10 days ago four Auburn football players committed armed robbery at an Alabama trailer park.
From these photos - which were taken before the crime - it’s hard to believe that the Auburn coaching staff and athletic department somehow didn’t see the signs of what might happen.
Wait a minute…
The four Auburn football players pictured above, Daren Bates, Onterrio McCalebb, Neiko Thorpe and Demetruce McNeal, weren’t actually involved in the robbery.
Auburn Family® indeed.
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5:53 pm on March 19th, 2011
Hahahahhahahahaha. Hahhahaha. Are these guys even worth the $ spent on their ‘education’?? Seems like a waste of funds. Championships are nice… but do it right people.
5:56 pm on March 19th, 2011
Ooooh, day gonna come bust a cap off in yo @$$ now. And the Failure to Yeild club gonna boi-cot yoo too!!!
6:08 pm on March 19th, 2011
Gangs are now “all in” the family at Auburn. God is with them allright. Cheeznick needs to check the Bible and see what happens to those that use His name in vain. Not very good.
6:12 pm on March 19th, 2011
It’s an absolute (win at all costs) train wreck down there.
Glad to see it’s finally being exposed for what it is.
This program needs to be given the death penalty.
6:16 pm on March 19th, 2011
@david w: except gun laws are 18
6:18 pm on March 19th, 2011
Never to yield foundation…..bwaaaaaaaaaa….protecting gang members as long as they wear orange and blue and keep it down home cuz. Going to be fun watching them turn into a division II team within two years. Should change the name to “nevertoseethelightofdayfoundation”.
6:19 pm on March 19th, 2011
Willing to bet that none of these dudes have ever seen the inside of a classroom.
6:20 pm on March 19th, 2011
Keep it down home cuz!
6:24 pm on March 19th, 2011
McNeal is posing with a handgun, yet he is only 19.
Bank that every FFL who is a rival fan has already reported him to the ATF.
6:26 pm on March 19th, 2011
AU fans are the only fans in the nation who cannot admit the unbelievable amount of suspicious activity, BAD signs & distasteful behavior surrounding the program. And the God talk shud be quieted down merely for the sake of propriety & decorum. It’s like a rap star who sings about pimps, whores, guns, & money…thanking God for his success. Insulting to religious people. Clean up the image & them talk about God all you want.
6:28 pm on March 19th, 2011
Lmao!!!!! Never to yeild…*u is a freaking cult lead by a retired washed up beat writer….to funny Brian….
6:33 pm on March 19th, 2011
@kennypowers
18 for rifle, 21 for handgun
He is breaking the law in that photo. Not too bright.
6:38 pm on March 19th, 2011
Admitted Bama Fan here…however, I woud rather never win another football game, than the have my univerisity represented in this manner.
6:57 pm on March 19th, 2011
Playing devils advocate, that second photo actually does not look real, it could be doctored….just saying. In anycase, the five are by far enough to worry about.
7:15 pm on March 19th, 2011
Sure those pictures aren’t “my cup of tea” but they don’t mean those kids are in a gang, I’m sure you can find pics of players from nearly every school messing around like this….com’on guys, the gun is plastic (notice there is no slot for the clip). There probably is shady stuff happening on “The Plains” but this is just ridiculous.
7:35 pm on March 19th, 2011
@Doc… yeah, sure it’s not a real gun…. and that’s monopoly money he’s got in his mouth….
7:52 pm on March 19th, 2011
ummm im not defending this at all but just in case yall were wondering that gun…. its not real, look at it more carefully you can clearly tell its plastic
8:15 pm on March 19th, 2011
So if the gun is plastic as some of you say does that change the overall perception of Auburn and it’s football program?
If you pull a (plastic) gun on someone do the charges change?
8:16 pm on March 19th, 2011
i hate auburn, i use the copperhead logic with them. big copper head, little copperhead, either way its a copper head…………KILL THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9:31 pm on March 19th, 2011
Matt and Rontosh.
Please tell me you don’t own any firearms.
The ignorance you’re spewing is sickening.
No wonder the anti-gunners perceive gun owners as a bunch of rednecks.
Please look up the laws before crapping out of your mouths.
