Auburn in TROUBLE

[NDinL.A.]

Uh oh Auburn, could you be the "10" that everyone has been talking about that will drop in August? Check this bombshell dropped by Danny Sullivan:

Auburn Football: According to Danny Sheridan, the Axe Is Soon to Fall on Auburn
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July 29, 2011

Danny Sheridan has been one of the nation's best sports prognosticators.
Larry Burton (Syndicated Writer) On Paul Finebaum's national radio show, football writer and prognosticator Danny Sheridan has come out and said that the NCAA has the name of a witness who can verify the payoff to the Newtons in the Cam Newton scandal.

Sheridan claims that up to $200,000 was given to the Newtons and Sheridan says that in many decades of sports involvement with nationally leading publications, he has never been wrong with a story not going down the way he says it will.

Someone with Sheridan's background, and sources coming forward and "staking his entire reputation" on this story should be very alarming to Auburn.

Some say because he is an Alabama graduate he has an agenda, but his friendships with Pat Dye and Tommy Tuberville are well documented.

Sheridan says that there is no personal agenda here, just that he's been told this and he is willing to bet his money and reputation that this is true.
Sheridan has worked nine years for CNN and broke some of the biggest stories in sports and has never been wrong yet with one.

Sheridan delivered a bombshell on Paul Finebaum's radio show.
At SEC media days, Sheridan told the Sporting News reporter Matt Hayes that, “In the last 20-30 years, I think I’ve been right on 45 of 46 NCAA-related stories,” says the guy who gives betting odds for USA Today. “About $20,000-30,000 went to a church for repairs, and another $150,000-175,000 went to the Newtons.”

For those who want credentials and a history of Sheridan's work, go to his site and see for yourself that he is one of the most trusted and respected people in sports without ever having a claim he's made be wrong.

Should Sheridan be right this time as well, Auburn will not only lose their national championship, but the entire 2010 season, Cam Newton's Heisman Trophy and perhaps years of probation and scholarship reductions.

According to Sheridan, the world will know all in two to three weeks.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Burn, motherf***er, burn.

 

[IrishLax]

BOOM!!!!

 

[Cali_domer]

I hope they nail the **** out Auburn.

Watch out Alabama your next. My dream

 

[Rocket89]

There's never been a more blatantly dirty program than Auburn. This story shouldn't be a ten but....

 

[irishog77]

My greatest hope is that Auburn and Alabama BOTH have major problems and, since the breaking news of both coincide at the same time, a "10+" is felt across the entire landscape of college football

 

[ndfi78]

link so I can share would be awesome

 

[Rhode Irish]

"10" as in impact, sure. But it certainly doesn't come to a surprise to anyone. You knew as you were watching Auburn last year that their whole season would eventually be wiped out. It was only a matter of time. It actually kind of cheapened the football season for me.

 

[Ben E.]

fan it...

 

[GreatGolson]

where theres a nuclear blast... theres fallout

 

[NDinL.A.]

Well, I just went to the Auburn Scout board for the first time to see if they were talking about it, and they were in D-E-N-I-A-L. I mean, they were talking as if this were laughable and that there is ZERO chance this could happen. My favorite response?

This whole pay off scheme makes absolutely no sense. Why would Auburn pay for a problem player when we have 2 QBs in house that were super stars in High School?

LOL, Newton was basically the sole reason they went from a 7 win team to a 14 win team. They win maybe 9 games without him, but this kid was the top player at the JC level by a million miles and everyone knew what a beast he was. Auburn's back-ups SUCKED compared to him (and notice, that with those 2 'superstar' QBs, Auburn's expected to be a 6-7 win team by all accounts.

Even better though...there is a thread that was started yesterday DIRECTLY BELOW this thread, that talks about Bama's problem with memorabilia, and one Aubirn fan says that if that happened to Auburn, their fans would deny it. And PLENTY of fans jumped on that guy, saying that Auburn fans are realistic and they'd admit when their school was at fault. I kid you not.

Ahhhhhh fans, gotta love 'em.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

All fan bases have their nutjobs. But Amurrrican justice will prevail when all this comes out.

Here comes the boom.

 

[jdailey1981]

Uh oh...LSU on probation, Alabama being looked at, and Auburn could get the ax.....hmmm...the SEC powerhouses could get a hard slap from reality.

 

[irishog77]

Well, I just went to the Auburn Scout board for the first time to see if they were talking about it, and they were in D-E-N-I-A-L. I mean, they were talking as if this were laughable and that there is ZERO chance this could happen. My favorite response?



LOL, Newton was basically the sole reason they went from a 7 win team to a 14 win team. They win maybe 9 games without him, but this kid was the top player at the JC level by a million miles and everyone knew what a beast he was. Auburn's back-ups SUCKED compared to him (and notice, that with those 2 'superstar' QBs, Auburn's expected to be a 6-7 win team by all accounts.

Even better though...there is a thread that was started yesterday DIRECTLY BELOW this thread, that talks about Bama's problem with memorabilia, and one Aubirn fan says that if that happened to Auburn, their fans would deny it. And PLENTY of fans jumped on that guy, saying that Auburn fans are realistic and they'd admit when their school was at fault. I kid you not.

Ahhhhhh fans, gotta love 'em.

I've got a great friend who is a HUGE Auburn fan (his parents went there with Pat Sullivan; aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings went there; he's friends with boosters and board members; he has family that lives near there; etc) and it was comical last year to me their whole take on Scam Newton. They claimed the Miss St pay-for-play actions were all known about by Auburn and everything was on the up-and-up with the NCAA and also that Cecil Newton was just some rouge guy that Auburn would never deal with nor give any money to. In fact, that Auburn is totally above board within their program and no funny business would ever occur...AT AUBURN.

