Monday NCAA investigators descended on Thibodaux, Louisiana, to meet individually with Auburn football recruit Greg Robinson, Robinson’s mother Lydia, Robinson associate Sean Nelson and Robinson’s former Thibodaux High School Coach Dennis Lorio.
At issue in those meetings was Robinson’s recruitment by Auburn, which raised red flags after an investigative piece by Thayer Evans at FOXSports.com in early January.
In a private meeting held at Thibodaux high school on Monday, Lorio met with an NCAA investigator and a Thibodaux high school official.
During the meeting Lorio was asked by an NCAA investigator about Auburn’s recruitment of former Thibodaux high school players Trovon Reed and Robinson. More specificially, Lorio was asked about the role Nelson played in the recruitment of both players and the nature of Nelson’s relationship with the Auburn coaching staff.
Also discussed between Lorio and an NCAA investigator was numerous trips Nelson took to Auburn with Reed and Robinson, and an iPhone that Robinson allegedly acquired following a trip to Auburn.
Additionally, Lorio was asked by an NCAA investigator to expound on the following comment he made to Evans in the FOXSports.com piece:
“How did players from Thibodaux, La., become so interested in Auburn?” Lorio asks. “That’s a really good question. Trooper Taylor and Sean Nelson would know.
Taylor is an assistant football coach at Auburn who was involved in the recruitment of Reed and Robinson.
While Auburn’s recruitment of Reed and Robinson was the center of the conversation between Lorio and the NCAA investigator, multiple sources indicate that the NCAA is also focusing its attention on so-called “street agents” like Nelson, with similar NCAA probes currently taking place around the country.
Nelson, Reed and Robinson all denied any impropriety involving Auburn’s recruitment of the two players in Evans’ FOXSports.com piece.
When contacted via email about NCAA representatives being in Thibodaux on Monday, NCAA spokesman Stacey Osburn replied in an email, “The NCAA cannot comment on current, pending or potential investigations.”
For more on the story later today, visit FOXSports.com.
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1:40 pm on February 16th, 2011
Nice work, Brooks!!
1:48 pm on February 16th, 2011
Wow, i wonder what will happen in every other state we get a recruit from ? If Auburn did wrong they’ll get theirs but this really seems like a witch hunt to me. I guess Thayer will have an article to come out soon in conjunction with this one ? Right ? You guys are starting to look like ticks and leeches…. jes sayin…….
1:50 pm on February 16th, 2011
Brooks,
You are absolutely killing it. Keep up the good work.
1:51 pm on February 16th, 2011
B - I’d say chances are high that they at least make a visit to Arkansas. I’d be very, very nervous if I were an Auburn fan right now…this investigation obviously goes beyond Cam Newton’s recruitment.
1:55 pm on February 16th, 2011
These kids want to come to the Plains! I wouldn’t tempt them with iPhones - they don’t get signal in Opelika!
1:57 pm on February 16th, 2011
Auburn is dirty!
They deal with street agents, through their coaching staff.
Obviously.
The former THS HC posed an excellent rhetorical question: WHY ARE THIBODAUX FOOTBALL PLAYERS SO INTERESTED IN AUBURN UNIVERSITY?
This cowpattieville campus is turning the heads of many recruits, and its not because of the “toilet paper decorations” at Toomer’s Corner. Auburn will burn again, and they are willing to reap an NC, with asterisk, and garner their 15 minutes of Warholian Fame.
Imagine, Cheezenik Da HC was losing miserably at Iowa St, then he turned it around with ALOT HELP FROM BOOSTERS DRESSED IN ERENGE/BLUE/YELLOAWOOD YELLOW!!!!
1:58 pm on February 16th, 2011
Tick Tock
2:07 pm on February 16th, 2011
Didn’t Bobby Bouche get recruited out of this High Schoool?
2:15 pm on February 16th, 2011
They should be looking into Mr. Walt Williams as well.
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2:16 pm on February 16th, 2011
But….but….AU is FAMILY…….. Its all good.
2:16 pm on February 16th, 2011
Where there is smoke there is fire. And with AU the smoke is so bad no one can breath
2:20 pm on February 16th, 2011
I’ve seen Nelson’s Facebook page. Full of “God-talk” about his mentor program one minute, and F-bombs the next. I don’t even have a dog in this hunt, but AU fans should be woefully embarrassed by that in itself. It’s a dis-integration of character, class, & propriety. Fans around the nation are very suprised at the extreme lack of class & propriety some AU fans, players, & coaches have shown. I’m good friends with a former AU player who is quite embarrassed.