9:32 pm on March 19th, 2011
COME ON, AUBRUN FANS!!! What say you? Or are you letting that laughable “Never To Yield Foundation” do your talking? Funny thing about NTYF. Their mission says they are not out to cause harm. However, cutting a persons income off IS causing harm and also ground for a lawsuit. I bet the loudmouth founder will have his hands full in the future when attorney bills mount up.
9:34 pm on March 19th, 2011
This is weak stuff that only fuels Bammers and other haters. So, it seems that the McNeal’s gun is plastic. Do we know what the signs mean?
Seems like someone is stirring up anti-urban sentiment. Not all sign flashers run in gangs. Not all urban kids commit armed robbery.
Would I rather our players not identify with that culture? Probably so, but I’m not ready to make it a requirement.
10:30 pm on March 19th, 2011
I’ll bet the 2 Auburn players still in jail are not happy about not being in the family. I bet they will squeal like a pig if somebody would help them out. Where are the Ala boosters now
11:40 pm on March 19th, 2011
That sure is some FAMBLY (or cult) ole Chiznik’s building on them plains.
The signs are there for the *U fans to see the truth but they would rather worry about what people say about them than to GET SMART and realize TOO MANY people are saying TOO MANY things that just MAY be true. But NOOOOOO. The *U fambly doesn’t want to face the truth to hear the truth. They would rather act like cultist, deny the truth, drown the truth with smokescreen accusations on others and let their laughing stock, soon-to-go-down NTYF slow the problems heading their way down.
*U fans sound like members of a cult. After all, their ALL IN and STILL don’t know what the are ALL IN for. ROFL!
11:58 pm on March 19th, 2011
Doesn’t matter if the gun is plastic, real, water, paper, whatever. The stack of cash in his mouth is real. Now, just where does a college athlete with no job and no source of income come across such a large amount of money? Maybe the same place Dakota Mosely got his big stack of cash?
They’re not paying players down there!!! /sarcasm off/
12:22 am on March 20th, 2011
“Admitted Bama Fan here…however, I woud rather never win another football game, than the have my univerisity represented in this manner”
But you’re OK with the Wall Street Journal and others running embarrassing articles on Alabama’s oversigning practices?
Don’t kid yourself. The rest of the country believes the whole state is a 3rd world joke. “Alabama” is synonymous with backwardness and racism… as it long has been.
2:18 am on March 20th, 2011
WinderDawg,
I have personally been to Winder, GA and am not impressed at all. That is a prime example of backwardness. I am sorry that you have an irrelevant football program compared to Alabama, it must suck. I would suggest that you not make idiotic assumptions, ” The rest of the country believes the whole state is a 3rd world joke. “Alabama” is synonymous with backwardness and racism… as it long has been.” You look extremely ignorant when you do.
6:48 am on March 20th, 2011
The cheating/corruption/illegal activity seems to run from boosters all the way down to the players. Bobby Lowder>Pat Dye (run out after cheating)>Chizik>Cam/Cecil Newton>Michael Dyer(came to aub via street agent in Ark)>4 robbery suspects…the list just keeps growing
Auburn won a title with a bought and paid for QB who spent a total of 1 semester at the school. Sad, sad day to be an Auburn Tiger.
8:06 am on March 20th, 2011
Hey! Just because they cheat and rob and get illegal benefits doesn’t make them bad people!
Wait. Actually, that’s exactly what makes them bad people.
But at least they will always have someone to bail them out of jail. That’s what Fambly is for.
8:21 am on March 20th, 2011
And the auburn folks call this a “God thing?”
8:52 am on March 20th, 2011
Brooks should go interview Deron Furr, a former Auburn QB/safety. Furr was a Columbus, Ga. kid whose teammate committed to AU then went to FSU and started at WR. Furr was brought in under Tubbs. He enrolled early and during spring practice was jump on on the field in what looked like a gang beatdown. Furr quickly left Auburn & transferred to Memphis. Furr was a good student, from a two-parent home that didn’t fit the profile of what black athletes at Auburn are envisioned to be.
