Auburn Under NCAA Investigation For Potential Football Violations
The NCAA is investigating the Auburn football program for recruiting violations and improper benefits. Multiple assistants have been pulled off the road from recruiting.
From Yahoo! Sports:
According to multiple sources, NCAA investigators have spent weeks looking into potential improprieties involving Auburn recruits, players, coaches, representatives of the school’s athletic interests and third parties. Assistant coaches Trooper Taylor and Curtis Luper have been scrutinized by the NCAA, sources said. Taylor is the assistant head coach and wide receivers coach, while Luper coaches running backs and is the recruiting coordinator.
Both Taylor and Luper were taken off the road recruiting several weeks ago amid the NCAA probe, sources said.
Auburn University cheating at college football, you say? The school that has been investigated multiple times, accused even more times and been dinged with not one, not two but three postseason/TV bans over its history was not running things above board? Not shocking anyone.
One noteworthy factor? This may offer Auburn an outlet to fire Chizik with cause and not pay his buyout.
Too late to self-impose a bowl ban?
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November 21st, 2012 at 4:28 PM
I’m sure Mark Emmert will slap down a might probation period and force them to vacate all of their wins this year. Then, they will continue to pretty much look the other way since they are in the SEC.
November 21st, 2012 at 4:47 PM
The Memphis story is a funny thing – Auburn was the school who informed the NCAA that the kid’s transcript was off. Given that he’s basically the only kid Auburn has signed out of there during the Chizik era, I don’t think this will go anywhere.
The “other” issue relates to a what I am told is secondary violation. The “multiple” coaches – by which Ty really means “two” – were held off the recruiting circuit until it got sorted out. Of course, both will be fired anyway, so I doubt that it matters much.
The real story is the timing – this has been old news in the Alabama press for six weeks, yet Pat Forde picked Iron Bowl week to roll it out nationally. He really hates Auburn for the Cam stuff.
And Ty, despite your attempts at painting Auburn as a dirty school, the last football related probation that the school got ended… in 1994.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Jordan Diamond and Reuben Foster both got straight cash homey.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:20 PM
The Memphis story is a funny thing – Auburn was the school who informed the NCAA that the kid’s transcript was off. Given that he’s basically the only kid Auburn has signed out of there during the Chizik era, I don’t think this will go anywhere.
Similar to when Miss State blew the whistle on Cam Newton for not accepting their money as proof that Auburn was shady.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:36 PM
Maybe they did, Vlad, but there’s no evidence of that outside what people say on Rivals message boards. Diamond publicly denied those rumors FWIW.
They also aren’t the subject of this investigation, at least not yet.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:56 PM
Trooper Taylor dirty? Color me shocked!
What was he supposed to do?
November 21st, 2012 at 7:14 PM
The SEC is professional football so why can’t you pay the athletes when you recruit them?
November 21st, 2012 at 7:36 PM
The real story is the timing – this has been old news in the Alabama press for six weeks, yet Pat Forde picked Iron Bowl week to roll it out nationally. He really hates Auburn for the Cam stuff.
This right here.
November 21st, 2012 at 9:52 PM
That’s the stuff they have been caught for. The smoke has never ceased.
November 21st, 2012 at 10:42 PM
Well, obviously, that makes them guilty.
November 21st, 2012 at 10:47 PM
nothing to see here….I shot 74 today!
/Ritty
November 21st, 2012 at 10:53 PM
Well, obviously, that makes them guilty.
gene fucking chizik won a national title, pretty sure that in and of itself is a fucking violation
/every person on the planet who didn’t go to auburn/live in the trailer park in close vicinity
December 18th, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Here in lies the problem: “That’s what he wanted,” Wardlow said. “He has a right to have what he wanted. Everybody has a right to have what they want. I know he’s a target right now, but he has the right to have it.”