Say Good-Bye to your BCS Title, Auburn!

[joeybee12]

Auburn's football program changed players' grades to secure eligibility, offered money to potential NFL draft picks so they would return for their senior seasons, and violated NCAA recruiting rules under former coach Gene Chizik, according to a report by former New York Times and Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts.

The report appears on Roberts' website, Roopstigo.com. According to three former Auburn players, as many as nine players' grades were changed before Auburn's win in the 2011 BCS national championship game.

"We thought we would be without (running back) Mike Dyer because he said he was one of them, but Auburn found a way to make those dudes eligible," former Auburn defensive lineman Mike Blanc told Roberts.

In an interview with AL.com on Wednesday, Blanc denied saying that quote. Blanc later tweeted: "Man this article is outrageous and isn't true."

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9131624/auburn-tigers-coaches-bribed-players-altered-grades-broke-recruiting-rules-gene-chizik-according-report

If anyone is shocked by this, I'd like to know why...

[bluedigger]

1. I am shocked; shocked, I say!

Shocked that this is in any way a revelation of how the premier Div. 1 schools routinely conduct business.

[joeybee12]

2. I'm convinced that you could get something on any Div1 school, no, not something...LOTS

THe NCAA, however, prefers to look the other way...it only comes out through independent reports like this one.

[bluedigger]

3. I'm convinced corruption is endemic in our society.

We're just a bigger banana republic...

[joeybee12]

4. I recall being a youngun and hearing about how the media in Russia covers up

the corruption there and how wonderful it was that we have a "free" press.

Yeah, right.

[Kingofalldems]

5. And the trophy should now go where it

rightfully belongs---to the Irish of Notre Dame.

[joeybee12]

6. Damn right!

[hughee99]

7. Why? n/t

[Kingofalldems]

8. Just GPs.

[Angleae]

9. I think he's referring to the fact ND didn't play Auburn

Oregon did.

[KamaAina]

10. This'll kill southlandshari

[chelsea0011]

11. So, they are not really scholar athletes?