Bama Player Suspended

[Townhallsavoy]

And in the ultimate shocker of the day Ha Ha "little" Dix drives a 2012 Dodge Charger according to Tidesports.com . Silly barners and their tinfoil hats.

Seriously?

Because the big defense from Bama fans has been that Dix comes from an extremely poor background and it shouldn't be a penalty for someone to loan him a little money especially if he pays it back. 

But he can afford a Dodge Charger.....

[AUChizad]

And in the ultimate shocker of the day Ha Ha "little" Dix drives a 2012 Dodge Charger according to Tidesports.com . Silly barners and their tinfoil hats.

From which a pair of Jordans, an iPad, assorted cash, 12" subwoofers, amongst other items were stolen.

How can he afford all that stuff, but still need a conveniently less than $500 loan because of this break in?

[AUChizad]

Poor kid needed the money.

http://bustedcoverage.com/2013/10/03/did-haha-clinton-dix-use-loan-money-to-buy-a-watch-for-a-chick/

DID HAHA CLINTON-DIX USE LOAN MONEY TO BUY A WATCH FOR A CHICK?
By   JOE KINSEY   October 3, 2013     Posted in NCAA      JOE KINSEY G+ PAGE

dix-chick-bama

By now you know that Alabama stud safety Haha Clinton-Dix has been suspended from the team for taking a loan less than $500 from an assistant strength coach. The coach, ironically, had connections to an agent. Dix reportedly paid back the money.

What does a guy like Clinton-Dix use that cash for? Life?

Maybe he used it to buy some chick a watch.

@jamwithani posted this Insty:

Y’all, I’m the luckiest girl ever. Thank youuu @haha_cd6  #HappyValentinesDay
That’s a Michael Kors watch. Obviously it could be fake. Looking at the prices for Kors’ watches, this could run in the $200 range. Seems like a nice gift for a guy who needed loans.

Maybe Jami was just joking around.

We’d like to go back and look at Haha’s (@HaHa_CD6) tweets around Valentine’s Day, but his account goes from a Dec. 23 2012 tweet to September 23, 2013 tweets.

[Yoda]

I bet shithead Schaad and Gayer Evans are kicking themselves for not breaking this one open.  Oh wait they only report shit without evidence.

[AUownsU]

Seriously?

Because the big defense from Bama fans has been that Dix comes from an extremely poor background and it shouldn't be a penalty for someone to loan him a little money especially if he pays it back. 

But he can afford a Dodge Charger.....

http://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1557109

5:01 p.m. UPDATE: University of Alabama assistant strength and conditioning coach Corey Harris has been placed on administrative leave for providing impermissible benefits to suspended football safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, TideSports.com has learned.

 
 
UA assistant strength coach Corey Harris has been placed on administrative leave, TideSports.com has learned.

UA head coach Nick Saban announced Wednesday that Clinton-Dix has been indefinitely suspended for violation of team rules, but he did not specify the nature of the violation.

In looking into the matter, the UA compliance office also discovered that Harris had a connection to a representative of a sports agent. UA's internal investigation has found no indication that Clinton-Dix has had contact with any agent or agent representative. Efforts to reach Harris were unsuccessful.

Harris made a short-term loan to Clinton-Dix in an amount less than $500, after Clinton-Dix's car was broken into on the night of June 25 or the morning of June 26. TideSports.com has obtained the police report filed by Clinton-Dix after the break-in, detailing the theft of money, an iPad, a backpack and sandals - both embroidered with Clinton-Dix's jersey number (No. 6) - stereo speaker sub-woofers, miscellaneous shirts and Nike Air Jordan shoes.
The police report states that Clinton-Dix's black and gray 2012 Dodge Charger was parked at his residence on the 4500 block of East 18th Avenue. Clinton-Dix is not identified by name on the police report due to Tuscaloosa Police Department policy not to list victims of crimes on such reports.

Clinton-Dix has provided bank records to UA athletic compliance department representatives that show a withdrawal in the amount he said he repaid to Harris, TideSports.com has learned.

Harris' annual salary is $43,260.

The situation could be a violation of NCAA Bylaw 16.11.2.2, which states that "an institutional employee or representative of the institution's athletics interests may not provide a student-athlete with extra benefits or services, including, but not limited to ... a loan of money."

[WiregrassTiger]

How can he afford all that stuff, but still need a conveniently less than $500 loan because of this break in?

