NCAA looking into his program and by blowing the whistle Dan Mullen gave them a free invite. Also today on XM radio Dan Mullen stated “The truth of the situation is, the people that need to know the truth, know the truth.” This was in response to a question as to whther Cam and his family were seeking a payment. Why wouldn’t he flat out deny it if untrue? I can’t believe any coach would be that vindictive and make it all up.

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I always told my mother – if you look for trouble – you’re sure to find it. Put anyone under the microscope and you’ll find less than desireable results.

I wish someone would have put Timmy Tebow under the same spotlight during his time at UF. They woulda discoverd that he was actually a big ole girl!

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Hey Auburn, in the words of legendary AJC sportswriter Furman Bisher, “If you cheat you ought to win.”

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I like to watch college football, but ie is just a huge business that makes a few kids wealthy while exploiting the rest. The whole system has become rotten to the core. The big football factories should just pay the players a decent salary to play. With a few exceptions (particularly in the big football conferences) the concept of a “student athlete” is a complete lie.

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VolGuy, very well said and very true. Congrats!!

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How2fish. Quit hidding behind the SEC Skirt, you scheduled Idaho State in week 10 of the season. Do you remember Colorado, they are not even above .500. Lets see… a combined 33-40 is what the W/L is for your teams schedule so far. Nice tough schedule. Now go get some more RC and Moon Pies and come back with something southern….

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Know matter what is being printed or made of it, unless you are and Auburn Fan this some funny times to be on the outside looking in at an Auburn program who fired a winning coach, that took over a probationed program and won, then hired a coach who could not win at Iowa St. Now Iowa St. is winning and has won more games in one year than Chizik won in two at Iowa St. Chizik knew he had to win and win in a hurry as he was considered a bad hire even by the Auburn people. He brought in a gun slinger in Malzhan and he know Gus is gone after this season too. If Chizik was going to win he had to win now because he and anyone with football knowledge knows that without a stud a qb this offense is another version of run and shoot employed by June Jones and in the SEC the good coaches figure you out pretty quick. Cameron Newton has been the difference maker and he will be long gone either way next year and Auburn is back to the bottom tier in the SEC. The 2011 ROAD schedule for Auburn is good for 4 losses and Chizik needed this year to buy him some time….well folks ..a bought and paid qb got him those extra few years.

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To Mark Bradley, I must thank you for the entertainment value of these blogs! I used to think Saturday Night Live reruns were good for laughs, but reading the comments on these blogs is better!

I mean, … you’ve got fans of one SEC team INSISTING that THEIR team cheats LESS than yours, and therefore, their wins are more “righteous”. Fans arguing over what violations are “worse” or “better”. Fans lamenting over the fact that their team didn’t cheat ENOUGH in recruiting, and fans that are already “spades” calling fans of other teams “spades”. Talk about blind spots and lack of self-awareness; the SEC has it in SPADES!

All this is like an episode of Seinfeld. Self-absorbed fans of one team that ignore the planks in their own eyes because they’re so focused on the speck in the other fans’ eyes.

FUNNY STUFF !!!!

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I think Auburn bought him. And I think lots of players are sold to the highest bidder.
curse Mark Richt for being so religious and honorable, that’s why we have a losing team this year!

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I call BS. All rumor and speculation at this point. Investigation has been going on for months AND he’s been playing all season. Unnamed Sources = BS. WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!!

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All in…

The SEC turned this over to the NCAA just two months ago and if the SEC had come up with nothing the case would not have been turned over to the NCAA…the smell of cash inducements to a player is what the NCAA lives for and you can go bury your head in the Auburn Prosrciptive Turf at Jordon Hare Stadium, but anyone can see this case is going to cost Auburn either way. Now stating that, If I were Gene Chizk I would keep playing Newton as he is “all in” now and without him Auburn is no better than a 4th place Ole Miss team.

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dawghuff,

Christians don’t use their brains?

So when you die, do you know where you are headed? If you are a Christian, you know positively. If you are not a Christian, you don’t know although a Christian can tell you.

Now who does not use their brains?

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What is Cam Newton majoring in at Auburn? An entire article about a student-athelete and not a word about his Major?

Very shoddy jounalism, if any.

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Suspend Newton now! The NCAA needs to suspend him for the rest of the year. Where there is smoke there is fire!

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Mama always said, if you play in the sandbox, you’re gonn get some dirt on you.

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If it looks like afish, smells like a fish, feels like a fish, it might be fishy.

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There isn’t much to this story that has been kept alive locally by the UGA (AJC) writers. Instead of hearing all this sideshow crap, we should be reading articles about how each team is preparing etc.

Cam Newton will play and make UGA look silly—and lets not forget the Auburn D line rush either which looks to neutralize AJ by pressuring Murray.

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If it looks like afish, smells like a fish, feels like a fish, it might be fishy … same for a lot of the sorority girls in Athens! Go Gators!

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My name is Cameron Newton and I am majoring in Playing Football and Minoring in Religious Studies. I really wanted to study Finance but my daddy told me he would handle that aspect of my life. I was going to study Criminology but after my experience at Florida I decided I would not be a good candidate. I also liked the thought of studying in Computer Technology but my past experience with laptops did not work out too well. I really like Scooters and I am taking a night course on Scooter repairs, but that is an online course and I have a tutor for that one.

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Let’s see, Newton says he did NOT:
1) Steal a laptop–he bought it hot from a guy off the back of a truck
2) Cheat academically
3) Lie about why he left Florida
4) Lie about why he changed his mind after agreeing to play for Miss St.
5) Lie about accepting $180,000+ from Auburn
6) Lie about where the money came from to repair his Dad’s church

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It all looks pretty crooked, but why would Auburn bench him now? If he did get paid, and that is proven to the NCAA’s satisfaction, thern Auburn is going to be screwed whether or not they bench him now at this late date. Basically, Auburn is “all in” with Cam at this point. Its too late to fix anything that went wrong, so why not go for it and try to win a championship? I’m not an Auburn fan, but at this point it seems that they would be better off winning a championship and potentially having it taken away later, rather than sitting down the guy that is the key to your whole team and losing thre last two games and missing out on the SEC championship. Besides, even if they sit him for these last two games, I doubt the Newtons are going to refund any of that money.

