In the past week a Huntsville, Alabama-based radio talk show host named Scott Moore has been touting the upcoming release of audio tapes he claims may further incriminate Cam and Cecil Newton and Auburn and Tennessee with the NCAA.
(Moore confusion from Barrett Sallee of CollegeFootballNews.com)
Here’s a sampling of Moore talking about the “tapes” today on the Chuck and Chernoff Show on 680 The Fan in Atlanta:
“Is Cecil Newton shopping his son around on these tapes? The answer to that is, yeah, he is. … Cecil said that there are offers from Tennessee on there (on the tapes) and offers from Auburn. That’s according to Cecil Newton.
“Cecil’s shopping him around, and the sentiment there is, I believe we’ll be able to show and prove that Cam knew what was going on.
“What I’ve said is true, the tapes exist of Cecil shopping him around.”
On his own show on WZZN-FM in Huntsville last week, Moore said of the tapes:
“The bottom line is these numbers that we keep hearing about — this $150,000 offer from Tennessee, this $180,000 from Auburn — those came from Cecil Newton (to Rogers on the tapes). They didn’t come from Auburn or Tennessee, they came from Cecil Newton. He’s the one that said these offers were made to him.
“What I’ve heard is offers… (Newton) saying on these tapes that these offers were from Tennessee for $150,000 and a $180,000 offer from Auburn. I heard him say that, I’ve seen the text messages. And they exist, that’s the bottom line.”
Moore claims he acquired the tapes from former Mississippi State football players and current boosters John Bond and Bill Bell. It was Bond who first reported details of alleged impropriety involving Mississippi State’s recruitment of Cam Newton to the school’s athletic department.
Bell later reported to ESPN.com that former Mississippi State player Kenny Rogers contacted him on behalf of Cecil Newton in order to solicit Cam Newton’s football services to MSU as part of a pay-for-play scheme.
Today I talked to a source who has spoken to both Bond and Bell on multiple occasions, most recently about Moore’s claims involving audio tapes allegedly in their possession.
The source reported that - according to Bill Bell - audio tapes involving Mississippi State’s recruitment of Cam Newton do exist, in the form of voicemails left by Kenny Rogers to Bell. Bell owns those tapes, which are actually audio files, and Bond has a copy of them.
Rogers is the only person heard on the voicemail files owned by Bell.
More from Moore on Bond and Bell on 680 The Fan in Atlanta today:
The bottom line is John (Bond) shared some of the information on these tapes all the way back in October. He also made it available to the NCAA that Bill Bell had tapes as well.
Moore’s comment may seem to indicate that Bond also had his own set of tapes that contained content separate from what Bell had in his possession.
On November 5, 2010, Bond was asked on radio station 680 The Fan in Atlanta if the same Kenny Rogers who left voicemails for Bill Bell approached him to solicit money on Newton’s behalf. Bond’s response:
Actually, there were two people in between it but, basically, yes, that’s what happened.
On November 5, 2010, on KESN-FM in Dallas, Kenny Rogers said of his personal contact with his former MSU football teammate John Bond:
I have not talked to John (Bond) or seen John in over probably 20 years or more. Probably 20 years or more I have not talked to John or seen John.
On November 12, 2010, Bond told ESPN.com, “My story hasn’t changed. I absolutely talked with Kenny Rogers, and there are phone records that will show that.”
It sounds as if Bond is a bit confused as to whether he had any direct contact with Kenny Rogers or not. (Bond has yet to produce the aformentioned phone records.)
Meanwhile, my source with knowledge of the aforementioned tapes reported that Bond does not have audio files of Rogers that are separate from Bell. Again, Bond has a copy of the audio files that Bell provided him.
Further, my source indicated that Bond and Bell have no audio file or tape containing the voice of Cecil Newton.
Finally, I was told by the same source that none of the voicemails left by Rogers to Bell contain anything that could further damage Auburn or implicate Tennessee with the NCAA.
Last Thursday, Moore appeared on Tupelo’s WMOX-AM with host and former Mississippi State quarterback Matt Wyatt. From the interview:
Wyatt:
“Which is it, is it audio or a text message where Cecil Newton is saying he’s got these offers from these schools?”
