NCAA investigating Cam Newton

Or . . . GASP! . . . didn't want to see it.

 

Yeah but was a situation where UT and Bama were directly involved in recruiting the same kid. I may have the details wrong but I think all Tennessee did was report a potential violation regarding a kid they were attempting to recruit. That happens all the time.

Florida's involvement with this is different. The kid was at UF, got kicked out and wound up at another SEC school after spending a year at JUCO. If what is being reported is accurate, UF had no direct involvement in the recruiting violation but had a hand in seeing that the story went public. There was no reason for UF to do that other than spite.

 

Well, Newton left Florida voluntarily, so maybe if Florida sees it as him spurning both Urban Meyer and former UF OC Dan Mullen at MSU, I'd be stunned if one or both schools weren't involved in making sure this gets out there.

 

Spurrier also had a hand in it. But you'd never know it based on whom Alabama fans blame.

Next shoe to drop may be why he left Florida. Details of that are still in rumor stage, however.

 

Well, MSU was directly involved as they were the school that reported the original violation. But they had to do that or they risked getting in trouble themselves.

My point about the SWC comparison is that what killed that league is that schools started turning each other in purely because they were pissed about losing recruiting battles.

 

The schools wouldn't pay the athletes. The boosters would. Although I'm sure, the schools would "wink-wink" not pay them.

 

Sure you can stop policing it. Let the athletes collect as many cars and cash as they want.

And for those who say that the athletes are already getting paid through their scholarships, if the $200K figure is true, then Newton is getting roughly $50K more than the value of four years of education at Auburn:

http://www.auburn.edu/administration/business_office/finaid/pdf/cost.pdf

EDIT: Actually, he's getting roughly $60K more than the value, considering the scholarship doesn't pay for the personal expenses that Auburn put in their figures.

 

Good point about the good, old Southwest Conference. I was never happy with the merger that formed the Big 12.

But all of this is circumstantial evidence. A lot of smoke. A renovated church. A former Mississippi State quarterback's testimony. None of it passes the smell test. Especially when the NCAA seeks financial statements from your old man, who "picked" where you were to play college football.

 

It's a matter of time until that money is traced.

It's not like you can throw it out a dorm window into a dumpster.

 

Google Albert Means and see what comes up.

You know who looks bad in all this? A.J. Green. He only got $1,000 for a stinkin jersey.

 

I think the SEC cheats more today than the SWC did in the 1980s. I just think most of the schools are smarter about it.

 

We're gonna come to a time where the Heisman winner is like the Tour De France winner - you just assume they were paid until it's proven otherwise, just like you assume the Tour winner doped until/unless they prove they didn't. Guilty until proven innocent.