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There is lots of smoke here — must be a fire some place. Newton has a “troubled” past at Florida and was much too good of an athlete for them to just let him leave. We will probably never know all that happened in Florida. Auburn has some supporters capable of buying him, so I’m not all that shocked.

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“Does that make us hypocrites? Or merely fools?”

“Feel free to answer, but I’m not sure I want to know.”

OK, I will not tell you. But, wow!!!!!

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Roger. Right on brother. Integrity counts!!!!!

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He’s a Bishop, not a pastor. Get it right. <.<

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dawghuff: I know several PhD bedecked christians who would like to sit down and have a conversation with you about brains. We are talking Princeton, Harvard, Edinburgh and Westminster here. Note: These institutions do not hand out degrees to people with no brains.

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This comment is proof positive that Christians don’t use their brains..

“If you are a Christian, you know positively.”… sure you do…LOL

As I said, Cam believes in the devil, that means he’s a moron.

He’s also a theif, that is proven. Now how hard is it to believe he took money to play FB at AU? Not hard at all.

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Cam is so 1 and done, by the time the ish its the fan he’ll be starting qb for the Carolina Panthers. Stiff Arm Trophy or BCS Title or none of it ..he’ll be NFL bound in about 60 days.

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I’m not sure what makes me more sad. The comments on “news” and editorials or the articles themselves. Sadly, Mark, you have your answer.

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Cam needs to go to the NFL. Look how petty grown adults and the media are in CFB? You win in the NFL you’re a saint, in CFB, it’s lynch mobs consisting of the lowest of the low, reporters and boosters.

This is a crying shame.

FREE CAM NEWTON! FREE COLLEGE FOOTBALL FROM ALL OF THIS BULL ****.

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Something tells me Mississippi St is not in the free and clear. A poor school by SEC standards and dirty boosters makes me think the NCAA might be investigating their activity. After all, they claim they handed this all over to the NCAA as soon as it happened at the Egg Bowl but in reality they kept recruiting Newton until he signed a NLOI with Auburn and then reported and 11 months later Cam Newton is still playing football. Hmmmm. Imagine that, dirty boosters from Mississippi.

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Mark,
Nice job recapping all of the recent stories. It would be nice if someone could verify the validity of ANY of it. Oh well, at least the trolls are having fun throwing stones.

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Nick Bell died last week. Our program (MSU) is in grief. Sure, it’s a good time for us to bring up Cam f’n Newton. Seriously, folks.

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Thayer Evans at Foxsports.com releases a reckless article saying insiders at Florida gave him information on Newton’s academic record. A felony. Now Florida has got a mess on its hands and it probably didn’t have a single source give Evans anything. Read that dudes articles and he’s just full of hate towards Auburn and Newton and unfounded on so many accounts.

So this is the template, next time Florida, Tennessee or what have you has a 10-0 team and Heisman front runner by a mile, start leaking to reporters that Mr. Anonymous and Mr. Unidentified and Mr. Off The Record and Mr. Speaking on Condition of Anonymity says said player wanted hundreds of thousands of dollars to play and you can make everything come apart.

I once made a comment about something coaching related while in college and I had a reporter call it in. I won’t give details, but I was just talking, I didn’t know crap. I was just saying if then than and the dude called it in. Reporters are underpaid, putting it all out on the line for the same of name recognition is all most have. This is very dangerous.

Run to the NFL Cam, run. Leave the rest of us to clean up the mess from ESPN and Foxsports.

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Muddy32
November 10th, 2010
2:26 pm
Muddy makes more sense than the idiot that wrote this article.

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Tim Tebow was a great mentor of mine and I took some great advice while he and I were at Florida. Tim told me to stay in my room and play on my laptop. Well as you all know my Laptop broke and I bought a new one….he he hee and you believe that don’t you. Tim also told me not to get caught being in the wrong place so I sped alot and got alot of tickets. Tim also told me to study hard and use all means necessary to pass all my classes, but what he did not know is that I need a couple of papers to turn in and I called my laptop connection guy and he hooked me up with a three papers I turned in to my professors. So I really did listen to Tim Tebow but it just did not work out for me like it did for Tim Tebow while I was Florida.

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Question for the Heisman trophy voters, if you don’t vote Cam while at the same time saying he’s the best but his integrity is in question, and then in 2011 the NCAA comes out and says “Free and clear, no evidence of wrong doing and the stories were completely false and made up.”

Will you allow a re-vote of the Heisman???

For some reason I doubt it. So there you go, the way to undercut a Heisman winner is laid out for the world to see and use next year and the next and the next and the next.

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UGA2002,
It’s a shame they are allowed to report this stuff without any shred of evidenece. It’s the biggest sports story in the country. Will they report it if he is cleared of all of this? Yes, in a two sentence story.
It may all turn out to be true, but until it is verified then it should not be reported.

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And don’t you even think about voting for that Boise State QB for Heisman. Who cares if he completes over 70% of his passes and he’s never been arrested. Vote 4 CAM 4 HEISMAN BABY.

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Thanks for enlightening me Boca Baby. Tell me. Which church ordained him a Bishop? Eddie Long’s? rofl…..

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SOMEBODY was suppose to give Dan Mullens his cut…what is up with that?

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[...] The Cam Newton Saga: Even by SEC standards, it’s bizarre – Atlanta Journal Constitution (… Only the SEC could spawn the feel-good-gone-bad tale of Cameron Jerrell Newton. He’s a quarterback from College … Another source said Cam Newton expressed regret after his father chose Auburn for him, saying, “The money was too much.” Yahoo! News Nov 09, 2010 4:16pm [...]

