Yet another Cam allegation, this one far more serious for AU

Yeh, at first I thought this was a smear campaign… but it’s starting to get ugly. Real ugly…

This is going to be a huge distraction for what was setting up to be a great showdown between Georgia at Auburn this weekend.

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One other thing, Auburn shouldn’t let Cam Newton get anywhere near a media news camera again. Did you guys see his interview yesterday? This guy isn’t exactly oozing innocence.

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This makes me sad. I honestly believed they were trying to take Cam Newton down, just because he and Auburn are on top. I really thought they should just leave him alone. I wanted the focus to be entirely on the game.

I really hope none of these allegations are true. I was happy that even though UGA’s year is shot, that the SEC has a quality representative this year for the BCS NC.

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Should have went to UGA where he would have been a tight end and never heard from again.

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Bet the boyz in Vegas are watching this somewhat intently

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I’ll leave it to UGAVIII..If he bites Cam in the butt after a score-He’s guilty..AKA_Robert Baker.

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Makes you wonder- usually if people are coming forward, there is something to the story- maybe not all they contend, but something.

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MB:

As long as he plays against the Dawgs and crushes them so Mark Richt can get canned, let’s not stir the pot.

HT

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This really is sad.

I was hoping that it would all just go away as baseless rumor.

I wanted the UGA/Auburn game to be the focus, be well played and a shining light for college football.

Now it is going to be a weekend filled with rumors and trash being spewed and will take away from what should be a great football game.

I predicted 28-24 auburn. If Newton is allowed to play, he will most likely want to take out his frustrations. UGA’s season has been like that hasn’t it? We are next in line.

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Exactly, rx.

Any time you take poor kids from rough areas — and I don’t think Cam applies, but there are a lot of college athletes that do — and wave money under their noses, they’re going to take it; further, I’m not sure I would be able to resist, either.

In part due to the setup that currently exists, these “representatives” sneak into their worlds early and the network extends a broad distance. Something needs to be done to punish the leeches while also giving incentive on the other end to keep kids from just chasing the money.

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Brent, this is is a lot more than a “candy” scenerio.

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This latest story shocks me! You know when the NCAA starts snooping around they always find something. They are like the damn IRS. I hope UGA plays Auburn with Cam on the field but at this point I will bet anyone that the Auburn win will not count in the end because Newton will be declared ineligible and be forced to vacate the entire season. Which could include the mythical NCG.

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play him anyways-nobody but lawyers and journalist care whether reggie bush’s family got money– fans just knew he was the most dynamic football player on the field-same goes with Cam Newton

go dawgs upset in the making-Auburn defense is weak-Richt needs to go for the jugular points points points forget ball control

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Selling a jersey doesn’t sound near as bad, does it, Mr. Bradley?

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There is no point for Auburn to voluntarily sit Newton now because if the NCAA rules him ineligible they would lose the entire season’s worth of wins anyway. They will deny, deny, deny until the NCAA rules him ineligible. This won’t get settled for a while. He plays on Saturday.

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I agree with most of you talking about giving them a little money but it would have to be monitored very closely. Paying them could definately lead to more corruption. The one thing I do not agree with is most of them not having enough money to go on a date with their girlfriends(maybe a few). I went to UGA and had friends at UF, USC, Auburn and Clemson. At every one of those schools football players we always down town spending money in bars. Also have you seen all the tatoos players have. Tatoos are definately not cheap and they are always dressed pretty nice too. Just a reminder that most are not as bad off as you think.

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@McDawg

You’re an idiot. We all care. You can’t have corruption run rampid in the NCAA.

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Brent – get a life, the hammer is about to drop on the barn.

War sCam eagle baby!

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Since when do you take girls out on dates while attending college? Wine em. dine em is for chumps. Take them to a kegger and make sure their gone by dawn taking their walk of shame. Dating in college, HA!

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Hell…..another 500K would have got them a defense too.

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At least they have a new basketball arena.

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College Football players are ALREADY paid, and very hansomly!!!

Let’s calculate how much their tuition, books, room and board and meals would have cost if they weren’t playing fotball…..

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This whole thing is just sad…..and in the end Cam will be like reggie…a multi millionaire in the nfl and auburn will be left in the ruins.

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Does that slime ball Banker Louder still run things at AU ?

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my problem is why is this all coming to light 11 games into the season?? if the allegations are true, why was none of this mentioned in the beginning of the season?

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Mark, Urban Meyer has been quiet on Cam Newton and has stayed above this mess. He was not released from Florida for just having and lying about a stolen computer. There have been alot more incidents that happened at FL. I hope it comes out that Urban helped Cam with a positive recommendation to get into the Jr. College in TX. There is an issue here from day one, CHARACTER. Remember Reggie Bush. Here we go again. Hold on to your hats boys.

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Kind of makes all the nonsense in yesterday’s blogs about how Mark Richt screwed up by recruiting Newton as a TE seem rather irrelevant, now doesn’t it?

