Around the Plains... Monday Musings

that is for sure. It’s a lovely day here on the plains. Hope everybody else is having a great day.

I agree that the Newton case is dead except in the minds of a few haters – ie. NY Times and bama delusionals.

Despite their record,I have been enjoying watching Barbee’s Tigers. I definitely agree, he will get it done.

As for baseball, I can’t wait. I’ll be there for the first pitch Friday. And Fly13 is right “It is a great time to be an Auburn Tiger.”

spring? Taking trips to other sites and seeing the time and effort devoted to Auburn hatred is amazing. Anyone willing to tackle a post about possible explanations? It is truly remarkable and unlike anything I have ever seen. At first, I thought I was just being paranoid, the old “Auburn is underdog” deal. After a friend alerted me to sites such as Tigerdroppings (the only one I’m going to mention!) I am not so sure. Many of you have probably read all of these way before I, but now I get what some of you have been sayin’.

It’s kinda freaky.

Unless you have a vested interest in the situation, that there NEVER WAS AN INVESTIGATION
into any facet of Auburn University, athletics or otherwise.
Not the FBI, not the NCAA, not the IRS, not Interpol, not CIA, not even Matlock took a look at Auburn.

Maybe, just maybe that will sink in at some point.

Cecil Newton willing offered to be investigated pertaining to the recruitment of his son. Admittedly after having talked with MSU reps about a pay for play scheme.
MSU reported the incident to the SEC offices, who then notified the NCAA and Auburn.
Auburn then began their own investigation, and notified the NCAA and the SEC.
After Auburn’s investigation the findings were made known to the SEC and NCAA offices.
Auburn had deemed itself blameless in the matter, and sought advice from the NCAA.
The NCAA could not give Auburn a definitive answer until it had completed it’s investigation of Cecil Newton’s finances.
Once Cecil Newton’s finances had clearly shown no questionable financial income, then the NCAA and Auburn put in motion the events around naming Cam ineligible, and then being reinstated by the NCAA.
Auburn had zero involvement in the pay for play scheme, and thus was clear of any wrong doing.

Cecil Newton, and the supposed representatives of MSU had committed an illegal act, by Federal standards, plus broke several NCAA regulations, just having their discussions of pay for play. Thus creating the scandal, which most people would associate with Auburn University, but actually had nothing to do with Auburn.
I hope I cleared this up for you. If not I apologize.

My point is that everyone is motivated by something. For example, I spend long hours shopping and cooking for the objective of having a healthy family. Chik-fil-A spends millions on cow commercials so we’ll eat chicken. And so on.

What I can’t wrap my brain around is the motivation of both the national media and many national fanbases who do appear to be so hostile to Auburn. Heck, I understand UAT, UGA, etc. But Boise fans? Cal fans? WTF?

I read too many of those crazy websites over the weekend.

We even have a troll hoping that Cam is still deemed ineligible. Let it go-it’s over. Where are you first and thom??? I so want to rub it in.

As far as the source of the Auburn hatred on the internet, I have my own theory. You have a supremely talented athlete of the highest order involved in a scandal at a school that has had a history of NCAA infractions. It’s a juicy story, admit it.

Add into that the incredible ease with which journalists can track interest in a story so they write as much as they can about it. ESPN, CBS, Foxsports, and all the rest can print anything they want, true or not, with no accountability. So long as the ad space gets sold, they will keep doing it.

I’m not claiming that people are too stupid to see the truth, my claim is that they don’t want to look. It makes things simpler to say “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” and assume guilt. It’s also an incredibly easy position to defend, what with all the information readily available. People like to argue, they like to be right, and they don’t like it when somebody is doing better than them. And of course Auburn was better than everyone this year, so we have the big target on us and there’s tons of ammo loaded up and ready to fire.

We may have taken some shots, but we’re going to be fine. Take pride in our success despite the hate. This is what it’s like on top and we are the one who gets talked about.