NCAA Taking Things Way Too Far?
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Leave a CommentIt’s been a rough couple of weeks for the Auburn football program. The New York Times has been covering this new scandal that has a lot of implications. First, it was an article that told about how 18 members of the undefeated 2004 football team took a combined 97 hours of class from one professor, and most didn’t even spend any time in the classroom. The M Zone was on top of things in releasing the photo of the sociology classroom in Auburn. Also, EDSBS had a full story on it.
The NCAA and SEC are currently waiting on a pending investigation before anything significant happens according to the New York Times. Well, the investigation may be one out of the ordinary. I received a tip from a poster at one of the premium Alabama boards stumbled upon an Auburn message board, where a Tigers fan posted this:
audrew01
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(7/18/06 11:51:15 am )
Reply“NCAA undercover agents in Auburn classes..LOL!
I cannot disclose much (for now), but I thought you might be interested in knowing that what you have heard and read about Auburn University’s football program over the last few days is only the tip of the iceberg.
I’m going to let you in on something that very few people in the world know about right now. When I say “very few,” I’m talking less than 100. Fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the NCAA has utilized undercover investigators who have been posing as graduate students on Auburn’s campus since early 2002. I cannot disclose the specifics of what they have uncovered, but believe me when I say that it is shocking. When I say “shocking,” I’m saying that this will be a 2 or 3-part series of 48 Hours or Dateline within the next year. There are massive amounts of documents, recorded conversations, and incriminating photographs and videotapes of numerous individuals within the Auburn athletic department committing numerous transgressions. The investigation has been appropriately been nicknamed the “Auburn mess” by those few very individuals in the know.
Think I’m kidding . . . wait and see.
That is all. For now.”
And from another poster on the same message board:
“Scott McKinney, a long time sports media personality with…
Posted by White House Boy on July 18, 2006 at 18:15:09:
Jefferson Pilot’s SEC football coverage and regional call in radio shows (Southern Sports Tonight, The Morning Wrap, etc) tonight said that a close contact of his claims that the NCAA has had somewhat of a sting operation going on at AU since spring 2002. He said that there were several people attending undergrad and grad courses at the barn who were working with the NCAA to document/confirm academic fraud.
Apparently there are several video and audio tapes confirming widespread abuse and that the recent allegations in the NYT are truly the tip of the iceberg.
I don’t know the veracity of the info, but if he was willing to air in on the radio, I feel it’s perfectly within reason for me to pass it along.
Take it for what it’s worth.” Think?
Who would be #1 on the NCAA’s hit list of boosters? Lowder?”
Now, remember these are just posts from message boards, so don’t take them to be 100% true. Heck, some of that stuff sounds so out there that it’s hard to believe any of it. I don’t know whether to laugh or think about how big of a scandal this really is. Anyways, just thought I’d pass it along just in case something of this sort does come about eventually. Let me just reinforce that the chances of this actually being true are not that great, but it is pretty hilarious.
All of this talk of the NCAA conducting undercover stings at Universities leads to this question: What’s next, the FBI NCAA Swat Team raiding a campus near you?
