Someone please help me get this correct about Cam...

[RougeDawg]

I'm having some difficulty putting everything together, since I am observing factual evidence and making a well educated conclusion based solely on what the Newton family has said. Nothing else. No speculation. No rumors. Just fact from interviews on C & C Newton.

I heard his interview tonight on the local ESPN affiliate and he was quoted as saying he made the decision to go to AU over Mississippi State all by himself and that he never spoke with Cecil about it. Also, that he hardly even speaks to the Reverend ever. But, rewind about 2 months, and Cam tells Sports Illustrated that he wanted to be a Bulldog, but Pops came in and said you (we) cannot go to Starkville, but must go to Auburn. Story changed very drastically in a short time, yet nobody is even questioning this. Since when did changing stories not raise questions about the truth?

Also, Cecil vehemently denied ever asking for monies from anyone when the news first broke. Only, to later admit to asking for a small sum of $180,000, but only to one university. It just so happened that this was the same university that his upstanding son had, just a few weeks before, told SI that I wanted to go to State but my dad told me I had to be a War Eagle. Am I way overdue for a psychologist visit, or is this the most blatant and arrogant display of cheating we have seen in collegiate sports history? It's like they are saying 17 you, we did it, we'll keep changing our story to make it work, and you can't do a 17ing thing about it. Every time they speak, they further incriminate themselves, without investigation, yet the NCAA allows it.

The one question I'd really like answered is, what if said university in the accusations had been replaced with one Mississippi State University? We would have probably been prohibited from fielding a team after the initial allegations.

 

[drt7891]

that is a boiling pot of ********. If my name was being thrown around in the media about my dad asking a school for money, you better believe id at least bring it up... both of them know exactly what happened, but the media is continuing to eat out of his hand when he says "i did it the right way." its crap.

 

[DrKennethNoisewater]

The last investigation we underwent took over a year. I remember because the investigation was on going while I was taking a summer school class. Then not the following fall but the next fall (after I had graduated) I remember picking up a newspaper on the way to work and reading about NCAA's statement of inquiry (that's when you know you're 17ed).

In other words it's not over. We MIGHT know something before football season starts next year. Either way don't look for Cam to be there especially in the NFL gets their collective bargaining agreement done.

 

[GloryDawg]

It took three years or so to complete the USC investigations and they got hammer for basically the same thing. Father profiting from son. They have gone out of their way to say the investigations are not finish. You got law enforcements involved and the NCAA are like roaches when they start to investigate. Micheal Fair told me that when State was being investigated, the NCAA had people following them to restaurants to make sure they paid for their meals. I use to think they played favorites and still do to a extent but with USC getting the hammer don't think Auburn is more important then them. The delay and the allowing of Newton to play is all about money and ratings. Really, who wants to see TCU and Oregon play in the NC championship. I think the NCAA temporally put this to the side for two reasons, One the NC game and two the FBI. This is not done.

That's just my opinion.

 

[gthom dot com]

their phones. Someone was smart enough to tell him "Don't talk to your dad about this. Shut up and pretend it never happened." Rather than let him call up Cecil and say "Hey Rev, we've been found out. Do you think they're going to be able to trace the contracts to the trucking company?"

 

[therightway]

They may have heard something about them on wire taps but it was not on their phones being tapped.