• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Cam Newton (QB New England Patriots)

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
FCollinsBuckeye;2325284; said:
Holla

9830692-large.jpg
Click to expand...

Baaalllliiiinnnnnn!!!!!!
 
Upvote 0
Director of enforcement leaves NCAA for Auburn

NCAA director of enforcement Dave Didion finished his last day on the job in Indianapolis on Friday, with just more than a week before he leaves to return to Auburn.

The veteran enforcement officer left his position to take one as the associate director of athletics for compliance, effective April 22. He returns to a campus he left more than a decade ago after 14 years at the NCAA.

"It's personal," Didion said of his decision to leave the NCAA, "but I just wanted to go back to campus, and Auburn is one of the few places that I could go to.

.../cont/...
Click to expand...
 
Upvote 0
BUCKYLE;2328189; said:
:lol: GTFOH
Click to expand...

He's also an Ohio State alum. For what it's worth he is definitely not a Bobby Lowder crony.

Edit: Found what I was looking for...

AU officials downplay Ellis memo to Lowder

Auburn basketball coach Cliff Ellis was nearing the end of the program's best season when he wrote a letter to influential trustee Bobby Lowder seeking a raise, improved facilities, two staffers and a new compliance director.
He got the raise and much of the rest.

Ellis and Lowder say the letter, made public in a Birmingham Post-Herald story, was not a break in protocol. Ellis said he sent it to Lowder, chairman of the board's athletics committee, after discussing the issues with athletic director David Housel.

Lowder, accused by critics of micro-managing the school, particularly its athletics, said Ellis did nothing wrong.
"I'm supportive of the Auburn sports program, and he's a friend of mine," Lowder told The Birmingham News in a story Thursday.

In the internal memorandum, dated March 3, 1999, Ellis complained that he was the lowest-paid coach in the Southeastern Conference and "would like that to change." He had not signed a contract for his radio and TV work before the 1998-99 season, explaining in the letter: "I assumed they would pay me the same as usual, virtually nothing."

When he wrote the memo, the Tigers were 26-2 and ranked No. 2 in the nation en route to winning the SEC championship.

After the season, Ellis signed an eight-year contract worth up to $525,000 annually including incentives.
The Birmingham Post-Herald said in its story Wednesday that it received a copy of the memo anonymously.
Ellis listed 17 concerns in the memo, ranging from asking for new carpet and VCRs in upgraded basketball facilities to asking for the removal of then-compliance director Dave Didion, whom Ellis said "will crucify us if he gets the chance."

Ellis complained that Didion had called him a "scumbag" to another coach, misinterpreted NCAA rules concerning players and that the basketball staff was not comfortable with him.

Didion left Auburn a month after Ellis' memo to become the NCAA's director of enforcement, but denied he was pressured to leave. The Post-Herald said he declined to comment on other allegations.

Ellis also asked for - and received - a second administrative assistant and an academic advisor specifically for men's basketball.

"This memo was sent at a time when we were renegotiating coach Ellis' contract and it was an overview of what he felt was important to move the program forward," Housel said. "These issues have long been resolved."

Ellis sounded a similar note. "The letter was to take our program to another level, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with the way it was done," he told the News.
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0
alexhortdog95;2326997; said:
TexPN fails yet again. They ran this story all day, and then they interviewed a man that they think extremely highly of...one they trust....a man who has his finger on the pulse of the SEC:

ndhvzpttxdhhl.jpg
Click to expand...

I've never noticed the striking resemblance between Finebaum and Skippy...

Bayless_Skip_bio.jpg
 
Upvote 0
Been meaning to dig this thread up to thank sCam for pilfering that laptop and getting his ass kicked outta Florida. If not for that Coach Meyer is probably still in Gainesville with 4+ rings and counting, and some other guy who's not as good is leading Ohio State.
 
Upvote 0
jlb1705 said:
Been meaning to dig this thread up to thank sCam for pilfering that laptop and getting his ass kicked outta Florida. If not for that Coach Meyer is probably still in Gainesville with 4+ rings and counting, and some other guy who's not as good is leading Ohio State.
Click to expand...

Cowher ain't Urban, but he ain't bad.

Then again, knowing our luck, we'd probably have to settle for Gruden or Sean Payton.
pnuts34 said:
http://deadspin.com/5735160/when-auburn-fans-descend-on-walmart/

:slappy:

If this was posted already, I apologize, but I couldn't pass up posting it. I'm retiring from the interweb tonight, I can't stop laughing
Click to expand...

I especially like the folks that dressed like they just happened to already be at Wal-Mart and said "fuck It, I'll wait in line for two hrs to get my pic taken" :lol:
 
Upvote 0
Cam Newton left Florida Gators wondering what could have been

i

.
.
.
continued
.
.
.
Ultimately, Newton's two-year stint at Florida ended with him leaving head coach Urban Meyer little choice but to make other quarterback plans.
.
.
.
continued
.
.
.
While discussing a two-year Gators run that produced a 26-2 record and the 2008 national championship, and what subsequently went wrong with the program, center Maurkice Pouncey says, unprompted, within the first minute of conversation: "What if Cam Newton stayed at Florida?"

It's the same tantalizing question many Gators fans have undoubtedly asked themselves.

Entire article: http://espn.go.com/college-football...ida-gators-teammates-wondering-lost-potential

Interesting question for Buckeye fans too. If Newton had stayed at Florida (and things would have worked out differently for Urban Meyer), would Urban Meyer be at Ohio State now?

No one knows for sure; however, Buckeye fans are extremely happy that things worked out as they did.

tresswetrust_interior.jpg
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top