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[...] Why has Auburn not sat Cam Newton? Yet another Cam allegation, this one far more serious for AU | Mark Bradley [...]

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Chizik is tarting to remind me of how Urban Crier wouldgetso defensive when somebody mentioned Timmy Tebow.

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Its still..he said, they said, we said and no Damn Proof!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One’s word against the other…if true why did Mississippie wait a year to squeal? I smell something fishy here, bad losers, No heisman votes and hate for Auburn.. anything to put Cam and Auburn down..right.

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Where are all the barners today? Hiding under a rock I guess.

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Why wasn’t this reported to the NCAA immediately by Miss State?

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Nothing will come of this unless Auburn loses to UGA or Alabama as long as they are rolling towards a NC then this will go away .Maybe its all false and I wish no hardships on Auburn, I would prefer UGA to beat teams when they are at there best and that isn’t happening this year or last .
GO DAWGS!!
but TIRED OF WAITING FOR NEXT YEAR

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Here’s that link to the Florida County’s criminal justice site:

https://www.alachuaclerk.org/court_records/gis/index.cfm?section=results

just type in Cameron Newton’s name and the list of his transgressions will be revealed.

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And now Queue up the Flip Floppers that throw Cam under the bus after supporting him, because they know that their school in now facing MAJOR MAJOR trouble. Of course there will be the few stragglers that will say Poor Cam is innocent (laughable I know)

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John,
LMAO
You are an idiot if you don’t think Newton will make millions in the NFL. Yep, most Heisman winners (he may not win now after all this has come out) never go on to make millions in the NFL. A 6′6″, 250 lb QB that can run and pass has no business in the NFL.
Put the pipe down, it isn’t even noon yet..

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WHERE THERE IS SMOKE THERE IS FIRE.ITS ALL TRUE.CAMS DADDY IS DIRTY AND SO IS CAM CAUSE HE KNEW THERE WAS PAYOLA.I HATE IT FOR AUBURN BUT SOMETIMES IT JUS BEES LIKE DAT.

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BamaDad…….

Look at the 13th (thirteenth!!!) charge…….

It’s an open case (from 2 years ago?) for driving with a suspended license. The fact this it’s still open 2 years later smells like there is more than likely a bench warrant for Newton in Gainsville.

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Let’s ALL hope for the sake of the SEC none of this is true…..Go Dawgs

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Who cares if hes eligible to play or not! College footballs championship is a Fake championship anyways, so it really dosent matter if the wins are taken away 10 years from now or not. All that matters is this season, and seeing if Newton can lead AU to the promised land of college footballs mythical championship.

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I want to see him play against my Dawgs…..And they do to…..

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Well look at the bright side……

More people than ever will be tuning into the national broadcast on CBS Saturday, and if UGA can play to their potential, it may look good in some recruit’s eyes.

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ESPN, ABC, CBS are all the ones that make money off these kids. ESPN and others keep kicking this dead “hear-say” story around. All of these allegations were put in the original report filed with the SEC back in January. ESPN and FOX are just regurgitating the same story from a different angle. Now instead of two has-been MSU players making allegations, it is someone who answers the phones for the MSU recruiting department. Are there any names to these individuals, NO of course not, then you would have a credible article. The NCAA is checking banking statements in an effort to cover themselves in case something were true. If they had hard evidence, Newton would already be sitting the bench.
It sucks that in order for AU to win a national championship, they not only have to navigate the SEC on the field but they have to do it off of the field. Auburn has taken MSU’s and FU’s best shots and has withstood them and will continue to withstand them.
Auburn is not USC, Auburn is not Alabama, AU is not Tennessee, and Auburn is not Auburn of the 70’s and 80’s when schools like Texas and Oklahoma openly paid players. Auburn was on probation and learned how to keep a tight ship. Under Tuberville and Chizik, Auburn keeps a very very tight reign on their athletes.
In this day and age, Athletes get caught for taking money, just ask Reggie Bush. Auburn boosters that would appropriate such behavior are shunned from the Crowd of Auburn Alumni and are not allowed to be around the program.
When Auburn extended a scholarship to Newton, they checked with the NCAA and SEC to see if he was “clean” and “eligible”. Those 2 organizations gave their approval, and as such he is eligible. If some was hidden that Newton did, before attending Auburn, then Auburn would not be in trouble because they went through the correct channels before accepting Newton.

Leave the Kid alone, and leave Auburn alone.

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Stanford Dr. Why don’t you go serve that bench warrant….Big deal. You need to watch your own dog before you bitch about another.

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HAHAHAH
“leave the kid alone, and leave Auburn alone”
Leave the liar/cheater/felon alone and leave my busted soon to be USC School alone

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Bo….

you guys seem to call UGA players “thugs” when any traffic violations occur……

so what makes the potential warrant in Gainsville for Cam “Laptop” Newton any different???