Moore:
“Oh it’s audio and it’s also in text message form as well. The people that made these tapes, they wanted to make sure and get clarification on both ends. We’re talking about not one or two tapes here, there’s quite a few from several different people.”
So Moore is now saying “several different people” have tapes?
Of course he is.
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8:31 pm on March 1st, 2011
Until Moore produces those tapes and texts, this is nothing more than hearsay.
8:32 pm on March 1st, 2011
Finally unbiased reporting. Scott Moore is a wife beating ex-con who should still be in prison.
8:41 pm on March 1st, 2011
If the tape does not exist, you must acquit.
8:46 pm on March 1st, 2011
“Typical Updyke”… is that supposed to be an insult?
At any rate, Moore better come out with these supposed tapes in a few weeks or his career is ruined.
8:46 pm on March 1st, 2011
Wrap it in Maroon and White.
8:48 pm on March 1st, 2011
Typical updyke. He’s a lying scum bag.
8:53 pm on March 1st, 2011
Everyone’s been trashing Bond in this whole deal, but it’s been Moore out there running his mouth about tapes.
As far as I know Bond and Bell have kept their mouths shut, not even talking to HBO.
9:03 pm on March 1st, 2011
Of course Scott Moore has tapes of Cecil Newton. He just made them a few days ago. Does NO ONE find it conveinient that only One person is claiming to have heard the tapes, that person just so happens to have just started a new gig as a radio host (needs more listeners) and he has another person/bama fan, with him who talks more about Auburn than Shane from Centerpoint. Also, the only person to have heard these tapes, is a well known impersonator. No “Tin Foil Hat” needed to figure this one out.
9:07 pm on March 1st, 2011
Haha the Barners will say SbB is credible now….of course until he writes something else bad about them
9:17 pm on March 1st, 2011
Bottom line, it is time for Auburn to pay for their rampant cheating in LA, AL, AR, SC, and elsewhere. Time for Auburn to burn.
9:27 pm on March 1st, 2011
any word on quentin groves taking money while he was at auburn?
9:33 pm on March 1st, 2011
cams legacy.. dead trees, riding the pine behind tebow, and running like a chicken to the nfl. to bad the heisman took the money and run. national champs huh beat state by 3 points! oregan put 56 on state and then put 50 on state the following year.
9:45 pm on March 1st, 2011
then Auburn beat Oregon you dumb ass.
9:53 pm on March 1st, 2011
LOL At SBB’s latest article. He has one source. That’s enough for me. ROLF! In the meantime.
IF YOU CAN’T GO PRO……
- GO AUBURN
- Go through the fake churches and shop your sons
- Trust your kids to fake Bishops who say God says it’s OK for “them” to be rich, even though the bible says it’s not ok.
And in other news….
- $Cam isn’t going pro. He’s going pro-er.
- $Cam held his index finger up at AU. Now he holds his middle finger up at AU.
- Rent-A-$Cam. It’s “DADDY” approved
NOW, you know, the rest of the ($Cam) story.
9:59 pm on March 1st, 2011
How does some random, local radio show get these “tapes” and most of everybody else has never seen them? and if he does have these “tapes” then why hasn’t he played them already? And did they not already prove Cecil shopped his son around? And if they will prove Cam knew of it, then wouldn’t he give them to the NCAA? And if the NCAA has them, why not already get Cam in trouble? And did he see these “texts” before the phone ‘got water damage’ and ‘the phone company could not recover them’? This is ridiculous and gives nothing to the case (if there still is one). SbB and this radio guy are just trying to stir it back up because there is nothing to talk about and they want more views. Let the NCAA handle it.
10:02 pm on March 1st, 2011
jon are you serious? I don’t have a dog in the fight, but if you are running smack that Oregon beat Mississippi State in back to back years in 2002 and 2003 (two of MSU’s worst years in school history), comparing it to Auburn beating a top 15 MSU team on the road by 3 early in the season, that is the dumbest thing I have ever read on the internet.