This has been a constant source of conflict for Auburn. They sale their school to Over-the-Mountain-kids as a “safe” school. Which translates to mean: White school. Black athletes create a problem with that image.During the Dye years, black players were encouraged to spend their weekends in Columbus or Tuskegee. In this regard, the white women were safe from the clutches of the black players. Times have changed on de planes.
They have had for several, Rev. Chette Williams to minister to the players, i.e. handle any problems, pass cash, etc.. With the arrival of Troopher Taylor, the leash on the players has been removed. Trooper sells a “fun” atmosphere to recruits. This translates into “do what you want” culture. He transformed UT in the same fashion. The UT team was divided, unsavory kids were brought in, and Troopher insulated himself within the team. OSU was headed down the same path but they had the sense to push him out the door.
These incidents will continue at Auburn as long as Gene Chizik is in charge(a figurehead if one was every created) & Trooper/Luper duo is buying players. “All In” at Auburn means: They will do Whatever is needed to compete. The Big Dogs hunt late is the AU motto. It translates into “We’ll find 6-8 kids with their hand out and fill it with cas; the Cam Newton model.
9:11 am on March 20th, 2011
I keep hearing of a “Crips” and auburn connection. The blue hat in the top pick solidifies that rumor a little more.
9:14 am on March 20th, 2011
Hate to say it it, but if you don’t think this happens at every school, you are in denial. Just saying…
9:37 am on March 20th, 2011
I hate auburn because they aren’t supposed to be good at football. Only Alabama is supposed to be good at football. I still have a empty pot in my stomach and lump in my throat when I think about Auburn came all the way back from 24-0 to win in our house against the greatest and cleanest football coach since bare Bryant. I cried for days. My wife left me for some Auburn fan and my dog won’t come to me anymore. Auburn must have cheated. There is no way that they could have beaten the might tide playing fairly. No punt intended. Ha! I think it’s great that journalists like sports by brook spend all their time putting together other peoples original thoughts and put it on one cite for my convenience. I don’t care if the info is true. Perception is reality. I hate auburn so much that I will believe anything bad about them because it must be true because everything about Auburn is evil except that my sister went there. But she didn’t live in a trailer. I think the pictures above are real and I believe that Bobby Lowdervabd Pat Dye probably took ylthe pictures. I think the hand gestures mean that they are all about to commit armed robbery. I hope Auburn dies like their stoopid tree. Roll Damm Tide!
10:28 am on March 20th, 2011
I’m an Aubarn fan. I don’t see anythang wrong with any of theese pikchures. I need a handgun just to go to my class. Them bammers think they are the bestest in evurythang. Well I am hear to tell you that they ain’t so tuff. They pay players to. So do evurybody. I’m white and I love my Aubarn fambly like they is mine own. So you haters stop hating. Hate the game. Just cuz we one in Tuskaloossa they think we cheeted. Alabama fans hate trees and black people. I saw that on the newz one time. So what if we gave some players money. They have to pay for there edukasion. Aubarn is a fine skool with lots of love for everybody except bammers and haters. Those “gang” signs are not that. They are the sign for peace, love, and honesty. La la la, I can’t here you! I’ll be taking care of the cows so I won’t here any more of this. Now where’s my bingo debit card?
10:49 am on March 20th, 2011
Not sure I get the point. You posted pictures of players that aren’t in trouble and haven’t been in trouble in order to try and say that Auburn should have seen the signs telling them that a completely different set of players would get in trouble? Doesn’t that about sum it up?
I’m just an old white guy, and I won’t pretend to say that I approve of these types of photos or “thug culture” in general in any way. But if you look, what you’re gonna find is that these types of photos and the trendy/popular “thug culture” they represent are very, very, very common at schools all across the nation. And it isn’t just black players either.
Where does this sort of thing come from? Popular (yes, popular) culture. Watch a few rap videos. Listen to some of the lyrics. Surely you already knew all of this anyway.
I guess from where I sit, your point is really no point at all. You can’t post pictures of kids that aren’t in trouble and use them to indicate that anyone should have seen trouble coming from a different group of kids. Get real.