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It’s sad that the Auburn president would not get knee deep in this today, fearing the wrath of the Auburn people for screwing up a miracle season verses holding up the integrity of the University. He ought to meet with staff, hear them out, and have a press conference that these coach’s have given him assurances, based on their jobs at Auburn, and future jobs in NCAA football, that all is above board.

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Hope all this isn’t true! But, where there’s smoke…….!! After all, didn’t his father come up with a lot
of $ to remodel his CHURCH?????????

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Auburn has been caught paying for Cam Newton, and it’s ON TAPE
Auburn has LOST every game this year
Auburn is NOT going to a Bowl
Auburn does NOT have a Heisman Canidate
Auburn WONT be going to a bowl for 3 years
Auburn WONT recover for a DECADE when all is said and Done

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Nice job thug… way to ruin the barns ONE chance to matter in football.

RIP Allbarn football

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LMAO Simple Dog
Auburn wont be allowed to play ANY Bowl games this year
Do you have any clue how bad this just became?
HAHAHAHA At the Auburn fan thinking they still have something to play for this year!!!!!

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Summit Dawg…read page 2….no money to church..its empty, no repairs and going to waste….just another rumor.

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After all is brought to light, ill be curious as tohow many Aubrun hats i see walking around my Georgian city.

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There is no honor in whooping a wounded war eagle. Let Newton play this week at least.

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Goodbye Auburn, nice to know ya!

RMFT! November 26, 2010 = the final nail in the coffin.

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So they already have a built in excuse for a Dawgs victory this weekend huh?

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I just heard that a UGA player jaywalked across Baxter St.
Who was it?? What is Richt going to do about it? Come on, Mark, the public has a right to know! We want answers now!!

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With Auburns history of serious violations. ( They are second all time in major infractions )

If this turns out to be true. The NCAA might really drop the hammer.

And I mean an SMU sized hammer.

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What’s wrong with you Bama and Dawg fans? You shouldn’t wish this upon a student athlete. This new info is just as credible as everything else out there. Auburn fans will stand behind Newton until PROOF is given. All this is just bs being fed by someone who doesn’t like Newtons or Auburns success. And since when do people recruit for a team? I thought coaches did that. So either it’s the MSU coaches or some other non-credible source.

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High Plains Drifter – at least you have the balls to come out of hiding & post. Where are the rest of your barner buddies?

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@Bo – “Summit Dawg…read page 2….no money to church..its empty, no repairs and going to waste….just another rumor.”

The city of Newnan also canceled the church’s registration in 2008 according the Newnan city councilman quoted in the Newnan newspaper.

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If the investigator look 6 levels deep, they will find a connection with Kevin Bacon.

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If this story is true and if Mississippi State recruiting officials reported to the SEC back in January that Cam Newton was impling Auburn paid for his services…. then I think the both the SEC and Auburn may be in deep doo doo. I thought the NCAA wasn’t alerted until July and it sounds like only recently started investigating. Why the delay?

With all the other investigations going on late summer / early fall and the player suspensions, Auburn officials were morons to play this kid until they were 100% sure everything was ok.

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You guys really think Auburn would be stupid enough to pay somebody off (a very large sum of money) in these days of computers. You can’t hide that kind of dough, and if true, it would take Auburn down for a decade. Nobody is that dumb, so I say it is likely just rumor. However, who would have thought a player would sell his bowl jersey, either?

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MOST-PENALIZED DIVISION I PROGRAMS:

Arizona State 8

Southern Methodist 8

Auburn 7

Florida State 7

Memphis 7

Minnesota 7

Oklahoma 7

Texas A&M 7

Wichita State 7

Wisconsin 7

✭Nine programs have been penalized six times, including USC and UCLA.

Its not like Auburn hasn’t done this kind of thing before. Im not shocked at all.

I am shocked that people seem to be shocked that this would happen at Auburn.

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just wondering if you sports reporters actually do any reporting/investigating on your own? It is like you wait for someone else to do it and then report on it. If a sports story becomes news, does that mean the news reporters take over because sports reporters do not know how to pick up a phone and do some investigating themselves, too lazy, not trained, afraid or all of the mentioned? Who knows what might happen, someone might actually talk to you on the other end of the phone. Just saying…Might want to try it…

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Beware the quarterback with an upcoming UGA game: first Nesbitt and now Newton. UGA may end up 7-5 after all.

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@ddawg …I thought he with drew from UF not kicked off.

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Has the NCAA asked for bank records from Auburn Booster- Louder yet?

I swear the U.S Government should hire the NCAA to find Bin Laden-Take them about 2 day’s to get him.

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Well John, if they do have recordings of solicitations of payment and/or statements of having been paid, then you’re right…..Auburn is “dead as a beaver hat”.

Frankly, I doubt there is any tape recordings of the Newtons talking money or this whole argument would have been settled long ago.

But, I don’t see this ending well for Auburn. Just way too much smoke for there not to be any fire, and too much time has passed, without resolution, since the NCAA was notified for there to be nothing to it.

CamGate is in full blown investigative mode.

