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Topic: Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

Topic: Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

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Pataskala
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Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

Posted: 4/4/2013 7:13:09 AM

According to reports, they changed players' grades to make them eligible for the 2011 BCS championship game, paid players to keep them from jumping to the NFL and exceeded the per diem to entertain recruits.

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RE: Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

Posted: 4/4/2013 10:25:05 AM

and they bowed to the expectations of a rabid fan base, a conference affiliation that demands high performance, the coach's need to succeed at a high level to ensure their 7 figure salaries, a need to refill the pipeline with recruits by showing an ability to compete for a national championship trophy, an athletic department complicit in a win at all costs mentality by allowing it, etc., etc.,

Auburn is just the latest poster child. Everyone that loves this stuff, like most of us, contributes to the problem.

To wit, have you heard a credible explanation yet as to why Mike Rice needed to be fired now and not 6 months ago?

Last Edited: 4/4/2013 10:25:29 AM by Bobcatbob

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RE: Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

Posted: 4/4/2013 3:41:59 PM

Bobcatbob wrote:

To wit, have you heard a credible explanation yet as to why Mike Rice needed to be fired now and not 6 months ago?

It's just like red light cameras - it's not a crime until someone finds out about it. That's why the AD and any other senior administrator including the president who saw the video last fall and did nothing about it at the time should be shown the door.

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RE: Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

Posted: 4/4/2013 6:15:35 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

Bobcatbob wrote:

To wit, have you heard a credible explanation yet as to why Mike Rice needed to be fired now and not 6 months ago?

More, they should not have needed a video to know what is going on at their school. Supervision?

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RE: Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

Posted: 4/4/2013 11:14:15 PM

Agree with Alan 100 percent on this one. Sort of a milder version of PSU. Heads should roll, starting at the top. Though the NCAA probably won't call it that, it's really "lack of institutional control."

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RE: Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

Posted: 4/4/2013 11:48:49 PM

I don't think Auburn was ever out of the crosshairs since they won that title. A better comparison would be the person toting the gun (the NCAA) just a got an easier target to hit. Probably a head shot.

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RE: Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

Posted: 4/5/2013 5:33:46 AM

If the NCAA did nothing with Auburn in 2010 it will do nothing now. All the info they ever needed was in the fbi investigation of the money laundering scandal. That is where the famous phone call from dad demanding money came from.

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RE: Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

Posted: 4/5/2013 3:26:49 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

Actually the AD did not "do nothing". He did fine Rice, and suspend him, but obviously he did not do enough. In any case, he either resigned or was fired today.

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RE: Next in the crosshairs: Auburn

Posted: 4/6/2013 8:49:05 PM

L.C. wrote:

Alan Swank wrote:

Actually the AD did not "do nothing". He did fine Rice, and suspend him, but obviously he did not do enough. In any case, he either resigned or was fired today.

AD fired at Rutgers, Assistant Coach resigned...President next to go??

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