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I say follow the money.

First, who benefits from knocking Auburn out of the SEC West Championship and the BCS, or Newton out of the Heisman? Most likely this is motivated by sour grapes somewhere, maybe from multiple sources, all feeding the fire. Who would have sour grapes? Isn’t it still possible Florida could get the SEC BCS bid? Miss. State? Alabama? What about Boise and TCU? Less likely? Taking out Newton and perhaps Auburn entirely would clear a major hurdle.

Second, follow the pay for play money. Start tracing bank accounts and pressing witnesses. As for Auburn, they might as well go all-in and play out the season with Newton, regardless of the allegations. If they are guilty, or if they have lost institutional control, give them the death penalty. If Newton or his family took money he should lose his scholarship and be banned by the NCAA. Most likely there is illegality involved with the payments as well.

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It’s already been disclosed that Miss St. turned Auburn in. Not Florida, Alabama, Boise, or TCU as much as Auburn fans want it to be.

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I am going to say this one more time….I did not have sex with that women…oops that was Bill Clinton, I meant to say….I crawled out of the car and could not get her out of the car….oops that was Ted Kennedy….I meant to say…..No New Taxes….oops wrong again….that was George Bush…
I meant to say….we were not talking to Bobby Petrino about the head coaching job at Auburn..oops that was Bobby Lowder…

I got it I got it….I was not paid to come to Auburn……thats the ticket

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OK, I am tired of lying. The money is securely hidden behind my front teeth.

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AUBURN will be no better than 5-5 WITHOUT me and everyone at Auburn knows it, I am worth every penny….

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I am also going to give that retarded Eagle some poisoned bird seed right before kickoff.

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When I run for elective office I will firmly support “Pay for Play for ALL college Athletes”. I do not think it is fair for just a select few of us getting paid…That just ain’t cool…….

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wow, bradley is cammy cam now your whippin boy since you can’t write about mike vick anymore.

jeebus X do some real work and earn that paycheck. what’s bizarre is you forgetting the principles of your profession and prostituting yourself.

come on bradley you are better than that.

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There is a rat in Starkville.
But it doesn’t matter. Auburn is going to be fine.
LSU has given up about 1200 yards rushing. Auburn got 400 of those.
Dawg defense line better be ready. Better tackle good at the second level.
Murray should be aware that Fairley is coming
AU 52 GA 28

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Must be nice working in a local newspaper without much chance at a breaking story. Mark at ESPN owns you and your bulldog homer self. Freshman article at best.

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stop big govt….get your facts right….

Auburn did not get 400 on LSU….I got 365 on LSU and Auburn got 35….I am going to run all over UGA this weekend like I am running with a stolen laptop from the Campus POLICE in GAINESVILLE.

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I am curious about the price he was paid to attend Florida?? Lets be real here… what UGA player has not recieved a check from a booster on the plan ride home… what Tennessee player did not have a envelope in his locker sunday morning…. what Alabama player did not get the team sport coat with cash in the left front pocket……. seriously, when will the NCAA and College football begin to offer moneys legitamely to players who attend and graduate school within 5 years a small token of money to help begin there lives after football….. yes it is a honor to play, yet it is disgusting to see what these young men and their parents are doing to them…… How did Mr. Newton repair his church? from a small donation of 200,000 from Auburn???

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They found the money outside his dorm room window.

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We are all hypocrites

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The real question is why the NCAA is looking at the church checkbooks, yes plural, because the Bishop Cecil Newton, I love all these Bishops, has about 5 churches. They want to see where the money for the repairs to the church to bring it up to code came from. This church was about to close because it was so cash strapped. Then all the sudden “donations”, plural, came from Auburn. Remember, the NCAA caught A.J. by looking at his checkbook. This does not look good for Cam, Cecil, nor Auburn. If I was Cheesenik, I would sit Cam for this game to see where this plays out over the next week.

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I am going to take a poop on the 35 yrd line and then write my name in the endzone wit it.

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I hope both Cam Newton and Josh Nesbitt play against Georgia. That way if (and that’s a big if) Georgia wins, there won’t be people making excuses as to whey Auburn and Tech got beat by lowly Georgia.

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watch out for those water hoses if you pull an upset…LOL! When was that 85/86?

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Newton’s character is in question and if he’s awarded the Heisman he tarnishes that award. Look at the character of past Heisman winners. Newton isn’t even in their ballpark. If he gets the Heisman, the Heisman is no longer all that.

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It makes us fools; not for being fans or for loving the game, but by enduring all this poorly written hate-mongering drivel propagated by ignorant journalists like yourself.

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Can we check into the recruiting of all the teams Georgia lost to so Richt can end up with an undefeated season?

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I think every team in the SEC , with the exception of Vandy cheats in Football. I have been close to the situation for over 30 years. The NCAA rules are so hard they force you to cheat to get great players. Once one School starts the others have no choice.

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Where there is smoke, there’s fire. Lots of smoke here. LOTS of it.

I suspect that there is something to this story.

That being said, Auburn’s history is not fraught with cleanliness and honesty in dealing with its players (remember Jeff Burger being kicked out of school for cheating and having the university president override the Honor Council? And his one-series “suspension” against Florida as punishment for the infraction? This is just e pluribus unum).

I suspect they will play him and simply put an asterisk next to the season if he is retroactively ruled ineligible. That’s my bet.

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Newton”s a felon.. cheating in school .. a preachers son.. whose dad wants $$$$$$.. multiple traffic tickets .. would have been arrested in Athens.. kicked OUT of UGA.. watch his interviews.. would he submit to a polygragh ??? Liar liar pants on fire !! I would if I was innocent.. all these preachers never worked a day in their lives.. if your giving cash at church.. I hope your family is financial secure….

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$200 Grand for a QB is far too cheap. At least an Escalade and a Destin condo could have been thrown in to sweeten the deal.

