NCAA investigating Cam Newton

Unless there's a lockout, and the NFL bows down to the NCAA and institutes a punishment for players breaking NCAA rules.

 

Well, maybe he saw the lockout looming and thought, better get what I can now. Maybe he can make 1k/game in the AFL next year.

 

I think at this point, things are way bigger than Cam Newton. Auburn may be looking at trying to save themselves as an institution, not just a football program...

Allegedly...

 

Why on earth would the NFL institute penalties for players who violate NCAA rules? Aside from the very questionable legality of such a move, what's in it for the NFL. What's the NCAA gonna do to them? Forbid on-campus scouting? Every player on every team would show up at a high school field to work out for NFL scouts if asked.

 

Let me clarify ... the students I spoke with were not generic J-school students. They were among those kids who "worked" in the SID office. They would have been a small subset of internship-eligible J-school students. In fact, for the longest I just thought these kids -- the ones working in the SID office -- were volunteers. At my alma mater, which had no journalism program, several students volunteered in the SID office. I would assume that is still the case at D1 schools today.

I agree with you that the J-school wouldn't want its internships being done that way; that's why I was so struck by what was happening at the time. But the fact is that several kids were getting their internship tickets punched in just such a fashion.

 

They were volunteers.

Some were in J-school. Some were not.

Anyone who worked there, as a student or writer, might remember this line late in the evening: "Is there anything else you need from Auburn?"

 

No one can do anything about it now anyway. NCAA investigations don't move that fast.

Not saying it shouldn't be a story, just saying that the fact the story came to light now will have little to no bearing on how quickly this is resolved.

 

Yep. The only way Slive can suspend him is if they have proven he's ineligible, which they haven't yet.

 

I remember that line. But some of those kids I am talking about were certainly doing an internship, or at least that was their perception. My memory fails me in some areas, but not in this one. When I asked the then-SID about it, he did not tell me they weren't on an internship. He did not clarify that certain duties were part of their internship and certain duties were on a volunteer basis. He questioned why such an internship as I had described would be ill-advised. It's a fact. You can choose to not believe me if you wish, but I have no ax to grind here (e.g., I am neither an alumnus of nor a partisan for any SEC school).

 

Thank you for clearing up my ignorance/laziness. I had not seen this information coming out while the scandal hit. It was all about Cecil and his church, nothing about what Cam knew or did not know.

I was not trying to be in Disneyland but I felt without more, kid deserved the benefit of the doubt, at least until something else came out.

As for the NCAA rule, it does not have the kids' best interests at heart, simply gives the NCAA a lower standard if they want to lower the boom on a kid. Now the kid has to monitor his family? Don't the kids have enough to do while trying to supposedly get a college degree?

 

No offense meant, Senor . . . but there is some bad shit going on here, and somebody and/or
some institution needs to pay -- big-time.

 

Maybe because the NFL would want to use any type of bargaining chip threat against the players in the upcoming negotiations?

When the league and the NCAA talked a couple weeks back about possibly suspending players without pay for accepting illegal benefits in college, I figured there would be no way the union would accept that. But when you think about how the owners are trying to seek major concessions, they'll probably bend on working with the NCAA in exchange for some monetary concessions.