Cracker jack prize more valuable..

[Kaos]

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/07/secs_anti-cam_newton_vote_noth.html

Newton wouldn't have been the first SEC male athlete of the year to win the award after his school was forced to declare him ineligible and petition for his reinstatement. He would've been the first in 365 days.

In August of 2009, Alabama declared Mark Ingram (and teammate Julio Jones) ineligible because, as the NCAA statement resolving their case said, they "received impermissible food, lodging, transportation and entertainment."

[AUChizad]

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/07/secs_anti-cam_newton_vote_noth.html

The whole article is some pretty good shit.

SEC's anti-Cam Newton vote nothing but hypocrisy
Published: Tuesday, July 05, 2011, 6:21 AM

By Kevin Scarbinsky, Birmingham News al.com

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - The SEC football coaches took a vote. They told us Gene Chizik was not the SEC coach of the year.

The SEC athletics directors took a vote. They told us Cam Newton was not the SEC male athlete of the year.

The next time the SEC presidents cast a ballot, they may decide that Auburn isn't the loveliest village on the Plain and Bo really doesn't know.

These voting irregularities could be an inspiration to the SEC Academic Consortium, which offers shared courses among all 12 member institutions. Imagine a new degree program unique to the conference.

Who wouldn't want to major in revisionist history?

You have to give the ADs who voted against Newton when they voted for Tennessee tennis player John-Patrick Smith as the league's best male athlete credit for one thing. They managed to do the impossible. They made their award, and college tennis, a hot topic, if only for a moment.

Let's face it. Even when the man who deserves it wins it, the SEC male athlete of the year award, named after former commissioner Roy Kramer, isn't the most precious hardware on the shelf.

This does not hold true for the SEC female athlete of the year award, which also bears Kramer's name, because those nominees aren't nearly as celebrated as their male counterparts.

This year's deserving winner, Alabama gymnast Kayla Hoffman, is just like those athletes you see in those NCAA TV spots. She's going to turn pro in something other than sports. She's earned every single moment in the sun she can get right now. Unfortunately, this moment has been eclipsed by the Newton snub.

Something tells me the former Auburn quarterback will get over it. It's not like he was going to box up his Heisman, O'Brien, Maxwell or Camp to make room for a Kramer. But his already crowded trophy case doesn't excuse the SEC ADs.

The majority of them decided that the athlete that won every single one of the most prestigious individual awards available in his sport on a national level, an athlete that also led his team to a national championship, was not worthy of the conference's highest award.

Who was? A tennis player that didn't win a national title as an individual or with his team and didn't even put together the best season of his own college career.

There's only one explanation for the ADs. If Cam Newton wasn't on their ballots, his father, Cecil, was on their minds. Never mind that the NCAA has yet to accuse the quarterback of anything, let alone find him guilty.

The anti-Newton voters certainly sent a message, and here it is: On this issue, they're hypocrites.

Newton wouldn't have been the first SEC male athlete of the year to win the award after his school was forced to declare him ineligible and petition for his reinstatement. He would've been the first in 365 days.

In August of 2009, Alabama declared Mark Ingram (and teammate Julio Jones) ineligible because, as the NCAA statement resolving their case said, they "received impermissible food, lodging, transportation and entertainment."

The NCAA reinstated them with one condition. They had to repay the value of the extra benefits to charity.

In December of 2009, Ingram won the Heisman Trophy. In June of 2010, Ingram won the Roy Kramer Award. Just like every other SEC Heisman winner since the league first honored its male athlete of the year in 1976.

Until Newton.

In November of 2010. Auburn declared Newton ineligible because, as the NCAA statement resolving his case said, "his father and an owner of a scouting service worked together to actively market the student-athlete as a part of a pay-for-play scenario" at Mississippi State.

The NCAA reinstated Newton "without any conditions."

In December of 2010, Newton won the Heisman Trophy. In June of 2011, he didn't win the Kramer Award.

Maybe an ESPY, or a prize in his next box of Cracker Jack, will help fill the void.

[Townhallsavoy]

Excellent article by Scarbo. 

My question is who really snubbed Newton in the vote?

MSU's AD wouldn't have voted for him because MSU has some distorted view of the whole thing, and they blame Newton/Auburn for everything.

Alabama's AD may not have voted for Newton because they're our arch-rival.

Tennessee's AD may not have voted for Newton because I'm not sure they had an AD when the voting was taking place, and if they did, he may have voted for the hometown kid just because he was on the ballot. 

So who else decided to vote against Newton and for the tennis player?  Those are the real culprits.  The ones who really have nothing to do with the Cam Newton situation yet insisted on taking part in an obvious conspiracy to block Newton from the award. 

[Kaos]

I'd like to know. 

Somebody could make some calls, I guess.

BTW, this article will have the sports editor of the Birmingham News back on Finebaum defending the paper's "pro-Auburn" stance. 

Fucking idiots. 

[RWS]

Somebody could make some calls, I guess.

I vote for Prowler to be charged with this task. That is, unless he has used all of his minutes calling the NCAA.

[Kaos]

I vote for Prowler to be charged with this task. That is, unless he has used all of his minutes calling the NCAA.

Goats at the Updyke with Scissors compound await the return of their drunken master.

[RWS]

Goats at the Updyke with Scissors compound await the return of their drunken master.

The fact that you can come up with so many pictures of goats on such short notice is amusing and disturbing all at the same time.

[Kaos]

Runs with Updyke's goats rebel...

[djsimp]

The fact that you can come up with so many pictures of goats on such short notice is amusing and disturbing all at the same time.

Fuck that man, that shit was funny.

[The Prowler]

I'll make some calls.

[JR4AU]

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/07/secs_anti-cam_newton_vote_noth.html

If Slive had the nuts bammers wanted him to have to deal with Cam, Ingram, and Jones would have never played another snap in the SEC according to SEC by laws. 

[chinook]

The fact that you can come up with so many pictures of goats on such short notice is amusing and disturbing all at the same time.

kaos and semmi are goat herders.

[Kaos]

If Slive had the nuts bammers wanted him to have to deal with Cam, Ingram, and Jones would have never played another snap in the SEC according to SEC by laws.

Neither would that Dareus guy who played in one or two games. 

[The Six]

Neither would that Dareus guy who played in one or two games.

He landed in Buffalo. Got what he deserved. And to think he let them say his name wrong all that time.