Auburn Reports Itself To Compliance Department After Florida Fans Tauntingly Throw Money At Players

Socrates Johnson8 years ago

As reported last week, college basketball as we know it has essentially been flipped-turned upside down following the release of FBI documents implicating a host of teams in pay-to-play corruption scandals.

One of the programs caught up in the shitstorm is Auburn, and following its 72-66 loss to Florida over the weekend, some of the Gator faithful decided to let the Tigers know that they had indeed gone and fucked up by throwing money at players and chanting “F-B-I.” Despite several Auburn players eagerly scrambling to get their hands on the raining singles, it looks like Auburn decided to take the narrow path and reported the taunt dollars to its compliance department.

From AL.com:

It is unclear on the video if the money is real or fake, or how much of it there is, but [Auburn head coach Bruce] Pearl confirmed Monday that it was, indeed, real currency–and that his team has reported the incident to the university’s compliance department so as to avoid any NCAA violations.

“It was real money, and I think there’s $5 or $6 that are out there, and because you guys know we’re compliant, we’ve actually turned that money over to compliance,” Pearl said. “Really. I don’t know, it was five or six bucks, but our people have the money. I don’t know what they’re going to do with it, probably give it to charity, but we’ve already self-reported.”

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Florida fans threw the money at Auburn players as a means of taunting the Tigers, whose program was enveloped in the FBI’s investigation into the criminal influence of money on college basketball. Then-associate head coach Chuck Person was one of 10 people arrested on Sept. 26 as part of the investigation and is alleged to have accepted $91,500 in bribes to funnel Auburn players toward a crooked financial adviser.

God forbid if Auburn didn’t report that $5 or $6. Wouldn’t want to have the whole team splitting a Nacho Fries box from Taco Bell without league say so.

But this really just looks to be a master troll job from Auburn here. Because if it’s honestly a violation of NCAA rules to have players scoop up a couple ones that are literally being thrown at them, then the NCAA is a bigger joke than we all thought it was. .

[via AL.com]

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