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So what if Cam is guilty? Why all the outcries?

As UGA fans, you should all hope that Cam does play so that you can go in and try to knock off Auburn at its best. It seems like a lot of UGA fans are somehow hoping the story is true so that maybe, just maybe, he Newton won’t be able to play on Saturday. Have pride UGA fans…your porgram is rich in history…going on and on about this story makes you look scared. You guys are better than that.

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The frustrating thing about this is there is no DNA evidence, no secretly-taped conversations, no cordite on shirt sleeves, no photographs, no money with fingerprints on it, no paper ashes in a trash can retaining ink, no nothing.

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Mr. Bradley, You said that you would vote for Cam Newton for Heisman if you had a vote, well I do not know if the Newton’s are guilty of the allegations, or not, but he was in possession of a stolen lab top, and from what I have read about the Heisman, it is to be given to the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity. Cam Newton as a football player is one of the most outstanding players in collegiate football, but his Integrity has been called into question, does a Heisman voter, vote for him on his accomplishments along, or do they look at his dealings that have called into question his integrity, and consider voting for one of the other Heisman candidates that have had no controversies?

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Pale Horse – I hate watching games on ESPN because of Bob Davie.

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PALE HORSE…

Thank you brotha for having my back….yeah can’t nobody prove a thing. Prove being the operative word. We made sure nobody was in on our secret…oops did not mean to say that. What I meant was there is no evidence to prove anything, I learned at Gainesville to not leave a trail.

Now when I was at Gainesville, I did do some things I am not proud of…I got caught and I skipped out as quick as I could. I have learned to : 1) hide everything 2) always deal in small demoninations
3) use an alias name 4) get the money before you even get in the huddle 5) never trust a man who says who are worth this much, you can always get more 6) Play one year a JC and Play one year at BCS level and go to the NFL before you get caught 7) smile for the camera smile for the coeds 9) make sure all “packages” are delivered to the church in the form of an offering
10) never admit anything.

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Quit hating

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Dave….we are all getting grocery money now…..we also get Victory Land Money, Laundry money,
Thursday night out money, touchdown money, tackling money…it is all good on the plains..thanks for having my back..

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Dave…

We are all getting grocery money down here at Auburn now…we also get laundry money, food money, and Victory Land Money. We are also getting bonuses for touchdowns, and wins….thanks
for having our backs..and you are right there ain’t no proof,,,yet…

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You talking about BUSH…the baked beans guys right? I love that talking dog..DUKE..he is so funny..

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I love living in Auburn..it is like Christmas day every Saturday down here. I mean I wake up with “Presents” all over the place…this is some happy place. They really take that “giving thing is better than recieving thing” seriously down here.

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Michael..feel sorry for ya brotha…that kind of debt is tough…but I know I will be paid to play in the NFL on Sundays …STARTING IN 2011…..It will be alot better money than I am getting now at Auburn…..

Hey does anyone know where the Library is at?

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This just in, an unknown source reports Cam Newton used a toilet at Florida and forgot to flush…

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Patrick…..the handle was broken..

Just glad we have outhouses down here at Auburn….the cheerleaders keep using the playing field though….

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Oops …Here it is…it was under a stack of Benjamins…my bad…

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Hey Fig Newton

Did your pappy get that “donation” I made to his church?

(wink wink)

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My daddy did not attend the game this past weekend because he had another event he had to attend. The second installment was being made and he needed to make sure the funds would be available by Tuesday and the deposit had to be in by Saturday at noon.

He will be attending this saturday and he will not be answering any questions without our attorney present and our advisor…Rev. Al Sharpton..

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Hey Cammie

Did you daddy get that donation I made to his church (wink wink)

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I blame all the white peoples for this tragedy

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Wow you barners really are idiots! Joe Schad(sp) has your QB and football program by the balls…..

prepare for the DEATH PENALTY!

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[...] The Cam Newton Saga: Even by SEC standards, it’s bizarre [...]

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Typical SEC sports….. Rotten to the core!

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Auburn 42, UGA 20.

Book it, Danno!

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gt4ever, ACC is just as bad North Carolina, Miami, Florida State talk about rotten to the core when your conference is just as bad.

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ricky……. you got some splaining to do…..

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I can’t wait, new choir robes and hymn books for Rev. Newton’s church. Yea right!

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Never trust a team or school with orange in their color scheme.

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Weren’t you bragging about those hawks last week and how great they were even though they played crap to start teh season.
well they are about to have their 5th loss in a row. Same typical crap from bradley. Guy is a disgrace to his profession. Where were you guys in finding this stuff out about newton anyway. nice paper. this happens in your own backyward and your oblivious. lazy dopes. no wonder this rag’s sales are in the toilet.

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I mean get real people…if there were really taped conversations that were reported in January, Can Newton would have never played this year…they don’t have jack right now.

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Travis, The Hawks have only loss two games, and their only half through with tonights game, its not a loss till the end of the Fouth Quarter, and that would only make three in a roll.

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90% of your article is repeating what has been said a hundred times in the last 24 hrs. The rest is just worthless drivel. Sorry Mark…I let you know when you are good…and this was not one of your best efforts.

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Ain’t nothing gonna stop the cammy cam show.

cammy cam going for 1,00 yards against Uga’s putrid 3-4 scheme. Cammy cam can’t wait for that 3-4 defense.

cammy is bigger than every uga LB wait till he lowers his head at full speed.

cammy cam gonna punish the pups and all comers.

he can’t be stopped.

cammy cam all the way.

cammy makes tebow look pedestrian.

TD Auburn.

cammy scores again. easy cammy. easy.

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jerry

November 10th, 2010
8:42 pm
Just curious as to why he left Florida to attend a junior college in Texas. Was he kicked out or what?

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tebow tried to touch him and cammy cam said I don’t roll like that dude, I’m out of this B*tch.