10:52 am on March 20th, 2011
Note to David W…
There is no law that says a 19 year old is barred from possessing a handgun. They can’t buy a handgun at that age, but they can have one. Seriously.
http://www.nraila.org/GunLaws/Federal/Read.aspx?id=60
10:55 am on March 20th, 2011
Not so honest T. Your not really an auburn fan are you?
10:59 am on March 20th, 2011
Nothing I like seeing more than a bunch of college football players flashing gang signs while they attend a university in the State of Alabama on a scholarship provided by my and other Alabamians’ tax dollars.
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Thanks Chizik. You’re a great judge of character. At least you’re keeping them out of UA.
11:07 am on March 20th, 2011
@ David W - The gun laws in Alabama allow you to own a pistol at 18.
11:08 am on March 20th, 2011
@ Tiger - the gang signs they’re flashing isn’t photo-shopped.
11:09 am on March 20th, 2011
If anyone on here believes these pictures are really then all of you are stupid all of thses pictures are photo shopped.
11:18 am on March 20th, 2011
Honest T, you aren’t so honest yourself. You are a Barner. If you aren’t a part of the solution, then you are the problem. Auburn must condone this behavior or they would stop it. It’s pretty easy. Suspend the players or kick them out if they are running around like thugs, toy guns or not. Find some pictures of current Bama players like these. Saban would have their butts GONE. GONE. I will guarantee it.
11:23 am on March 20th, 2011
To Jay Barker and others:
What Brooks points out is a culture that is reminiscent of Miami of the 1990s. Cash, stripper parties, players purchased, thuggery. It appears that the “family” atmosphere that Auburn promotes is a Blood/Crip-type family.
Who is running the show? Chizik or Troopher Taylor. It appears Troopher is working his magic much as he did in Tennessee. He brought in good talent from the Miami area but used street runners to locate and place the talent. The kids were problem kids, poor educational structure, poor family life, and streetwise. They arrived in Knoxville more committed to Troopher than Tennessee, and Taylor used that to try and force Fulmer’s hand into promoting him to Offensive Coordinator. Even Fulmer wasn’t that stupid. Troopher was eased out.
Troopher arrived in Stillman to rejuvenate OSU recruiting. The OSU Head Coach quickly realized that better talent was offset by having a cancer like Troppher around the team. His last year (and Luper’s) check and see how many kids he was in on recruiting. The answer is that OSU had shut him, and Luper, down before going to Auburn was ever on the horizon. OSU was glad to see the two-fool-circus leave town.
Is Auburn alone is the type of photos poasted? No. What makes them different is that they sell a family atmosphere based within a religious structure. In reality, they are selling a culture absent any real standards of behavior: The Inmates Run the Asylum.
The behavior of Eric Smith against Oregon, Nic Fairley’s repeated cheap shots against opponents, Pugh’s chop-block routine, Darrin Bates chepa shots, Zac Etheridge’s headhunter routine are all part of the on-field thuggery that is know as Auburn football.
Finally, since the first half of the decade when I was student at Auburn, gang culture has been whispered about as being injected into the football team. Coach Tubberville tried to irradiate it with little fanfare. However, Trooper, Chizik, and company has silently embraced it since they have seen a translation of violence off the field into violence, and winning, on the field. Cam Newton saga was the clean part of Auburn, there is much more dirt under the surface that makes Tressell, SMU, Miami, and Pol Pot seem nice by comparison.
11:23 am on March 20th, 2011
As much as you’d like it to be true, they aren’t photo shopped, Tiger. WAH EGUL BAYBEE
11:52 am on March 20th, 2011
You know what I say is true. I hate Auburn.
I want them to stop playing football so I never feel as bad as I did after Auburn humiliated Nick Saban and ruined his statue party.
I want so badly for bad things to be true about Auburn that I will believe anything I see or read. These photos are very clearly doctored but they are true because everybody knows Auburn loves thugs. It doesn’t matter that Jimmy Johns sold coke in the parking lot next to the athletic facility or that Courtney Upshaw beat up his girlfriend or that the other guy held up a girl at gunpoint. At least those guys don’t act like thugs like the Aubs do. I can’t wait for the players to go to jail and then tell everybody what cheaters auburn is. I hate Auburn. I don’t even use toilet paper anymore. Roll Damm Tide and long live Sports by Brook! 2nd only to Bleacher Report!