2:25 pm on February 16th, 2011
Dear current Auburn players and commits:
Start contacting options number 2 and 3.
2:34 pm on February 16th, 2011
I knew AU was cheating when, during Chizik’s first recruiting season, only a month after being hired, Auburn started getting commits like Tyric Rollison, Demond Washington, and other highly sought after players, even though AU was coming off a losing year, Chizik had a 5-19 record as a coach and none were from an adjoining state or had previously followed Auburn. Friends it is tough for ANY school to get players to come from far away. Particularly to a school like AU with no great academic traditions or history for greatness in any particular area (other than fielding a professional football team and giving out free grades to jocks). Not even Football. Uh HUH! Cash invovled.
Then, this was confirmed that same summer, when the top 3 RBs in the entire country put Auburn at the top of their list,their favorite. None were from Alabama, none were even from Florida, Tenn, Miss nor Georgia. Not one of the three was from nearby. Then all summer and fall they flew back and forth from places like Arkansas, Texas, and South Carolina. Where did they get the cash to do that every week? What HS kid can afford to do that?
Finally, the next recruiting season, with AU having only an 7-6 year, with Alabama as National Champions, AU outrecruited UA. They continued to get recruits from places where it is usually difficult for the established, great, schools like Notre Dame, OSU, UA, OU and Texas to recruit - that is, in non-adjoining states.
So AU outrecruited the National Champions with kids actually willing to go to school a long way from home to play for a so so program with a so-so record, and a for coach with a losing record. What does that tell you? Players like Cam Newton switching instantaneously from his favorite to a school he just heard of a week before.
A school already known as the Notre Dame of Cheating leading the SEC with 7 major probations and one short of the national record. Now with the revelations coming out of Miss State, we know that they are indeed paying players. We know that he cost more than a scholarship. We know he went to Auburn. His dad admitted to shopping him. Has the NCAA gone nuts. AU belongs in the NFL not college football.
2:37 pm on February 16th, 2011
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I was going to post exactly the same thing. They need to start looking at Walt Williams as well.
2:40 pm on February 16th, 2011
Rodney Garner breathes a sigh of relief.
2:41 pm on February 16th, 2011
“It’s a God thing.”
-Cash Newton
2:41 pm on February 16th, 2011
Hard to believe bama fans talking smack about anyone else cheating. Pot, meet kettle….
2:51 pm on February 16th, 2011
National Champs, bitches!
2:52 pm on February 16th, 2011
… and the other shoe drops. How long before Cam is shunned Reggie Bush style? And, how long before Chizik jumps to the NFL like Pete?….. oh, wait, that would never happen. Turns out you have to actually be a good coach to make that transition. Maybe Iowa State will take him back.
2:52 pm on February 16th, 2011
Please, those kids love Auburn and this is a bunch of crap started by T. Evans. Nothing will come of this and I only have one thing to say. KISS THE RING, BITCHES!!
2:52 pm on February 16th, 2011
Hey Brooks…..can you please come to Russelville,AL and ask AL State Senator, Roger Bedford, about the role he played in the recruitment of Brent Calloway? Thanks, RP
2:55 pm on February 16th, 2011
Just like a Barner, Caught with your pants down and can’t take the heat so of course it’s all Bama’s fault. You idiots are either obtuse or just generally retarded.
2:56 pm on February 16th, 2011
Say goodbye to your fraudulent champioship with an asterisk, boogs. Your vile football program is going down the toilet!
Why are there only two pallbearers for an aubie’s funeral? Because garbage cans have only two handles!
3:02 pm on February 16th, 2011
HAHA! Trooper is such a thug. He and AuBARN are about to get beat down curb style by the NCAA. It turns out their “All In” slogan was created by the bingo bosses and they’re about to lose this hand.
And while were talking about gambling… what’s the odds on Cam losing his Heisman and AuBarn being stripped of it’s National Title?
I’m “All In” on both of those coming to fruition.
3:05 pm on February 16th, 2011
I laughed out loud when I saw this. Auburn football won’t make through the off season.
3:07 pm on February 16th, 2011
@Greg - asterisk, bitches!
3:09 pm on February 16th, 2011
Trooper Taylor = Everything that’s wrong in college football
3:10 pm on February 16th, 2011
Just another lame witch hunt that nothing will come from AU has stalkers around their program they are not cheating.
