Ok, you guys both seem to accept that a guy is going to turn down 150k or whatever it was and go play for free with no reservations or anything at all. I dont. Cam Newtons suspension got turned around overnight, while say like a usc player who got a ride across campus on a golf cart stayed suspended for a full week before he was reinstated.
He was never suspended. He was declared temporarily ineligible, as there were
allegations that he had done something that would violate his amateur status and therefore his eligibility. There was, and still is, no proof at all that he has ever done anything in this case to be ineligible, and so was therefore immediately declared eligible to play. Then the NCAA investigated for another year and somehow they never got around to asking you for your opinion, so decided there were no violations he had committed and declared it closed. Look, I'm not exactly a big Cam fan -- if he hadn't been the turd in the punch bowl that he was at Florida, we might not have had to suffer through the last couple of years of the Brantley ffense [sic]. But you seem to have some difficulty grasping the difference between "someone said he did something wrong" and "proof of wrongdoing."
I dont think it is off base, you guys keep harping on that along with JT lying being the big difference, that we knew they were inelligible and then played them. The only way that didnt happen at auburn is if you think young 18 year olds are turning down 150k to play football. I dont.
Your disdain for facts, though lamentable, is at least admirably consistent. (I really wish I thought you were stupid so I could translate that to little words, but I think you're a smart enough fellow with just a little bit of a blind spot in this case). I can guarantee without a shadow of a doubt that Cam Newton did not ever take money as a young 18 year old to play at Auburn. Of course, that might have to do with the fact that he was at Florida two years (one a medical redshirt), transferred to a JUCO, and was a redshirt junior by the time he went to Auburn. Of course, putting that aside, the investigation looked at bank records, tax records, telephone records, email records, etc. and the only thing that was ever substantiated was that his father had made the statement to boosters of Mississippi State about needing money to transfer there. There's never been a link that Cam was there, that Cam knew of or endorsed this, and never a link that says that anyone ever asked for or accepted money from Auburn, their boosters, the Tooth Fairy, or Charles Barkley's two-ton backside.
The nice thing about this country is that you're perfectly free to think what you want. If you want to think there's people all over the South giving SEC athletes big money, you're entitled to that opinion. But the other great thing is that we don't let opinion trump facts and evidence, and in this case, there's simply no objective evidence at all to support your opinion. The Sweatervest knew that his players were ineligible, and personally withheld that information to allow them to play. That is a matter of pure, undeniable fact - the documentation is freely reviewable, though names are redacted from most of the documents I've seen online. As far as Cam Newton's allegations, the only thing that can be factually confirmed is that he didn't take money to go to play for Mississippi State. I guess that's how far things have fallen for the tOSU if they consider
not taking money to be a bigger violation than actually accepting gifts from boosters and money for work not done.