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One thing won’t change. HE will still be a tough son of a gun to bring down on Saturday. Grantham better have his guys practicing the tackling moves instead of choke signs this week. Be prepared for Dyer too that kid can move even better than Cam. Tough week for Cam but don’t think for one minute that he won’t run and throw all over us. Hey maybe they started all this stuff to distract us.

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@82Dawg…I think he withdrew after being told he wouldn’t be back on the team. They let him take the high road and “transfer” but his career was done at UF. Point being, this is a bad kid and everyone should have seen this coming. Always respected Auburn, but no more.

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If the 2 unnamed Miss. St. recruiters are not coaches, they must be the hospitality babes that wear tight t-shirts, right?

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npgaytor,

Might want to worry more bout your Gaytors facing Spurrier than the Dawgs facing AU.

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layinlow, I thought Chizek was an assitant at Auburn before he went to ISU? The hire seemed odd at the time but being familiar with the program and SEC made sense. It has worked well so far. How much it might have cost, no idea.

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Producewiz
Just HOW stupid are you?
LOL Cam Newton will never start a NFL game
Cam Newton is projected to be a 4th-7th round pick.

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Then the next season left to go to Texas and was the DC with them on there National Title team. That is when he left to go to Iowa. I believe that is his timeline.

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Come on..Do you really think that in this day and age AU paid Newton’s father!? There is no way they are that stupid.

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where are all of the War Eagles that were so vehemently posting on here Saturday night? They seem to have scattered…

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I’m seeing the UGA-AU game as Auburn’s battle cry akin to the one that went, ‘Remember the Maine.’ Newton will play through it, Auburn as a team will play through it. They will look to make a statement at UGA’s expense. In that regard Dawgs, don’t go into the weekend thinking Newton’s psyche is gonna be one of sullen heart and looking over his shoulder for the NCAA to come a-knocking. Newton, Cheesestik and Auburn may eventually go down but they will try to go down in a blaze of glory…
Hey Cam : Call 1-800-REG-BUSH for advice.

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All the enablers and defenders of the liar/cheater/felon that is Cam Newton are all running and hiding. They are know that their dear and beloved Auburn is about to get the SMU treatment.

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Gonna CRY Jack? LMAO Sniff Sniff, your nose running?
Never has this much info come out on a player and not been true.

Your School is winning NOTHING and after the NCAA is done with your School you won’t ever come close again.
LMAO
Get used to it and stop crying about the truth coming out

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Good points Lowcountry.
I’m starting to like Sunday football more and more and I was (and still am) a HUGE college football fan. All of this crap has really taken the luster off of college ball for me. It may be time to start paying the college players somehow (officially and legally paying the players..)

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The Coup de grâce for this weekend will be The Camburgerlar shootin’ his wad too early and the Dawgs showing up with more ammunition in their clip for the shootout.

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Where are the Auburn posters from yesterday??/ (crickets chirping)

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Herschel Talker Mark Richt is not going anywhere no matter what the score is to many sorry coaches around the SEC and Atlanta but we will keep Ray Goff in waiting. HA HA

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Goodbye Auburn – Frank Cooney’s NFL Draft Scout’s and CBSsports.com rate Newton as the number 1 quarterback for 2011 draft out of 118.

Saying he is a 4th to 7th round pick is, I guess, just your way of expressing your displeasure with his character.

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Who the heck is Auburn?
– Signed 2015 NCAA Football Fan

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Cam or no Cam, UGA is not going into this game scared to played Auburn. We are going for the thumb this year and CMR has no hangups playing Auburn. Auburn has not blown anyone out in the SEC games so UGA will not be an exception. Dawgs may not win but will be in the game in the fourth quarter. The press needs to let Cam alone if there were any truth the NCAA would have suspended him months ago. Just the press trying to bring down another SEC team so they can say our conference is a bunch of Cheaters. Go Dawgs, GATA on Saturday!!

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LMAO at Ted and his Frank Cooney’s NFL draft prediction
Cam Newton has not shown anyone in the NFL his pure QB skills because of the run-option spread he plays in, who cares what some SCRUB frank Cooney says, everyone else says he would be the 5th QB taken this year at BEST.

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I see 4 pages of almost universal guilt for Newton here. Personally, I’d like to see one shred of verifiable evidence before I go off and call the man guilty. Past infractions mean nothing to this case. The fact that he attends a school you don’t like doesn’t make him guilty either. Evidence does, and to this point there must not be much, because the NCAA has had this since July and as of yet, nothing.

That being said, if he’s guilty, it doesn’t sound to me that the blame needs to be layed on Cam as much as it does his Father. If this is all true, he’s the real sleeze, and his son is just a by-product of the fathers teachings.

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That should read “definitely not get paid”. Let me apologize for the typo before I get blasted for being a poorly edumacated redneck.

