Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Kiss your bogus six game win streak over Alabama goodbye, Aubarn fans...
The segment contains explosive claims from former Auburn players Chaz Ramsey, Troy Reddick, Stanley McClover and Raven Gray.
- On McClover’s recruitment:
Kremer voiceover: “McClover said it wasn’t until he attended an all-star camp at Louisiana State University that he realized how the game is played. A game of money and influence.”
McClover: “Somebody came to me, I don’t even know this person and he was like, ‘we would love for you to come to LSU and he gave me a handshake and it had five hundred dollars in there. … that’s called a money handshake … I grabbed it and I’m like, ‘wow,’ hell I thought ten dollars was a lot of money back then. Five hundred dollars for doing nothing but what I was blessed to do. I was happy.”
Kremer to McClover: “What did you say to the guy when he hands you five hundred dollars?”
McClover: “Thank you and I’m seriously thinking about coming to LSU.”
Kremer voiceover: “But McClover says there were money handshakes from boosters at other football camps too. At Auburn for a couple hundred dollars and at Michigan State. All the schools denied any wrongdoing. And things really started heating up a few months later when he went to Ohio State for an official visit where schools get a chance for one weekend to host prospective athletes. McClover says there were money handshakes from alumni there too. About a thousand dollars. And something else to entice him.”
McClover: “They send girls my way. I partied. When I got there I met up with a couple guys from the team. We went to a party and they asked me to pick any girl I wanted.”
Kremer: “Did she offer sexual services?“
McClover: “Yes.”
Kremer: “Did you take them?”
McClover: “Yes.”
Kremer: “McClover committed to Ohio State right after that weekend. The recruiter at Ohio State who says he dealt with McClover that weekend denied the school was involved in any wrongdoing.”
- On what caused McClover to sign with Auburn over Ohio State:
Kremer voiceover: “McClover says what he asked for was money. A lot of it. And that he got it. Delivered in a bookbag, exact amount unknown.”
Kremer to McClover: “You opened it up, what are you thinking?”
McClover: “I almost passed out. I literally almost passed out I couldn’t believe it was true. I felt like I owed them.”
Kremer to McClover: “You felt obligated to them (Auburn)?”
McClover: “I felt totally obligated.”
Kremer to McClover: “Because of the money?”
McClover: “Yeah.”
- Troy Reddick talks about his recruitment by Auburn
Reddick: “I was contacted by a local alumni (of Auburn) and offered a large sum of money.
Kremer: “What are you thinking?”
Reddick: “That people are trying to take advantage of me. And I can’t give anybody any kind of power over me.”
Kremer voiceover: “He (Reddick) says he didn’t take the handout. …
- Reddick on why he was unhappy at Auburn - and the remedy for that unhappiness
Kremer voiceover: “Reddick was growing increasingly unhappy because he says the (Auburn) coaches wanted him to change his major. Why? Because his class schedule got in the way of football practice.”
Reddick: “I changed my major, so my classes didn’t interfere no more but I didn’t bother to go because I knew I was only there to play football.”
Kremer: “So what did you do?”
Reddick: “I started complaining and insinuating that I was ready to leave any day. They had to do something about that.”
Kremer voiceover: “The enticement to stay, Reddick says, became clear to him, when one of the coaches approached him after a team meeting.”
Reddick: “He (Auburn coach) said I got some mail for you up in my office.”
Kremer to Reddick: “Some mail for you?”
Reddick: “And I followed him up to his office and he gave me an envelope. I didn’t open there, I walked out to my truck, took off. … It was about 500 dollars.”
Kremer: “500 dollars in the envelope?”
Reddick: (nods yes)
Kremer: “How often did you get the money in the envelope?”
Reddick: “Over that season it happened like two or three more times. And it happened about six or seven times my senior year.”
Kremer: “So where do you think the money came from?”
Reddick: “I think that worry got back to alumni from my hometown. Or it may have been the coaches or the staff but everybody knew I didn’t want to be there.”
- On McClover being paid $4,000 for his performance in the Iron Bowl:
Kremer voiceover: “Stanley McClover says he was also paid while at school (Auburn). Paid by boosters. Like the time he had his eye on this 1973 Chevy Impala.”
McClover: “Private owner wanted seven thousand in cash so I went to my booster who I knew and he gave me the money the next day in a bookbag.”
Kremer voiceover: “McClover says eventually he didn’t have to ask for money, as long as he played well, he’d get paid.”
Kremer to McClover: “How much was a sack worth?”
McClover: “Anywhere between 300 and 400 dollars. For one.”
Kremer to McClover: “I think in one game you had four sacks, what did you earn in that game?”
McClover: “Four thousand. Against Alabama.”
Kremer: “Seriously?”
McClover: “Alabama, a rivalry game.”
Kremer: “More money because it’s Alabama?”
McClover: “Definitely. No other game matters.”
- Chaz Ramsey and Raven Gray are interviewed at same time together
Kremer voiceover: “Chaz Ramsey played for a year (for Auburn) in 2007, and says he too received money handshakes after games.”