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The SEC is the new SWC. So We Cheat, but our teams make Billions for ESPN and the Schools, but only 2 Universities are AAU members( Florida and Vandy). College is so so much more than Football unless you are an SEC fan.

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Obvious: What about having the 2009 Broyles Award winner given to the nations best defensive assistant coach (Kirby Smart) coaching our running backs in 2005?

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Sounds like a soap opera to me. Good guys, bad guys, who can tell the difference? Well, it sells tickets and is coffee shop fodder. Good for betting too. LOTS of bets. I still believe the dawgs will have a downer by at least 30 points.

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Why I hate college football: Ever heard of a safety deposit box? Cash is easy to hide, I have a safe in the concrete floor of my garage!

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When even ONE person stands up and makes allegations on the record, I will pay attention to this story. Until then, this situation is just one more example of how the press has lost all of their ethics. BTW This is not a shot at you Mark. You’re just reporting on all of the shenanigans.

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Ole Yeller Dawg – Great point! Everyone talked about getting Kirby Smart back to UGA when we needed a defensive coordinator, but he was actually our running backs coach in 2005! All of his other stops (Valdosta, LSU, Dolphins) were on the defensive side of the ball. Obviously we were the only program that didn’t know how best to utilize him and now he’s with Satan as a DC and Assistant Coach! So, we not only squander player talent we also squander coaching talent!

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The Reverand “Clam” Newton will not deny the allegations. He did
admit that he wouldn’t send Cam to Miss State because “he would be just a
rented mule.” What does that say? True or not, like Cam says; “it really
doesn’t affect me”. In 6 months he is bolting to the NFL. The money Auburn paid
will be chump change compared to a pro contract and the endorsement money that
is sure to follow. Mark this down, as soon as the BCS games are over he is gone.
You can bet, AJ Green is not the only SEC player getting his agent money laundered
through ebay or church tithes. It is time the hypocrisy stops and let these men
go directly to the NFL anytime they want.

Watch Barry Switzer in “The Best That Never Was” and see how he mirrors Gene
Cizik. The parallels are scary, they even look alike. See how “family friend” Reverend Fairley used Dupree for his financial gains. If Dupree would have stayed at Oklahoma, no one, (not even the
fabulous Adrian Peterson or Herschel Walker) would ever come close to the NCAA
records he would have set.

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Why all the BS over Cam and nothing on Bishop Long?

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Everyone knows two wealthy Auburn boosters control that program and they both have money coming out of their ears.

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Gene Jism is going to be out of a job, too, by the time this is over. He shouldn’t get that much credit anyway for this team- we all know its a one trick pony with Cam Newton. Without him Auburn would be doo doo.

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Cam Newton – Alachua County Florida ticket / arrest record.
He was a very busy young man…. Think Meyer may have had a problem?

04/25/07 – Improper Tag, paid $ 104.50 on 07/19/07.
05/07/07 – Run a red light, paid $ 200.50 on 06/12/07.
06/05/07 – Speeding, paid $ 123.50 on 06/26/07.
06/13/07 – Failure to obey traffic control, paid $123.50 on 06/26/07
07/09/07 – Passing in no pass zone, paid $ 135.50 on 11/15/07
07/19/07 – No License on person, paid $ 88.50 on 11/15/07 mailed in by Dad
08/06/07 – Ran Red Light, paid $ 209.50 on 08/26/09 by mail
12/10/07 – Failure to obey traffic control, Paid $ 138.50 on 04/07/08
07/24/08 – Speeding, Paid $ 163.00 on 09/23/08
07/28/08 – License not on person, paid $ 97.50 on 12/04/08
08/27/08 – Speeding – Paid $ 253.00 by mail on 01/23/09
11/07/08 – Driving with License revoked – owes $ 150.50 – continuance
11/21/08 – Three (3) Felonies Pre-Courty Entry of No lo on 12/17/09
paid $ 1.00
A. Burglery ? entry XXXX
B. Theft ? entry XXXX
C. Obstruction (Intimidating Witness)? entry XXXX

Also consider he had 3 academic cheating charges at The Florida University
as well… What was Meyer thinking?

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I’m sure Cam waited tables while at Florida to pay for all of those speeding tickets! Uh-huh.

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They need to conduct this investigation quickly and IF there is fire where behind all the smoke, then AwBarn needs to vacate all their wins this season before we get to the bowl season and the national title game. They also should not be allowed to play in the SEC championship game.

This is not an SEC problem. This is college football program. The SEC just draws more attention because SEC football is absolutely the best in the county.

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Make that “knuckle-draggers”….

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when the truth comes out on this, a lot of the Aubrin heads are going to roll…and should, academic fraud, bidding for services, traffic violations ignored and on and on. The NCAA should camp out at Aubrin for a few weeks.

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If the sources of these stories are all lying and Cam is innocent, they deserve to spend a week tied to a pole on Toomer’s Corner in Auburn. The only problem is, the number of different sources just keeps growing and it’s getting harder to believe that the whole story is just a fabrication. If it turns out that Auburn actually did pay the Newtons, and they kept playing Cam even after the story started to become public knowledge, the NCAA hammer is going to fall hard and the pain is going to last a long time. For the good of SEC football, I sure hope there’s no truth to the rumors.

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>>Only the SEC could spawn the feel-good-gone-bad tale of Cameron Jerrell Newton.<<

Ever heard of Reggie Bush?

Oh, wait — I forget you make your living slamming UGA. Guess that hatred has now spread to the entire conference.

You're a joke — a bad one!

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In the midst of all this, Georgia beats Auburn Saturday.
We all know it’s going to happen.
It just makes sense.

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[...] of the funnier things Mark Bradley has written: … And what of Georgia, which needs one victory in its final two games to become [...]

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[...] Even by SEC standards, the Cameron Newton saga is bizarre, writes Mark Bradley of the AJC. [...]

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Buckeye Suckeye when you beat an SEC team we’ll listen to you. Until then shut the hell up.

