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[AUChizad]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--sources--ncaa-investigating-auburn-s-football-program-201343758.html;_ylt=Asz7kSkGDkZgQEs02xm64.UcvrYF;_ylu=X3oDMTRvYjNwY3I2BG1pdANMSVNUUyBNaXhlZCBMaXN0IE5DQUFGIEV4cGVydHMgMgRwa2cDNGZlMDA1NjgtMTQ4NC0zNGFhLWFiODctZGQzZmRlNDRhOGI3BHBvcwMyBHNlYwNNZWRpYUJMaXN0TWl4ZWRMUENBVGVtcAR2ZXIDMTI2YmYyYTAtMzQxOC0xMWUyLWI1ODctOWQyNGZmMmI3Yzgx;_ylg=X3oDMTFqdXByMzhlBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANuY2FhZgRwdANzZWN0aW9ucw--;_ylv=3

NCAA investigating Auburn's football program
13 minutes ago

Losing games is not the only problem Gene Chizik has faced this fall at Auburn. The embattled coach of the Tigers also is overseeing a program being investigated by the NCAA, Yahoo! Sports has learned.

According to multiple sources, NCAA investigators have been working for weeks on potential improprieties involving Auburn recruits, players, coaches, representatives of the school's athletic interests and third parties. Assistant coaches Trooper Taylor and Curtis Luper have been scrutinized by the NCAA, sources said. Taylor is the assistant head coach and wide receivers coach, while Luper coaches running backs and is the recruiting coordinator.

Auburn Gene Chizik is under fire with the Tigers having gone 3-8 this season. (AP)Both Taylor and Luper were taken off the road recruiting several weeks ago amid the NCAA probe, sources said. Taylor was a finalist this season for national Assistant Coach of the Year honors from the American Football Coaches Association.

With Auburn 3-8 and winless in Southeastern Conference play, Chizik's job is in jeopardy. The ongoing NCAA investigation only heightens the likelihood that the Tigers' game Saturday against rival Alabama will be Chizik's last at the school.

Auburn officials declined comment Wednesday.

NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn told Yahoo! Sports Wednesday that she cannot comment on current, pending or potential investigations.

[Also: Jeff Tedford becomes the latest casualty of firing season]

Chizik was asked in late October about a radio report that some of his coaches had been taken off the recruiting trail. He did not confirm or deny the report at the time.

"I don't have time for all of that," Chizik said, according to an Auburn transcript of his press conference Oct. 30. "I've got one direct focus: that is my team and my players. That has nothing to do with us winning. Whoever said that has nothing to do with anything, so I am not getting into any of that stuff. I've got one track, and that is our players and our coaches, and trying to get us to the next win, so, all of that stuff, I have no comment on that."

Sources told Yahoo! Sports in September that the NCAA has been investigating the recruitment of 2012 Auburn signee Jovon Robinson, whose Memphis Wooddale High School academic transcript was found to be forged and was subsequently declared ineligible in August to play this year at the school. The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported in August that a guidance counselor at Wooddale admitted creating a fraudulent transcript and resigned.

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Robinson declined comment to Yahoo! Sports through a family member in September. He is not enrolled at Auburn this semester.

In addition to the academic issues involving Robinson, sources told Yahoo! Sports the NCAA has investigated whether a Wooddale P.E. teacher, Rhonda Wilkinson, provided impermissible benefits to the player during his recruitment, including transportation to the Auburn campus on at least one occasion. Wilkinson is an Auburn graduate and fan – her vehicle and home are extensively decorated with Auburn memorabilia.

When approached at her Memphis home in September, Wilkinson declined comment to Yahoo! Sports.

The NCAA probe is believed to be more widespread than just Robinson, but is not believed to revisit the 2010 allegations involving former star quarterback Cam Newton – allegations Chizik and the school vigorously combated at the time. Auburn went on to win the national title that year after Newton was cleared by the NCAA late in the season.

[Yoda]

Yahoo sports reports that NCAA investigating Auburn.

Well at least this will guarantee Chizik's departure.

[Townhallsavoy]

Oh no.  Are we going to start sucking at football? 

[AUChizad]

‏@TheAuburner
Forde's "Radio report" = "Danny Sheridan talking to the Tuscaloosa Quarterback Club in Bryant Denny Stadium".

[Townhallsavoy]

Sorry, Auburner, but Forde carries more weight than Sheridan. 

[Townhallsavoy]

In all serious though, this kills us.  What top head coach is going to replace Chizik?  nCAA investigations take a damn year to resolve. 