3:11 pm on February 16th, 2011
I already gots mine homies. cash money!
3:12 pm on February 16th, 2011
You know it and you say it every minute of every day. Forever! All of your programs are cheaters, yet you’ll never have a place in the sun. We’re all laughing at the desperation. We won. We did it just like your programs do, but they lose. We are the Kings - thanks for the rewarding attention, hahaha.
3:14 pm on February 16th, 2011
I set the standard for cheating and greed. Nobody has or will come close. I’m infamous.
3:14 pm on February 16th, 2011
Auburn is about to get SMUed. They got too cocky and too greedy and I think a big mistake they made was using their dirty tactics outside of SEC country because no one outside of the SEC cares about Auburn being slammed and would report them in a minute.
3:16 pm on February 16th, 2011
This is beginning to get comical. If they were going to “drop the hammer”, would Malzone had returned? You try to use the standard NCAA boilerplate “we don’t comment…” to further your argument? If you asked them if they were looking for WMD’s in Utah, they’d give the same answer. All of you guys talking in these comment boards are funny. Especially uat tide fans. The only reason that ten didn’t get the Death Penalty is because SMU got it and the NCAA stated they would NEVER do it again. War Eagle! Damn it feels good to play the villain and not the Victim!
3:22 pm on February 16th, 2011
Who is “malzone” Third man? Does he make calzones?
You DON’T EVEN KNOW THE NAME OF YOUR OWN ASST. COACH.
No wonder Auburn fans are in such denial.
3:23 pm on February 16th, 2011
Did Bear Bryant have sex with Mildred? That is one ugly looking woman.
3:24 pm on February 16th, 2011
NCAA needs to investigate all of the recruits that Trooper Taylor has gone after. They may find even more questionable things.
3:30 pm on February 16th, 2011
It is a god thing.
3:37 pm on February 16th, 2011
Hilarious. Do you think these same investigators would want to see the pics of Dre Kirkpatrick and his moms new cars?
3:40 pm on February 16th, 2011
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I knew AU was cheating when, during Chizik’s first recruiting season, only a month after being hired, Auburn started getting commits like Tyric Rollison, Demond Washington, and other highly sought after players, even though AU was coming off a losing year,
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Hahah….you mean exactly like the same thing that happened with Saban?
3:42 pm on February 16th, 2011
It’s amazing how the barners continue to bury their heads in the sand and write off anyone who says anything negative about the barn as a hack journalist and tin-foil hat wearer.
3:43 pm on February 16th, 2011
Why is it such a shock that these two fine young men have signed with Auburn? There have been literally hundreds of football players out of Thibodaux that have gone on to play at Auburn. STOP THIS WITCH HUNT!
3:45 pm on February 16th, 2011
NC War Eagles,
You are hilarious! Your desperation screams defense mechanism. Wait, you don’t know what that is…. so let me educate you.
A defense mechanism is something one uses to cope while the world as they know it crumbles around them. In this case, your mechanism is (and this is what I think is hilarious) that in your mind all of the other programs are just like you and yet you have taken it a step further and asserted your dominance.
I love it! To each his own I guess. But here’s a thought… I wise man once said that when everyone else is wrong and you’re right…. guess what??? Chances are, you’re likely the one that’s got it all wrong. The mind is a wonderful thing and I guess ignorance really is bliss. Peace.
3:46 pm on February 16th, 2011
NC War Eagles,
You are hilarious! Your desperation screams defense mechanism. Wait, you don’t know what that is…. so let me educate you.
A defense mechanism is something one uses to cope while the world as they know it crumbles around them. In this case, your mechanism is (and this is what I think is hilarious) that in your mind all of the other programs are just like you and yet you have taken it a step further and asserted your dominance.
I love it! To each his own I guess. But here’s a thought… I wise man once said that when everyone else is wrong and you’re right…. guess what??? Chances are, you’re likely the one that’s got it all wrong. The mind is a wonderful thing and I guess ignorance really is bliss. Peace.
3:49 pm on February 16th, 2011
They state of Arkansas is looking into AU’s recruitment of Dyer, Moseley and Frazier and it may go back even further as far back as Kodi Burns.
3:51 pm on February 16th, 2011
Jim S…you idiot… you do realize the “smoke” about Cyrus K is that AUBURN did something recruiting Cyrus that he had to clear with the NCAA and his family is ticked off at The Barn. Whether there is anything to it is another matter, but the “shock” was that he went to Auburn..not that he wound up going to Alabama. Same with Calloway. So even the things you desperately try to throw, boomerang back on your school.