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So many different stories. Lots of speculation. As for the 2 phone calls apparantly this was never told to the SEC. The following was just taken from an article this morning on Rivals.com
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‘The statement said Mississippi State has “cooperated fully” with NCAA investigators, but did not make any reference to the alleged phone calls between recruiters and the Newtons.

SEC spokesman Charles Bloom said Wednesday evening that there was also no mention of the reported conversations in either of the school’s reports to the league.’

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Please interview that BIG MONEY alumni from Auburn that is always causing trouble over there.

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Mark Richt is hardly “the luckiest man alive”, at least within the confines of his work life. His teams have consistently suffered key injuries and crushing penalties (some earned, some ridiculous) at crucial times. That was a silly line.

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Were there’s smoke there’s fire. The Camroninator is going to ruin someone’s program in the SEC. I hope whichever program that is does not think it was worth it

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…if they did…

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[...] We wish him all the best.”* Mark Bradley of The AJC says the Newton saga is bizarre… even by SEC standards.  “Does the SEC, shuddering over the possibility of its championship game matching Auburn and [...]

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Im so tired of hearing all of these UGA fans talking about stuff they don’t even know. All they want is a victory and that is why they want Cam to sit out on saturday. I live in georgia and I am so tired of hearing this nonsense about how UGA is going to have a victory on saturday. IT”S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Yes, Cam Newton is what makes Auburn exceptionally good, but they are still a hard hitting team, have a good offense, and have a heck of a lot of more tallent than UGA. So all of those UGA fans sitting around on their lap tops praying to God that Cam won’t play on Saturday need to get a life and suck it up! YOU ARENT THAT GOOD! Actually, you have been over-rated for the past few years now not only athletically but also academically. So SHUT UP!

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I can’t believe people keep falling for all this BS about Cam Newton…here’s my favorite quote from an ‘anonymous’ source reported by ESPN:

After Newton committed to Auburn, another source said an emotional Cam Newton phoned another recruiter to express regret that he wouldn’t be going to Mississippi State, stating that his father, Cecil, had chosen Auburn for him because “the money was too much.”

Who gets emotional about not going to MISS STATE…NOBODY.

Cam Newton phoned another recruiter to ‘express regret’ that he wouldn’t be going to MISS STATE…YEAH RIGHT.

I hope they find every person responsible for spreading this garbage at Miss State so it doesn’t happen to another kid. It has to be against the law and they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law to make an example out of them. That’s the real story Mark Bradly.

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Auburn Fan–Jealous much??

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Guess what Auburn Fan? AU is where all students go who can’t get into UGA (guess I should include Bama in that, too)

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Auburn fans should get off of their high horses, ’cause this isn’t the first time Auburn has paid players, apparently. One of your former coaches said Auburn boosters routinely gave recruits, $12,000 and $15,000 to sign, back in the 90’s, even while serving on NCAA Probation!

And before you say Terry Bowden is piling on, he was quoted about this practice in 2003.

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I don’t think the SEC, the NCAA, and now the FBI are concerned with Cam’s traffic tickets. And I have nothing against girls and I am not a sexist. That’s just a common putdown on sports blogs when someone is acting haughty.

Sorry to offend you.

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Great Auburn edumencation there!

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Glad to see my RC drinking Moon Pie eating dawgs are still at it. Latest, MSU did NOT report the incident in a timely manner.

“Due to MSU dealing with ongoing and time-consuming eligibility issues involving non-football matters in the winter and spring of 2010, the specific SEC request went unfulfilled. Some additional information was provided to the SEC during July of 2010. Once the NCAA enforcement staff became involved, Mississippi State University cooperated fully with its investigation. MSU is confident the SEC office has managed this process consistent with its established procedures and the university is committed to the conference’s ongoing efforts to ensure compliance with SEC and NCAA rules.”

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Turkey Buzzards’ best years are when on probation. That’s the only way they win.

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“heist-man” freaking hilarious

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I love the SEC haters here. One scandal like this and it is off to the “I hate the SEC” races. hahah

Clemson and FSU and GT ( yes, GT for systemic sports program cheating ) and NC are now or have RECENTLY BEEN guilty of crap like this. Clemson is notorious for this type of stuff.

ACC is not the pure, brick buildings clad with ivy conference like some try to portray. NC is knee deep in stuff like this not to mention Miami and Va Tech lately. See? UVA and BC one or two others are fairly clean programs in the ACC. All Cheaters Club.

Go Dogs and Hooray for the SEC which is big boy ball.

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SEC==scholarships, extras & coeds

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Everybody is tired of the SEC, except for 4 states. How many SEC championships does GA have in the last 20 years? You are so backwards you have to reuse team nicknames for four teams because the barbeque and sweet tea clouded your judgement. Sorry you all drink the cool aid. The SEC is so tough we can only go 5-5, hiding behind the skirt. Take your felons and start the NFL Nationwide tour. The SEC is a disgrace to college and universities in the United States.

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UGA folks, disgusted at their own teams performance decide to trash Newton rather than focus on their own internal problems (which are often and numerous). Classless and childlike. 2 or 3 more crummy seasons for the little doggies.

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I think I would “FIT” nicely in the SEC as a coach or recruiter. Sincerely, Juice

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Oh and LZZ I can get into Georgia. I have a 3.7 and made a 28 on the ACT. I am choosing to go to Auburn next year because I like it more than UGA. Honestly.

And UGA is only hard to get into because of the Hope Scholarship. Until the Hope people went to other colleges and universities out of state because Georgia isn’t that good academically.

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I know it would be a step down for me, but I would be one of the best looking cheerleaders in the SEC!!!

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When was the last time Auburn beat Georgia? Besides, all these wins AU is racking up this year will probably be forfeited in a few years anyway. Enjoy rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Nope look on Collegeboard or Naviance. Average ACT is a 26. Average GPA is about a 3.7…. I’m golden.

