Yet another Cam allegation, this one far more serious for AU
It’s a new day, but the same story. Or, more precisely, the same story with a new twist. Joe Schad of ESPN.com is reporting that two sources who recruit for Mississippi State claim that Cam Newton, the Auburn quarterback who’s from College Park, and his father Cecil “admitted in separate phone conversations to a pay-for-play plan while Newton was being recruited late last year.”
More ominously for Auburn, Schad reports that Cam Newton called another recruiter to express regret, saying his father had chosen Auburn for him because “the money was too much.”
A tempest has raged around Newton the past week, beginning with ESPN’s original report that the former Mississippi State quarterback John Bond claimed he had been told it would take $180,000 for the player to enroll at MSU. A subsequent report by FoxSports.com contended that Newton had faced charges of cheating while at Florida, prompting angry responses from both Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs and coach Gene Chizik and, in a bizarre twist, a denial from Florida coach Urban Meyer that he had been FoxSports’ source.
But this latest report from ESPN marks the first time the Newtons, father and son, have been linked — even if the link comes via second-hand unnamed sources — to any recruiting malfeasance, and it’s also the first time it has been suggested — even if the suggestion was apparently made by Cam Newton himself — that the family might have received money from Auburn.
And this could change everything. Auburn’s stance to date has been that Newton is eligible to play for the Tigers, but a school cannot allow a player to continue to represent it if his eligibility is at issue. To date it hasn’t been. (The Bond allegations pertained to Mississippi State, not Auburn.) But now it is.
And Auburn, which is ranked No. 2 in both the Associated Press poll and the BCS standings, plays Georgia on Saturday. You’d be well advised to stay tuned.
Still more Cam! Even by SEC standards, this latest tempest is mind-boggling.
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MR
November 10th, 2010
1:46 pm
Sure Dirty Dawg, you really hope he plays. Without him you would not beat Auburn.
Creed
November 10th, 2010
1:49 pm
Assuming that Newton will play and isn’t too distracted, I’ll guess Auburn wins it 41-27. UGA simply can’t put up enough points to outscore Auburn.
juice sourcer
November 10th, 2010
1:51 pm
While billions of $’s are generated and they are lining the pockets of the networks, the schools, coaches, etc……what are the players getting…come on this is a joke…and it will never stop…only gonna get worse. Pay the damn kids.
chuck
November 10th, 2010
1:52 pm
I was told by a highly placed source, that AJ Green asked Florida for $100,000.00 and when they offered $50,000.00 he said he would get what he wanted from Georgia.
$cam Newton the $200,000 Allbarn starting quarterback
November 10th, 2010
1:52 pm
Suspend him immediately.
They dont deserve to represent the SEC West. Let LSU, Alabama, Arkansas or Miss State go. At least they didn’t purchase their starting QB.
Show me Your Brains
November 10th, 2010
1:54 pm
Really Show Me The Money, Auburn fans are the “boogereaters” and you can’t even figure out how to enter a comment. Bad thing is the AJC even tries to idiot proof it by saying “enter comment here”. You my friend are a tool.
Lowcountry Bulldawgs
November 10th, 2010
1:56 pm
Dogs Smell,
I think you have not followed any of my posts very well. I WANT to play Auburn with Newton. Win or Lose! He is the best player in College football- paid or not! We may get smoked, but I want to see how my Dawgs fair against Auburn!
chuck
November 10th, 2010
1:56 pm
If I was Newton’s Father I would go to the media and say that Miss. State had offered me money for Cam to sign and I refused it. I told them that I would not send my kid to a school that would so blatantly break the rules.
Lowcountry Bulldawgs
November 10th, 2010
1:58 pm
I am on record as the way to defend Newton is to let him do whatever he wants from 20 to 20. Then inside the 20 tightned up the D and try to hold them to FG’s. If the Dogs begin to let him spread the field with his Arms and Legs then they are in trouble because #5, #23 and #27 will also be making plays also.
Let him get his yards and stats, but not in the Red Zone.
GaCracker
November 10th, 2010
1:58 pm
Cam Newton and Mike Vick – two stupid guys who don’t help the image of their race. Chizik better not play him until and unless his name is completely cleared – it won’t be – He’s a laptop thief and now it’s found out he was caught 3 times cheating in exams at Florida.
He’ll be virtually forgot in 5 years.