Ever.
10:03 pm on March 1st, 2011
There lots of LSU and bammer losers on here obsessed with the 2010 National Champions of college football.
14-0 losers, and a Heisman for Cam. And Auburn did it the right way, get over it. Quit obsessing and make something of yourselves. The 2010 BCS trophy will stay at Auburn forever.
10:06 pm on March 1st, 2011
Prophet, you are in for a long year. Just wait, the hammer is coming down on AU in January, no I mean February, no I mean March, no I mean April when the FBI, IRS, FDIC, NAACP, FEMA, FINRA, NRA and al the others share the info that AU is dirty. Still 14-0 as of today.
Kiss the Ring.
10:06 pm on March 1st, 2011
This is a scoop?
Every one of the dates in this post precede the November 12 meeting between AU and NCAA reinstatement staff.
Every one of the dates in this post also precede the the additional meetings a week later between AU and NCAA reinstatement staff.
Every one of the dates in this post ALSO precede the December 1, 2010 announcement. Brooks… Are you sure you want to go here, now?
10:45 pm on March 1st, 2011
you have set yourself up to look like a fool.
10:49 pm on March 1st, 2011
so how much did Auburn pay you to write this article??
11:06 pm on March 1st, 2011
I’ve heard TCU is going down Wednesday? Any story there?
11:20 pm on March 1st, 2011
Scott Moore even looks like your typical Updyke fan…A little curly bald look with a mullett..These bammers cannot get over 28-27..hey bammers, NO money was giving to Cecil , this is not the Albert Means mess in which there was a 200k transaction giving my your Big booster Logan Young ….Roll Updykes’
4:13 am on March 2nd, 2011
Who cares anymore? This whole thing is just a bunch of sports talk radio BS.
8:33 am on March 2nd, 2011
If these “tapes” exist they are about 14-15 months old now and we are supposed to believe they have been hiding a bombshell the whole time that would have changed the course of the football season. Get real Moore is a wife-beater ex-con who lied under oath to a jury about breaking his wife’s nose. Typical bama white trash trying to make a buck off that delusional fan base. 2 weeks LOL.
9:02 am on March 2nd, 2011
Being an Auburn fan, I’ve tried to avoid this website because of the blatant unprofessional, hitman supposedl journalism by Brooks. However, this is finally something that isn’t trying to make Auburn look guilty. Which is good to see. Listen, I’m a 40 year long Auburn fan and if Auburn did something wrong, I HOPE we get punished. It would be what is right. But most of the Cam stuff and the two other recruiting things being talked about have been based on nothing but hearsay provided by people that don’t like Auburn. Bring some real proof someone, and then I’m sure Auburn would actually be getting investigated by the NCAA.
9:27 am on March 2nd, 2011
I have had Scott Moore as a guest on my show “The Nick Bonsanto Show” 3-6p on ESPN 105.1 in Chattanooga ever since August. While there are many that may thing Scott is grandstanding I can asure you he has been consistent with his story for months. While like any story there could be some details that could come in to question by some. I for one believe what Scott is saying. From all the information I have been able to gather he appears to be credable. That being said, it doesn’t mean someone will not get taken care of to close this one out before the explosion. I am leaning toward that not happening though. If you want you can find several interviews with Scott on our web site at www.espnchattanooga.com under the Nick Bonsanto show page.