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“I’m talking about how every season all the fans/georgians/some of the press etc. say how almighty UGA is going to be”
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Auburnfan,

Try to keep up, now.

In every sport, collegiate and professional, all teams have fans that think their team is gonna be good every year. Braves fans, Yankees fan, Cowboys fans, Raiders fans, Bama fans, Tech fans, etc. all hope for the best of their favorite teams.

The local media write about the local team, usually favorably. Why, you ask? So the local fans read their articles. Why, you ask? So the newspaper can sell advertisements, then pay the writers.

It’s what makes the world go ’round.

Broaden your horizons and you’ll see there are fanatical fans of every team, even Auburn.

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Folks…Fans, Well Wishers and Haters….

I really did not mean to commit all those traffic violations, the car that Florida provided me was just
“too much car” for me to be driving. I told my benefactor in Gainesville that I needed something that was not so powerful, but he told me if I was going to a stud qb for the Gators I needed to reflect some power. Sorry about those tickets.

Now I went to JC to get away from all the cheating scandal at UF. I was told by my “tutor” that those papers were “good papers” and I should use them. Then all of a sudden I get called into the Deans office and he told me a “hard nosed, no nonsense Prof” was out to get any football player, and he picked on me. Coach Meyer told me not to worry about it that he would “handle it” and I would be out of trouble in no time. But I know how things like that work out and Tim Tebow was the “Golden Child” at UF not me, so I packed my stuff and got gone.

My going to Auburn over Mississippi St. Oklahoma, or Tennessee had nothing to do with FACILITIES at any of the schools, it was according to my daddy “about getting paid”. Now I know my Auburn family thinks Coach Chizik knew nothing about it, but let me say he knows the whole story and he as they say with Political ads ” I approved this message” .

Just to put my Auburn fans at ease and settle this once and for all, I will play out the season, and the NCAA will need at least a year to build a case. By then I will be getting paid by the NFL and my daddy will deny deny deny and Coach Chizik will deny deny deny.

Looking forward to scoring a few Touchies on Saturday against my home state Dawgs, we are looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday on the Plains.

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Crumpy frisky

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Auburn Fan…make sure you get your facts straight.

UGA Freshman Class Profile: Overall ACT AVERAGEfor Admitted First-Year Students: 28, Overall Average of All Enrolled First-Year Students: 3.83

You MIGHT get in.

If you want to spend your college years on the “plains” rather than Athens, that is totally your choice. There is no comparison between the two in that regard.

End of comment from here.

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Phil Steele says Auburn-Georgia game will be a 3 point game. Georgia could pull upset.

Steele has Aubun 34, Georgia 31.

http://www.philsteele.com/Blogs/2010/Nov%2010/DBNov10.html

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Yea UNC is getting pounded….with the signing of 4-star recruits. Scout has them ranked at #10, expecting to go higher (especially if they beat VaTech this weekend with so many 4-5 stars in attendance at Chapel Hill).

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I got in Auburn and my ACT scores were….touchdown throwing, touchdown running, touchdown scrambling…..I scored pretty good….

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What gets me about all of this are the people who are calling Newton a “thug”. These same people, called Danny Heatley (the guy who KILLED his friend while drunk driving and received PROBATION), a poor “mixed up” kid. Why is it one kid is a “thug” for stealing/possessing a stolen laptop; while the other kid, who KILLED his friend while Drunk driving, is a “poor kid”?

I’ve noticed that a lot on these boards…..Michael Vick – (who didn’t kill anyone) is a THUG; Danny Heatley (who DID kill someone) is a poor kid; Plaxico Burress (who didn’t hurt anyone but himself), THUG; Ben Rothlesberger, (who DID hurt someone / accused of RAPE), a poor kid.

Hmmm…….I wonder what’s the “common denominator” in all these sequences…….hmmmm…….

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Hey Buckeye check out Georgia’s record against Ohio Skate and the little 10.What a joke.

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What proof do all you people have thats bitching and cutting the young man down. I’m not a Auburn fan but Bond and Evans is leading a lynch mob…and all you perfect uga fans and others are going along for the ride. Mark Richt has more class at least he don’t blame Newton unless “PROOF” is provided.
So far all Rumors….glad you people are not on a jury somewhere. The kid would be hanged!
He who has not cheated in school is a lier………………..look in the mirror.

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What does that mean..Okie from Waycross, Ware Co ….

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And by the way, Mindy…I’ve always felt that Ben Rothlesberger is a punk-ass THUG, just like Michael Vick.

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Mark— ok – play “What if”. What if it is found that AU did pay Cam to play. Would AU get the death penalty? Is that any worse than SMU? What would that do to the state of affairs in the SEC. Not sure if it is true but there seems to be too much “I am not going to comment one way or another” for it not to be somewhat true.

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Just a joke, Bobo. just an off-handed barb at Mike Bobo’s, what, 6 or 7 kids? No disrespect intended at you.

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I never use the word, thug, but because of the “Mindy” post, I’ll use it one time.

Big Ben is a thug. I read the police report.

Zach Mettenberger is a thug. He pled guilty to 2nd degree sexual battery.

Plaxico is not a thug. He hurt no one but himself, and if he lived in about 35 other states, he would have not broken any laws that night in the bar.

Mike Vick was a thug. He said after his conviction, “I will redeem myself. I have to.” It sure seems, for once, MV has really done just that. He served his time, and I, for one, am happy with his fresh start. A thug no longer.

Cam a thug? We’ll see.

A law-breaker is a law-breaker. Color of skin matters not a whit.

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3. If a player is scheduled for a hearing on his academic eligibility, and he leaves school prior to it…what is school policy? Do they just drop it as no longer applicable?

Good question.

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Mindy – Not one person called Ben Rothlesberger a “poor kid” virtually everyone called him exactly what he is… “a despicable serial rapist”. He should have been suspended for a minimum of 2 yrs.