$cam Newton the $200,000 Allbarn starting quarterback
November 10th, 2010
1:59 pm
If I were Rev. Newton I would STFU immediately.
dagadawgs
November 10th, 2010
1:59 pm
Interesting article:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-06-14/sports/florida_1_uf-johnson-gainesville
Dawg Tired
November 10th, 2010
2:00 pm
An Auburn booster paying a recruit to come to Auburn. Really?! The amazing thing is that this is considered newsworthy. This is nothing new. The first college football game I saw was Auburn V. FSU back in the 1950’s in Tallahassee. Auburn won something like 55 to 0. They were ranked number 1 in the nation. They were subsequently put on probation for (imagine this) boosters paying players to come to to Auburn. But they had a great football team. The only difference now is they are ranked number 2 instead of number 1. Not much has really changed in the last 55 years.
Let’s just play the damn game.
al.com
November 10th, 2010
2:11 pm
I am glad you guys are not sitting in court about to send me to jail because there is no facts that show Cam doing anything wrong yet you want to hang him based on BS. Stupid is as stupid does
Buckhead Dawg
November 10th, 2010
2:16 pm
Enough about Cam Newton lets talk about little boys. I like little boys.
chuck
November 10th, 2010
2:16 pm
I am just SHOCKED that coaches from Mississippi State would make any allegations about a player that REFUSED TO SIGN WITH THEM.
Ben Thenkin
November 10th, 2010
2:17 pm
I don’t see anything wrong with what Cam and his father did (if they did it). Only football players that can increase the finances of the schools are recruited. Winning the conference, having a very good record, going to a bowl, etc., are not for pride. They are for making more money for the schools. It’s okay for the schools but not okay for the players and that’s a double standard for doing the same thing.
It could also be retribution for the junk spread about Tim Tebow.
SouthGa: the name says it all
November 10th, 2010
2:19 pm
………………How naive. No one said all success is attributed to cheating, but name one NCAA football champ program which has not been cited by the NCAA in either the decade before or the decade after their “success.” And that’s just when they’ve been caught. No one involved in college football with half a brain supposes ANY program is completely clean. Grow up.
SouthGa: the name says it all
November 10th, 2010
2:22 pm
Lowcountry, low IQ. I will go on record as saying the way to beat Auburn and Newton is to score more points than they do.
SEC Fact Checker
November 10th, 2010
2:23 pm
All this investigating, personal attacks and bad press to Cameron Newton is expediting the process of Cameron Newton’s NFL career. I know many many Auburn fans who really thought Cameron Newton would stay at Auburn for two years, but realistically you can mark it down he will be on some NFL roster in 2011 and Gus Malzhan will be a head coach at some Division I school in 2011.
The good and bad times at Auburn with The current ensemble will look completely different in the coming years.
As it stands today if you were in Gene Chizik’s shoes would you even consider not playing Cameron Newton for the remainder of the year? If this was you or I in his shoes we would ride that 6 ‘6″ Quarterback until the NCAA or the SEC forced me to put him on the sidelines. Unless someone can prove something or unless Cecil Newton or Cameron make some bonehead statement that immediatley put his eligiblity at risk he is playing now and will be the savior to Auburn football.
However in years to come, if something does come of this situation the Auburn nation will either do one of two things, blame another school or hammer Cecil Newton for using his son. This situation is months or years away from resolution and as it stands now, someone will have to beat Auburn in the next three games(SEC CG included) in order for Auburn not to be in the BCS CG.
Personally to me this has been a bad press year for the entire SEC starting this summer with Agent gate, to Jersey selling, to arrest, to the death of a football player in his prime now this entire Cameron Newton situation.
SouthGa: the name says it all
November 10th, 2010
2:25 pm
“Yankees? In Atlanta? How did they ever get here?”
—Aunt Pitypatt, GWTW. “Crooked boosters? In the SEC? How did they ever get here??” —SEC football fans. Crackers, every one of you.
Lowcountry Bulldawgs
November 10th, 2010
2:26 pm
Great original humor. I bet you and your dad worked really hard on that joke walking to school together. See, I can tell stupid jokes as well.
Lowcountry Bulldawgs
November 10th, 2010
2:28 pm
“—SEC football fans. Crackers, every one of you. ”
Hello- how about that for a little racist zinger!
SouthGa: the name says it all
November 10th, 2010
2:28 pm
AS for my own race, let me say that Cecil Newton appears to be yet another fine example of black fatherhood and church leadership in action. Selfish to a flaw and as unChristian as the oldest man in Hades. I am embarrassed for father and son whenever they open their mouths.
SouthGa: the name says it all
November 10th, 2010
2:29 pm
Lowcountry….you ARE a stupid joke. Now, when I get off your momma and let her get back to her shift at the Waffle House, you’ll get another crack at her yourself. Just be careful and don’t fall in.