Ramsey: “You walk out and all the fans are waiting for you to sign autographs and everything and some random guy just walks up to you and shakes your hand and there’s a wad full of money.”
Kremer: “How much are we talking about?”
Ramsey: “300 or 400 dollars a game.”
Kremer voiceover: “Raven Gray was a top (Auburn) recruit in 2007, he says people affiliated with Auburn would visit him at his junior college and press the flesh there too.”
Kremer to Gray: “How much do you think you got?”
Gray: “Twenty five-hundred to three thousand dollars. Loyalty is the key. This man give me money I’m going to be loyal to him and go to Auburn.”
Kremer voiceover: “And he did go to Auburn but got injured before he ever played a game.”
- On Ramsey’s motivation for coming forward
Kremer: “You have an axe to grind?” (Ramsey had a medical claim lawsuit against Auburn recently thrown out.)
Ramsey: “I’m not out to get anybody, I want high school athletes to know what they’re getting into. This is what college football is really about it, it’s a business.”
- Ramsey and Reddick on selling items made available to Auburn players by the school:
Ramsey: “I would sell tickets all the time, Iron Bowl you can make a thousand dollars a ticket.”
Kremer: “How much money did that get you during your time at Auburn?”
Ramsey: “Five-six thousand dollars probably.”
Reddick: “I sold my SEC Championship watch right off the stage as we were celebrating in Toomer’s Corner.”
Kremer: “Why did you sell it?”
Reddick: “Because it was useless to me. I had to sell all my championship rings to help my sister not go into debt as her house was about to be foreclosed on.”
At the end of Kremer’s segment, the host read Auburn’s official response to HBO regarding the allegations by its former players:
The NCAA turned down repeated interview requests to discuss anything to do with illegal payments, despite new NCAA President Mark Emmertrecently saying he wants to be more transparent with the media.
As for Auburn University, officials declined to comment on quote, “these alleged claims apparently made by a few former football players” and said, quote, “compliance with all NCAA and Southeastern Conference rules is a major emphasis and top priority for all of our athletic programs.
HBO is on the record to me that it did not pay or compensate ex-Auburn players in any way for interviews.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
10 most corrupt college athletic programs
Former Auburn University football coach Terry Bowden says the program he inherited in 1993 included an elaborate system of paying star high school players up to $15,000 to sign with Auburn and $600 per month while on the team
People would be shocked at the stuff that goes on at Auburn - it would make headlines for the National Enquirer.
Aubarn players rob trailer park...

Monday, March 14, 2011
Scott Moore update...
Thursday, March 3, 2011
And BOOM goes the dynamite!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Happy January 31st eve...
Where there's smoke on a cow pasture, there's a barn burning somewhere...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
God Not Be Mocked...
God Not Be Mocked
Blue Tuna Tiger is doing a phenomenal job of consolidating this entire fiasco and keeping everyone up to date.
From a die-hard Alabama fan, thank you for all the hard work you're putting into this controversy, BTT.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Aubarn will forever remain Alabama's little stepsister...
For starters, if you weren't Alabama's little brother, you would be basking in the glory of winning your second tainted national championship in school history (and first under the name of Aubarn University), rather than comparing your accomplishments to Alabama. That's a given.
And with that being said.......
The Records...
As far as your accomplishments are concerned, on paper, they are somewhat impressive, especially compared to Alabama's, despite the fact that the last decade was by far, Alabama's worst period in the history of their storied program. However, it appears those "accomplishments" are more misleading than they are factual.
Exhibit A:
Undefeated Seasons
Auburn: 3 (1993, 2004, 2010)
Alabama: 2 (1992, 2009)
Three undefeated seasons over the course of 21 years is pretty impressive, but here's what Ronnie doesn't want you to know: in 1993, Aubarn finished the REGULAR SEASON 11-0. They were banned from postseason play due to -- you guessed it -- paying players, which I'll get to that in a minute. Aubarn did not play in the postseason, therefore this season should be deemed irrelevant for two reasons: the postseason ban and fielding a franchise team (if you know what I mean). By this dizzy logic, Alabama could claim 1964, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1994, and 2008 as undefeated seasons since 'Bama finished the regular season undefeated in each of the aforementioned years, but lost in postseason play.
And I'll expose the illegitimacy of 2004 in the next few paragraphs.
NCAA Probations since 1981
Auburn: 1
Alabama: 3
Thankfully Eric Ramsey was more of an "Aubarn Man" than the rest of the trash infesting that program, or else we would've never been made aware of the fact that Pat Dye was the biggest cheater in Aubarn history and
Simply put: All Alabama fans should vacate EVERY accomplishment (trophy, Iron Bowl win, etc) Pat Dye's Aubarn teams achieved.
When Pat Dye took over the Aubarn program, he knew that just coaching, alone, would not gain success for the Aubarn Tigers, so he had to do a little thinking outside the box and ever since then, the Aubarn football program, despite it's "probation record" has had more controversy surround it than Roberty Downey Jr. and OJ Simpson combined.
