OT: Auburn program under investigation by NCAA
November 21st, 2012 at 3:38 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 3:42 PM ^
...this:
Assistant coaches Trooper Taylor and Curtis Luper have been scrutinized by the NCAA, sources said. Taylor is the assistant head coach and wide receivers coach, while Luper coaches running backs and is the recruiting coordinator.
...probably not.
November 21st, 2012 at 3:59 PM ^
But wouldn't that be a good thing? If his position coach and the recruiting coordinator is getting the boot, then wouldn't that be less reason to go to Auburn? In addition to the dark cloud that all of this brings anyway?
November 21st, 2012 at 4:07 PM ^
...recruiting make that much sense?
November 21st, 2012 at 8:49 PM ^
I wonder if this investigation is how the Jordan Diamond rumor got started a couple of weeks ago?
November 21st, 2012 at 9:26 PM ^
You mean this? Courtesy of the aptly titled "SEC Rant"
AU OL Jordan Diamond from Chicago LFB 2012-10-24 12:54:10 ---------------------------- Diamond is from Chicago, IL, very strange that a kid from Chicago would go all the way down south to play for Auburn when he had much better options closer to home. Well, it turns out the Chicago Tribune investigated this and Diamond has admitted to close friends/relatives that he took a multiple payments which equaled to $50,000 to sign with Auburn. Story is going to hint print next Tuesday. This is legit info. Makes sense now why Ohio State completely stopped recruiting him. Aubs gonna Aubs.
Don't know if that was ever verified.
Jordan Diamond's Apparent Response:
Look!
This month has already been rough on me and the family. Now y'all wanna
come at me with this. I left CHICAGO because I didn't wanna be around
or apart of the violence and the controversy any more. I wanted to get as
far away as possible but still feel at home and AU is that place. I
came down here because I wanted to go to Auburn. Don't get me wrong I loved
all the schools that recruited me and I wish them well but Auburn is better and ultimately has the better
opportunity for me to play early, and a great family atmosphere. Please
let me enjoy my years here at AU because I only got a few of them. Thank
you...
I hope it's not the former...but it is Auburn. Time will tell.
November 22nd, 2012 at 12:44 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 3:40 PM ^
That sound you hear is the moving truck warming up at the Chizik residence.
November 21st, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^
Actually it's the hammering of nails building Cecil Newton's new church. It takes a while to blow $180,000 in cash.
November 21st, 2012 at 3:41 PM ^
Stop me if you've heard this one before. My guess is they just say the parents asked with no knowledge, bla bla bla.
November 21st, 2012 at 3:44 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^
NO way
November 21st, 2012 at 11:07 PM ^
we landed on the moon!
November 21st, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 3:46 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 3:46 PM ^
http://twitter.com/DanWetzel/statuses/271353592273829888
"As @Ianfitzespn notes, NCAA violations could nullify Gene Chizik buyout. Auburn w $10m incentive to cooperate"
November 21st, 2012 at 3:48 PM ^
This. I would not be surprised if any of the boosters "cooperated" in uncovering this stuff. They want this guy gone bad.
November 21st, 2012 at 3:54 PM ^
Even so, they would be punished too...Do they want to get rid of him so bad that they are willing to be excomunicated from the program? Doubt it
November 22nd, 2012 at 12:14 AM ^
The way the NCAA "punishes" programs these days, the boosters are probably thinking that an NCAA punishment is much, much easier to endure (or work around, or avoid altogether) than either a $10M buyout or more years with Chizik.
November 21st, 2012 at 3:46 PM ^
This is where I'm supposed to say that thing about gambling in this establishment, right?
November 21st, 2012 at 3:48 PM ^
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November 21st, 2012 at 4:39 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 3:50 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 4:39 PM ^
SEC: If you aint cheatin' you aint tryin'.
November 21st, 2012 at 3:52 PM ^
Seems like the NCAA does these investigations with the intent to not find anything. Maybe they'll actually do some digging now that Auburn sucks.
November 21st, 2012 at 3:52 PM ^
maybe cam newton can pay to make this go away.
November 21st, 2012 at 3:54 PM ^
I bet most Auburn fans would gladly accept any penalties coming their way in exchange for that NC a few years ago. How else were they ever gonna win one.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:03 PM ^
but they could LOSE the NC, and Cam Newton can return the Heisman Trophy too.
I hate fucking cheaters.
November 21st, 2012 at 3:55 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 7:16 PM ^
Gotta love them "Green backs"
November 21st, 2012 at 4:23 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 4:03 PM ^
Oh no not Auburn! This is so suprising! /s
November 21st, 2012 at 4:06 PM ^
Auburn? No, can't be. I still trying to recover from Miami being dirty. What's next, SMU? The shock of it all....
November 21st, 2012 at 4:24 PM ^
They just got a verbal commit from Deion Sanders' son, and he doesn't need $$$$. Right?
November 21st, 2012 at 4:13 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 4:21 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 6:35 PM ^
No way. Bama will blow Auburn out instead of letting them hang around like that.
November 21st, 2012 at 4:24 PM ^
A lot has been made of our coaching staff's struggles to finish recruiting classes, and my response has almost always been "small sample size, small sample size, small sample size." I'm starting to wonder if there isn't something very different about the recruitments that drag out until the end (in general, of course, not in every case).
If you're a kid who is trying to figure out where to go to school and play football - and you don't want anything to do with the slimy aspects of football recruiting - you'd might as well commit to a school once you've decided that's the place for you. That could be in your junior year or on signing day, but when you've found the right place you've found the right place.
If you're a kid who is open to getting in on what the slimy schools are offering, you'd might as well hold off for awhile to let the bids and gifts come in.
I am not accusing any particular kid of any wrongdoing - hell, I blame the schools much more than the kids/families - and obviously this doesn't fit every case (I think we'd all be shocked if Josh Garnett's recruitment was fishy, for example). Still, it'll be interesting to see whether the Michigans and Notre Dames of the football world disproportionately lose these drawn out recruiting battles to the Auburns and Clemsons of the football world.
November 21st, 2012 at 4:43 PM ^
I wish I could neg your cynicism, but In my heart of hearts I believe exactly as you do.
Some of these recruitments that drag out forever and then end with a surprise choice just reek of money changing hands.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:22 PM ^
Well put. Nobody wants to say it and say anything negative about the kids, but there's a whole lot to what you just stated.
November 21st, 2012 at 4:31 PM ^
So when Auburn was winning, paying off the dad is okay with the NCAA. Now that they are losing, lets get that investigation fired up to look like the NCAA is on top of things.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:00 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 4:55 PM ^
"In addition to the academic issues involving Robinson, sources told Yahoo! Sports the NCAA has investigated whether a Wooddale P.E. teacher, Rhonda Wilkinson, provided impermissible benefits to the player during his recruitment, including transportation to the Auburn campus on at least one occasion. Wilkinson is an Auburn graduate and fan – her vehicle and home are extensively decorated with Auburn memorabilia." - from the article
I am guessing that no one at Auburn would have ever thought that such a person might be tempted to REALLY sell someone on Auburn, of course. There's nothing in the resulting mental image that might make anyone on the outside think "booster", right? I mean, there cannot possibly be anything in the NCAA Handbook which would hold Auburn responsible for the actions of those who actively represent it....*skims section on "Institutional Control"*...oh...
November 21st, 2012 at 9:33 PM ^
Cam Newton's dad gets 180k and this is the booster giving them problems?
November 21st, 2012 at 4:56 PM ^
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- Posts from November 2010
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