Truthfully, I think these people (and most in Auburn nation) would sell their soul and their first born for a national championship-- they wanted it that badly and realistically had it in their sights by the time the Miss St/Cecil story broke, that they were fine with whatever as long as a national championship came to them.

Be careful what you wish for.

I still believe that if this were a player at Iowa St, Virginia, or some other also-ran, or even if Auburn had 2,3 losses at the time, this would have been a non-story nationally and Scam would have sat the remaining games in the season until the university could sort it all out.

 

[Veer option]

Love it!

 

[ACamp1900]

If bama gets hit after Auburn I'll be happy... I still think something is going to come out about Texas...

 

[IrishLax]

I've got a great friend who is a HUGE Auburn fan (his parents went there with Pat Sullivan; aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings went there; he's friends with boosters and board members; he has family that lives near there; etc) and it was comical last year to me their whole take on Scam Newton. They claimed the Miss St pay-for-play actions were all known about by Auburn and everything was on the up-and-up with the NCAA and also that Cecil Newton was just some rouge guy that Auburn would never deal with nor give any money to. In fact, that Auburn is totally above board within their program and no funny business would ever occur...AT AUBURN.

Truthfully, I think these people (and most in Auburn nation) would sell their soul and their first born for a national championship-- they wanted it that badly and realistically had it in their sights by the time the Miss St/Cecil story broke, that they were fine with whatever as long as a national championship came to them.

Be careful what you wish for.

I still believe that if this were a player at Iowa St, Virginia, or some other also-ran, or even if Auburn had 2,3 losses at the time, this would have been a non-story nationally and Scam would have sat the remaining games in the season until the university could sort it all out.

Yup. Simply put, if Alabama didn't choke in the Iron Bowl this story gets a completely different coat of paint.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

SWC, the sequel.

Would love for the NCAA to nuke the whole damned conference.

 

[IrishLax]

Unless there is way more meat to this (like it can be proved coaches or someone else knew that he was getting paid by a booster) they aren't even going to get hit that hard. They'll vacate all of the wins, get a year bowl ban and probably lose 5 scholarships.

USC got nuked for LOIC and the fact that agents and other undesirables were crawling all over the program that had a whopping 1 person compliance office AND the AD Mike Garret said "**** you" to the NCAA."

SMU had a SYSTEMATIC pay for play with a paper trail NOT just testimony.

UNC, OSU, LSU, etc. are showing that if you "play nice" and fire a scapegoat you escape the worst punishment. Auburn "played nice" when they declared Newton ineligible (and then had him immediately reinstated by the NCAA).

The only thing I can see landing Auburn in worst danger would be if it came to light that administration/board of trustees/coaches were complicit in some way. One way this could happen would be if more players like those that testified against Auburn on HBO came forward talking about the coaches involvement OR if the FBI turns up new evidence in their investigation. If either of those happen, hello Death Penalty.

 

[Rocket89]

^ I think the whole FBI investigation is a major part of all this. There was just too much evidence to not think that. Plus, with all the smoke coming out of Auburn and the government taking their time....something really bad has to come of it.

Bobby Lowder & Co. are going to burn big time I do believe.

 

[irish4ever]

There's never been a more blatantly dirty program than Auburn. This story shouldn't be a ten but....

Uhh, USC?!? Possibly F$U!?!

 

[Riddickulous]

We'll see if anything major happens. I'm skeptical.

 

[BirdmanND06]

This came out on the Paul Finebaum show last week during SEC media days. What Sheridan said may be completely true, but for anything to happen, the NCAA (who has no subpoena power) will have to somehow convince that "bag man" to come forward and admit that he gave money to the Newtons. Don't count on this ever happening.

 

[Rocket89]

Uhh, USC?!? Possibly F$U!?!

1. Has anyone been on probation more than Auburn? I don't know myself, but I don't think it's likely.

2. Is there any place where cheating is so INGRAINED in the culture of the school?

3. Some of Auburn's past transgressions make the Reggie Bush fisaco look like amateur hour.

 

[Rhode Irish]

Auburn is SMU, they are just better about covering their tracks (which is relative, because SMU didn't even try to conceal anything, it seems). At some point, someone is going to get disgruntled and blow that thing up. Maybe it is Cam's bag man, maybe it isn't. But someday that thing is going to come apart, and when it does it will be impossible to look away. A true train wreck.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

SEC = sure everybody cheats

 

[GDomer09]

U$C, tO$U, L$U, Oregon, Auburn, Alabama.......Either the NCAA is just searching the current powerhouses much harder or they are powerhouses for this reason. What's your thoughts? Seems like to me they have so much possible violations that at least the small ones were bound to slip out. I think at least in Auburn's case without the violations they commited they would be very average.

 

[GDomer09]

SEC = sure everybody cheats

Love It!

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Auburn is the guy drowning in quicksand, the NCAA is throwing them a rope, and they are throwing it back, then defiantly sticking out their tongues before going under.

 

[NDinL.A.]

1. Has anyone been on probation more than Auburn? I don't know myself, but I don't think it's likely.

2. Is there any place where cheating is so INGRAINED in the culture of the school?

There are actually a lot of programs that have been hit with penalties the same amount or more than Auburn (SMU, ASU, FSU, OK, etc), but Auburn is right up there. USC has been put on probation and hit with sanctions SIX times, so they are just as dirty (and their own alumnus came out last month and admitted he and many other players took cash in the last 70's/early 80's, which they didn't get caught for).