Lowcountry Bulldawgs
November 10th, 2010
2:38 pm
I would have emphasized the YOU rather than the ARE in that comment, but thats just my two cents.
KR
November 10th, 2010
2:39 pm
I’ve seen a lot of hearsay; I’m still waiting for some proof. I expect I’ll be waiting a while.
Of course Chizik will let Newton play. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by not playing him. Imagine the second guessing that would occur if he sits Newton, loses the next 2 or 3 games and the allegations are found to be false.
I believe Newton’s Heisman hopes are gone. However, I told my brother a month ago that I really didn’t think they would award the trophy to someone with Newton’s past problems.
For the people who say the players should be paid: maybe so, but that isn’t the rule that is in place today. You can’t go back and retroactively change the rules that apply.
Delbert D.
November 10th, 2010
2:40 pm
Why have athletic scholarships at all?
Bosshog
November 10th, 2010
2:59 pm
OMG he did it again.
TD Auburn.
Cammy, slow down a little bit.
easy big fella.
cammy Cam.
Jalex49
November 11th, 2010
7:14 am
Georgia fan with a family of Auburn and Alabama fans. I just am bless there are no Florida fans in the family. For that, it makes me wonder how all this stuff about Auburn’s quaterback got started when we are close to the final games and a lot is on the line, for a “certain school” in Florida ? Just saying.
Leave Cam Newton along and let’s play football. Georgia and Auburn is a tradition that is not only “as it should be in sports” but against two outstanding universities.
I hope Georgia beats Auburn . I do admire Auburn’s ability this year to be competing for a possible shot at the SEC Championship and National Championship. After the Georgia game, I personally will be rooting for Auburn against any other team and that’s includes Alabama.
Go Dawgs, War Eagles and Tide……….and the h—- with Florida.
JHS61165
November 11th, 2010
2:11 pm
Come on , Mark. If you cover the SEC ,surely you know that one of the reasons Tuberville was canned at API was because he wouldnt play along with the pay for play schemes of Pat DIE. Now the TT is gone, DIE has cranked up the cheating machine again down in the Lowliest Village.
Why Auburn cannot allow Cam Newton to play against UGA | Mark Bradley
November 12th, 2010
9:35 am
[...] defense. On Wednesday ESPN reported that two unnamed Mississippi State “recruiters” had heard both Newton and his father Cecil mention money in separate phone conversations. On Thursday Kenny Rogers told ESPN 105.3 in Dallas that the elder Newton was seeking between [...]
IDONTUNDERSTAND
November 12th, 2010
10:49 am
“two sources who recruit for Mississippi State”- What exactly does this mean? Aren’t the only recruiters for a school the coaching staff? Wouldn’t anybody else acting in this capacity be considered a booster? Did MISS State report that there recuiters were in a bidding war for the players services…I mean since we are telling the stories and reporting improper actions. If any of this is founded BOTH schools will be knocking at death’s door with the NCAA….
Mark Frederick
November 12th, 2010
2:21 pm
What’s the problem Mark, do you have too much money on the game. I really can’t wait to see ESPN shelling out major bucks in damage to Cam Newton. Your main source now says that there was NO MENTION OF MONEY and I say to that If you have proof then show it or tell all your sports department to shut the hell up. I hope the Newton’s take a lot of money from you in a lawsuit, I know if it were me, I would OWN ESPN when this is finished. Tell the loser Lou Holtz to drop dead, if he were such a good coach why was he FIRED from his job. He and the rest of the jerks at ESPN don’t know a thing about College Football and nither do you.
Mark Frederick
November 12th, 2010
2:32 pm
Why does ESPN hate the University of Auburn so much, you have never taken Auburn’s side in anything, just like your He said, she said news story. None of it is true and if it were then why have you not given anything to the NCAA investigation? I think that if it were true then Auburn would not have to bench Newton, the NCAA would have done that for them. Why are all of these football teams so worried about Cam Newton, could it be that they are all shooting for position for bowl games. Mark my word, Auburn and Cam Newton are for real and we’ll survive all the MUD SLINGING you can throw at us and we will still beat the hel* out of you. By the time they finish with Georgia and Alabama those two teams might play in the TOLIET BOWL sponsered by Santa Flush.
Joe Willie Namath
November 13th, 2010
8:32 am
Ha! Are yall still sore about us beating you in 1962? That means you’re at least 55 to recall that particular game (my first start)- wow! That Blackout was a little easier to remember for most..RTR!
Joe Willie Namath
November 13th, 2010
8:34 am
I do hope Cam plays today, and the Dawgs win; the cow college is still a rival after all..