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Hard to not believe something is wrong when new info comes out everyday. I can’t remember this much information ever coming out about a story and the story ended up being completely false. If this turns out true then it will be a huge black mark for Auburn, the SEC, and College Football in general. Money really is ruining the sport in a variety of ways.

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serious for auburn? wtf are you toking dude?

cammy cam is the man. this is all going mean uga will get thumped like a punching bag.

Mark the sources are not named which means clearly this is bogus. unless you can prove he received payments the conversation is meaningless.

It is not illegal to ask for money. maybe it could have been in exchange for prayers from papa newton.

you cannot tape a conversation without permission from all parties.

see how easy thatw as mark. no story here guy. try another angle that requires more effort.

stop stealing money dude.

cammy cam is the man. running all over those pretty boys from uga.

Bosshog

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Lowcountry- Sarcasm is hard to read in writing but I’ll assume you are being sarcastic with Nesbitt as the 3rd QB taken.

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Dont worry Auburn, SMU got good again….

November 10th, 2010
11:32 am
LMAO at Ted and his Frank Cooney’s NFL draft prediction
Cam Newton has not shown anyone in the NFL his pure QB skills because of the run-option spread he plays in, who cares what some SCRUB frank Cooney says, everyone else says he would be the 5th QB taken this year at BEST.
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cammy cam is the number one overall pick next year he is better than luck better than locker. put that in your pipe and smoke it.

cam is a man playing with little boys.

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As I said it my Money and I need it NOW! Oh well last year!

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Ryan Mallet might be 1st, and most likely the BIlls are thinking Luck or Mallet, not Luck and Locker. Of course Fitz has been looking decent, so maybe the Bills make a mistake and not take a QB.

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If Auburn gets the death penalty, I think Mike Slive needs to get Texas A&M in the offseason. Then when Auburn comes back, add a 14th team. That allows for a few years to figure out who the 14th team would be.

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This is bad for Aubarn, but I hope Cam plays its time for the Dawgs to Man -Up.

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If it is true so what. But I want to know what took this agent or MSU so long to come forth. Is it because Auburn is ranked high and Cam will probably win the Heisman. There is always a underline motive. I have kids that play sports and will have a good chance to play college sports. They should get paid. These kids spend more than 40 HRS a week preparing for the upcoming games every week. The coaches, schools and the NCAA makes a killing. If we the fans make enough fuss about this it will change.

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if cam’s dad received money why would he tell another school his dad received money. he can’t be playing qb if he is that damn.

a guy who throws a laptop out of his dorm ain’t dumb enough to spill such info on his pops.

he is ATL he knows better.

this nothing but pure BS.

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Leave it to you to write a column dragging mud into a story and acting like a sleazy National Enquirer reporter. You and most of the rest of the sports media are so excited and thrilled that you have something to report that is controversial and negative. Do you know why you and other sports media people talk about stuff like this, Brett Favre and other things like it? Because you don’t know enough about sports in general to speak intelligently about it. Still waiting for those personal attacks on Paul Hewitt to start from you.

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Say goodbye to Auburn football for a few years…

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All of this chatter does not take away the fact that UGA is likely heading to the……

B I R M I N G H A M B O W L

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*Sources*

Nothing concrete.

No evidence.

Nothing but heresay, rumors and speculation.

And yet the media pushes it and the *sheeples* who can’t think for themselves eat it up.

We’re a sad, sad society.

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Buckeye,

Ohio State football is overrated junk. You’d have 3-4 losses already if you played in the SEC.

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MANAGER: Vincent stopped making picks.

ELAINE: (upset) Well, how am I gonna know what movies to see?

MANAGER: We have a wide variety of Gene picks.

ELAINE: (dismissive) Gene’s trash.

MANAGER: I’m Gene.

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Greetings ThugDawg fans….today’s specials include pre-orders for my Auburn Game Jersey. I am also offering exclusive items signed by Cam “Laptop” Newton!!

And, of course, the ever popular red panties are continuing to sell, sell, sell!

And CASH man, no checks. I don’t need no stinking bank records, man.

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I, for one, hope all the truth comes out soon and not take years like it did for Reggie Bush and USC. Cam Newton sinking the Auburn football program could not happen to a better institution. Anyone in the metro area who thinks Auburn fans are good people has never had to interact with them away from metro Atlanta.

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Cam Newton and his father need to shut up, lawyer up, and stay out of the spotlight. Every time the Newton’s speak they sound more guilty. If there is no truth in the allegations, then he should have said that, directly and clearly. Instead, they just say that they are not going to say anything. For that matter, CGC is beginning to sound shrill in defending his star. I have no animosity towards AU or Newton, but his best play is to just play.

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Like Hillary always tells me, “where there is smoke……….. or stains on blue dresses…….or………..there is…..” or something like that.

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I hope the allegations and rumors are false, and if they are then the sources should be prosecuted fully and sued mercilessly. The problem is that the response by the Newtons is weak and only fuels legitimate inquiry. From Coach GC’s unequivocal statements, either Auburn is unaware of any wrongdoing (maybe an anonymous booster involved?) or he has just given his own exit interview.