It will all come out in the wash, but it is STUPID for Auburn fans to simply say there is “nothing to it”. You nor any other fan know Troopa and Cheeze are clean, anymore than I know what really happened.
But the FACT is the NCAA is investigating ALL OVER THE PLACE. THAT you cannot deny, even though I’m sure you will try.
Will Michael Dyer and an NCAA visit to Arkansas be next or has that already happened? Oh yeah…NOTHING is happening I forgot. This is all just a glitch in the matrix.
3:52 pm on February 16th, 2011
@MSUdawg your just looking for excuses since you get your a$$es kicked by Bama every year losers
3:58 pm on February 16th, 2011
Lowder is doing to AU just what he did to Colonial Bank.
4:01 pm on February 16th, 2011
The witch hunt continues. If anybody is going to get in trouble it’s gonna be the bammers (Calloway and Kuoandjio) or Mississippi State with their recruitment of Cam Newton AFTER his dad had shopped him to them. Nobody has anything muddy on Auburn and they can’t stand it. Lorio is nothing but a scumbag funnel to LSU and he’d better be careful himself. Auburn is not worried.
4:03 pm on February 16th, 2011
BTW, Thayer Evans has been publishing crap all year long about Auburn with NO, I REPEAT NO credible sources or facts. He’s nothing but a tin horn reporter who lies and makes things up. He had no credibility at all.
4:12 pm on February 16th, 2011
LOL… I love Auburn fans but they’re so full of crap. Think about it…. what do they throw around down at Toomer’s Corner? They’re going to need another tree or two at this pace. It’s getting deep!
4:15 pm on February 16th, 2011
This is great. I love seeing all these mullets, necks, gumps, and bammers squirm hoping beyond hope that Auburn goes down. heheheheee. This is great. Auburn bitch slapped the SEC this year and it is killing folks. KISS THE RING BITCHES!
4:21 pm on February 16th, 2011
Ruh Roh. Where’s that shredder?
4:30 pm on February 16th, 2011
Why can’t everyone just have some integrity like Lane Kiffin?
4:43 pm on February 16th, 2011
Let me ask you Aubbies a question. If Auburn is found guilty of cheating( a big IF) will you guys still be proud of this season? I absolutely lost my mind over the Albert Means issue & called the AD & pulled our family donation for 5 years. Common sense suggests that your paying players but I’ve seen no proof yet. No proof does not mean it has not happened. If it has shame on you all & I hope you get the death penalty , based purely off your record of cheating in the past.
4:45 pm on February 16th, 2011
Anyone got enough cajones to call MSU former player Kenny Rogers and ask him what happened to his son Justin while on his recruiting trip to Auburn ?
As long as the coaches didn’t know.
4:51 pm on February 16th, 2011
Brookes obviously knows very little about SEC football. The state schools are the ones with all the control and power. Schools like little ole Auburn can’t get away with the things the big boys get away with… Brookes I promise you if you start sniffing around Alabama and LSU you will find more abuses than you keep up with. I’m hearing Russelville is a good place to start. The SEC is about to crumble
4:54 pm on February 16th, 2011
@too funny Yeah brooks investigate Russelville and Calloway. How in the world would a kid that grew up a Bama fan be committed for 2 years flip at the last minute when the Auburn coaches had little to no contact with Calloway. Please investigate the Cyrus K rumors about how barn coaches tried to black mail him with they let him visit the strippers. Yeah please investigate those stories.
4:55 pm on February 16th, 2011
HAHA BROOKS POISONED THE TOOMERS OAK TREE!! IT’S on AL.COM!!!
TAKE THAT Barn-ERS
5:03 pm on February 16th, 2011
Thayer- a leech looking for a headline. Got no facts, just heresay…..and that from unreliable sources. Journalism has gone to hell in this day and time. In the meantime, WAR EAGLE and salute to the 2010 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! Sure hurts don’t it bamer?
5:08 pm on February 16th, 2011
JamesR- odd time?……HA! Tennessee Titans hiring a new coach…….off season dummy….as usual……WEAK effort…..as all this sheet…….and ‘where there’s smoke there’s fire’?…sure if you’re talking forest fire. But, it’s no forest fire, it’s a cluster of kids outside the junior high lunchroom talking gossip. Totally different from the fire analogy. O, and bamer’s……analogy means, well look it up.
