Auburn Changed Grades and Bribed Players, Denies Everything
12 years ago

A new report says Auburn’s football program allegedly altered player grades, bribed potential NFL draft picks, and broke all sorts of NCAA recruiting rules.

War dammit, Auburn, y’all screwed up.

According to former New York Times and Sports Illustrated writer, Selena Roberts, three former Auburn players claimed “as many as nine players’ grades were changed before Auburn’s win in the 2011 BCS national championship game.” Former defensive lineman Mike Blanc told Roberts that they couldn’t risk being without running back Mike Dyer, so Auburn “found a way” to make him eligible. Blanc later denied saying this, telling AL.com that the article was “outrageous and isn’t true.”

Darvin Adams, a former Auburn wide receiver, is also quoted in the report, saying coaches offered him money to get him to stay, an apparently common practice at the school. The amounts allegedly reached up to thousands of dollars and were even used as a way to get players to “bypass the NFL draft.” The report can be found on Roberts’ website.

As far as these allegations go, Auburn is taking the “Admit nothing, deny everything” approach. I didn’t even need the news to tell me this. Bama fans everywhere are taking a break from being obnoxious to comment on the accusations. Some of my favorite tweets include “I wish I played football at Auburn, my grades could use the help” and “To cooperate with the NCAA, Auburn plans to forfeit all of their SEC wins from 2012…oh, wait.”

Oh, Alabama. Nothing gets past you. Maybe this will distract everyone from what a douche Nick Saban is, but probably not.

[via ESPN]

Image via SportsMagik

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    1. War_Damn69

      She made all this up. She wrote this all based on speculation. She came down here asking questions about the robbery done by a couple of players and somehow left with a story about cheating it is all bullshit

      12 years ago at 4:22 pm
    2. Ihateauburn

      ^ I’m going to need to see some sources before I believe that classic Auburn bullshit story you’re trying to feed me.

      12 years ago at 10:33 am
    3. DamnGladtoMeetYou

      ^Show me some sources that haven’t recanted their quotes or haven’t refuted Roberts’ allegations.

      12 years ago at 2:23 pm
  4. ObamaWearsHollister

    Selena Roberts was also fired from multiple journalism jobs for submitting and publishing false reports. This is no different.

    12 years ago at 1:39 pm
    1. frattahoochee

      Auburn cheated just about as much as those duke lax players raped that girl

      12 years ago at 1:21 pm
  7. Success

    Bourbon Blonde? A woman is doing sports reporting? And if you’re a male, you should be ashamed of that name. Either way, before you start throwing your opinion out there, you might want to read some of the rebuttals.

    12 years ago at 2:08 pm
    1. Jon M Fratsman

      Don’t get butthurt, Auburn guy. Incidentally, both Sam Ponder and Erin Andrews most assuredly know more about sports than you probably ever will. A reporter is a reporter is a reporter.

      12 years ago at 2:46 pm
    2. Success

      Last time I checked, this isn’t ESPN. A TFM (or TSM) “writer” is opining on something she knows nothing about. Therefore, your response regarding Ponder and Andrews is illogical, and frankly idiotic. “A reporter is a reporter is a reporter”? They’re all the same huh? Are you kidding with that?

      12 years ago at 3:13 pm
    3. VeronicaCorningstone

      So your only problem with this news article was the fact that a female wrote it? You wouldn’t have know had it been published under a different name…this is a solid piece that is funny and informative, so who cares? Kindly grow a pair and pipe the fuck down. Your mother would be disappointed.

      12 years ago at 5:37 pm
    5. Jon M Fratsman

      ^^^ Have you lost your fucking mind? What does this look like to you, Sports Illustrated? Grantland? This is a 250-word article. Content is being regurgitated here, not opined upon. Since when do reporters always know everything there is to know about the subject they report upon, especially college students writing for a frat humor website? It’s not TFMs job to be objective, nor is it their job to launch an investigative expose. Get your head out of your ass.

      12 years ago at 9:34 am
    6. War Damn USA

      ^I agree with your point about this “news” section of TFM not having to be objective but the unbelievably misleading and incriminating title of the article is as horse shit as Selena Robert’s original “reporting”. Neither Robert’s nor Bourbon Blonde have any idea of how to report on anything without completely twisting words so I’d advise both of them to go ahead and stop now. As far as all reporters being the same, you can’t honestly say that Verne Lundquist from CBS is on the same level as Chris Berman.

      12 years ago at 2:35 pm
    7. Pike_Roofies_YOLO

      I have a problem with a female writing it… Girls brains are smaller (this is a scientific fact) and girls are awful at sports. If any self respecting guy actually “talks sports” with a girl, then the girl is probably a dike, or the guy is a total gayball. Now stop being a raging lesbian and go bake a cake.

      12 years ago at 3:59 pm
  8. colonial ft soldier

    Honestly I think it would help Auburn if they went on probation. That way they can lower of their unrealistic expectations of competing with Alabama

    12 years ago at 2:10 pm