What the Hell is Going On?

In the span of one day, the FBI has gotten involved in the Cam Newton case and ESPN's Joe Schad is breaking yet another piece of the puzzle. I have been defending Cam from the get-go, but this is some pretty weird stuff.

This new article basically says that two Mississippi State recruiters talked with Cecil and Cam Newton where they claimed that money was definitely requested by saying they wanted "more than a scholarship". Unless these phone conversations were recorded, I don't think they mean much of anything. Would you really clamp down on Cam because of two alleged conversations that the Newton's will most likely deny? The real scary part is that these might have been recorded. Wouldn't that just be the ultimate trump card to all of this? People are running around like their heads are chopped off and all this time there might have been a solid piece of evidence that would open the flood gates.

To be clear, this is a very similar approach to the other article. Two unnamed sources that we are supposed to take at their word. While I refuse to just accept that these two guys are telling the truth because ESPN thinks they are, I do find it hard to believe that they would flat out make all of this up. I also have to admit that this latest Joe Schad article has me quite worried. We are a long way from Thayer Evans.

There are several points that are being made that seem to help Auburn out. The NCAA has known about this for almost a year and they never ruled Newton out. There has never been so much as a letter from the NCAA to Auburn. Should the world come to an end and this rumor turns out to be true, I think that fact will help Auburn avoid a harsher sentence. Also, despite the allegations of requests for money, Mississippi State kept right on recruiting Cam Newton until the very end. That also strikes me as odd.

The key thing I took away from this article is that for the first time in all of this, ESPN is basically saying that Auburn is now connected. The fact that Cam Newton is reported to have said "The money was just too good (at Auburn)" now means that it is officially on. Up until now it was just an allegation of this one Miss. St alum calling the school and asking for money, but now Auburn is officially right in the thick of it (not that we weren't before..it's just official now).

I choose to still stand by Cam on this. I mean at this point if it turns out he's guilty than we are going to have quite a few other issues to deal with so I just hope for all of this to turn out well. Make no mistake though, if these allegations turn out to be true, I will lead the charge to burn them all at the stake.