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No wonder college football fights so hard to protect the status quo. The individual schools make millions and they only have to pay the coaches and the star players who make up less than 5% of the team’s rosters.

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So if a UGA player misses his traffic court date, it’s the END OF THE WORLD and UGA is a THUG PROGRAM and an OUT-OF-CONTROL DISGRACE. But now “Six-Fig” Newton is being investigated by the NCAA for accepting obscene amounts of money to play football at Auburn, and the media can’t jump on the sword fast enough to defend this guy? I thought TB had lost his marbles a few weks ago when he called for the public tar-and-feathering of CTG, but this is ridiculous. Take the rest of the season off, AJC, and let the real pros cover it.

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So how much did Auburn University pony up to purchase Cam Newton for all of those spoiled children at Auburn who think college is a football team with a school attached?

And lets not forget all of those fat rear ended fried chicken eating (with potato salad of course) Auburn fans stuffed into their Auburn shirts waiving their pom poms before they go home to their double wides in Pukeville, AL.

It’s so great that we have football to make us feel good about ourselves because we are all such losers.

Ane what are the 3 most common lies told by Auburn fans and grads?

3. My trailer is paid for.

2. I didn’t know she was my sister.

1. Honest officer, I was just helping the pig get over the fence.

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Ga Tiger

November 10th, 2010
12:07 pm
These are all innuendos, and the problem is most of the sportswriters, tv sports journalist, etc, who usually have never played a down of football in their life, jump at the opportunity to write a story to get higher publicity ratings and to stir up crap. Wait until proven before you crucify the guy or a program!!!

Where there is a stink, there is usually a pile…

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Proud Tiger,

Us Dawg fan’s thought the same thing about A.J till we found out about the jersey selling.100% of time if NCAA is involved like this-something will come up on wrong doing.

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The funny thing is that “SEC FF” doesn’t realize that you could plug in the name of any conference school besides Auburn and his allegations would still be true. One possible exception is Vanderbilt, which sucks so bad in football that no one cares anyway.

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FullMetalJacket: it’s pretty hard to prove the allegations wrong when no concrete evidence has been offered to support the allegations.

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This stuff goes on at Stanford. They’re just way too smart to get caught.

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I BET CAM WISHES HE HAD STUCK WITH BEING A 2ND STRING TIGHT END (TO ORSON CHARLES) AND ENROLLED AT GEORGIA.

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AU will not bench CN. However, if he was UGA’s QB he’d probably be booted off the team just like Mettenberger. And the moral of the story? GA is 5-5, soon to be 5-6. Idiots are running the program into the ground at UGA.

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http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/11/scarbinsky_is_the_latest_hit_o.html

Should these conversations have actually happened, I can’t wait to hear MSU’s explanation about why they were still recruiting Newton after learning he was shopping himself for cash, and further, it better have been MSU coaches doing said recruiting, or somebody’s going to be in a heap of trouble. Oh and the SEC’s explanation for not investigating this back in January when it was reported to them.

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Mark: thanks for the thorough and objective commentary. My sympathy to all the AU grads in the Atlanta area until this is resolved, and if there isn’t any fire at the base of these billows of smoke, then Cam Newton has been greatly wronged.

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How come Stanford never has stuff like this go on?

Because Stanford’s mascot is a tree, and everyone knows that trees never cheat. They get whizzed on by other mascots like Bulldogs and Trojans but they still never cheat.

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Come on AJC, it’s after noon already and I haven’t heard anymore rumor and innuendo from unnamed sources since this morning! What’s the deal? You are really slacking off!!

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lol…no way would Stanford ever have offered that kid….They consider character a major factor,and grades count there.

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The NCAA Compliance division needs to examine its disclosure policies, and either make allegations all public or completely private. We should have learned about this investigation from a press release directly from the NCAA source, not from a potentially biased press source. What do you think, Mr. Bradley?

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@Delbert, so now the contention is these anonymous sources were not coaches, but MSU alumni or bimbos that dropped a dime on Newton when he wouldn’t play for the Bulldogs?

That certainly makes the story more believable. Does anyone have anything that could be construed as “evidence” here? Beuller?

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Bulldogs never use excuses for losing do they?

Not about Tech. We never lose to them anyway.

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South Eastern Cheaters….its a league and everyone does it so it can’t be wrong….

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SEC not investigating charges of wrongdoing by one of its members? Wow, who would’ve ever thought that…

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What is your excuses for ALWAYS losing to UF and more times than Not losing to UT? Is that all you have? Normally Ga fans are full of many more excuses for losing !

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Mark,

Just so you know – Auburn and the SEC have known about this since January.

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It’s time to pay NCAA players the same as student employees in other positions. Minimum wage isn’t much, and the programs would still make money hand over fist. The next step is to seriously punish players and programs who break the rules, meaning financial and meaningful penalties. The NCAA also needs to seek cooperation from the NFL, for whom they serve as the farm system in football and (especially) basketball.

