SportsByBrooks Strikes Again...

[AUChizad]

 

Auburn Payroll: Tens of Thousands To Hostesses
Posted by Brooks on Jun. 20, 2011, 9:01amA recent financial audit by Sports by Brooks of payments made by Auburn University to student football recruiting hostesses since late 2009 revealed that the state-funded institution paid out tens of thousands of dollars to the student “Tigerettes” charged with escorting football players during recruiting visits to the school.

A Jan. 28, 2011, article in the AUBURN PLAINSMAN detailed the background of the longstanding, school-sponsored group:

The Tigerettes got their start in the late 1970s during former football head coach Doug Barfield’s tenure.

At first, the program used local high school seniors and Auburn freshman as guides for prospects, but as the program expanded, interviews and training processes were added, and participation in the program was limited to female Auburn students, at which point they became known as the Tigerettes.

The program further expanded once former coach Pat Dye came to Auburn.

“We used more of them because he brought in large numbers of recruits, trying to build the program back up” said Sue Locklar, on-campus recruiting coordinator. “We started going through a very hard selection process.”

Locklar said there are typically between 400–500 applicants who go through the selection process.

Those selected undergo in-depth training seminars about football, the football program and the coaching staff.

Males were added to the group as “Tiger” hosts in 1992 but the demographic makeup of the Auburn football recruiting organization remains almost entirely female.



According to employee payroll data available to the public on the official Auburn University website, 21 Tigerettes were paid $78,044.26 between Oct. 2, 2009, and May 31, 2011. Five male “Tiger” hosts were paid $6,880.19 during the same period. (The 27 school employees are currently listed as “2010-2011″ officers and members of the organizaton on the Tigerettes official website.)

Here is a sampling of Auburn students who have been paid by the school as “Tigerettes”:

Jamie Nolen (female): $12,840.48 (since 3/19/2010)
Emily Jenkins: $8,415.49 (since 2/19/2010)
Jordan Poitevint (female): $7.547.25 (since 3/5/2010)
Dominique Neville (female): $6,521.45 (since 10/2/2009)
Morgan Stewart (female): $4,132.50 (since 9/3/2010)

All tolled, Auburn has paid out $84,924.45  to student football recruiting hostesses and hosts since Oct. 2, 2009.



So what does Auburn get for that money? In late 2009 Simpson Fletcher of the AUBURN PLAINSMAN reported:

(Dominique) Neville’s duties as president of the group include serving primarily as the liaison between Auburn University Athletic Department administrators and the organization, daily hostings of prospective students and prospective student-athletes, providing clerical and administrative support for the athletic department, and serving at various athletic department functions.

In the same article, Fletcher reported of a student Tigerette named Audra Brawley:

Audra Brawley, a sophomore Tigerette in biomedical sciences, said the main duties of Tigerettes and Tiger Hosts are recruiting the best young men to become Auburn football players, aiding the coaches, helping the secretaries in the office with mail outs to prospective players and working with the athletic department in recruiting students.

“I absolutely love Auburn football because I grew up watching it every Saturday in the fall with my dad,” Brawley said. “He has three daughters and turned me into his makeshift son. We would come to games and see the girls with recruits, and I knew how much impact they had on the future of Auburn football. I wanted to be them so I could impact Auburn football too.”


The Jan. 28, 2011, Plainsman piece on Tigerettes also mentioned Auburn football recruiting hostess Jamie Nolen:

Jamie Nolen, senior in public relations and third-year Tigerette, said her friends give her a hard time because she doesn’t come home enough.

“I love it so much, so I’ll be up here until three o’clock in the morning if I need to get something right. I’ll put in extra time,” Nolen said. “Pretty much the only time we were at home this weekend was to put our pajamas on and go to bed.”

Since March 19, 2010, Auburn has paid Nolen $12,840.48 for her work as a Tigerette football recruiting hostess.



Part of Nolen’s official duties as a Auburn football recruiting hostess apparently include tracking Auburn football recruits on Facebook.

Greg Robinson, a highly-recruited lineman from Thibodaux, La., who signed with Auburn last February recently noted in a Facebook entry dated May 28, 2011, that he was moving to Auburn for the summer.