12:16 pm on March 20th, 2011
Jimmy John went to prison. Both Upshaw and the girl were arrested for the altercation. Elder was kicked off the team and is now at troy under Larry Blakeney. None can be justified, nor can home invasion. What leads to incredulity is that Auburn fans think there is a concerted effort by everyone to “get auburn.” Instead, Auburn wants to be a “Big Boy” school without the limelight.
Welcome to life under the microscope. Trying to do things the right way is difficult but using runners to buy players opens so many avenues of investigation. Unlike you HonestT, I had many of the players from the 2004 in class. Most were nice kids, some were decent students, many were functional illiterate. Roshard Gilyard comes to mind or Junior Rosegreen. However, the difference in 2000-08 and now is that Tubberville made efforts to control the image of his program. Yes he took chances but he also had coaches that tried to maintain some decorum.
Chizik is a figurehead and it is reflected in the actions of the Auburn team. Many players are loyal to Troopher, not Auburn. Gus runs the offense without any input from Chizik. The staff was hired for Chizik. The head coach lacks the authority to ride herd on the players. Only when something egregious occurs does action happen, action dictated by lawyers not the head coach. Auburn is a program out-of-control and incidents will continue to accumulate.
12:20 pm on March 20th, 2011
the four pictured were NOT involved in any crime??
haha! good way to fire up your readers. you could also show pics of tupac with a real gun, that will help enflame the posters/bigots. (tupac wasn’t involved in the crime also).
12:30 pm on March 20th, 2011
Keep the hate coming.
You guys are a riot.
12:32 pm on March 20th, 2011
Dr. Gerber you prove my point. You say you are a professor at auburn and you can’t even spell rite. Auburn is a sham. Thugs and cheaters. I heard the FBI has already enlarged the serial numbers from the bills and traced them to Ewen McGregor.
12:49 pm on March 20th, 2011
It’s a “God” thing.
1:01 pm on March 20th, 2011
Honest T point out the misspelled words besides Troopher, which is a play on words. Since I can’t find my reading glasses I would be very thankful.
Further, where did I say I was a Professor. adjunct personnel, instructors, and grad students teach class.
Finally, Lot’s of positives about Auburn but the cult-like atmosphere that has evolved over the last generation is more Jim Jones-like than indicative of university.
2:06 pm on March 20th, 2011
Real question is, when will the NCAA get off their butts and punish Auburn for the obvious and rampant cheating that is ruining college football. Their championship this year has been and always will be the biggest joke in college football history.
3:57 pm on March 20th, 2011
This is PATHETIC.
Auburn has gone from a very well respected program of the last couple decades to a team many feel are flirting with the Death Penalty if many suspected truths were to come out.
Auburn is going to have a HUGE target on their backs this year, and should deservedly take some SERIOUS beatings.
Auburn fans need not attempt to travel to other SEC campuses this fall.
4:43 pm on March 20th, 2011
Any news on the actual ARREST of Alabama’s Mark Barron??? Solid citizen, I’m sure.
Any update on the legal proceedings against Rolando McClain regarding striking a student with his car two weeks before the Auburn game? Suit claims McClain has previous history of assaults and legal trouble.
Brooks, why don’t you get on that. Oh, that’s right. You like other people to do the accusing. You simply report.
5:59 pm on March 20th, 2011
LSU fan throwing rocks from a glass house. Or should I say hewse.
6:36 pm on March 20th, 2011
@above, you do realize what Barron was arrested for, right? His cousin hit a guard rail and left the scene but Barron refused to incriminate him. Barron was wrong, but not for a lack of trying to do what he thought was right.
But the guys in this story and the armed robbers and the stacks of 100’s? I don’t think any of them were thinking they were doing the right thing. Barron tried to cover for his family, not steal and rob. If you can’t tell the difference, my guess is you’re ALL IN.
7:44 pm on March 20th, 2011
Wow, Slaughter Laughter. You make breaking the law sound so admirable. None of the guys above were arrested for hindering prosecution.
