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</td><td class="TopicSubject"><font class="SubjectDisplay">Interesting view from the Auburn side.</font><font class="PostInfo"> (Posted on 12/2/10 at 8:17 a.m.)
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<font class="PostDisplay">This is something I received on Monday, and is by no means fact. I just thought that it was interesting and that the timing of it was interesting, so I figured I would pass it along. Sorry if Germans.
"Guys, I have been sitting on this for a while, and I just really need to
share it now.
As many of you know, I worked for 10 years in the Athletic Department at
Auburn. I am family friends with Jay Jacobs, though I am not particularly
close to him. There have been a lot of rumors going around about what the
Auburn administration knows and doesn't know, and I think I can shed some
light onto that. Like I said, I am close to the Jacobs family, and this info
comes directly from a relative of Jay.
The FBI has been investigating McGregor for the gambling conspiracy probe,
but none of that turned up any information on Cam Newton or any other Auburn
players. It did, however, turn up some dirt on our old friend Kenny Rogers.
Apparently Kenny has been doing this song and dance for awhile, setting up
Mississippi State players with boosters to get paid to play. Well, the money
started drying up at Miss St. A couple of the major boosters helping out have
lost everything in the economic collapse. Kenny called Cecil Newton and told
him about the arrangements that Miss St players of a certain value normally
got. Kenny said he could make it happen for a 10% cut. Cecil, in a lapse of
judgment, agreed. Rogers approached the normal boosters for the money, but
they rejected him. That is where things got hairy. According to what Cecil
has admitted to the Auburn administration, Rogers then approached Bond and
Bell for the money. He initially asked for 180K, but they declined. Rogers
claimed other colleges were offering more, even though it wasn't true. It was
just a bargaining ploy. He dropped the price all the way down to 100K before
Cecil decided better of it and backed out. Cecil told Auburn everything, and
the SEC has known about this since January. The NCAA has known about it since
July, and Cam is still eligible.
This is where the FBI comes in. When Rogers realized he wasn't getting any
money at Miss St, he approached some well known Auburn boosters, including
McGregor. That is when the FBI got him on tape. The FBI has Rogers admitting
that he had orchestrated pay for play at Miss St with a couple of boosters
named on the tape. The FBI is looking at bank records and transactions of the
boosters as we speak. This will not end well at all for Mississippi State.
The Miss St coaches had no idea how deep this went. If they had, they would
not have stirred up this hornets nest. They had assumed Cam had been paid to
go to Auburn, but he is completely innocent. McGregor had told Rogers, who at
that time didn't even have any contact with the Newtons, that he was not into
paying players. But this explains why the FBI was asking the Miss St people
about McGregor: because of his association with Kenny Rogers.
Just be patient, Auburn fans. I trust the guy I talked to, and all this will
come to light very soon."
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</td></tr></tbody></table>Did we get any of our money back for Tyson Lee since he didn't take us to the SECCG, I thought that wqas part of the contract for him to walk on!
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Member since Sep 2009
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<font class="PostDisplay">This is something I received on Monday, and is by no means fact. I just thought that it was interesting and that the timing of it was interesting, so I figured I would pass it along. Sorry if Germans.
"Guys, I have been sitting on this for a while, and I just really need to
share it now.
As many of you know, I worked for 10 years in the Athletic Department at
Auburn. I am family friends with Jay Jacobs, though I am not particularly
close to him. There have been a lot of rumors going around about what the
Auburn administration knows and doesn't know, and I think I can shed some
light onto that. Like I said, I am close to the Jacobs family, and this info
comes directly from a relative of Jay.
The FBI has been investigating McGregor for the gambling conspiracy probe,
but none of that turned up any information on Cam Newton or any other Auburn
players. It did, however, turn up some dirt on our old friend Kenny Rogers.
Apparently Kenny has been doing this song and dance for awhile, setting up
Mississippi State players with boosters to get paid to play. Well, the money
started drying up at Miss St. A couple of the major boosters helping out have
lost everything in the economic collapse. Kenny called Cecil Newton and told
him about the arrangements that Miss St players of a certain value normally
got. Kenny said he could make it happen for a 10% cut. Cecil, in a lapse of
judgment, agreed. Rogers approached the normal boosters for the money, but
they rejected him. That is where things got hairy. According to what Cecil
has admitted to the Auburn administration, Rogers then approached Bond and
Bell for the money. He initially asked for 180K, but they declined. Rogers
claimed other colleges were offering more, even though it wasn't true. It was
just a bargaining ploy. He dropped the price all the way down to 100K before
Cecil decided better of it and backed out. Cecil told Auburn everything, and
the SEC has known about this since January. The NCAA has known about it since
July, and Cam is still eligible.
This is where the FBI comes in. When Rogers realized he wasn't getting any
money at Miss St, he approached some well known Auburn boosters, including
McGregor. That is when the FBI got him on tape. The FBI has Rogers admitting
that he had orchestrated pay for play at Miss St with a couple of boosters
named on the tape. The FBI is looking at bank records and transactions of the
boosters as we speak. This will not end well at all for Mississippi State.
The Miss St coaches had no idea how deep this went. If they had, they would
not have stirred up this hornets nest. They had assumed Cam had been paid to
go to Auburn, but he is completely innocent. McGregor had told Rogers, who at
that time didn't even have any contact with the Newtons, that he was not into
paying players. But this explains why the FBI was asking the Miss St people
about McGregor: because of his association with Kenny Rogers.
Just be patient, Auburn fans. I trust the guy I talked to, and all this will
come to light very soon."
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</td></tr></tbody></table>Did we get any of our money back for Tyson Lee since he didn't take us to the SECCG, I thought that wqas part of the contract for him to walk on!