Even former coaches such as Terry Bowden and Tony Franklin have either admitted this or implied it. I don't want to hear a single Aubarn fan say, "It's because they're disgruntled, ex-coaches". If that's the case, Aubarn University's "Powers That Be" wouldn't have their ex-coaches sign non-disclosure agreements and pay them millions of dollars just because "it's the right thing to do".
Keep in mind if you factor in all the scandals that have surrounded the Aubarn program, such as being placed on academic probation, jetgate, and the 2004 Sociology scandal (which half of their players had no business suiting up to begin with) which was strangely swept under the rug, Aubarn would hold a slight edge in this category.
But don't think for a second the corruption is no longer present as it's as bad now as it's ever been. You don't fire your most successful coach in modern history and replace him with a 5-19 loser, who'd only been a head coach for 2 years and was on the verge of being fired at his previous job, no matter what drivel your AD feeds you. Gene Chizik was a hired puppet and the corrupt Aubarn BOTs accomplished exactly what they invested in doing...
And how does a 5-19, three year head coach, at a second-rate program located in the third-worst SEC town (and a backwoods hellhole at that, certainly not the ideal place for an 18-22 year old), manage to out-recruit all of the SEC coaching veterans -- especially when his cross-state superior is coming off an NC season? It's simple:




And as far as the textbook vs. Sociology scandal is concerned, The University itself took no part in the illegal distribution of textbooks and when they uncovered the violation, they self-reported it immediately and forced the players to repay the debt, which they did. In Aubarn's case, players were receiving FREE CLASS CREDITS, despite not showing up for class, taking any tests, or turning in any work. It took the head of the Sociology department to uncover this and report it, yet Aubarn University took no action and the ineligible players continued to play and nothing ever came out of this. But why are we surprised? Aubarn University is the only University in America to graduate players who can't read, players who are illiterate, and players who don't even know how to write a check!
Selective Memory...
This is a typical Aubarn fan's favorite card to play: From 1980 - this very day, even considering the biggest cheater in the history of college football was 6-6 vs. 'Bama. But since you guys like to play the selective memory card (beginning with the year your cheating coach inflicted the corruption upon your program), I'll play along as well...
Alabama has won 2 out of the last 3 Iron Bowls. In addition, Alabama's record over the last 3 years is 36-5, while Aubarn's record is 27-12. Alabama has appeared in 3 bowls, while Aubarn has only appeared in 2.
Also, if you factor in the vast majority of the 2000s was the worst period in Alabama history (scholarship restrictions, 5 coaches in seven years) and knowing Alabama lost to UCF, Northern Illinois, Louisiana-Monroe, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, etc. and posted an embarrassing record against its three main rivals, by factoring those years out, since 1990 (excluding 2002-2007), Alabama is 10-5 against Aubarn. Had it not been for scholarship restrictions and nearly half a dozen coaches in half a decade, the odds of Aubarn winning 6 straight over the Tide would've been slim to none, much like the odds of Aubarn winning an untainted title.
2010
It's a shame Alabama fans found themselves cheering for these cheaters against Oregon, without even considering the consequences of what they'll have to deal with afterwards (starting with Ronnie's article).
So much smoke, yet Aubarn fans claim there's no fire, despite the fact that an investigation is ongoing. A father solicits money from one school, yet fails to solicit money from the second-most penalized school in the country who's still being ran and operated by the most corrupt group of people in the state, even though his son didn't consider them until late in the recruiting process... "The money was too much". Then there's allegations surfacing regarding sure LSU locks that suddenly became Aubarn Men after "getting this I-Phone from visiting Aubarn". But it's far from over, you've also got Dakota Mosley, a sure Arkansas lock, but strangely enough, he becomes an Aubarn lock and around signing day, he's posting pictures of himself on Facebook holding $100k worth of cash. Lastly (that we know of), after signing day, Corey Lemonier posts a pic of his brand new Corvette which he said, "New car I got for signing with Aubarn". I should also note a player Aubarn recruited, Lache Seastrunk's mom, boldly stated Aubarn is a dirty school, just a few weeks ago.
And to top it all off, you've got bingo-gate, all involving Aubarn boosters and the fall of Colonial Bank. You have former feds, now serving as lawyers, leaking information from their sources claiming pay for play schemes will be revealed and everything Aubarn accomplished this season will evaporate in a split second, yet Aubarn fans deny it, just as they denied Eric Ramsey's case and the Sociology case. They denied Cecil solicited money from MSU, despite the fact that he admitted it weeks later...
So these guys are willing to funnel money to state legislatures, yet they're not willing to pay players, despite having done so in the past? You can't be anymore delusional than an Aubarn fan!
That, in a nutshell, sums up this entire counter-response. When Alabama hired Saban, Aubarn's inferiority complex level skyrocketed. Saban began thumping them in recruiting and destroyed them to the point of no return on the field. They fired their most successful coach in modern history and replaced him with a puppet. They resorted back to their old tactics, went "All In" and began buying every player they possibly could. In 2010, their mission was accomplished, even if it affected their program on down the road, they don't care because they finally won a national championship. And why did they do this you ask? Because they are Alabama's little brother.