5:09 pm on February 16th, 2011
Yeah, why do you think Rocker just up and bolted at such an odd time?
5:23 pm on February 16th, 2011
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@too funny Yeah brooks investigate Russelville and Calloway. How in the world would a kid that grew up a Bama fan be committed for 2 years flip at the last minute when the Auburn coaches had little to no contact with Calloway. Please investigate the Cyrus K rumors about how barn coaches tried to black mail him with they let him visit the strippers. Yeah please investigate those stories.
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Hey moron, there are no strip clubs in auburn due to city ordinances that prevent the town from being trashy. So that’s did not happen on his vist. Nce try. Also regarding Brent Calloway, does Petro Chemical mean anything to you? Their CEO was highly active in Brents return to the Tahd.
6:25 pm on February 16th, 2011
the strippers come from Tuskegee, so I hear.
9:36 pm on February 16th, 2011
Barn fans are starting to look like Vol fans when Lame Kitten left. They loved and defended that worthless pile of crap right up until he split for a better program. When Cheeznip resigns in disgrace and your program loses its National Title, and you are enjoying a few years of probation, you will all be burning mattresses in the streets. The good news… You guys have plenty of dead wood at Toomer’s Corner for bonfires.
9:47 pm on February 16th, 2011
hey Aubs
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/reality-star-cast-for-aus-last-recruiting-gasp-29450
whats that you moron? Oh, I get it, since they dance in a barn, it isnt really a club… got ya.
10:41 pm on February 16th, 2011
So what does everyone want us to do? Quit playing football? Cry me a river.
11:03 pm on February 16th, 2011
Hey dad, you are going to be embarrassed again. Cam was innocent and Auburn is innocent in both these cases. Don’t you get tired of looking like a fool where accusing Auburn is concerned. Go and find something about this so called investigation that is official, not preceeded by “From Fox Sports and Thayer Evans”. Remember, those two made a fool out of a lot of folks like you who believed the Cam Newton charges.
11:08 pm on February 16th, 2011
AUBS, JIM S, AU GRAD.
YOU are continuing the laughing stock AU stands for. THANK YOU for being so ignorant and BLIND to the facts.
MSU/AU - Multiple stories about NCAA investigating AU in Atlanta, LSU and other areas BUT you say it’s MSU and LSU in trouble.
MIAMI, FSU, FL turned you in. Are THEY being investigated by the NCAA? NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT.
TN is about to turn you in. They are being investigated but NOW it’s YOUR TURN.
Think again on Calloway and Kuoandjio. You were never in on him. His HC KNEW he wanted to play with his brother. AU’s coaches didn’t want his/their parents on campus because they knew they would be caught in BS. Guess what! They got caught in BS any way. The NCAA is NOT investigating BAMA.
UGA has a beef with you, too. The NCAA is NOT investigating them.
Your “crack” staff has stomped on too many toes with their rampant and blatant recruiting violations.
ARE YOU SEEING THE CONNECTION? If not, let me spell it out for you since you have your faces between the cheeks of your two pears.
All the schools you say are being investigated by the NCAA have a single connection….AU. Don’t think they are the target. They’re NOT. YOU ARE.
It’s definitely NOT a “GOD THING” that got you your championship. It was MONEY! The same money that Cecil got for shopping his son (Some family love, huh?). The same money that lured so many, NOT HEAVILY RECRUITED UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE PLAYERS, that AU had to spend to get them.
College footballs newest cult is AU and it’s officially called THE BRANCH ALL IN-ian. ROFLMAO!
BEWARE OF YOUR FALSE PROPHETS. God didn’t win you ANYTHING. Chiznik didn’t win you anything. $Cam didn’t win you anything but he and pop used you to get what they want.
When you are left with NOTHING after they are gone, we’ll see just how ALL IN-ian you REALLY are.
I’ll be laughing my @$$ off at how foolish you look. For now, I’m just laughing at how ignorant you are to deny you aren’t being investigated.
12:43 am on February 17th, 2011
I know a man named “Peaches” that would like an article written about him also…
2:28 am on February 17th, 2011
Tell me I didn’t deserve the money that Daddy got!
9:37 am on February 17th, 2011
Success Breeds Contempt. There will always be people who will try to dethrown the King. But in the end, you can’t argue with success.
Auburn has been successful on the field.
Auburn has been successful in recruiting.
And this just drives Auburn Haters, and especially Alabama fans, crazy. They all yell, “How’d they do that? They must’ve cheated!” It has made one Alabama fan so mad and angry that he poisoned the beautiful live oak trees at Auburn’s famous Toomer’s Corner.
