An interesting piece on Cam Newton and Auburn.

Just about everyone that cares about college football knows about Cam Newton and Auburn and the hogwash that the NCAA pulled the other week.  It's just about impossible to know what in the world the NCAA's Committee on Infractions was thinking, but on the surface, it sure does appear that they've been incredibly two-faced about how they're treating Auburn as opposed to USC.

Today, an AP story on ESPN reports that Julie Roe Lach, the NCAA's new vice-president on enforcement, believes that the NCAA is protecting student athletes by taking their welfare into consideration of punishment.  That is to say, they still maintain that they believe Cam never knew that his father was pimping him around.  Of course, others say that he was selling his son around, but let's be honest, he was pimping to any john willing to pay for his son's services, and most everyone believes he found one: Auburn.  Except of course, there is no evidence that the NCAA has found, to implicate Auburn.

Well, it turns out a comment in the message boards points to a very interesting link, and one that pulls together very compelling stories from over the past decade, about the state of Auburn's pay-to-play scheme.  It's a condemning judgement on Auburn athletics and its boosters, which is to say, Auburn could be in some serious trouble, a la SMU death penalty.  This is in fact more serious than SMU's case dating back to the 80s, as the boosters involved here, are at the heart of Auburn's administrative control as trustees, and are implicated in various criminal investigations outside of the university.

Go read it.  Then after you're done reading it, ask yourself, what's the NCAA doing, going after USC?