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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 11-04-2010, 07:52 PM:

Wow, this could really be a big story "if" it is true.

News broke today that the NCAA is investigating the recruitment of Cam Newton, and what part a potential runner, church donation, and Mississippi State played in it. Former State quarterback John Bond was apparently called by one of his former team mates ‘representing,’ Newton, and was asking for money to the tune of $180,000.

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[ 11-04-2010, 07:53 PM: Message edited by: catmandoo ]

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 11-04-2010, 07:57 PM:

Here is the ESPN story on the possible wrong doings.

During the height of star quarterback Cam Newton's recruitment out of junior college last year, a man who said he represented Newton allegedly was soliciting a six-figure payment to secure his signature on a national letter of intent, ESPN.com has learned.

Former Mississippi State quarterback John Bond told ESPN.com a teammate of Bond's at Mississippi State in the early 1980s contacted him soon after Newton's official visit to Mississippi State during the Ole Miss game in December, and said he was representing Newton.

"He said it would take some cash to get Cam," Bond said. "I called our athletic director, Greg Byrne, and he took it from there. That was pretty much it."

Multiple sources told ESPN.com that Mississippi State called the SEC office with Bond's information shortly after he brought it to the attention of the school.

Auburn's Cam Newton has led his team to a No. 2 BCS ranking.

Sources told ESPN.com the former teammate is Kenny Rogers, who played at Mississippi State from 1982 to '85. Rogers operates a Chicago-based company called Elite Football Preparation, which holds camps in Chicago, Alabama and Mississippi. A Lexis search for that business lists Kenneth Rogers as the contact and his title as "agent." A Birmingham News story from 2008 said Elite Football Preparation "matches high school athletes with college programs."

Bond said the former teammate told him other schools had already offered $200,000, but since Newton really liked Mississippi State and had a relationship with head coach Dan Mullen dating to when both were at Florida, Mississippi State could get him for $180,000.

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Posted by BlueCollarMan (Member # 2114) on 11-05-2010, 11:11 AM:

Let's not forget that Auburn is not a program that historically has been clean. They had and player payment/extortion scandal a few years ago.

Fred