Last Thursday thanks to Twitter, we nailed down at least one college football player who we know isn’t getting paid: Auburn starting strong safety Mike McNeil.
(Another satisfied Colonial Bank depositor?)
And wouldn’t you know it, couple-three hours later he was former Auburn starting strong safety Mike McNeil.
Though Gary Danielson was way ahead of this on this one.
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12:21 am on March 15th, 2011
who doesn’t hate Auburn?
12:42 am on March 15th, 2011
Thankfully they immediately kicked him off the team. And what is your beef with Auburn? Did you not get accepted into their school of journalism or something?
12:43 am on March 15th, 2011
Why do you hate Auburn so much?
12:48 am on March 15th, 2011
Perhaps if Auburn returning starters didn’t get arrested for armed robbery and subsequently kicked off the team, Brooks wouldn’t report on them as often…
12:54 am on March 15th, 2011
Are you sure he wasnt getting paid? Maybe his check bounced…
12:55 am on March 15th, 2011
Great Stuff
Is there anything about the players knowing the victims?
6:49 am on March 15th, 2011
Steriod Deal Gone Bad…..
9:13 am on March 15th, 2011
Sounds like a source of income suddenly stopped coming to make these guys need money so bad….i wonder what might have caused that… probably the bad economy right?
11:57 am on March 15th, 2011
Kicked off the team, yes.
But back on the team by September, for sure. Of course. Especially when there’s money involved. Tennessee taught us just 2 years ago the magic of the words, “first-time offenders” when it comes to football players commiting armed robbery.
You left off the part where the driver (the kid who was flashing stacks of 100-dollar bills on National Signing Day when he signed with Auburn) was pulled over driving a brand new $39k Chrysler 300C.
And people wonder why we hate Auburn? Not too bright if you can’t figure it out. We haven’t forgotten Cam either, even though he was only there for 11 months and it’s easy to forget such a short career.
1:10 pm on March 15th, 2011
If you think Auburn University paid a player like Dakota Mosley $39,000 then you need to do us all a favor and kill yourself right now.
1:15 pm on March 15th, 2011
Dawgs4Life,
There is no defending armed robbery, but the car thing is weak. If you actually went to UGA, it would be very hard to not notice the flock of students driving band new BMWs on that campus. The kid who was driving went to a private high school with a 10k annual tuition. I’m sure his parents could afford to buy their kid a car since their child was going to college for free. Also, go take a look at what some of your student athletes are driving these days.
2:30 pm on March 15th, 2011
@Buckhead
Mosley rich? That’s simply not true. I don’t understand why you would say things like above but you’re misleading people.
Besides, if you were right and he is rich, the robbery is even more laughable.
And Auburn doesn’t understand why people hate them, yet they feed on that hate and the self-imposed little brother syndrome? I don’t get it.
2:35 pm on March 15th, 2011
@WGDMFEinTTOWN;
I don’t think Auburn gave Mosley $39,000. Auburn wouldn’t do that, and I never said they did.
Colonial Bank gave him the money.
Rich kids don’t drive new cars to armed robberies for $87.
That is, unless they’re “smart enough” to go to Auburn. Allegedly, of course. Right? Right.
We hate you, Auburn, and when stories come up like this you STILL wonder, “why?” Outrageous.
2:45 pm on March 15th, 2011
i thought it was demetruce mcneil that was arrested…not michael?
2:52 pm on March 15th, 2011
So they pissed away Div 1 scholarships for $87
Obviously Auburn Economics majors
3:49 pm on March 15th, 2011
Typical west Georgia water boy. High school
Kids get scholarships to private high schools same as college. Amazing how dumb u clowns are. Too funny all u shit kickers claim bama gives our players new chryslers And your boy got popped driving a new Chrysler pimp car.
And that DM kid said his mammy sold her Saturn car and that’s where the money came from. . Until someone told him those cArs are worth 50. Then he said a friend let him play w his ATM money. Lol
3:57 pm on March 15th, 2011
@slaughter laughter
Never meant to imply that Mosely was well off. Only that a kid having a nice car in college in hardly uncommon these days, especially if they are going for free.
@Evil One
I think the bama players driving nice cars are driving them for the same reason I mentioned above. Even as a joke, your post is terrible.
