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And how are we supposed to clean up college football and restore/create credibility and the student-athlete spirit of the game without fighting each incident when we openly know something happened with the direct intention of selling players in exchange for LARGE sums of cash?

College football seems clean - MSU did not pay.
 

So much for Cecil being forced to distance himself...


So read this statement by Awbarn's AD...

Cecil Newton was restricted to "limited access" to the school's athletic program when the NCAA found that he shopped his son's services to Mississippi State during the recruiting process.

Jacobs said the decision for Cecil Newton not to attend "was mutually agreed upon. Out of the highest respect that Cecil has for Cameron, he won't be here today."

http://www.cbs42.com/content/localn...dad-at-title-game/Duh6l2M0k0-Vazhy5rm4HQ.cspx

and then look at this picture:

http://www.mrsec.com/image.php?width=150&image=/pics/cecil-cam-newton-bcs-game.jpeg

"I wish I was up there with Cam and his dad," Pugh said

http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/20...-in-biggest-and-most-unlikely-play-in-bcs-ch/


Ok... so how much are we supposed to trust these yahoos again? The NCAA is a complete joke.
 
Ok... so how much are we supposed to trust these yahoos again? The NCAA is a complete joke.

I am not really upset at the NCAA over this one (the Ohio State 5 is another matter) the NCAA has no rule against solicitation of funds by a family member or close acquaintance. There is a rule about receiving benefit, not asking for it, and the NCAA would have to find proof that some sort of aid made it to Cecil or someone or something that benefited Cecil... the church could have received money from a third party associated with someone associated with a NCAA team or any number of different and he would have been ineligible but it would have to be proven with some kind of hard fact(paper trail, etc). I AM irritated at the SEC because they do have such a rule on the books and it says that Cam could have no knowledge of the solicitation by Cecil and Cecil could never have received any benefit but Cam would still be ineligible simply because improper benefits were requested at any point in the recruiting process. They decided to go with the NCAA rules and ignore their own because it benefited the conference as a whole.
 
NCAA president calls for new rules
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6019791

"It's wrong for parents to sell the athletic services of their student athletes to a university, and we need to make sure that we have rules to stop that problem," Emmert said. "And today we don't. We have to fix that. Student athletes trading on their standing as star student athletes for money or benefits is not acceptable, and we need to address it and make sure it doesn't happen."


"If you look at the Newton case, a lot of people came away from that, because it's a complicated case, saying, 'Gosh, it's OK for a father to solicit money for the services for his son or daughter?' " Emmert said. "The answer to that is no, it's isn't. But we don't have a rule that makes that clear."
 

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