I think this thread is great in the den. It's good info for the members and it makes the forum more interesting. You can pretty much post anything SEC related in the den b/c it (either directly or indirectly) has to do with LSU football.
Should Auburn confess? Excellent chance Auburn loses one of its final 2. And then, if LSU beats Arkansas (not a sure thing), they'll both be 1 and 1 with Auburn winning the head to head, but having the more recent loss. The deciding factor would be the Cam Newton saga. If Auburn is dirty they dont deserve to go. Here is the kicker: Auburn ought to have a pretty damn good idea whether or not they've been cheating. Sounds like the investigation has expanded way beyond Cam Newton now. Someone in the Auburn admin HAS HAS HAS to know whether or not they are dirty. If they are dirty, then they should sit Cam immediately and even fess up. If they do that, and LSU beats Arkansas, then LSU will play for the NC and Auburn will have done the right thing. In my mind, Auburn screwing LSU out of a NC shot is even worse than cheating in the first place. They know what they've done. Staying silent now, knowing they are guilty....classless. If next year Auburn ends up forfeiting all its games, but a one loss LSU didnt get a crack at the NC, that will be unforgivable because the Auburn admin almost certainly know right now, today, whether they are guilty. If Auburn doesnt come clean then *#&$ em forever. That can never be forgiven.
They ARE about to get f&*# ed forever....so don't expect them to come clean now. It's not just the athletic department, just about all of the board of trustees are caught up in that Colonial bank FBI investigation. They don't care about integrity...they don't care about their accreditation...they care about RICO. Well that and becoming someone else's jail bitch in the near future.
I agree. I think the most people will see it here, and personally, I can't get enough of everybody's take on this deal. I'll say this. IF IF IF IF IF all this stuff is true; if Lowder and McGregor are guilty as charged; if it's true that Auburn players were using fixed slots in a dang casino; if it's true that undocumented ATM cards were being handed out to Auburn players; then this is the worst corruption case in the history of the NCAA, IMO. The casino thing alone is the NCAA's worst nightmare. And if all this is true, and Auburn DOESN'T get the death penalty, (and I don't think they will) then what exactly does the NCAA have the penalty for? Guys wonder why, if there's substance to all this, why the NCAA isn't moving on this. How about money? There are many millions of dollars that are going to be handed out at the bowls. I think these guys won't move until after they all get paid.
Don't expect any admission of guilt from them, but don't rule out a chain of events that bring this thing to light just in the nick of time.
Read somewhere in an article that the Auburn people had a big meeting at the airport and hashed all this stuff out. Many people, faculty, absolutely were enraged at the entire thing. IF that is true, I think there are a lot of good people at Auburn that are genuinely upset about this, and frankly don't know what the hell to do about it. but there are also a number of wealthy/powerful scumbags who will be fighting for their lives, if there is substance to the FBI investigation. And those people will stonewall and do everything they can to keep their actions from coming to light. Any way you cut that cake, it's a terrible mess.
