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. Â
This Auburn team reminds me of the Southern Cal teams of a few years back that also dominated every team they played. Â
No team can be "that" good without a few dollars being slipped into someone's hands.Â
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. Â 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. Â
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.