Its a little different when the coaches willingly orchestrate the actual violation.
You're a blazing homer, RWS.
"Willingly" indicates purpose. Chizik (since you're just going to go with everything that's reported) has stated that the violations were unintentional.
Were they violations? Sure. But it's just as bad for players to receive gifts for being football players. Of course, Curtis Anderson was a set up job by Operation Red Dog, right? He's also been friends with those guys forever. He doesn't even like football.
Secondary violations get reported all the time, but rarely does anything come of it but a slap on the wrist. 8-9 (why not pick a number?) recruits will not receive an OV next recruiting season. That hurts. Might only hurt a little, but that hurts.
And for what? Aubie being around? Give me a break. The coaches orchestrated one of Auburn's traditions. The party at Toomer's after a victory. Whoopty fuck.
Not allowed to contact those recruits? Jesus, I've never heard of that before. Perhaps the reprimand had to do with the caliber of recruits that were involved?
Fuck Slive. Lattimore is 50-50 between us and South Carolina. Dyer already committed. Curry committed. Reed committed. Mack is leaning towards us. Looks like the weekend worked out okay. Must have been the presence of Aubie that did it.