9:43 am on March 2nd, 2011
CASE in POINT ^ look up and read, for the past several weeks not only here but on radio and message boards, The Boogs have stated many many times that Sports by Brooks doesnt know anything, makes things up, doesnt have any source. Lies. but today???? WOW, he is good, he has printed facts. TYPICAL TYPICAL, I have to go with the Aubarn Fan base on this one. He dont know what he is talking about. This is made up and he has NO facts to it. Isnt that right Aubarn Fans??? isnt he a looser that lies??? cmon now dont be shy, yall havent been shy for weeks dont start now!!!. SPIN SPIN and thats what Aubarns do. they spin facts until it fits what they want it to say!!!, LOL@AUBARN what a stupid bunch. My guess is they will now begin to like SBB and praise his writings. Jump to spin11 WAR TREEGLE
9:46 am on March 2nd, 2011
We have been hearing about these “tapes” for a while now. I believe if they exist we’ll eventually find out. But until then I’m going to have to say they don’t. I believe that S. Moore is nothing more than a Paul Finebaum wantabe. These guys make they’re living off of ratings and look what this has done for Mr. Moores show. I’m sure before this came out he didn’t have much of a show. Now I’ll bet his phone lines are blazing and a bunch of people have tuned in that wouldn’t normally tune in…he succeeded in what he wanted to do. Rile the fan bases and you boost your ratings…
9:48 am on March 2nd, 2011
Nick Bonsanto: Scott Moore is a wife-beating deadbeat dad who has been a repeated failure in the media business. He’s a well-known liar and con man. If you can get sucked in that easily by someone like him, I’m sure there are people lined up outside your door to sell you swamp land in LA.
10:35 am on March 2nd, 2011
I can understand they idea that he might be a con man, I don’t know a thing about the man except he is completely uninteresting on radio.
I think it is hilarious that NOW the Auburn fans are like “oh….well SbB is good ON THIS ONE”…of course, he is incompetent if it involves Auburn
It would take a really crazy person to go all over the country crowing about tapes KNOWING they don’t exist and then saying they will come out in 2 weeks. That doesn’t make any sense because there is no benefit to the con. What…he gets 150 more listeners for 2 weeks? What good does that do? Is he going to claim the source “changed their mind” and won’t release the tapes?
Is is possible Kenny Rogers has more tapes? Is Moore faking tapes?
None of this makes any sense whatsoever…from Auburn’s point of view either.
I know, I know we are all supposed to believe Auburn is one big happy Amish style family and Cecil just felt sooooooooooooooo guilty and he walked right into the open arms of the family, and they all sing happy songs and drink chocolate milk and have barn raisings and take care of the sick and heal baby birds and help old ladies across Toomer’s Corner all day blah blah blah.
I love college football, but this ridiculous fantasy of “amateurism” we are all supposed to believe in is getting hard to maintain.
Reminds me of the book Nineteen Eighty Four and doublethink. War is Peace / Ignorance is Strength
11:59 am on March 2nd, 2011
@LR above.
I don’t agree with everything you said, but wow, now THAT is a good comment. Well done, sir! I enjoyed that.
I’m just gonna chime in here and say I hate Auburn and I hope Cam Newton dies in a fire. I don’t care about proof. I’m no “bammer.” And I’m not a sports writer. I’m an American. And when we find your bloody glove and a knife with your DNA on it and you run from the cops in your Bronco, it’s hard to say you didn’t do it just because you said so.
And yet, here we are. We hate you, Auburn. You could be innocent. But you’re not. And we hate you.
12:34 pm on March 2nd, 2011
To Dawgs4life I would be very disappointed if you didn’t hate Auburn. The question is what do you plan to do about it other than air your sore rear end over the internet. Nothing that’s what
1:10 pm on March 2nd, 2011
Auburn Hater: you spell loser with one O! if you had actually attended college, you may know that. have a wonderful day!
1:13 pm on March 2nd, 2011
Hey Dawg4Life! We consider it an honor that you hate Auburn…if your team was relevant i would probably hate them too! But they are not so my hatred will have to go elsewhere.
2:11 pm on March 2nd, 2011
This is from a guy that said in a speech that he played for Bear Bryant. He sucked at football and couldnt have played for the powder puff team! He is a bammer homer with no real talent or job and looking for his 15 minutes of fame.
2:51 pm on March 2nd, 2011
http://s271907366.onlinehome.us/Memo.mp3
There’s a voice in the background.
“… you know how it is. I want to go.”
Then “Cee” says, “Excuse me John, but he really wants to go up there.”
Pretty convincing evidence that a certain someone else was in the room.