Thayer Evans is nothing but a tabloid “journalist”. All, and I mean all, of Evans articles about Auburn have one common trait. They contain no facts or evidence that Auburn has done anything wrong. All of Evans articles about Auburn contain nothing but speculation and innuendo. However, Evans spins his stories to make it look like Auburn has, if fact, done something wrong when no investigation has concluded that and no facts to that effect are in evidence. Evan has an agenda in regards to Auburn and that is not professional journalism.
Auburn successfully recruited two kids out of Louisiana. LSU fans were so upset about this that they called the NCAA to complain. LSU got out recruited by Auburn. Auburn worked harder, tried harder, and sold these kids on coming to Auburn. Auburn won this recruiting battle. Isn’t that the spirit of competition?
If LSU and Alabama and other schools are mad about getting beat by Auburn on the field and in recruiting then buckle your chin straps and do something about it. But don’t call the NCAA and complain like a little sissy.
Guys, Coach Gene Chizik did not mean to ruffle your feathers. Coach Chizik is just making good on a pledge he made to Auburn when he was hired to go anywhere he needed to go to recruit the kind of players he needs to make Auburn successful. Chizik has the audacity to believe that Auburn has the type of football program that the top players in the country would want to play for.
I believe in Auburn and love it.
War Eagle!
10:58 am on February 17th, 2011
@28-27 and everyone else really.
I did not really hate AU until their purchase of players became so blatant. I have numerous friends who are AU fans. Not boosters. They don’t attend many games. Just everyday fans who watch games on the tube. Even they know that AU has been buying players for a long time and that people who are with the school, not just rogue boosters, are part of it. It’s just common knowledge. Every AU fan I know has the same attitude - enjoy it until the hammer comes down and hope that it never does. The way the NCAA operates, they very well may never do anything. Flip a coin. But journalists kept the USC stuff alive and the NCAA finally did do something. There is so much smoke here that this story will remain alive as well. You are whistling past the grave yard but, if it makes you feel better, blow away.
12:18 pm on February 17th, 2011
just curious…the header says…ncaa questions four in louisiana about auburn…was there any interest by ncaa in the lsu recruitment (failed) of these players? Or just auburn?
1:59 pm on February 17th, 2011
@28-27:
AUBURN IS GARBAGE! get a freakin clue! all of you barn fans are so oblivious to all thats going on. Just accept the fact that auburn is crashing and burning. Chizik is a terrible coach. Yall won the NC because of cam newton and cam newton only. Yall had other good players that played well too but without cam newton yall would have lost over half of yalls games. Every school is turning yall in and the truth is coming out. I hope everything auburn gets poisoned just like thos pathetic trees on gay tumors corner. I hope those trees get put in a wood chipper and spread all over every crying auburn fan. I wanna meet the man who poisoned those trees and give him a big ol hug. Oh and you never have and never will beat alabama in recruiting you dimwit. Say bye bye to your fraudulent championship and heisman trophy you bunch of barner bastards
2:03 pm on February 17th, 2011
haha not only did bama beat you in recruiting this year, but LSU and Georgia both beat you. go back to your pathetic excuse of a life barn fans and sulk in your own pity. GO GATORS
4:01 pm on February 17th, 2011
As a LSU Tiger Fan, I hope Auburn gets what it deserves, if any of this is true. I know people say that recruiting in college football is corrupt, and I think it is to a certain extent. But, the actions involving Auburn’s recruitment of players go far beyond the pale. At a minimum, Auburn should lose its NC and have the “death penalty” imposed upon it if any of this turns out to be true. It’s stuff like this that sickens true college football fans.
4:57 pm on February 17th, 2011
lsu and alabama dirty
10:09 pm on February 17th, 2011
As a Big 10 fan, I have more respect for The Crimson Tide than I do Auburn. There’s no comparison between the two schools.
While Alabama is loaded with tradition, it’s obvious with the Cam debacle that AU didn’t just “suddenly and miraculously” make it to the top. With so much in the mainstream media about AU being investigated in many areas, it’s become blatantly obvious what got them to the top was cheating. Chizik is not that good of a head coach. Also, how did AU take top recruits from their original dream school in just a couple weeks of contact with recruits while other schools take months to get to know parents, the kids, their habits, their coaches and understand what that kid wants in life….besides AU money.
