Surely even you can tell the difference in these two situations.
Marcell Darius was beyond a doubt, and by his own admission, involved with an agent. He attended the parties in South Florida for star college football players held by an NFL agent. Marcell should have known better. I stand by that today. Saban absolved Dareus of all blame while in the same breath expressing his disgust with those "pimps".
What has Auburn fans livid right now is that everyone that is not completely delusional can see that Newton and Auburn were not involved in this. Auburn knew about this back in July and looked into it. Cecil Newton cooperated completely by turning in financial statements. Auburn and the NCAA knew all of this and played him anyway, and will play him on Saturday. Because some shithead claims that he made dealings WITH MSU on Cam's behalf, when all evidence points to Cam and his family having no knowledge, and certainly having received no payment for it, Cam and the Auburn family is being dragged through the mud.
You wouldn't see this rage from Auburn fans if in the back of our minds we thought Cam really did break an NCAA rule. What has us enraged is that these non-stories have gained national attention as if they have any validity whatsoever, when clearly they don't.
I'm not comparing the MD and CN situations directly. For that matter, I'm not aware of MD saying anything other than he didn't know the party was being thrown by an agent. I'll stand corrected if I've missed something on that, though.
I'm more so talking about the rogue agents. The guys that will throw parties, the guys that will accept money, etc. If this shithead agent solicited or accepted something on Newton's behalf without Newton having any knowledge of it, I don't see why it should be Newton's problem. And like Saban said, it makes the agent no better than a pimp.
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