Barron drives a Chrysler 300. It sounds like the Athletic Complex parking lot in Tuscaloosa must look like a Chrysler/Dodge sales lot. I guess those good old boys only buy American cars, right?
8:41 pm on March 20th, 2011
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10:08 pm on March 20th, 2011
What do u expect when u got a thug on the sideline with his hat turned around backwards and his pants hangin off his butt swingin a towel round and round and he is the one recruiting most of these criminals. No matter if he was at my school I still wouldn’t want my kid being coached by a person like that
8:10 am on March 21st, 2011
what do you expect, young brother from the projects, no father figure.and now they think there gangsters. its just a bunch of punks, thinking they are bad. but thats alright state prison is gonna be waiting for them.
9:03 am on March 21st, 2011
This is ridiculously sloppy reporting. One would think that anyone accusing these guys of displaying gang signs would first confirm that what they see is actually gang signs. I am no gang expert but in the first picture the guy on the left appears to be throwing up an S. What known gang is that ANYONE? The guy in the middle is shooting a bird. That’s gangsta!!! The guy to the right looks like he is forming an I.V. which in roman numerals is the 1 and 5 or 15 which is really close to the jersey # in the picture above his head. I’m just saying.
9:10 am on March 21st, 2011
@RTRFTiger——-I have to disagree. I definitely think covering for your cousin (or at least trying to) isn’t nearly AT ALL as bad as armed robbery, or taking cash, or even posing with illegal guns.
But you do represent Auburn well. Blind.
If Barron’s car and some lot full of illegal Chryslers and Dodges was REAL, that’d be the easiest story to write. And it would be right here, or anywhere else, for that matter.
But it isn’t.
Instead, it’s more Auburn creeps doing what they do best, and Auburn fans being as apathetic as ever. Give me a break.
9:11 am on March 21st, 2011
Explain how those are gang signs? Are any of you gang bangers? I’m guessing anytime any of you see a group of black guys you automaticaly consider them a gang.
I’m guessing most of you all moto is “All On”. As in “All On” Auburn dick ,get a life losers.
9:20 am on March 21st, 2011
I think Georgia man’s just glad nobodys talkin about the red panties anymore. He’s right though. We don’t buy our players cars at Bama. Our kids all come from good families unlike the trash at auburn. Those guys down there don’t have Daddy’s, good men like Peaches who look out for their boys. Alabama doesn’t pay their players and never have. That whole Albert means thing was a setup because Fulmer was jealous of us. Auburn is going to get kicked out of the SEC and have to join the Sun Belt. I just hope they don’t bring in UAB because we are scared to play them. Roll Damm Tide.
11:42 am on March 21st, 2011
The one on the left is potentially a stacked C sign, the Crips Cousins…
The second one could easily be him designating his status in whatever gang it is. When he receives something he holds his hand in this manner in order to show what his status is as the receiver. This sign either shows that he is a go-between or a liaison OR the Dai-Lo (I can’t tell if his fingers are bent back slightly or completely bent back)
The third one, well, he’s just throwing the “shocker” and if y’all don’t know what that means then you should get out more LOL
2:44 pm on March 21st, 2011
GangSigns,
That is not a shocker. With shocker, the middle finger and index finger are touching. Maybe you should get out more LOL
4:01 pm on March 21st, 2011
At least they can still wear Orange (jumpsuits).
7:55 pm on March 21st, 2011
Shocking. There are black people in a photo. Too bad none of you guys are friends with any.
10:26 pm on March 21st, 2011
Ok, time for a little education my un-educated(On all things black) white bruthas. Neiko Thorpe is throwing up an “E” which stands for Eastside. It is not a freakin gang sign, it just represents what side of town you are from. The middle kid is shooting a bird, oh the fear that invokes. The other kid, who knows what he is throwin up. Point is, most of you on here have never stepped foot in a black community or know anything about what anything represents, so shut your piehole.