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Auburn fans, Stop crying about everyone piling on, because if the shoe was on the other foot every Auburn fan would be doing the same thing, if you do not like what is being written, or said, stop reading, or listening to the comments. And when you comment, you just make yourself a target for the fans of the other schools, most of them could careless about Cam Newton, they just like to make ya’ll cry, and it looks like its working too.

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Who said big ben was a poor kid mindy? Ive seen him get trashed pretty good, and he deserves it. Some folks always got to bring race into everything.

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Mindy – please take your “race card” somewhere else.

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How can you tell if an Auburn football player has a girlfriend?

Tobacco juice on both sides of the pickup truck.

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It could be your bike.

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The SEC/Slive would have stepped in and told AU not to play Cam if there was something legit. The NCAA would have as well, we keeping hearing sources sources sources but nobody will step up..There is no money trail from AU to the Newtons I can tell you that, I’m not saying the Newtons are angels but AU is clear..One ? nobody is asking why was Mullen “recruiting” like heck till the last day for Newton if he thought his family was sketchy? Don’t give me this he was doing it the right way stuff. Miss St thought they had a stud and he went to a better program.

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Welcome back how2fish, did you bring me an RC and Moon Pie? Today I am tOSU alum.
What cool-aid flavor does the Bulldawg press have you drinking this week?

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I see just because UGA beats up on my Tech team every year I am not allowed to complain?
Well that is all I can do beacisse my team stinks yearly.
I give up, the ACC is just never going to be as good as the SEC so I will have to try to tear the SEC down by bringing up off the field problems!

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Who said big ben was a poor kid mindy? Ive seen him get trashed pretty good, and he deserves it. Some folks always got to bring race into everything.

Please show me, oh smart one, where I brought up race. I’ll wait……..

From Whipped Dawg: Please Mindy. The SEC has had a few good years with convicts, ……blah, blah, blah…….Thugga U and the the Southeastern Convicts are done…..blah, blah, blah.

From Crumpy: Mindy = overweight barner

From Mindy: Crumpy = no d#ck weasel. See two can play that game.

5th year Moron…..when you finally graduate from Ohio State, please let Toyota know that you are now available to be the next crash dummy, (since that’s all your degree will be worth). Thanks!!

Have a happy day everbody!! And for all the SEC Haters – I can’t wait until your conference (whichever one it is), gets b##tch slapped by the SEC.

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Please leave me alone. I can’t help that I am into convicts, tools, and academic failures…
Its what I grew up on the last twenty years.

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To the Fake Mindy – thanks for thinking of me girlfriend!! I hear that imitation is a form of flattery (and adulation!!). Remember put your lipstick on AFTER you service the SEC football players, not before!!

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Perhaps time for column number five, Bradley!

ESPN is reporting that they have spoken with two Mississippi State recruiters who both say they received a phone call from Newton. Newton expressed sadness that he would not sign with them but instead with Auburn. Newton’s quote to the two recruiters was “the money was too good” at Auburn!

In addition, a former Miss State player says he personally had a conversation with Newton’s father, who told him he expected between $100,000 and $180,000 in cash from any university that would get an LOI from his son!

Whether Auburn agreed to this, it seems clear that Newton’s father was very cavalier with the NCAA recruiting rules and looked at his son as a cash cow! Very sad, especially since this father is also a practicing minister! So much for integrity!

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I hope none you are ever falsely accused, because it is awful. Let’s keep in mind that accusations DO NOT equal evidence of wrong doing. To counter that, let’s insist that the Mississippi State coaches or “recruiters” that had first-hand conversations involving Cam Newton and money need to be willing to attach their name to their statement. They need to say “I was solicited for money.” and my name is ______, and my function at Mississippi State is _____.

To not go on the record is an abuse of power over a young person. It is junior high, girly gossip. John Bond is a BOOSTER today, so what if he was a former player from 20 years ago. Why is the media not willing to correctly identify him as a BOOSTER?

I am an Auburn grad, and Auburn paid Newton or his father, than give us the death penalty. But a young person’s reputation is being slapped around by a bunch of well paid coaches and boosters, who don’t have the guts to go on the record. What are they afraid of? Just go on the record or admit that it is hearsay. To prevent this problem, all journalists should insist on seeing real evidence before reporting, particularly if its from an anonymous source. Why aren’t journalists licensed anyway, because it would bring some ethics to a sleazy profession if you had to play by some actual rules.

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Someone on the first page of this blog got it right! It is the SEC’s fault. The SEC is concerned with money first, tv ratings second, entertainment third, and values a distant tenth. And, if the truth was really known, most of you freaks on here wouldn’t mind a little cheating by your favorite team/coach/school in order to win a championship. Why not condone it? We certainly allow it in our politics, public education, insurance, etc. BTW, the Dawgs will beat Awbarn with or without Fig.

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The way for UGA to beat Auburn is has been said by one prognosticator to score on every possession and take a long time doing it. Keep Cam off the field and control some clock. That could definitely happen but granted it is easier said than done. I would love to pick UGA – and believe I will, say 37-34. However, I don’t think UGA has beaten Auburn five straight years in a LONG time if ever. It should be a great, entertaining game though.

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“Cheat”, okay. I can’t help it if I’m a bad typist.

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UGA, winner of the Fulmer/Richt Cup and known everywhere as The Cesspool of the South.

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Why isn’t the Cam-for-sale threat there and open?

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Sports Hoopla shows proof that Newton’s cheating scandal was posted on a message board back in mid October. Foxnews did not break the story.

http://www.sportshoopla.com/forums/sports-forum-general-discussion/20335-newton-cheating-scandal-first-leaked-october-message-board.html

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[...] Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) [...]

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[...] nine days we’d gone from two reports that referenced the former Mississippi State quarterback John Bond as a rather distant accuser to stronger allegations that Cecil Newton himself asked for  money. And late Friday Mark Winne of [...]

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