Auburn fans. Wake up. Get your clue with the stories in the media. You’re giving the rest of the country a fan base to laugh at with your constant pointing of your fingers at other schools. Auburn is the common denominator of all the schools complaining about you. If you think that the NCAA is investigating everyone else, you are really out of touch with reality.
Thank goodness all the other SEC schools aren’t known as cheaters like AU and don’t have fans as ignorant either.
10:21 pm on February 17th, 2011
Au6. I got your point beat about Cam and his son-selling poppa. Read this article….if you dare or think you can separate one fact.
There’s a HUGE difference between being declared eligible and being cleared of charges. Cam and dad are NOT cleared. Here’s your PROOF that you asked for to prove it. GET A CLUE because YOU are for FOOL. No one else.
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/02/scarbinsky_sources_say_cam_new.html
Beware of Cheezy, Troopy and Loopy….your false prophets. Contrary to their statements, it’s NOT a God thing. God didn’t win you ANYTHING. MONEY DID!!!
OH AND Bryant Gumbel will be doing his HBO sports show mid March or first of April. He’s got something to tell AU fans and it won’t be what they “want” to hear. It’ll be eye-awakening and what you “need” to hear.
Get ready to send your TEMPORARY CHAMPIONSHIP/HEISMAN TROPHIES back. You aren’t keeping them.
ROFL! AU will NEVER win an outright championship. With the one’s you “CLAIM”, it looks like you’ll have to change your school logo to *U (asterisk University for those AU fans who aren’t smart enough to understand.
12:54 am on February 18th, 2011
Some downright *crazy* folks here…wow.
1:24 am on February 18th, 2011
Good Lord some of you AU fans are UNBELIEVABLE! Hey I’ll admit outright I’m an Alabama fan. First, let me say I’m not some ignorant redneck tree-killer (yes that was reprehensible), I’m beginning my 3rd degree and have a successful career.
What is UNBELIEVABLE is how naive, stubborn, and arrogant you are concerning possible investigations and violations! When it was announced back around 2000 that Bama was being investigated, I didn’t put my head in the sand & say “the world is out to get us!” I admitted:
1) If we cheated we should get punished.
2) If there are investigations, that means suspicious things have happened and been reported to the extent that governing/officiating bodies are spending $, time, & resources to discover the truth.
3) We have to admit that if they are investigating it’s possible something happened.
4) We have to let investigations take their course…and while hoping for the best, must withhold judgment until everything is completed.
But MOST of you AU fans…you can’t admit ANY of that whatsoever. It’s not just Bama fans that notice & are angry about your attitudes. Heck, I’ve got friends calling me from Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Oregon, Florida, Germany, etc., etc. They cannot believe that you are unwilling to concede any of my 4 points. (they developed those, I did not).
This is not some “bammer conspiracy.” The “REC” is not out to get you. It’s the general lack of propriety you’ve shown concerning anything controversial.
Was there smoke at Alabama in the early 2000’s, HECK YES! And it revealed a FIRE! We got punished, I didn’t complain one bit.
Is there fire at Auburn? Who knows? Maybe there isn’t a spark, and I’m fine with that, I’m not on a witch hunt. But it’s the height of arrogance for you to say there is NO smoke, and to call everyone who coughs a “hater.”
Thank God my rational AU friends can admit this. And yes, they are embarrassed by you.
9:42 am on February 18th, 2011
Hey Matt…….eat it boy!
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http://www.houmatoday.com/arti…f-Thibodaux-duo
NCAA questions recruiting of Thibodaux duo
By Brent St. Germain
Sports Editor
Published: Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 9:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 9:37 p.m.
THIBODAUX – The NCAA questioned former Thibodaux High football coach Dennis Lorio and other individuals earlier this week regarding Auburn’s recruitment of two of his former players, according to online reports on FoxSports.com and USAToday.com.
Two NCAA investigators questioned Lorio for a “couple of hours” about possible recruiting violations involving Trovon Reed and Greg Robinson. He was asked if he believed that Auburn committed NCAA violations during the recruiting process.
Lorio said he believes Auburn committed no violations.
“Do I believe that Auburn has done anything wrong with their recruiting? My answer has been no,” Lorio said during a phone interview on Thursday. “I don’t think there was anything illegally done with their recruiting. I’m not aware of anything.”
For more on this story, ready Friday’s edition of the Daily Comet and The Courier or online at www.dailycomet.com and www.houmatoday.com.
