For some reason I had thought that they finished with a better record than they did. Looking at it they certainly acquitted themselves mostly well in their losses to “big brother” SEC programs. Maybe I am viewing this solely through the lens of their bowl win over Pitt.
I once asked my boss for a 20% raise after a very good review.
Guess what happened? I got the Std C-o-L raise
Asking and Getting is not the same.
Cam Newton (and any of his ‘entourage’) did not have any leverage to ask and receive any money. He had Two Strikes against him.
No, but you asking for a raise isn’t a violation of NCAA rules.
Sure. I’m sure that Cam had no idea his father was asking for money for him, that they never asked for any monies from any other university at all while Cam was being recruited, that he never received any compensation from those Auburn “boosters”, that the NCAA had no stake in finding him clean and eligible to play in the BCS championship, that he went to Auburn for a quality education, and that this kind of crap isn’t rampant in college football. I’m also sure there is an Easter Bunny, that the NCAA is out to protect it’s integrity and nothing else, and that if I clap hard enough, Tinkerbell will come back alive.
No specific evidence against Cam Newton ever turned up, but I don’t buy the “he had two strikes” defense. He’d had some major problems, which is why he had to spend some time at juco like a lot of troubled prospects, but he was always seen as a major talent and several colleges were interested in him.