Major NCAA ruling...

[tornado]

This one is creating controversy already --

Auburn (football) quarterback Cam Newton is deemed fully exonerated, even though the NCAA
admits there was agent contact and monetary involvement...they say it was Cam Newton's dad
who was the big mover & shaker -- and not Cam himself -- so as long as the school dissociates from Newton's dad, then everything's fine and dandy!!

Thus Cam Newton is immediately eligible...and can play and generate big $$ in the bowls...

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/ncaa/ncaa/media+and+events/press+room/news+release+archive/2010/official+statements/20101201+cam+newton+rls?pageDesign=old+news+releases+template

this is an insult to suggest that a kid can be involved in all kinds of cheating, scandal, and taking big money payments like Reggie Bush & OJ Mayo did..
but as long as he can say it was his dad doing it then the kid goes scott free and is fully eligible...

[DeltaBrave03]

They said his father broke the rules and he knew nothing of it. If true, I see nothing wrong with this, and say what you want about off the field issues, the kid is a class act on the field. Scored the touchdown against Bama and tosses the ball to the ref and runs to the side line. After the game instead of celebrating with his team he walks over and shakes hands first. As much as I want to root against the kid I can't.

[bu fan 9]

NCAA is a joke!!!!!

[TheAsianSensation]

Technically, they only ruled him eligible for this week's game. They can always turn around and make him ineligible later.

Of course, that would occur after all the bowls are selected and TCU is locked out of the national championship game.

*nudge nudge wink wink*

[AZ BU Fan]

Cam's legal defense was classic 'Sgt Schultz'




I KNEW NOTHING, SAW NOTHING, HEARD NOTHING!!!


PS
T, are you softening up on opposition to Congressional Oversight of the NCAA yet, the biggest racketeering group in the US right now?

[JMM28]

This one is creating massive controversy already --

Auburn (football) quarterback Cam Newton is deemed fully exonerated, even though the NCAA
admits there was massive agent contact and monetary involvement...they say it was Cam Newton's dad
who was the big mover & shaker -- and not Cam himself -- so as long as the school dissociates from Newton's dad, then everything's fine and dandy!!

Thus Cam Newton is immediately eligible...and can play and generate big $$ in the bowls...

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/ncaa/ncaa/media+and+events/press+room/news+release+archive/2010/official+statements/20101201+cam+newton+rls?pageDesign=old+news+releases+template

this is an insult to suggest that a kid can be involved in all kinds of cheating, scandal, and taking big money payments like Reggie Bush & OJ Mayo did..
but as long as he can say it was his dad doing it then the kid goes scott free and is fully eligible...

I seem to remember BU getting in trouble about 20 years ago because of a father that didn't get what he thought he was owed.. odd.

[tornado]

T, are you softening up on opposition to Congressional Oversight of the NCAA yet,..

I hate the government getting into and regulating everything -- NO , NO, NO to the feds ever sticking their noses into NCAA and I wish they'd leave my profession alone instead of regulating it so tightly that their regulation is pretty much the sole reason that accounts for 90% of cost increases.

I seem to remember BU getting in trouble about 20 years ago because of a father that didn't get what he thought he was owed.. odd.

one disgruntled father who alleged but never proved he was offered the equivalent of free transportation in an era where that was far less than just about anyone was doing.....compared to agents bribing the family with tens of thousands of $$ which only the BCS guys seem to do and get away with...
I don't see any similarity at all.....

[JMM28]

one disgruntled father who alleged but never proved he was offered the equivalent of free transportation in an era where that was far less than just about anyone was doing.....compared to agents bribing the family with tens of thousands of $$ which only the BCS guys seem to do and get away with...
I don't see any similarity at all.....

My point was that BU got raked over the coals for that and there was nothing to it, whereas this is a much larger scale operation that gets off no strings attached.

[Bravesfan]

Why am I not surprised with this ruling?

[bigdaddystuck]

As far as I know, the athlete did nothing wrong. So this ruling seems fair to me.

[houstontxbrave]

As far as I know, the athlete did nothing wrong. So this ruling seems fair to me.

This ruling is crazy but then again alot of what the NCAA rules is crazy and irrational.

By the NCAA essentially saying because Cam Newton "knew" nothing about what his dad was doing. It gave the green light to parents to essentially pimp out their spawn to the highest bidder as long as the one being bidded out is not knowledgeable about this pimping out.

But this entire dim witted decision has everything to do with money, BCS and not having anything to do with what is right, atleast in regards to NCAA rules.

Wonder if the same ruling would have been handed down if this was Andy Dalton and his father?

Oh and I think the NCAA set a record for reinstating a suspended player with this ruling. I guess that SEC championship rating err I mean game would have suffered to much without Cam Newton, not to mention god forbid the suspension could have affected the precious BCS championship game. Do anything possible to keep TCU out of a championship game huh?

[peterwade75]

this is ridiculous. one interesting fact about this situation: about 3 or 4 weeks ago cam was on the jim rome show. Rome asked him why he choose auburn and not miss. state. he said that he and his father sat down and that they made a "business decision"... who talks of choosing a school as a "business decision"? even after the conversation, rome thought those words were chosen pretty poorly. cam knew and he's getting away with it. hope nothing but losses in his future.

[tornado]

.... cam knew and he's getting away with it. ...

any reasonable person knows this, but who ever said NCAA was reasonable...
Why didn't they exonerate OJ Mayo and Reggie Bush, since they weren't in on the payoffs, it was just Rodney Guillory and the agents...

[houstontxbrave]

any reasonable person knows this, but who ever said NCAA was reasonable...
Why didn't they exonerate OJ Mayo and Reggie Bush, since they weren't in on the payoffs, it was just Rodney Guillory and the agents...

It is amazing to me the NCAA can and did make a connect between an agent and one of the assistants at USC via a photo but they can not, or more likely dont want to, make a connection between Cam Newton and his father?

The whole thing is so freaking far fetched and impossible to believe. The NCAA is so blatent in its corruption the Mafia is embarrassed.

I guarantee you in the next few months USC is taken off probation after their appeal. After this decison how can they be kept on probation or for that matter how can anyone ever be put again on probation?

[tornado]

newsflash -- the NCAA (nor anyone affiliated with them or the TV networks) does NOT want Cam Newton off the field or suspended..
it would be an extremely costly thing and NCAA has never been known to shoot itself in the foot...and throw good money away..