The next entry on Robinson’s public Facebook page timeline was the Auburn recruit adding Nolen as a “friend”.



In a Jan. 8, 2011, report on FOXSports.com, Thayer Evans wrote of Robinson’s recruitment by Auburn:

Former Thibodaux High coach Dennis Lorio says several coaches and students saw Robinson show off cash and a new iPhone at school after a visit to Auburn. Robinson wrote in a Facebook message in July that he got the phone when “I came to Alabama.”

… “How did players from Thibodaux, La., become so interested in Auburn?” Lorio asks. “That’s a really good question. (Auburn Assistant Coach) Trooper Taylor and (NCAA-targeted Robinson associate) Sean Nelson would know.”

… Nelson drove Robinson to Auburn for unofficial visits — two of them, both say. Nelson says he didn’t approach Robinson about taking the trips but let Robinson ride along on trips Nelson already had planned. Robinson says he told Taylor he wanted to visit the school, and Taylor called Nelson to see if Robinson could ride with him. 

A crosscheck of Scout.com articles about Robinson revealed that between late May, 2010 and Feb. 2., 2011 (signing day), Robinson reportedly took six visits to Auburn. Five of those visits were of the unofficial variety.

On Feb. 16, 2011, Sports by Brooks reported:

Monday NCAA investigators descended on Thibodaux, Louisiana, to meet individually with Auburn football recruit Greg Robinson, Robinson’s mother Lydia, Robinson associate Sean Nelson and Robinson’s former Thibodaux High School Coach Dennis Lorio.

Here is a list of all of the checks reported by Auburn University’s official website to Nolen:



In addition to Nolen, Robinson is confirmed Facebook friends with multiple other Tigerettes, including Morgan Stewart ($4,132.50), Hillarie Deen ($4.377.00), Adrianne Redding ($3,610.50) and Jordan Bocage ($3,367.63).

BREAKING NEWS! AUBURN PAYS ITS EMPLOYEES!!!

What's even funnier is @AuburnGate tweeted Brooks asking what he knows about the Tigerettes, and he spouts this shit out less than a day later.

This is the peak of the SportsByBrooks's stupid non-stories mountain.

[Snaggletiger]

I would love to see the same stats on the hosts/hostesses at Florida, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Florida State, Tennessee, Ohio State........

Exactly what is the point of this article?

[AUTiger1]

You can't imagine the immensity of the fuck that I do not give.

Meanwhile, I got a good kick of this tweet

EXCLUSIVE: EDSBS obtains receipts showing that Auburn PAID GENE CHIZIK TO COACH AT AUBURN.

[djsimp]

You can't imagine the immensity of the fuck that I do not give.

I can because my "just don't give a fuck meter" is at its highest. That article, or whatever you call it, just downright boring. Like Snaggle said, what is the point here?

Meanwhile, I got a good kick of this tweet

Wow, just wow. I thought Chizik was coaching for free. This douchebag must be real bored.

[Kaos]

Is this the result of months of digging?  That people employed by AU make as much as 3k a year?   That kids friend pretty girls on Facebook? 

At least they arent making friends of creepy old men.  Damn.

[Jumbo]

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How will Auburn ever overcome these awful allegations?

Some Tigerettes are paid minimum wage or less.

Gregory Robinson made five unofficial visits to Auburn and, horrors, has a Tigerette as a Facebook friend.

Auburn contracts now will not penalize head coaches if their programs are being investigated, only if they are actually found to be guilty of something.

A Louisiana high school coach didn’t like it when two of his players signed with Auburn.

Most football prospects are shown around by pretty females instead of males.

Auburn has signed some really top-notch prospects the past two recruiting classes and looks to be poised to do it again.

Wow! How will these things ever be explained?

This post was edited by PhillipMarshall on 6/20/2011 at 1:56 PM

[Snaggletiger]

Back with your useless facts again, eh Marshall?

[Tiger Wench]

I tell you what, I wish I had the kind of free time these dipshits must have to sit around and "investigate" stuff...

