Old shit... http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...ts-about-taking-money-says-account-was-hacked Ya'll are pretty level-headed on this Oregon board, but I feel like a lot of the NCAA boards out there (especially in the Big Ten) accuse the SEC of cheating all the time. The thing that pisses me off about that is, even if these guys got paid to go to Auburn, it was so they didn't go to Alabama, LSU, or Florida. They're all local recruits that still would have wound up on one SEC team or another, and if the Big Ten, in particular, has a problem with the way the SEC embarrasses them every year (this is coming from a Michigan State fan), then they should start to make more efforts to recruit down south, because that's the mecca of high school football, and that's why the SEC continues to win... not because they "cheat."
whether it happened here, this justification for some schools paying their student athletes is jaw dropping. If the SEC is commonly doing this while rival conferences aren't, it gives them them a big advantage that is clearly cheating. I know that Oregon is and has been after many top prospects in that region, and I'm sure that your Spartans and others from the Big 10 have too...one of the Ducks starting Safeties is from Bama. The pull of the local schools and playing in whats widely perceived to be the top conference in college football are above board strong reasons that work against considerable recruiting efforts of those from outside the conference. STOMP
<---Not an Oregon fan, but Navy's College FB board is pretty quiet. I'm not in the "SEC are a bunch of hooligans" bandwagon, (or think that guys like Carroll or Neuheisel are saints), but the shadiness that comes from the SEC seems to have its own level of murkiness that somehow doesn't get called. As you said, "even if they got paid to go to Auburn" it hurt Alabama, UF, etc. In that case, I totally agree. Yet there shouldn't be ANY teams hurt by other teams paying a couple of hundred grand for a player. USC got its dick stomped and Bush's Heisman taken back b/c his parents got paid rent money. SEC teams get probation. Even Tuscaloosa reporters bring it up. It's not a hate-the-South thing.
Should be though. Granted, lots of kids down south live in shitty locations, have bad uprisings, and may do well academically, thus turn to Football as their only way of escape. Not to mention, not to sound racist or anything, but this was brought up in an SEC forum I found: The ancestors of the big strong African-American slaves still live in the South(one guy said that SEC players are "bred" in the south thanks to Slave genes. Said guy got fired and died in Vegas on the street). They are the big reasons why so many D and O linemen are found there and not elsewhere. Not to mention, you have the Bear Bryant Tradition, the championships by Miami, Tennessee, and Florida way back when. When players don't succeed in the NFL, they would surely coach at their high school and preach on their alma mater and try to make a similar play style. Nick Saban's godly ability to coach and recruit has much to do with it, but don't forget: Bryant, Jim Johnson, Fulmer, Spurrier, and even that one 1992 Alabama team were the trailblazers. In fact, History lesson: in 1925 Alabama played Washington, at the time a powerhouse, in the Rose Bowl, in which the winner would be deemed National Champion(both teams came in Undefeated). Alabama won 20-19 on a last second field goal, thus starting the tradition of Southern success in the state. Sounds quite familiar between another Alabama state team and another Northwestern team huh? In order to match the south, Oregon needs to establish a tradition of success. Chip Kelly is the trailblazer, and it's up those who follow after ie Mark Helfrich to captialize on that. USC had there's in McKay. For Oregon it's Kelly.