By the way I am a black male, college graduate working for a Fortune 500 company pulling in a 100K a year before my 30th bday. And I still rep the Eastside, but I aint a damn gang banger. You people are not racists, but just plain ignorant. Racism takes thought, and I can’t just give yall that much credit. # Truth Serum
6:35 am on March 22nd, 2011
RTFTiger. You on drugs? You in the AU cult? You must be. You are worried about spinning this story about Barron. Let me smarten you up. He hindered an investigation. THAT’S ALL! He got a $500 bond…compared to each AU player who got a $511,00 bond. ROFL! And you want to spin the attention from your ALL IN players to Barron. ROFLMAO! YOU ARE LAME and just like cult members who deny, smokescreen and spin from the truth/point.
Your FAMBLY is a cult who believes God won your championship. It was MONEY and greed paid out by your boosters/BOT to a BISHOP of (count’em with me) 6 churches who was SHOPPING his son. Six churches? I guess he needed them considering the nature of his sins. ROFL!
Your FAMBLY is a cult who’s ALL IN but you’ll find out what you were ALL IN for in due time. Then you’ll feel like fools for being so stupid to follow your “LEADERS”.
ROFL at the funniest thing about AU football. Two national championships and both with asterisks. One is about to be taken back.
Smile *U fans and, while you’re at it, go get some Pledge. That spot where the trophy once stood needs dusting. ROFLMAO!
ALL IN-carcerated. ALL IN a cult. WE ARE FAMBLY!!!
Can we get a tree hug? ROFL!
9:06 am on March 22nd, 2011
PHW - I was being generous, throwing the shocker doesn’t look as cool than it does when you split your fingers LOL
# Truth Serum - As I stated in my earlier comment, those are “stacked gang signs” and while they may mean nothing because it could be just some kid trying to look “cool” someone somewhere thinks that means something. I’ve studied gangs, activity & lived in communities where they are very active…
The “shooting a bird” isn’t just a bird when you’ve got a stack of bills in your mouth.
12:42 pm on March 22nd, 2011
I have so many of you to thank for making our state look so smart and well composed in these replies.
3:06 pm on March 22nd, 2011
ROFL at all sides of another Auburn piece perfectly placed by Brooks to draw hits and comments. Is Auburn squeaky clean? No. Is Auburn some kind of Gangland episode? No. If it’s waiting on the fall that keeps you guys holding on, find something else to hold on to. Oh and where are the comments about the Alabama commit in that link posted above?
4:24 pm on March 22nd, 2011
Sure, I think Brooks is being a little sensational. But, there’s at least 75 responses to this so who can blame him?
Every school has their thugs and who knows what the circumstances were surrounding these pictures are? But, you have to take into consideration that more than just BAMA fans are questioning what’s going on down on the plains. Plus, it’s not just other SEC rivals, either. I agree with the previous posters who feel that the resurgence of BAMA has created a ‘win at all cost’ mentality at that school.
7:03 pm on March 22nd, 2011
and just how many players hv got in trouble at alabama since sabans been there
8:35 pm on March 22nd, 2011
And there’s a typical response. Everyone does it so it must be ok. Again, it’s being reported AND read by so many b/c the barn won the championship. Plus the fact that the legitimacy of that championship is questioned by so many (not just Bama).
9:42 am on March 23rd, 2011
Yea if McNeal has that much $, imagine how much $cam Newton had……………. $EC is a dirty joke, PATHETIC! These are your National Champions folks, take a bow since your “ALL IN”. lol joke a of a fanbase and institution. Even funnier is that these kids are called students ROTFL…………Auburn/$EC degree is worth a good laugh anymore
10:32 am on March 23rd, 2011
To start with, I am a life long Alabama fan. And I have to say that those pictures look altered to me. Especially the second one. I have no doubt that something nefarious is going on down on the planes. I also have no doubt it will come out.
No need to photo shop images and try to stir the pot…
Nor poison their tree’s…
10:44 am on March 23rd, 2011
@Truth Serum
LMFAO
Good point.
Although I have been in a black community, I have not lived in one and do not have any deep insight into black youth culture. Being a middle aged white male that is.
But I still reserve the right, as we all should, to express my opinion. I have no insight into the Afghan culture either, but certainly have an opinion regarding the norms and values within that culture, as well as many others.
6:52 pm on March 23rd, 2011
See the haters of the SEC above. Some of this will come through even if the barn didn’t win it last year. Jealousy. But the barn has become has given some pretty easy ammo to the SEC haters. Seriously, what could they say about Bama, UF or LSU? Thanks barners!
