What bothers me about the report on HBO is they only show one side. From my understanding, there were several former football players they interviewed who said they weren't paid, but they didn't show those interviews. This seems to me to be one sided reporting. Although I didn't graduate with a jounalism degree, I took several courses in the field and I was taught you should be balanced and show both sides of a story...if you have both sides, if not dig to find the other story...there usually always is two sides.
I love Auburn and hope they find the program is clean, but I know because of our past recruiting sins (and we're not the only SEC school) people automatically think if something is said about Auburn's recruiting it must be true...even though the AD and head couch has changed (a couple of times) since those times. I'll continue to believe in Auburn and if it comes out we cheated, I feel like we should be punished accordingly...I personally don't want to win by cheating. Victory is much sweeter when you earn it. It just feels like a lot of people are on a witch hunt for Auburn. I know, I know...we did it in the past, but can't a team redeem itself? My hope is yes. I just feel like the players (if you want to call some of them that) in the HBO report have an axe to grind. Why come out now after all these years? And as Tank said...people would talk if this really happened. If I was a player and I saw another player getting money, I would probably say...hey, where's mine? I'm tired of eating P and B sandwiches. I want money too! Being a poor college student is not fun, but it taught me about character and how to survive on very little. One of the players who said he got money for a car...well his teammate (might have been his roommate) said he was lying. He got the money to buy the car from his pell grant...something about that seems illegal to me though. Maybe the feds should come after him for fraud.