@ all of you
Colonial Bank doesn’t exist anymore and AU players are not receiving ATM cards from them or from any other banks. To think otherwise is laughable at best. At least tell good lies.
5:22 pm on March 15th, 2011
Hey bucks , congrats on getting paid to cover two websites w the fambly company line. Your school is shameful as is your entire coaching staff . You are no better than a pimp .
7:45 pm on March 15th, 2011
Before the folks from UGA or Bama start looking down their noses at Auburn and passing judgement on their every move, maybe you should start by preparing your own houses for what may be coming. None of you can sit there and tell me that UGA or Bama is “clean as the driven snow”. Every team has that one bad element. That group that insist on playing the role of thug or “gangsta”.
Now as far as money is concerned, 3 of Bama’s big names rode around Tuscaloosa in Escalades. One of them has a Daddy in jail, one has 3 kids “someone” is supporting, and the last is from the projects in Mobile. If the issue was really pressed, they would find that every school has a “money trail” that has been swept under the rug, so to speak. Lets face it, football is the major financial provider for the atheletic depts. of 11 SEC schools (Kentucky’s being basketball).
9:09 am on March 16th, 2011
Here we go w the escalade bs. Awmbin actualy has a gang within it’s fb team . A gang . It’s a fact . There is not one within the crimson tides team. And we look down our nose at awbrin because they are beneath us.
11:08 am on March 16th, 2011
I’m confused by comments on this board. Is this the first time we have heard about athletes doing crimes in football? It felt like there was a story every week during football season. Every school in the SEC has had a problem with athletes turning to crime. Whatever school it happens at, I commend the coaches for not tolerating such behavior and getting athletes like that off their teams. It’s not cute to point the finger when all of us as fans in the SEC has been embarrassed by an idiot or idiots who have committed crimes.
11:13 am on March 16th, 2011
E-1, Alabammer looks down their nose @ everyone because they think they are the “Messiahs” of college football. You all need to wake up & realize no one is intimidated by the elephant herd anymore, well, no one in the SEC(Mich. State looked like a deer caught in the headlights).
Another thing that strikes me as funny. How is it that bammers can talk about someone “paying” players, but when anybody mentions the Escalades, or the name Albert Means, you folks get your BVDs in a bunch. Sounds to me like a bunch of hypocrites. Heres another point to ponder. Its a story about a kid who chose one school he wanted to attend, and on the “advice” of his Father went elsewhere. Sound familiar? No his last name isn’t Newton. How much did the Reverend get payed to “change” Cyrus Kouandijio’s mind?
11:34 am on March 16th, 2011
@Rebel_Mojo
I’d love to see any of those stories.
But that’s just it—-they’re stories. The reason we’re commenting on another Auburn mess is because IT HAPPENED. If the stuff you’re saying happened, it would be something for us to read about and comment on.
But they aren’t real. None of them. Sorry to dissappoint. I’m no Bammer, but at least I respect them, and Arkansas, and even UT now that they have a better coach and staff across the board.
Just not Auburn. It’s a culture of apathy and selfishness.
@nichona
Nobody supports crime.
But in the SEC, we all remember the words “first-time offender” being the reason why armed robbery with a gun doesn’t stop you from coming back to UT.
And it won’t stop Auburn from getting these guys back, probably. Or at least it won’t surprise us.
1:23 pm on March 16th, 2011
so chizik kicks someone off the team who would have been in jail anyway? I guess that is an improvement from the permissive CAM era.
1:43 pm on March 16th, 2011
I knew AU was cheating when, during Chizik’s first recruiting season, only a month after being hired, Auburn started getting commits like Tyric Rollison, Demond Washington, and other highly sought after players, even though AU was coming off a losing year, Chizik had a 5-19 record as a coach and none were from an adjoining state or had previously followed Auburn. Friends it is tough for ANY school to get players to come from far away. Particularly to a school like AU with no great academic traditions or history for greatness in any particular area (other than fielding a professional football team and giving out free grades to jocks). Not even Football. Uh HUH! Cash invovled.
Then, this was confirmed that same summer, when the top 3 RBs in the entire country put Auburn at the top of their list,their favorite. None were from Alabama, none were even from Florida, Tenn, Miss nor Georgia. Not one of the three was from nearby. Then all summer and fall they flew back and forth from places like Arkansas, Texas, and South Carolina. Where did they get the cash to do that every week? What HS kid can afford to do that?