3:08 pm on March 2nd, 2011
As per Aubarns, they try to spell check, I never stated I was an english Major, Nor that I am a great Typest. non the less, I dont try to spell check, waste of time. Just because someone miss types doesnt mean they are not educated. Dip Sh^^t, as far as the facts, Im dead on. Have a horrible day, oh by the way, Hows the trees? lol, look at it this way. You have more dead wood to make toilet paper to roll your trailor with, LOL@AUBARN, these nuts are something else. war TREEGLE
3:56 pm on March 2nd, 2011
my name is WILLIAM BARGER I know Scott and yes he did beat his wife and no he doesnt take care of his kids like a man should, and yes he and I have had our issues with the “white lady” aka “booger sugar” but we just want to be on the radio so what if we do what we do to get ratings and listeners thats what its all about and we got you suckers listening and talking so we doing what we wanted to do. Scott if you are reading this pay the rent.
5:10 pm on March 2nd, 2011
I wouldn’t get all giddy just yet AU fans. Scott Moore didn’t say that the Newtons’ voices weren’t on the tapes. He just stated that we will know when we hear them. I guess auburn will always deny…..it’s what they do best.
7:48 pm on March 2nd, 2011
@lsutigers 1: If you actually believe that tape is real, and actually Cecil Newton, you are truly dumber than a sack of hammers.
11:59 pm on March 2nd, 2011
I am not an Auburn fan but given all the facts there is absolutely no documented evidence to implicate Cam Newton or Auburn University in this matter and the chapter of this sordid affair should be closed.
12:06 am on March 3rd, 2011
JUST SO ALL YOU FANS OF ALL THE OTHER SCHOOLS KNOW I SAY SOME OF THESE SAME THINGS ABOUT YALL TEAMS WHEN THEY ARE WINNING TOO LOL BUTSTOP HATIN AND MOVE ON, SPRING FOOTBALL ABOUT TO START AND I COACH SABAN HAS BETTER THINGS TO DO BESIDE ANSWER ANYMORE CAM QUESTIONS,ME IMA DO WHAT EVERY TIGER FAN SHOULD BE DOING……..ENJOYING MY LIFE AND WHEN I DO WANT TO THINK ABOUT OUR 2010 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON I’LL WATCH THAT RUN CAM AGAINST LSU, AND THEN IMA WATCH THE WE COMIN SPEACH BEFORE WE WIPED UGA AND THEN IMA WATCH NICK SABAN SAY ‘IT’LL BE ASHAME IF THE BEST PLAYER IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL DOESNT PLAY’,AND THEN IMA SKIP THE COMEBACK FAST FORWARD PAST OUR BEAT DOWN OF SC,AND FINALLY IMA WATCH AUBURN BEAT THE HIGH-LIGHTED DUCKS IN THE BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. SO YOU ALL CAN TALK AND TYPE AND HYPE UP ALL OF THE EVIDENCE YOU WANT YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO TELL WE DIDNT WIN IN 2010 WARRRRRRRR DAMMMMMMMNEEEEEEEAGLLLLEEE
12:09 am on March 3rd, 2011
WE AINT NO WE THE NCAA AINT ASKED YALL ONE QUESTION
12:09 am on March 3rd, 2011
Robert, not sure if it should be closed until the investigation is complete. Apparently all of the facts aren’t in yet. And yes, the NCAA is still investigating. However, I believe nothing will come of this. I’m a Bama fan but I believe Auburn will come out innocent in all of this. Just a gut feeling.
8:25 am on March 3rd, 2011
Let me start out by expressing extreme doubt that tapes with what has been alleged to be on them actually exist. Wait. Check that… I should say that I doubt they exist as advertised.
Anyhow… hypothetically, let’s say Cecil is legitimately on tape saying Auburn and UT offered “x” amount of money. Sure, it could be the stone cold truth. But, it just as likely could be Cecil using one of the oldest, and most common negotiating tactics ever– inventing competition so that the current suitor will start bidding against themselves.
“Well, I appreciate MSU’s offer. But, I have Auburn over here offering $180,000. If y’all could just match that…”
And, he DID get MSU’s boosters up to 180k, didn’t he?