[djsimp]

I tell you what, I wish I had the kind of free time these dipshits must have to sit around and "investigate" stuff...

....and get paid for it. I just don't get it.

[GH2001]

Back with your useless facts again, eh Marshall?

Phillip's been getting mad lately. I like it. He was always too nice.

[Tiger Wench]

Guess which was the first school to institute football hostesses in the 1960s? Here's a clue - they were called "Bear's Angels"...

[RWS]

I'm not really understanding the point of this article, unless other schools don't pay their hostesses, or there is some sort of NCAA bylaw that says they can't be paid.

[AuburnChopper 3.0]

I'm not really understanding the point of this article, unless other schools don't pay their hostesses, or there is some sort of NCAA bylaw that says they can't be paid.

Brooks tweeted shortly ago that he wasn't accusing Auburn of anything or any allegations....   What a fucking idiot.  What was the point of the article then? 

If I was a father of some of those girls, I'd be contacting a lawyer...and having a conversation. 

[AUChizad]

Love this line:

Males were added to the group as “Tiger” hosts in 1992 but the demographic makeup of the Auburn football recruiting organization remains almost entirely female.

http://www.auburn.edu/student_info/tigerettes_tigerreps/menu.htm

I'm counting over 20 of the about 70 names listed under "Members" are male names. How is that "almost entirely female?"

[AUChizad]

http://friendsoftheprogram.net/

FALSE OUTRAGE ALERT: AUBURN IS PAYING STUDENT WORKERS TO WORK!
June 20th, 2011 by Bunkie Perkins · No Comments


Don’t let the corsages and wholesome pants suits fool you, these girls are on the take

In what must have taken at least a good 20 minutes of personal time to troll public financial records and Auburn coed’s Facebook accounts, Sports by Brooks, has broken the Auburn payment scandal wide open.  It seems, according to Brooks, that Auburn has been paying student workers, most of whom happen to be female, for doing work (THEY’RE ON THE PAYROLL, PAAAWWWLLL!!!).  These handout-taking harlots were actually given financial compensation for things like stuffing envelopes, hosting recruits during their official visits, and in the most damning of revelations, keeping tabs on recruits via Facebook.  While nothing more than facts were offerred in the story, Ill assume that this post by Brooks is less of a commentary on possible corruption within the Auburn athletic department and more of a cry of outrage of how the landscape of college has changed since Brooks was in school…back then women weren’t allowed to enroll and the minimum wage for student workers was a wooden nickel and a hearty pat on the back.

[RWS]

What hostesses do with recruits, etc., is probably about the same at nearly every major D1 football school. Let's not open that can of worms, because really, you're gonna get into some shit there. I think everybody knows what I'm saying. If it is legal to pay the hostesses (which I'm 99.9999% sure it is), SO FUCKING WHAT that AU pays them more than the 3 schools he "checked with". I get paid more than some people that do my same job in other cities. Some people get paid more than me. It's like that no matter where you work.

It just seems like dude did an awful lot of digging and "checking" to then shout from the rooftops that he found absolutely nothing.

[AUChizad]

This is his M.O.

Loving that in the span of a week both Joe Schad and SportsByBrooks have been discredited as loons with an unrelenting hard on to slander Auburn with no basis in reality.

Hope Pete Thamel & Thayer Evans are next.

[AUChizad]

Brooks realizing what a douche nozel he looks in the court of public opinion now.

@SPORTSbyBROOKS

No accusation or allegation in Auburn post. Never said NCAA rules broken. But is arrangement typical? We'll soon find out.

[djsimp]

more of a cry of outrage of how the landscape of college has changed since Brooks was in school…back then women weren’t allowed to enroll and the minimum wage for student workers was a wooden nickel and a hearty pat on the back.

 

[AUChizad]

@SPORTSbyBROOKS
Auburn fans: So recruiting hostess getting paid $999.60 on August 6 is typical throughout SEC, Big 10, Pac-10, Big 12?

@FOTProgram:
@SPORTSbyBROOKS coudn't some of the payments be related to reimbursements and expenses?

@SPORTSbyBROOKS
Absolutely