Heath Evans on Dan Patrick

[AUChizad]

Evans nailed it. Of course, as expected, the author of this article has to spin it to a negative...

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/01/heath-evans-ex-auburn-players-who-said-they-were-paid-are-liars/

Heath Evans: Ex-Auburn players who said they were paid are liars

Posted by Michael David Smith on April 1, 2011, 10:37 AM EDT

AP
The HBO report saying football players got paid at Auburn in violation of NCAA rules has drawn some attention in the NFL, including a harsh reaction today from former Auburn player Heath Evans, who is accusing the former Auburn players who said they were paid of making it all up.

“Everybody wants their 15 minutes of fame,” Evans said this morning on the Dan Patrick Show, referring to the former players who talked to HBO. “Obviously their football fame has passed them up, probably because of their play, hence the fact that they probably didn’t get paid to play because they weren’t good enough to get paid to play. At the end of the day, it’s ridiculous as best.”

Evans said he knows the players who say they were paid are lying because if players were getting paid at Auburn, Evans himself would have been offered something.

“There was no one that did more there for Auburn than I did during my three years there. Never once did I get a $100 handshake or anything else that came out of these guys’ mouths,” Evans said. “People can say that’s because you were white, blue-collar from Palm Beach, Florida, and you didn’t need money but that still doesn’t hold water. I know the guys who recruited them — they were the same guys who recruited me.”

Frankly, Evans came across like he was protesting too much. He may be telling the truth when he says that he never heard of any type of improper benefits going to Auburn players, but he has no basis for saying he knows the players who say they were paid are lying.

Furthermore, Evans went off the rails when asked about accusations that Auburn steered players into easy majors where their class schedules won’t interfere with football practice. Asked about that, Evans suggested that coaches were doing that only to help “stupid” players graduate.

“Maybe the kid was stupid and they knew he signed up for something he’d never pass,” Evans said. “They took the graduation rate very, very seriously.”

Evans said that as if it’s a good thing for coaches to pressure players to take classes they’ll pass in order to boost the graduation rate. In reality, as the New York Times reported in 2006, Auburn football players were graduating at a high rate largely because they were given credit for independent study classes that involved little or no work. Auburn has since canceled the independent study program for football players, and its football graduation rate has plummeted as a result.

So as Evans assails the credibility of his fellow former Auburn players, his own comments seem to lack credibility. But Evans will continue to insist that the HBO report was fueled by lies.

“A liar is a liar,” Evans said. “I have no doubt about that whatsoever.”

[AUChizad]

Add Michael David Smith to the list...

http://twitter.com/MICHAELDAVSMITH

I'm not buying Heath Evans' defense of the Auburn football program: http://wp.me/p14QSB-vqh
19 minutes ago via Seesmic Web

@WarBlogle If you just want to be a cheerleader for Auburn, fine. But why not respond substantively to what I wrote?
12 minutes ago via Seesmic Web in reply to WarBlogle

@WarBlogle Do you agree with @HeathEvans that coaches should steer "stupid" players to easy classes to boost Auburn's graduation rate?
4 minutes ago via Seesmic Web in reply to WarBlogle

[GH2001]

Fuck both those douches. Heath would pile drive them.

Worked out with him a time or two at the AC. Monster, pure monster. And at the same time, the nicest guy.

[AUChizad]

Fuck both those douches. Heath would pile drive them.

Worked out with him a time or two at the AC. Monster, pure monster. And at the same time, the nicest guy.

Same douche.

Just showing that he's another "legitimate media member" with a hard on for Auburn...

[Snaggletiger]

WTH???  Even this guy writes off Evans' comments as sour grapes.  Would he say the same about TJ Jackson, Quentin Groves, Ronnie Brown, Junior Rosegreen, David Irons and on and on and on?  HBO targeted AU at it's most vulnerable time, when the world is still convinced that Auburn got away with murder in the Cam Newton deal. 

[AU_Tiger_2000]

eff both those douches. Heath would pile drive them.

Worked out with him a time or two at the AC. Monster, pure monster. And at the same time, the nicest guy.

I also know from talks with different people that he really doesn't like Eddie Gran (after Rudy left Heath asked if he would be able to compete for the tailback spot; Gran flat out refused so Heath declared for the draft with Rudy), so it's not like he would really go out of his way to defend him.

[jadennis]

Audio here.

http://www.danpatrick.com/2011/04/01/heath-evans-says-allegations-on-hbo-against-auburn-arent-true/

[Godfather]

I personally know Heath, and I know what he is about, anything that he says is the God's honest truth.  I truly believe that. FWIW

[JR4AU]

This may come as a shock to some of these cock suckers, but if you're on a football scholarship to college, you have TWO obligations.  School and Football.  And while the obligation the coaches have to a student athlete might be, or even maybe should be school first, it's not ever, and should never be school ONLY.  They don't give out football scholarships then allow you to forget football and JUST be a student, and thinking that should be the case is fucking ignorant as hell.  Oh, and what about all the guys that can manage to get degrees, in real substantive areas of study, Derek Winter for instance, who don't complain about this kind of shit?  One sack of shit can't manage football and school, the coaches try to steer him to a curriculum he can handle well enough to graduate and still fullfill his obligation to the team too, and that's wrong?  What the fuck?   

I'm getting sick and tired of fucking sacks of shit that literally have the world laid at their feet...free quality education, unlimited quality pussy, random boosters handing them all the liquor and whore money they can stand according to them, then kicking the providers of these things in the teeth when life doesn't work out as planned. 

Chaz Ramsey says he want to "warn HS athletes what they're in store for"?  I wish someone had come to me and warned me I could be a hero on one of the largest stages there is, be given an education at a top university to be that, and provided with money and high quality pussy for doing it!  Chaz's warning should be, "have a better plan than I had when an injury derails this fairy tale lifestyle that few get because God didn't provide them the ability...the gift lifestyle...have a better plan than suing your coaches because you got injured playing a violent sport for the fame, money and pussy...have a better plan than trying to bring down the institution that provided you an opportunity." 

[Snaggletiger]

Where is this high quality pussy of which you speak?

[AUChizad]

Where is this high quality pussy of which you speak?

Yeah, Snaggle thinks there's no such thing.

[Snaggletiger]

Yeah, Snaggle thinks there's no such thing.

I do bleieve his entire post is useless without pics

[JR4AU]

Where is this high quality pussy of which you speak?

Probably at Sewell Hall.  But it's all relative too.  You may find plenty of high quality pussy puking in the parking lot of the Supper Club in the wee morning hours. Individual standards can vary.

[AU_Tiger_2000]

Probably at Sewell Hall.  But it's all relative too.  You may find plenty of high quality pussy puking in the parking lot of the Supper Club in the wee morning hours. Individual standards can vary.

I got a job one summer at Auburn painting the dorms.  I was painting Sewell Hall's rooms.  Most of the guys apparently bought condoms in bulk and stashed them between the matress and the wall.

[Kaos]

From the window to the wall
Sweat drop down my balls
All these bitches crawl
Skeet skeet motherfucker

Indeed