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Ethics? Fraud? Consider, this is a young man with incredible talent. Why shouldn’t he and his familly cash in?

Ummmm because its illegal.

If you want to change the rules and pay the players fine. But thats not the system we have in place now.

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“Un-named sources”? Should a legitimate newspaper be allowed to even publish what actually amounts to gossip? The new wave in America, just say it, and that makes it true.

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I’m sure the FBI would like to meet in private with the bimbos. I think they have asked to meet with Cecil Newton and his lawyer, though.

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There are two kinds of college football fans: Those who acknowledge that there is some corruption in every program (including their own) and who hope it is minimal in their own program. The others who think only their rivals and the successful schools are guilty and that their own schools are immaculate. Open your eyes, people, it is better to be enlightened and resigned to compromise than naive and ignorant.

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If a regular student can earn money using his talents while he is still in school by getting internships, working part time, etc., and if a regular student can accept gifts from people with impunity, it is flat out absurd that an athlete can’t do the same thing.

It always amuses me when people complain about pro athletes wanting to be compensated for their services and use that as an excuse to say college sports are better. EVERYONE wants to be fairly compensated. The only difference is that in college, where the archaic, plantation-like rules prevent student-athletes from getting their piece of the pie, they have to go under the table to get what they deserve.

College sports are a joke.

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After the ITAT’s “Operation Red Dog” before the 2009 season, I hope Auburn goes down in flames and I also hope (although I don’t think it was) it was a Bama source that brought them down. RTR

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Gene: Good post. Nice to see a rational yet still passionate argument. As a university faculty member I agree whole-heartedly that athletes should meet the same standards as all other students. Unfortunately, I have seen too many student-athletes admitted provisionally and allowed to stick around for several years who had neither the inclination nor the intellect to succeed in college. I disagree that they are all ignorant thugs, but they should have been given another reasonable path to the NFL. I blame the NFL and the university leadership for the situation.

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of the “Auburn Family” thing…guess that is what you do carrying such an inferiority complex. It’s a “feel good” thing, I guess.

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At least the public media circus is off my Tar Heels for awhile!

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Only in the twisted, through the looking glass world of college sports would someone trying to be fairly compensated for his work be referred to by words like “infraction” and “violation”.

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P.S.

O.J. Simpson was innocent

War scam eagle

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I don’t expect a welder, a plumber, or a car mechanic to have a college degree, though I admire and depend on all of them to be skilled, intelligent, and ethical in their craft. Why should we expect professional athletes to be college graduates and why do we attach a moral superiority to attending college? Isn’t it sufficient that they be skillful, diligent, and ethical at their craft, too?

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All I can say is that there is a lot more to it than what has come out so far. If there is wrong doing it will come out sooner or later.

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Integrity matters! This story should remind everyone a “winning program” without a moral compass is not really a championship program.

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South Georgia, there is no championship program with true integrity. Only those who have been caught and those who will eventually be caught.

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I doubt the kid will play QB for any team other than the prison team! Mullen and Meyer are punks!

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The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibit’s the pursuit of excellence with integrity. He may, or may not be guilty, but his intergrity is in question, and Heisman voters will have to decide if they want to vote for someone who’s intergrity has been discredited.

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I see the Auburn Boogereaters are upset.

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Dogs Smell,

Really? That is all you could come up with?

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Three unnamed sources have alleged that Cam talked about Fight Club…

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I don’t know nothin’ ’bout no fight club. (but it’s true that Cam never brought his own soap)

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cammy cam just scored again. TD Auburn Tigers.

cammy broke someone’s heart and they are real jealous.

cammy cam back 2 back nc champs.

cammy acam greatest college football player ever.

cammy cam is the man.

all hail cammy cam.

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Why do I have a feeling this is going to end badly for Newton?

Oh, wait, no it won’t. He’ll be getting millions in the NFL soon enough.

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Don’t none of this matter none so long as Auburn beats the s%ht out of teh dawgs come Saturday.

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Dogs Smell…learn to use Spell Check 1st

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Which is more ridiculous? Ruining your reputation for the sake of Miss. State or Auburn? Seems pretty bleak either way. I hope Cam’s daddy spent the money well. $200K seems a cheap sell-out for one’s good name. Were they really that poor?…or just that morally impoverished?

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URGENT UPDATE – AP and ESPN Dallas reporting he will be suspended today! google it… it is going to happen. Vegas has frozen betting line. HA! All my Auburn friends who were so sure he was clean… OOPS!

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The ole ball coach

November 10th, 2010
1:21 pm
Newton was charged with cheating three times at Florida, 13 times charged with tickets, to three felonies including obstruction by Imtimidating witnesses
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dude even a ham sandwich can be charged. making it stick is a different story.

Ghandi alo got arrested.

bohoo you lose.

cammy cam is the man. dude just always wins. he can’t be stopped.

omg. cammy cam scored another TD.