9:52 am on February 18th, 2011
DUMB arse Beware of False Prophet……………..you point to Scarbinsky, as your facts?
Fact…..no money found to have been received, or paid.
Fact # 2……Cecil turned ALL of his financial records over.
fact # 3……AL LOST 1 year of records in the Textbook Scandal (oh, and never in the world’s history have 200 students received free, additional textbooks, and nobody benefitted financially. Idiot.
10:42 am on February 18th, 2011
Wow! This is unbelievable!
All of this talk and hate and venom. For four months now. All of the national media and news outlets have spent considerable time and attention to investigating and trying to dig up dirt on Auburn. The SEC, the NCAA, the FBI, and others have all been looking into it. And yet, to this day there is not one shred of proof or evidence that Auburn has done anything wrong.
If Auburn has been cheating then they have done a remarkably good job of covering it up.
Are you trying to tell me that an army of professional investigative reporters from the national media are incapable of getting an 18 or 19 year old student athlete to spil the beans and tell them what has been going on?
Are you trying to tell me that the NCAA and the FBI are incapable of discovering these alleged financial transactions?
As a lifelong Auburn fan, I can tell you that if clear documented proof is found that someone with Auburn paid Cam Newton and/or others to play football for Auburn then Auburn ought to be punished and the employees or boosters involved ought to be forever banned from Auburn. However, if all there ever is is just rumor, speculation, and innuendo, then everybody just needs to shut up. Under the kind of heavy investigative pressure that Auburn has been under lately, if Auburn did something wrong I believe it would have already been discovered.
I guess what really bothers me is that everyone, mainly Alabama fans, has already reached a conclusion in their minds that Auburn did something wrong when there is no proof or evidence to that effect.
If I were on trial in a courtroom, I would hate to have these commentors on my jury. They would convict me and send me to jail just based on how they feel and their biases without looking to see if there were any facts to back up their opinions.
11:38 am on February 18th, 2011
@28-27
How long did it take for the NCAA to act on USC?
Any evidence the NCAA has that comes from law enforcement will not be made public until the related investigations are complete. Further, any evidence the NCAA has will not be made public until their investigation, which is ongoing, is complete.
Again, the NCAA may never do anything but you nor anyone else knows that now. In the meantime, keep whistling past those gravestones and wearing the rose colored glasses.
1:07 pm on February 18th, 2011
Dear 28-27,
I’m not spewing any venom. Heck I’ve got friends who played for AU. Let me tell you from experience as a Bama fan who has watched his team be investigated - 4months is nothing. Many of us thought nothing was happening in the investigations into our program, until something dos happen.
I’m not sitting here hoping you get slammed. I just see a total lack of objectivity from most AU fans. The only AU fan I know who “gets it” is a lawyer friend. Huge AU fan, went to the title game & wished him a good time. Yet, his experience as a level headed lawyer gives him enough objectivity to say, “nothing is over until the book is closed on every investigation & a few years have passed.” Does he believe AU is clean? He’d like to but is withholding full judgment. Is he worried? Well, he goes back & forth b/c he knows there’s a lot of smoke, but he hopes for the best. He wears his BCS title pin & I have no problem with that. And yes he thinks AU fans who refuse to admit there are serious questions surrounding suspicious situations that must be answered, well…he thinks you are the lowest common denominator of the fan base.
1:52 pm on February 18th, 2011
Edit to above post:
“well…he thinks you are the lowest common denominator of the fan base.” should be
“well…he thinks they are the lowest common denominator of the fan base.”
It was certainly not my intention to make a personal attack and I realized the above statement could be read as such.
2:01 pm on February 18th, 2011
I do not know Reed or Robinson but I was not suprised they went to Auburn because I worked with a family member of Reeds and he told me Reed had been A fan of Auburn since he was a kid and was looking to go to a school that ran a spead offence.I also can understand Robinson going there to when you look at the depth on LSU’S o-line and the fact that Reed was there.I can not vouch for either guy cuz I don’t know them and as an alumni of THS and a loyal LSU fan I didn’t like to see them go to a rival.But I can understand there decisions and I wish them well.
4:50 pm on February 24th, 2011
THAYER EVANS IS STILL AN IDIOT!
4:53 pm on February 24th, 2011
SO MANY MIS-INFORMED AND STUPID BAMMERS AND OTHERS ON HERE. MAKES ME SICK!
WAR CAM EAGLE!
1:55 pm on April 14th, 2011
So much for a Top 10 recruting class all will play on PROBATION!!!