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Former Auburn Player Stanley McClover

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Real Sports & Auburn ... Where's The Outrage?

Let?s say Stanley McClover, Troy Reddick, Chaz Ramsey and Raven Gray were all lying on last week's episode of HBO's Real Sports.

Let?s say they all have axes to grind and let?s say they all conspired to concoct this one gigantic whopper full of "pure garbage," as Gene Chizik called it, to get back at the Auburn football program for one reason or another. Then, Auburn, why such a timid response? Where?s the anger? When do the lawsuits start flying? Why aren?t you going ballistic? Why aren't you responding with something more than an expected "we'll conduct an investigation." (By the way, feel free to apply this to Tommy Tuberville, Ohio State, LSU, and Michigan State, too.)

The four former players have just attempted to destroy the reputation of Auburn University and its football program, so if they?re lying, Auburn, you have to know ten minutes and three phone calls after the show aired whether or not it was all true, so if it's false, go get them and make them pay. Take them to court and come up with some way to punish them for defaming the school?s name. Meanwhile, Tuberville, if they?re wrong, you have a slam-dunk of a defamation of character suit. So either do something real about this or you?re leaving us no choice but to assume that it was all spot on. (However, McClover and company, if you're telling the truth, you have to start busting out more details and you have to get more specific. This doesn't end with the Real Sports piece; you have to empty the entire bag and stay in the spotlight or else those who say you're lying will drown you out.)

Auburn University, one way or another, where?s your moral outrage? And no, it?s not about being mad at the players for squawking; it?s about either 1) the higher-ups and the academic side of the school being more ticked off about the lies, if they're lies, or 2) being enraged that they?re telling the truth and that all of this really did happen.

Whether or not the NCAA comes up with any proof or hands down any sanctions from the confessions shouldn?t matter. Auburn, as a university and an institution of higher learning, don?t YOU want your football program to be considered 100% clean? (And, for some, the answer might actually be no.) Don?t YOU care about your reputation on a national scale? Don?t YOU want to be taken seriously ever again any time your football program signs a five-star recruit, wins a big game, or looks a recruit?s mother in the eye and tries to talk about integrity? And no, don't whine about being singled out by the media or anyone else. Yes, if the accusations are true, you might only have been keeping up with traffic, but that doesn't mean you weren't speeding. Welcome to life as a national champion.

But here?s what?s going to happen. Auburn is going to keep finding former players to say that they didn't get any money and it'll keep issuing statements about wanting to do the right thing and how it always complies with NCAA guidelines. There will be some press release somewhere down the road saying the school will abide by whatever ruling is handed down from the NCAA, if and when there are any findings in any investigation that eventually comes. However, the thing that fans and several writers don?t seem to grasp is that even if the four players are telling the truth, there almost certainly won?t be any smoking gun whatsoever for the NCAA to find because the people who provide players with payoffs and handouts are very, very good at keeping it very, very quiet.

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Auburn, you can?t just let this run its course and hope it goes away or gets forgotten, because in today?s day and age, the online media won?t let this go and everyone will keep asking questions like they did with Reggie Bush and USC.

It?s your choice.

Either 1) go after McClover, Reddick, Ramsay and Gray legally, in the media, and with a full-court PR press and start denying up and down that the accusations were all vicious lies (from someone other than Chizik), and really and truly determine whether or not the story really is a fake; 2) find out if this is all true in any way, and if it is, start punishing yourself in the name of wanting to do the right thing; or 3) you and your fans must stand mute anytime anyone wants to assume that what McClover and company said was and is the way things are done at Auburn University.

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Auburn seems rather quiet given the nature of the allegations.

Perhaps they are hoping if they don't respond it just goes a way?

And it just might, at least publically (non NCAA)...posters on several sites appear to think HBO was outing OSU..and don't even seem to know/care that the story was about Auburn.

Whether it is all true or not it looks to me like Stanley still knows how to work the system. This all seems to be about providing for his charity.....he is still playing the angles.
 
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HINYG8;1903112; said:
Auburn seems rather quiet given the nature of the allegations.

Perhaps they are hoping if they don't respond it just goes a way?

And it just might, at least publically (non NCAA)...posters on several sites appear to think HBO was outing OSU..and don't even seem to know/care that the story was about Auburn.

Whether it is all true or not it looks to me like Stanley still knows how to work the system. This all seems to be about providing for his charity.....he is still playing the angles.
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I dont see this to be true...I guess maybe posters do, but I think the general concensus is bags of cash to 4 players before during and after playing for said team is the real story....It seems to me most people think he is suspect period and he got laid at a college party by a jersey chaser when visiting Ohio State....Chris Gamble was a good friend and wanted to see he knew what was in store for him once he got to college :roll2:
 
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bassbuckeye07;1903120; said:
I dont see this to be true...
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I can see where HINY is coming from....there seem to be more articles titled "Ohio State plied McClover with SEXXX!!!" than ones mentioning that the story was about him being offered money by Auburn.
 
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