Finally, the next recruiting season, with AU having only an 7-6 year, with Alabama as National Champions, AU outrecruited UA. They continued to get recruits from places where it is usually difficult for the established, great, schools like Notre Dame, OSU, UA, OU and Texas to recruit - that is, in non-adjoining states.
So AU outrecruited the National Champions with kids actually willing to go to school a long way from home to play for a so so program with a so-so record, and a for coach with a losing record. What does that tell you? Players like Cam Newton switching instantaneously from his favorite to a school he just heard of a week before.
A school already known as the Notre Dame of Cheating leading the SEC with 7 major probations and one short of the national record. Now with the revelations coming out of Miss State, we know that they are indeed paying players. We know that he cost more than a scholarship. We know he went to Auburn. His dad admitted to shopping him. Has the NCAA gone nuts. AU belongs in the NFL not college football.
3:00 pm on March 16th, 2011
@Stanley
You seem a bit butthurt… sucks for you.
3:45 pm on March 16th, 2011
Since when did Demond Washington and Tyrik Rollison become highly sought after? Demond was a rivals 3 star kid out of juco(originally from Tallassee - about 20 miles from Auburn) with offers from Louisville, Memphis, Ole Miss, North Ill, Ohio, So Miss and UAB. Tyrik’s grades were terrible out of high school and Auburn took a chance on him, but he only had offers from schools like Arizona, Baylor, K St, Oregon and Tx A&M. Some pretty solid offers, but not what I would call highly sought after. Even if Cam hadn’t have gone to Auburn, Rollison probably wouldn’t have been able to stay in school.
New, young coaching staff. Immediate playing time. A traditional SEC power. That’s why they were so successfull with recruiting.
But, if you want to spit a bunch of crap and make yourself look stupid, be my guest.
5:00 pm on March 16th, 2011
The simple solution is to toughen entrance requirements. Do that so coaches will not even waste their time recruiting dumbarse thugs like those glutinous balls of sweaty rectal hairs; McNeil and his cohorts.
5:04 pm on March 16th, 2011
@tgr:
traditonal SEC power,?!?!?! Uh, dude, last I checked, GT has two less SEC championships than Auburn and they have been outta the league for over forty years. Auburn is not a traditional power.
http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/champions_sec.html
6:43 pm on March 16th, 2011
@jdm……..But GT couldn’t handle playing an SEC schedule, or sharing in the profits from year to year.
The SEC is a powerhouse conference. What other conference in Division I football, puts it’s members through the same kind of beating every week. Top recruits come to the SEC, because they know that even as part of the weaker teams like Vandy & Kentucky, they will still never find tougher competition anywhere else.
1:48 pm on March 17th, 2011
How stupid are you people, auburn has had the ncaa up its butt since November and just about every sports reporter in the country looking for any evidence that they have paid players. You would know if anyone had found anything. If the NCAA had anything you would know, if a writter had proof you would have read it. Get a clue!
10:56 pm on March 17th, 2011
The reason you haven’t heard anything is because this is an ongoing investigation. I was told by a person who is involved in the investigation that there is enough stuff on Aubarn to shock the college football world and bring football at Aubarn to a grinding halt!!!!!!!!
12:34 pm on March 18th, 2011
Yes its a on-going investigation. Correct me if I’m wrong, if during the process an investigator shares info with someone not involved, those findings become inadmissable in court. I find it quite funny when people come foreward with, I know somebody, who knows somebody, who may know somebody involved in the Auburn investigation. As if the FBI would allow access to someone not involved in the “case”. Your friend knows nothing except rumor and accussations. If there were any findings, don’t you think they would have been released them by now? All this conspiracy garbage is hilarious, you people need to grow up.
1:28 pm on March 20th, 2011
August, the barn burns.
4:21 pm on March 24th, 2011
Auburn has no class or respect. There getting everything they deserve and the cam newton situation isnt over yet. I guarantee an ass beating this year by bama. ROLLL TIDE.
2:46 pm on November 27th, 2011
I hate bama and auburn, especially bama. Bama fans have no class and they’re such sore losers. LSU will walk all over you. That redneck school will go down, just like auburn.