{"id":2167,"date":"2010-12-01T16:13:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T22:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2010-12-01T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T22:13:43","slug":"ncaa-clears-path-for-newton-auburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/ncaa-clears-path-for-newton-auburn\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Clears Path for Newton, Auburn"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wait is Over and Cam Comes Out Unscathed<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cam Newton is aiming for the national title and the Heisman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The NCAA has ruled that embattled Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton is eligible to play in the SEC Championship game on Saturday and presumably in the team’s follow-up bowl game as well.\u00a0 An NCAA investigation was launched in early November to determine if activities surrounding Newton’s recruitment to Mississippi State University directly involved the highly sought after junior.\u00a0 There indeed was underhanded dealings going on, investigators discovered, but apparently neither Cam nor Auburn was involved nor did\u00a0player or\u00a0AU program\u00a0know about the pay-for-play scheme which Cam’s father, Cecil Newton, a minister from Newnan, Georgia, had\u00a0used to lure MSU to the bargaining table.\u00a0 Reports have said that Cecil Newton was attempting to gain under-the-table funding for repairs to his church in Newnan which the city had threatened to shut down unless the building was brought up to code.\u00a0 The FBI was also rumored to have initiated an investigation into possible extortion charges against the older Newton.\u00a0 Verification of that investigation and, if true, its results have not been forthcoming at press time.\u00a0 The NCAA’s findings, however, have\u00a0in essence cleared the way for Cam to gather up any number of personal post\u00a0season awards including\u00a0college football’s most\u00a0prestigious hardware, the Heisman Trophy.\u00a0 And, Auburn fans can breathe a sigh of relief.\u00a0 Assuming Newton continues to be eligible and\u00a0the Tigers can get by an ornery South Carolina Gamecock team led by Steve Spurrier, the War Eagles will be a lock for the BCS National Championship Game to be held on January 10th at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wait is Over and Cam Comes Out Unscathed The NCAA has ruled that embattled Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton is eligible to play in the SEC Championship game on Saturday and presumably in the team’s follow-up bowl game as well.\u00a0 An NCAA investigation was launched in early November to determine if activities surrounding Newton’s recruitment … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}