Mullen, Newton, Rogers, Byrne, Bond, and Stricklin.

bomanishus · Nov 5, 2010

What may have happened:

Last fall, Mullen realizes we’re a QB away from having a really good team this year. Newton is the guy. $%$ goes after him, and apparently has him under wraps as late as the first week of December. The deal is done for just barely six figures.Cecil Newton, a man who professes to be a man of God but whose actions are proving otherwise, a father who has his best interests in mind rather than those of his son, and a world-class opportunist gets wind that the deal could be sweeter. He’s made aware of the fact that there’s money to be had and for leverage all it takes is the mere mention of other teams that need a quarterback, who are more desperate, and who have to live in the same state as a team rolling towards another national championship. He feels the pain that only a father could feel when he realizes that he sold his son for less than he was worth.Since it would look bad for Cecil himself to handle the dealings, he calls the agent they’ve selected for Cameron’s pending pro career and asks for some help. Enter Kenny Rogers, the perfect bag man. He knows Mississippi State, has contacts, and can double the money in a matter of minutes simply by asking his old teammate John Bond.When the squeeze was put on State the reaction was unexpected. Bond calls Mullen and tells him what has transpired. Mullen is like ‘WTF? We have a deal.’ Having been around Cecil for two years in Gainesville, Mullen knows that if he gives in for $200 K, Cecil will ask for $250,000 and on it goes. No deal. Instead, you can come play football as agreed or, if you sign with another SEC school, we’re going to turn you in. Just watch.Panic sets in at the Newton house. Daddy has just blown up his source of ready cash and he has to tell Cameron that he cannot attend State. The crestfallen little boy says ‘Daddy does this mean we cannot rent a mule for me to ride at my next birthday party?’Luckily for Cecil, a deal is quickly struck and a nice blue and orange leather valise arrives with stacks and stacks of twenties inside. Since everybody knows that bank records are the first places where ‘the man’ looks, that evidence is easily avoided sorequests for records can bequickly complied with. The cash is in the attic, not the bank account. Soon, Cam Newton signs, number 2 jerseys fly off the shelves, and the BCS is set on its ear by the incredible coaching job being done by Gene Chizek and staff.Still fuming, Mullen calls Greg Byrne and asks him what he did with the information about the Newton squeeze when it was reported to him in December. Greg, who up until the Newton incident had been working with an architect to build Regina’s dream house at Browning Creek because they wanted to stay in Starkville forever, got pissed all over again because he’d much rather be in God's Countryrather than in the middle of an endless desert90 miles from the boiling pot of Nogales. Even though he knew that the stakes of winning in the SEC required a certain amount of head-turning and winking – things he was willing to ignore as long as he didn’t know specifics,the Newton ordeal changed all that. He wondered if he had the stomach for it so he looked for and took a lesser job that in a lesser conference.Now, seven months later, he looks at the polls and sees one of his old employers, Oregon, sitting at number 1 and one of his buddies, Chris Peterson at Boise State at number three. So, in order for those to play against each other in the National Championship game, something had to happen to number 2 (both in the polls and on the roster) at Auburn.At the same time, with each Auburn win Alabama zealots are turning over every rock inside the state of Alabama looking for chinks in Chizek’s and Auburn’s armor because it’s become apparent that the War Eagles are unbeatable on the field of play. Luckily, an ultra-zealot crosses the state line into Georgia and talks to some disgruntled Newton parishioners who – for a sum – disclose some oddities in the Newton’s behavior. Examples of this behavior are Mrs. Newton’s insistence on collecting usedstadium cups at Auburn so she can put her casino tokens in them, a scooter forCam, and for Cecilfrequent visits to Lafayette Stribling’s tailor in Birmingham. So, as Greg prepares to contact an unrelated media source in Chicago to leak the story and the long-forgotten name of obscure running back Kenny “Bimp” Rogers is dragged through the mud, Alabama’s minions are surprised at the story breaking when it did. They were waiting for the week of the Iron Bowl to break it, butare only too pleased to provide additional substantive information to corroborate the story, cause confusion and angst among the AU faithful now. The man behind the curtain, Scott Stricklin, having talked to Greg many, many times decides that we need to be out front on this story rather than let the media dogs chase and turn on us. Thus, he contacts an MSU alum attorney in Jackson and prepares both Bond’s and MSU’s statement.Now, the nation watches as it appears the first domino in the War Eagle death spiral and implosion has fallen.

jeremyrbrown · Nov 5, 2010

Mullen, Newton, Rogers, Byrne, Bond, and Stricklin.

bomanishus

Sophomore

jeremyrbrown

Junior