[AUChizad]

In all seriousness, was this not already fucking debunked? Wasn't this old news from the offseason that was shut down as false by the NCAA?

The T-Town Menswear shit was NBD, but we're about to get nailed to the wall for an Auburn fan PE teacher giving a kid a ride?

The fucking raging boner over trying to nail Auburn for cheating has just grown beyond stale and has now deteriorated into a rotted puddle of mold.

The timing of this simply cannot be a coincidence. Just isn't possible at this point.

And most importantly, if we're cheating, we are doing it completely wrong.

[bottomfeeder]

Someone on FB says there is a clause in the Chiz's contract that keeps Auburn from having to pay his buyout during an open investigation. He also says that AU might have called for the investigation so they wouldn't have to pay Chiz. Not sure about after the investigation is over.

[AUTiger1]

Taylor was a finalist this season for national Assistant Coach of the Year honors from the American Football Coaches Association.

lolwut?

[Townhallsavoy]

Someone on FB says there is a clause in the Chiz's contract that keeps Auburn from having to pay his buyout during an open investigation. He also says that AU might have called for the investigation so they wouldn't have to pay Chiz. Not sure about after the investigation is over.

I want to say that when Jacobs reworked his contract, we only get out of paying Chizik if we are convicted of violations. 

[Snaggletiger]

 

What the hell is everyone's hard on for Auburn?

[AUChizad]

What the hell is everyone's hard on for Auburn?

It goes beyond logic, or even coincidence.

It is a straight-up media vendetta. Only rational explanation is the fact that they all pontificated from their pulpit about dirty Auburn cheating & paying Cam all ending up with egg on their face.

[bottomfeeder]

Here's a quote from the group. Mind you, this quote is from a friend of his so it's fourth hand and a different person from the one that claimed AU called for the investigation.

Folks I hoped this would slip by us but it will not it seems,These accusation you will hear over the next few weeks,Are gonna challege your decision to stay an Auburn Fan,But hold your head up,and know this is Rock Bottom and there's no where to go but back up,But this is going to be very Shocking,The likes we havent seen since 1992 shocking..If everything comes out...Hopefully it won't

Well it's logical. There's a clause in Chizik's contract that says, it is void during an open investigation.

[AUChizad]

@JohnCarvalhoAU
No sarcasm intended, but the assumption with the term "exclusive" is that @yahooforde has more than has already been reported.

@wareagleextra
He doesn't. RT @JohnCarvalhoAU the assumption with the term "exclusive" is that @yahooforde has more than has already been reported.

@JohnCarvalhoAU
@wareagleextra @JohnCarvalhoAU On both counts, yes. Does not claim an exclusive and nothing new. My bad.

@TheAuburner
@JohnCarvalhoAU Forde's tweet says "Yahoo! Sports exclusive"

@wareagleextra is the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Auburn beatwriter Aaron Brenner, btw.

[Snaggletiger]

It goes beyond logic, or even coincidence.

It is a straight-up media vendetta. Only rational explanation is the fact that they all pontificated from their pulpit about dirty Auburn cheating & paying Cam all ending up with egg on their face.

Here's the thing.  My date may be way off but if memory serves, the NCAA closed the books on Auburn in October of 11'.  In addition, it was Jacobs who said the NCAA was on campus so long because when the NCAA investigates one issue with one of your programs, you have to open the books to ALL programs and they were doing just that.  Then the NCAA issues a statement that they have finished after giving AU a colonoscopy and interviewing over 80 people.  Not so much as a Happy Meal provided for anyone. Not even an unpaid parking ticket.  That came directly from the NCAA.

Now, they've been back on campus for months?  Makes no fucking sense.  Besides, do they have anyone to spare while investigating about 1,500 allegations against Miami?

[AUChizad]

@wareagleextra
I'll only add this: Chizik's first and updated contracts explicitly state NCAA investigations to him or his staff could suspend his payment.

[Snaggletiger]

Chad, I don't twat.  Where are these coming from?  And if the NCAA nor Auburn comments on anything, how would any of these people know?

[Godfather]

Meh....sources ...schmorses.

This is just more bullshit.  Writers are still butthurt over Cam...I wouldn't worry about it.

[AUChizad]

Chad, I don't twat.  Where are these coming from?  And if the NCAA nor Auburn comments on anything, how would any of these people know?

@wareagleextra is the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Auburn beatwriter Aaron Brenner, btw.

[AWK]

As a once famous poster on this board once said, "We are down now, and they will try to issue the killing blow."