#struggleOverWit bitches

[Buzz Killington]

Harris made a short-term loan to Clinton-Dix in an amount less than $500, after Clinton-Dix's car was broken into on the night of June 25 or the morning of June 26. TideSports.com has obtained the police report filed by Clinton-Dix after the break-in, detailing the theft of money, an iPad, a backpack and sandals - both embroidered with Clinton-Dix's jersey number (No. 6) - stereo speaker sub-woofers, miscellaneous shirts and Nike Air Jordan shoes.
The police report states that Clinton-Dix's black and gray 2012 Dodge Charger was parked at his residence on the 4500 block of East 18th Avenue. Clinton-Dix is not identified by name on the police report due to Tuscaloosa Police Department policy not to list victims of crimes on such reports.

So, he was headed to see Tom before his car was jacked...

[Pell City Tiger]

From which a pair of Jordans, an iPad, assorted cash, 12" subwoofers, amongst other items were stolen.

How can he afford all that stuff, but still need a conveniently less than $500 loan because of this break in?

Those items have been replaced through the kind actions of sympathetic Tuscaloosa businessmen. The $500 was to offset the intense pain and emotional suffering inflicted upon him by this heinous burglary.

[The Prowler]

Seriously?

Because the big defense from Bama fans has been that Dix comes from an extremely poor background and it shouldn't be a penalty for someone to loan him a little money especially if he pays it back. 

But he can afford a Dodge Charger.....

Yes...seriously. Btw, it has a expensive sound system too ($5 says that he got it done at Hot Wheelz & another $5 says that the "agent" is Booster John David Phillips that is "connected" to the assistant strength coach)...Also, this is worse than a rogue booster, this is more towards Lack of Institutional Control...and the "Rabbit Hole" goes A LOT DEEPER.

[Buzz Killington]

And...he's parked in a handicapped spot.

[Townhallsavoy]

Corey Harris coached Dee Milliner in high school.  I wonder when he was hired as assistant strength coach.  Was close enough to Milliner that he went to New York with him on draft day. 

[AUChizad]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--will-alabama-case-force-ncaa-to-investigate--or-surrender--002539592.html

Will Alabama case force NCAA to investigate? Or surrender?
Dan Wetzel

Back in the old days – say 2011 – the University of Alabama might be nervous after another report of a star player receiving an extra benefit in violation of NCAA rules.

On Thursday, it was word from TideSports.com that assistant strength and conditioning coach Corey Harris was placed on administrative leave for providing a loan over the summer to star safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix. The report also says Harris was found by the Alabama compliance department to have ties to a sports agent.

It was just Wednesday that Clinton-Dix was suspended indefinitely for an undisclosed violation of team rules.

These aren't outside allegations. These are the conclusions of the school itself.

This comes on the heels of last month's Yahoo! Sports detailed story about how former player Luther Davis had ties to sports agents and financial planners and provided a series of "impermissible benefits" to star lineman D.J. Fluker, now of the San Diego Chargers, among other SEC players. The school is looking into that one.

That's smoke from two sports agent stories on top of each other, one coming from a currently employed staff member.

Predicting the actions of the ever-unpredictable NCAA is always fraught with danger. But back when the NCAA had a full, aggressive enforcement staff, when it still liked flexing its muscles, when it wasn't under such assault from lawyers and the public alike – you know a couple years ago – it stands to reason it would've sent a team to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to take a look at the Crimson Tide.

There was a period when the NCAA seemed to revel in drilling any program for any player who took anything from anyone, especially an agent. Entire basketball seasons have been vacated for as much, and that's when the NCAA ruled no one at the school knew anything. This time, the alleged potential runners are a recent player (by definition, also a booster) and an employee of the program.
Yet, now? Well, who knows if the NCAA does a dang thing?

Yahoo's opposition to amateurism, the NCAA rulebook and the association's history of selective enforcement is long-standing and repeatedly stated.

You don't have to believe in any of that to not sit back with some popcorn and wonder what will happen next on this one.

The NCAA does care about the rules. It gets them out of workman comp cases and taxes and all sorts of other things. It's why the NCAA cracks the whip. There's big money in enforcement.

Yet, this could be the watershed moment when the NCAA just stops even pretending to try. It could be the case where the NCAA just throws up its hands and admits it no longer had the resources or the resolve to enforce some of the rules it once considered sacred.

There are endless examples of the NCAA supposedly looking the other way on a cash-cow program through the years, but of late there's also plenty of proof that was no longer true.

Southern California, Ohio State and Penn State football are all massive presences in college sports. They all got hit hard after aggressive investigations and bold decisions for various scandals. Meanwhile, Memphis basketball saw a national runner-up basketball season get wiped out for playing an ineligible player the NCAA itself twice ruled eligible.

There was talk of "strict liability" from then infractions chair Paul Dee, the late athletic director from Miami. There were lectures that high-profile players demand high-profile monitoring. Penn State didn't even get a run through the enforcement process, it just bulldozed into a settlement.

There was little wiggle room allowed. The NCAA meant business.

