By :Cory CarltonSo a lot has been made of the Cam Newton saga and to be honest I won’t say it’s much to do about nothing but its pretty close. If Auburn indeed did pay Newton 210,000 to come there to be quite honest they got a steal.
Newton will be at Auburn for two years max which equals tuition of at $40,000. Add the let’s shoot high and say $350,000(I’m sure he’s gotten some spending money along the way) and you’re looking at Auburn making a $400,000 investment. Last year without Cam Auburn finished 8-5 and went to the Outback bowl, receiving around 4 million dollars for participating. This year Auburn is slated to go to the BCS national title game in which the payout will be around 17 million dollars. That’s at the very least a 13 million dollar difference. If you ask me that’s the best investment I’ve ever heard of. I wish the stock market had ROI like that.
And for those of you playing the holier than thou card pretending to be shocked about what you are reading, let’s be honest the payroll in the SEC is much higher than the American League Central. If Cam Newton made a mistake it wasn’t taking money because it seems like he did that pretty well, the mistake was asking a school that you know couldn’t afford you for that much money. The reason Mississippi State is snitching is because they have nothing to lose. You think Cam and his daddy Creflo just asked MSU for money but just skipped that step when LSU and Oklahoma came knocking?? Of course they didn’t but Oklahoma and LSU participate in the code so they don’t want to open Pandora’s Box. This isn’t some magic revelation that college players get paid, just like people knew Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were on steroids, or people know that the NFL treats their players like crap and give them no insurance once they retire or that one and done college basketball players attend maybe one class……. All year. NO ONE CARES and when I say cares I mean people don’t have a true sense of what's wrong, at least not the ones actually watching the games. People might get self righteous and try to “protect the best interest of the game” but no one truly cares or wants to fix the issues. And I don’t think they should.
The most self-righteous of them all is the NCAA and SEC. So let me get this straight SEC you can suspend Bruce Pearl proactively but not Cam Newton. I wonder what the reason for that is. Is it integrity? Of course not it’s money. Because when it’s all said and done Auburn might have to give back a title and the wins but the SEC doesn’t have to give back that 17 mil. In basketball there are no bowl games so Tennessee becomes irrelevant. The reason they truly suspended Pearl is similar to the reason USC fired Tim Floyd. When it comes time for the “hammer” to come down you throw the basketball team under the bus because they are less profitable, it’s a business.
So in about six months or so after the bowl games and Auburn has won a title and Newton has won a Heisman and this story has died down, the NCAA will probably rule that Newton was ineligible. Then everyone will come down on Newton and tell the world that he is a bad person because he took money. If someone is making over 20 million dollars of pure profit from your services you are no amateur. How can you truly expect someone from Newton’s economic background to actually turn down the money is my real question. So why does the person become the necessary evil? Why was Reggie Bush vilified? Ultimately the first thing that comes to mind is because he is black. No matter what planet you live on it should be no surprise to you that racism still exist in America. Where are the white cases of Sean Bell or Amadou Diallo? Why do African Americans account for just 28 percent of drug usage in America yet account for 73 percent of drug related arrests. So yes racism exists but it doesn’t really here. '
Did the story come out because of racism? No if Cameron Newton was white this would have still happened. Did the story reach this high of magnitude because Newton is black? No. The only aspect that race may play a part is that if Newton was white he may get the benefit of doubt. But seeing as though he is actually guilty I’m not really sure how that is pertinent to the situation. So is Cam Newton a victim of racism? Somewhat. Is Newton a victim of hypocrisy? Absolutely, but more so Newton is a victim of circumstance. Sh*t hit the fan and someone has to take the fall and since Newton will stop making Auburn money in about three months it will have to be him. It’s not racial it’s just the way it is. And once again No one cares.
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