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Sports & Recreation > Football > Auburn Should Have to Pay Today, But it Won't.
 

Auburn Should Have to Pay Today, But it Won't.

When I watch a football team such as Auburn's run roughshod over a very, very good South Carolina team, all I can think of is that the school has the best team money can buy.  
This Auburn team reminds me of the Southern Cal teams of a few years back that also dominated every team they played.  
No team can be "that" good without a few dollars being slipped into someone's hands. 
When OU discovered a few years back that alumni were paying two of its players, one the starting quarterback, for hours they were NOT actually working, those players immediately were dismissed from the team and expelled from the university.  The athletic department reported the incident to the NCAA and we took our punishment, having to forfeit some games in which these two players participated.
But, here we have an athlete, Cam Newton, of Auburn who has openly admitted that he wanted to go to Mississippi State but the money wasn't "good enough", who was about to be kicked out of Florida for cheating violations on schoolwork before he transferred to a junior college, a father who admits he tried to shop his son to Mississippi State for $100,000 and yet the NCAA claims it has "insufficient evidence" to declare him ineligible to play.  
Auburn is going to win the national championship, Cam Newton is going to win the Heisman; then, three or four years down the road the NCAA will finally slap penalties on Auburn, Newton will have to return his Heisman and the school will have to forfeit all its games.
However, the rightful winner of the National Title and the Heisman will have lost out because of the crooked programs like Southern Cal and Auburn.


posted on Dec 7, 2010 10:42 AM ()

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Greed triumphs again.
comment by marta on Dec 7, 2010 7:53 PM ()
And it makes me so angry because the schools who are trying to do it right are the ones who must pay for these dirty schools who buy the best athletes.
reply by redimpala on Dec 7, 2010 10:29 PM ()
College sports have lost their mandate to build character, to teach brotherhood and team spirit. Everything is about the money. I think all profit incentive should be removed from these programs. I am shouting into the wind.
comment by tealstar on Dec 7, 2010 12:01 PM ()
How do you remove the profit incentive when there is not supposed to be one in the first place????
reply by redimpala on Dec 7, 2010 1:38 PM ()
I was oblivious to this kind of thing until this past summer when Univ of Colorado decided to switch conferences and there was talk about how many millions of dollars this is going to cost the university, and I realized that even though we hear all these sob stories about how tuition hikes are needed or taxes raised for education, the football programs are on a whole other planet from the rest of us.
comment by troutbend on Dec 7, 2010 11:42 AM ()
Oh, it really is. College football is a big time business now for universities and the incentive to cheat is sometimes too great for greedy alumni who are willing to slip dollars under the table to get the best athletes.
reply by redimpala on Dec 7, 2010 1:39 PM ()

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