The Alabama deal isn't outrageous. Plane tickets. Cash. Gifts. Small loans. Whatever. It's the same stuff as ever: predictable and virtually impossible to prevent from occurring.

By NCAA thinking, however, those alleged benefits could be significant because it's not always the monetary value that matters. It's who provided it and why.

Clinton-Dix's benefit was fairly minimal, and his suspension will likely be four games, at most. But how do you excuse the behavior of an athletic department employee who most certainly knew the rules?

This isn't some out-of-town booster or shadowy agent. He's part of the program. If you can't be cited for failing to control the people internally, then what's the point?

That's part of what doomed Ohio State – it wasn't the memorabilia-for-tattoo swap that was the big deal, it was head coach Jim Tressel knowing about it, lying about it, covering it up and playing the guys anyway.

Then again, the NCAA said no one at Memphis knew Derrick Rose might have fixed his SAT, but it pulled that Final Four banner down anyway.

So, yes, in the old days of a couple years back, this would have meant a full-on investigation and, if the allegations were proven, the prospect of little leniency. Maybe not vacating victories and titles, but, well, something.

It's why there are plenty of bitter fans from past-sanctioned programs demanding that mighty Alabama gets the same treatment their favorite team did. Even if those same fans generally howled about how unfair their own program was treated in the first place.

This in undeniably a new day, though, new winds of change circling college sports like a tornado. The entire operation has been undone by overextension in the Nevin Shapiro and Jerry Sandusky cases.

Does the NCAA have a spine anymore?

So maybe the Tide won't get put under the same intense microscope.

Maybe the NCAA just can't even investigate this stuff anymore.

Maybe the old days are over. And if they are, well, good riddance. It's about time we got on with some new ones, because it's tough to be outraged about a repaid loan of less than $500 to a key player in a hugely profitable football program.

Time will tell. That's what's interesting about this case, not the allegations against Alabama. They could come up at any school. They are partially a result of a rulebook that makes no sense. They stem from a concept of amateurism that was always bankrupt.

That's always been the case, though. The NCAA never used to care.

Alabama may be the test to see if it still does.

Compare that with this by the same author. Pure outrage that Cam wasn't severely punished because of the fact that his dad discussed payments with an entirely different school.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-newtonturn120110

and

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-newton110410

and

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-auburnnerves111110

[Kaos]

Think about how this played out. 

"Reported by Tuscaloosa News and Cecil Hurt" 

That's the most important fact here.  This is orchestrated.  It's released on purpose by Cecil who's the number three guy in the Saban led human centipede. 

Why? 

Self report something small to deflect attention from the bigger issues.  It's like a criminal admitting to breaking a car window so the cops won't look at the dead bodies piled in his trunk.

[jmar]

Scarb on opening drive at 8:00

[jmar]

Pfft,so much for that.

[Townhallsavoy]

Alabama free safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix is expected to miss 1-3 games after the university reported his violation of team rules, according to a report from CBS Sports’ Jeremy Fowler.

Citing a source with direct knowledge of the situation, Fowler reported that Alabama has proposed a suspension length of 1-3 games to the NCAA.

The Tuscaloosa News reported that Clinton-Dix loaned between $100-300 from Alabama assistant strength coach Corey Harris last summer. The Tuscaloosa News also reported that Harris has been placed on administrative leave following the incident.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban told reporters Wednesday that Clinton-Dix would be suspended indefinitely, but he did not specify the nature of the suspension.

Through the Crimson Tide’s first four games, Clinton-Dix ranked second on the Alabama defense with 24 total tackles. He has also recorded two pass breakups and a pair of passes defended.

The top-ranked Crimson Tide face Georgia State on Saturday in Tuscaloosa.

http://tracking.si.com/2013/10/03/ha-ha-clinton-dix-suspended-suspension-alabama/?sct=hp_t2_a12&eref=sihp

1 to 3? 

He'll be back just in time for Tennessee and LSU. 

Ha.  Ha. 

[wesfau2]

http://tracking.si.com/2013/10/03/ha-ha-clinton-dix-suspended-suspension-alabama/?sct=hp_t2_a12&eref=sihp

1 to 3? 

He'll be back just in time for Tennessee and LSU. 

Ha.  Ha.

Well, to be fair, he didn't get sprinkles on his ice cream cone.

[wesfau2]

Sort of off topic, but I hadn't seen this Fluker pic yet:

[Godfather]

Sort of off topic, but I hadn't seen this Fluker pic yet:

He was hungry and thirsty...he is poor.

[Townhallsavoy]

I remember when that pic surfaced.  If I remember correctly, the correct response is "you psycho barner will look for anything to bring Bama down unless its on the field.  Roll tide 15."