No. I’m not presenting this as explaining away the tapes if they are legit. It could be Cecil stating the truth. But, it’s too feasible that Auburn’s “offer” as referred to on the tape could just be a fictional negotiating prop. The tapes, even if they exist as advertised don’t hold up as concrete proof.
One more thing… the NCAA has met with both Bond and Bell. If they held back info about these tapes, or held back the tapes themselves, they are setting up their beloved MSU, who they were willing to spend $180 grand to get a football player onto the team, to get absolutely slammed by the NCAA for not cooperating.
That just doesn’t make sense. There are holes everywhere in regards to these alleged tapes.
6:45 pm on March 3rd, 2011
Mr. Brooks,
That Memo mp3 file in the is now being presented as damning evidence against Auburn by the same sources of the “info” from that original TigerDroppings message board thread that got so many people around the media convinced that Auburn was not only guilty in this case, but the dirtiest program in the history of the world.
Auburn folk have been screaming at the top of our lungs that this was all a few established facts mixed in with blatant lies.(like FBI wire taps? The FBI DOES NOT ever hand over wire taps… to anybody… even other law enforcement agencies. There never were any such tapes. They only become public when offered as evidence in a public trial. Or, payoffs to players via “poker chips”… Aside from Dog racing, the only types of gambling ever set up at Victoryland were video slots and video poker. Neither of these games involved “chips.” etc…) But, I understand that it seemed hard to believe that folks would go to so much trouble to lie in attempts to smear Auburn.
Well, now these tapes are proof.
At no point, in reference to these tapes, or otherwise, have the MSU boosters ever indicated any contact(involving money talk, I mean) between Bond and Cecil. In fact, they’ve specifically stated that everything went through Kenny Rogers. The tapes were supposedly of conversations between Rogers and Newton and/or Rogers and Bond.
Yet, the voice on this “proof” mp3 starts, “Hey John. This is Cee.”
Not only does that conflict with all of the MSU boosters statements, it goes against common sense. Rogers was involved for a reason. He was the middle man for a reason. It doesn’t make sense for Cecil to have left a recorded voice mail message, citing money for services, directly with John Bond after they had gone to the trouble of using Rogers as a middle man.
This is horse ****.
I challenge you, Mr. Brooks, if you see yourself as any kind of legitimate news source– After buying into, and subsequently fueling the unbridled, unreasonable collective outrage against Auburn football,
(among other things, I will cite your implication that A private business bringing in a certain performer(reality stripper) on a weekend during which the town would be flooded with people to celebrate Auburn’s BCS win, and also happened to be a weekend for Auburn to impress recruits with this celebration, suggests improper conduct by the football program. In fact, common sense would tell you that Auburn, after the drama of the previous months, would avoid someone connected with other NCAA misconduct like the plague. Also, I will cite your posting a picture of Bobby Lowder at the Title game as some kind of gotcha proof that ‘he’s still ‘running things.’ As if you expected him to now be living on food stamps in a single wide, having nothing whatsoever to do with the school. Between money he stashed away and his golden parachute retirement deal, he just went from worth hundreds of mil to tens of mil. And, he’s still on the friggin BOT’s, for christ sake!! He just doesn’t have the stroke of controlling an entire bank’s billions of $. But, you were chomping at the bit, by that point)
I challenge you to point out this evidence of the extremes these people have been willing to go to in order to discredit the Auburn football program.
None of what I just said means Auburn is innocent in all this. But, how about we take this opportunity to seperate what real facts say from complete falsehoods. Then, let’s let Cam and Auburn be judged based on what actually comes out of any investigation.
This could go a long way in establishing this site as a “new media” outlet that is interested in reporting what is and is not true, and not just another blog interested in stirring the pot and profiting from the frenzy.
Thank you.
10:46 am on March 4th, 2011
CALL 1800-2827…
1:04 pm on March 4th, 2011
LMAO…….. You Bama folks just can’t stand all this can you? Keep your heads up though, somebody in the SEC is in trouble and it aint Auburn.
7:05 pm on March 12th, 2011
Look Cecil and $cam tried to shake down a few schools in excess of $150,000. He went to the barn for free. Everyone is lying except the Newton’s.
End of story.