And other conference lovers….suck it.
11:34 pm on March 23rd, 2011
Auburn was asleep at the wheel on this one. These guys gave signs that a blind man could see.
1:35 pm on March 25th, 2011
What ya’ll don’ know is that Auburn is a ‘family’ in the same sense that the Mafia is a family…
1:53 pm on March 25th, 2011
A hater will say anything when you win it all. Other colleges have their problems : but they are scared to open up. Want to hide it in the closet. AU!!!!
8:28 am on March 30th, 2011
Wait, so they weren’t involved in the robbery? If not, this should be removed, not just edited.
9:47 am on March 30th, 2011
plenty o boys in da hood shot holding plastic
3:53 pm on March 30th, 2011
I can hear it now, It’ll be Saban’s fault.
Roll Tide!
2:28 pm on April 6th, 2011
you know you’ve made a valid argument when someone calls you a “hater” - that’s a moron’s last refuge when they’ve had their @ss beaten down in an debate.
11:23 pm on April 21st, 2011
Persons less than 18 years of age for the purchase of a shotgun or rifle.
Persons less than 21 years of age for the purchase of a firearm that is other than a shotgun or rifle.
Having a pistol that looks like a gun plastic or real will get you shot, especially if you point it at a cop. The UT kids who robbed the gas station had a plastic gun if I recall. They also make plastic CO 2 guns that shoot pellets that will do some serious harm. They do not have a clip and look a lot like what he is holding.
9:47 am on July 15th, 2011
Wow. Alabama fans must’ve made them do it!
I’m not ALL IN on the obvious attempts to discredit CheezWhiz, Troopa T, MalfoyZahn, or even good ole Poot Dye, who, in between drinking binges, STILL is teaching the Newbs how to cheat, bankrolled by the Spit of Auburn slush fund, Uncle Miltie, and Bobby “Louder” Lowder.
I guess when you’re in the courtroom, with accusations coming from ALL directions (even a great summary on Bobby Lowder and AU Cheating by an OHIO STATE fan - google “Bobby Lowder” and it makes Page 1), your only hope is to point the spotlight in one direction - your state rival - and hope everyone turns their heads that way. Ain’t working, Barn-people. No more than “everybody else is doing it” does.
Yeah I believe $cam’s ‘religious’ Daddy See-Sell offered his son to MSU for $180k, but decided to talk him into going to Aubrun for free. (He and ChWhiz must pray to the same god - a false one). As I recall from a Sports Illustrated writer, $cam was set on going to MSU before a 4-hour conversation with See-Sell “converted” him to the Church in the Barn. And as far as players with beaten-up girlfriends, the story about Lee Ziemba beating up his girlfriend was handled by Auburn attorneys, NOT the courts or newspapers. Quietly. In secret. The way things are always handled “down home” in the Lowliest Village.
Truth is, AU has SO MANY simultaneous investigations going on - excluding Uncle Miltie trying to buy senators like they wuz Aubrun football players - that the the NCAA needs a separate AU division just to deal with the volume of information. Street pimps in Texas, pimps in South Miami, money laundering via the Spit of Auburn, cellphones and ducats in Louisiana, unknown benefactors in Arkansas, adult performers ‘performing’ for recruits on ThePlains, enterprising players practicing their MadSkillz in a trailer park, etc. etc. etc. EVERYONE is noticing - Bama fans don’t need to contribute (except for mutually-recruited football players who switched back before they signed an AU letter of Intent-to-make-serious-money.)
Does Peaches stand shoulder to shoulder with See-Sell, or is he just a retort when people wonder out loud how (and how much) the money’s coming to See-Sell’s House of Worse-shi* in Georgia. Oh, sorry - it’s a god-thing. (To put God in the equation at Auburn is TRULY BLASPHEMY.)
Take the Blue (Blood’s) and Orange (jumpsuits) off your eyes, Barners, and pray for The Rapture before the NCAA administers AU Football’s Justly Earned Reward on earth…
(I say give the NCAA subpoena power, and this whole thing won’t drag on so long.)