TD auburn Tigers.

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Lowcountry Bulldawgs

Yes, facts are what I came up with. You dogs are getting hard thinking Cam might not be on top of his game. Just like you do when anyone might give you an edge or another team losing in order to open that back door you like so well. You “Homers ” really need to check with reality.

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All these “dawg” fans that are hoping UGA will lose to Auburn, so Richt can get fired are not REAL UGA fans. They are either
a) Auburn/Georgia Tech/Florida fans
b) Fair-Weather fans

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The NCAA has no credibility. If Auburn weren’t 10-0, in the hunt for the SEC championship and the BCS Title game, we aren’t even having this conversation. How is it players from Bama, UGA, NC and SC are ineligible pending the NCAA’s investigation and Auburn’s isn’t. How stinky is this?

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I’m staying out of this mess. I guess it makes sense that if this guy was the top player in JUCO, yet was not heavily recruited, something had to smell rotten about this situation. That’s why I took my chances of trying to win with just solid defense and great special teams.

This really irks me because after this season Gene and company will be at home for the holidays the next few years. That means my good buddy, Nick, will get every top player in Alabama now. Geez, he’s tough enough to beat as it is.

My friend Urban has to be aggravated. He’s trying to get his troops ready for Steve Superior and has this distraction going on. He needed someone to cry on last night so I left film early to take his call.

I shouldn’t even be on here myself right now. I gotta get ready for UL-Monroe and then I got the preacher to deal with. Interesting that I haven’t seen much of the Johnny Rebs on here this season. I think they spent way too much time trying to figure out that a stupid bear should be their mascot. Of course, what is there to do in Oxford anyway.

I really need to be thinking about Arkansas. Noone is talking about them and they are under the radar in the West. They have a heck of a team. Shoot they think they can get in to the Sugar instead of us. I got news for them. The Big Easy is our place.

Oh well let me go spend some time with my hobby as a horticulturalist before I hit the practice field this afternoon.

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As long as we’re just ’spit-ballin’ here…tell us Mark, just how many times are you gonna ‘come full circle’ on this story this week?…whatever the truth is on this it’ll come out. It’s not like politics these days where those in power can simply deny and obfuscate until the media gets tired of asking and moves on. No this is SEC football, it’s way more important that lying about wars and treasury looting, so the ‘truth will out’ one day….and as for young Mr. Newton having withdrawn from Florida rather than getting kicked out, think of it like Georgia’s new Governor having ‘quit’ Congress to run for Guv before they tarred and feathered him for his sucky ethics while in Washington.

Hope the kid does play Saturday and we put an end to this ‘Superman’ crap. After all this is an ‘away’ game in the Georgia-Auburn series – for us that is.

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We as SEC Fans all want a representative from our Great Conference to win the BCS Championship, even if it is not “our” school. However we do want a school playing in the game without any form of controversy and issues. Now this situation with Auburn has turned a wonderful story about a player who picked himself up, paid his dues at a JC and made a Heisman run into a major front page story of dirty payoff, cheating and selling the talents of a player. It is true? Is it half-true? It is a vendetta from a school that got jilted? We do not know. We will have to sit back and wait and let the NCAA Gestapo do its investigation.

As most Americans do, we love giving second chances if a person makes a mistake and shows remorse, that has become the American way. We all love the rebound when it turns a bad situation into a success. Does Cameron Newton fit that model? Yes. Does the extra chapters in that story being written now by all the accusations and issues play a role in the story and the forgiveness? Yes. We all want a kid that did something wrong when he was young and dumb to turn a life lesson into a postive.

Now onto Cecil Newton, he just from an observation stand point, from what is being written and reported whether true or not leads one to think he may have had some ulterior motives behind his dealings with various schools, shady characters and associates. As for one, it will be alot harder to forgive a minister, preacher , a grown man for any act that may have financially improved his personal economic situation.

One final thing that is just uncomfortable, there is the NCAA investigating numerous levels of accusations. Anyone who has dealt with the NCAA during an investigation will tell you that 9 out 10 times when the NCAA starts meddling with a player, program, coach, booster or school administrator they find some other issues besides the initial issue brought to their attention.
The folks at Auburn will spin this in a positive manner and will put on some rose colored glasses. The schools outside of Auburn will look at this as a troubling site and will undoubtly be the first ones to rule guilty, that is just the nature of competitive sports. Will this be that 1 out of 10 where the player, school and parent are innocent? Time will tell.

Too many allegations just leaves the this whole scenario not as good of a story as it was only two short months ago when the the Cameron Newton story was being written.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Interesting article:

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-06-14/sports/florida_1_uf-johnson-gainesville

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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

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I am just SHOCKED that coaches from Mississippi State would make any allegations about a player that REFUSED TO SIGN WITH THEM.

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………………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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I would have emphasized the YOU rather than the ARE in that comment, but thats just my two cents.

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Why have athletic scholarships at all?

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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.

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[...] 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 [...]

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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.

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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!

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