Wow...Auburn might be in trouble

[Richard Wright]

Damn I read the article and its way beyond paying players. Auburn just sounds like a scary ass place.

 

[MoneyTron]

Damn I read the article and its way beyond paying players. Auburn just sounds like a scary ass place.

One of the sleepiest big college campuses you're going to find.

I used to do some absolutely wild shyt on the roads I could never get away with here in the A down there.

Never had trouble with the cops in Auburn. It was kinda weird.

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

ESPN just sent out a scorecenter alert, looks like this is about to go mainstream.

 

[Richard Wright]

College football is slavery these days. Damn shyt has gotten bad. They need to bring the death penalty back

 

[FreshAIG]

Cam Newton was getting that paper for a minute huh?

 

[MMS]

 

[AVXL]

ESPN.com news services | April 3, 2013

Auburn's football program changed players' grades to secure eligibility, offered money to potential NFL draft picks to return for their senior seasons and violated NCAA recruiting rules under former coach Gene Chizik, according to a report by former New York Times and Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts.

The report appears on Roberts' website, Roopstigo.com. According to three former Auburn players, as many as nine players' grades were changed before Auburn's win in the 2011 BCS national championship game.

"We thought we would be without (running back) Mike Dyer because he said he was one of them, but Auburn found a way to make those dudes eligible," former Auburn defensive lineman Mike Blanc told Roberts.

According to the report, Auburn coaches offered money to players for any number of reasons, including as a means to convince players to bypass the NFL draft.

Darvin Adams, a former Auburn wide receiver, told Roberts that coaches offered him cash to keep him at the school.

Blanc and Mike McNeil, another former Auburn player, told Roberts the money amounts reached "several thousand dollars."

"Coaches would say, 'Don't tell anyone where you got it from,' " Blanc told Roberts.

McNeil told Roberts he had a meeting with then-defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, now Florida's coach, in 2007.

"I had no clue what it was about because I'd never directly asked him for anything," McNell told Roberts. "He slid about $400 over to me. He went into a drawer and gave me money and said, 'Is this enough? Is this good?' And I said, 'Yeah, I'm good.' "

McNeil is awaiting trial for armed robbery stemming from a March 2011 arrest. In June, his former teammate Antonio Goodwin was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in the incident. Ben Hand, McNeil's former attorney, maintained McNeil's innocence to Roberts.

Former Auburn defensive back Nieko Thorpe told Roberts that Auburn, in a team meeting, threatened players' scholarships if they contacted McNeil, Goodwin or the two other players arrested.

McNeil told Roberts he felt Auburn used him as a scapegoat at at time when the Tigers faced negative publicity from allegations that it had paid the father of star quarterback Cam Newton. An NCAA investigation found Auburn committed no major rules violations in Newton's recruitment.

"Maybe there is a fear in Auburn's mind that Michael knows too much," McNeil's father, Clifton, told Roberts. "Their fear is that Michael will expose the family secret. It's a way to silence him."

Thorpe also told Roberts the coaching staff far exceeded its NCAA-allotted per diem for entertaining recruits. Thorpe said coaches gave players $500 to entertain current Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, even though the NCAA reportedly limits expenses to less than $50 per day.

All of these allegations happened under Chizik, who guided Auburn to its first national title since 1957 after the 2010 season.

Chizik was fired after a 3-9 season last year.

 

[Jparker]

im a panthers fan and even im not blind enough to see this nikka is not there all the way.

nikka fast though

wouldn't be surprised to hear his name come up in this scandal

 

[Big Blue]

 

[Bone$]

If this is true, what type of punk bytch snitches later that you did get paid.. You already should be getting paid, why fukk it up for everyone... Dumb fukk

 

[#1 pick]

SEC Football ain't about school and never has been. It's a billion dollar business where the players don't make shyt.

 

[cfountain]

ESPN got it up on their site.

seems they rolling with it

 

[asuram92]

Freek da Gawd

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

This is about to get real. If I were an Auburn fan, I'd be scared.

I mean, the sources are NAMED:

Auburn's football program changed players' grades to secure eligibility, offered money to potential NFL draft picks to return for their senior seasons and violated NCAA recruiting rules under former coach Gene Chizik, according to a report by former New York Times and Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts.

Darvin Adams, a former Auburn wide receiver, told Roberts that coaches offered him cash to keep him at the school.

Blanc and Mike McNeil, another former Auburn player, told Roberts the money amounts reached "several thousand dollars."

"I had no clue what it was about because I'd never directly asked him for anything," McNell told Roberts. "He slid about $400 over to me. He went into a drawer and gave me money and said, 'Is this enough? Is this good?' And I said, 'Yeah, I'm good.' "

 

[MoneyTron]

Sources were named when they did the HBO special too. Same shyt different day.