Read this one yet Phillip?

I have never seen anything like the phenomenon of watching this "story" mushroom over the past few hours. All based on a quote almost a year old from one ex football player relating claims that another ex football player made about recruiting a player to their school. If this person is to be believed, Miss State informed the SEC and NCAA about this supposed inproprietary claim made by the ex player last December. Surely Auburn was informed about this soon after. Published reports have stated that Auburn has known about this at least since July. Does anybody really believe that Auburn officials either were too lazy to investigate the recruiting of Cam Newton by Auburn or knew there might be possible NCAA violations surrounding the recruitment of Cam Newton and decided to ignore the facts and let him play this year? Or that they thought they might get away with the most serious of NCAA violations and let Cam Newton play this year even though the NCAA and SEC had already been notified in December 2009 of possible recruiting violations relating to his recruitment? This is ludicrous!! Nobody could be that stupid!! I refuse to believe that Auburn officials would knowingly be a part of offering any illegal inducements to any player to sign scholarship papers and I refuse to believe that Auburn officials would have allowed any player to compete on the field if there were any doubts as to the eligibility of that player.

The saddest part of all this is that Cam, his family and Auburn have already been judged to be guilty by almost everyone, it seems, and they will never be able to scrub this thing clean no matter what happens.

For all the negative reporters out there this for you.

HERE IS A ARTICLE THAT SHOWS THE TYPE OF REPORTER FIUTAK IS, THIS IS RUN OF THE MILL REPORTING FOR HIM..

Pete Fiutak Is Incapable of Checking The Most Basic Facts
by CW on Jul 15, 2010 12:03 PM EDT in Notre Dame Football

Her Loyal Sons has more mistakes, but really, this is the worst thing you could possibly write in a Notre Dame preview:

New recuit Matt James might not be an elite prospect, but he was on everyone’s list of the best tackles of this year’s recruiting class with the size and frame to sit at one tackle spot for 4 years. At 6-7 and 291 pounds, the Cincinnati native followed Brian Kelly to South Bend and will get a long look at playing time right away on the outside. Even though he’s tall, he’s physical for the ground game and does a good job of shoving people around.

Matt James tragically died in March while on spring break. That was a national story featured on Good Morning, America, ESPN and many other mainstream outlets. It's now July. By any journalistic standard, this is absolutely inexcusable.

Sadly, Phillip, the majority of sportswriters are all about the notoriety, not the facts. I grew up reading your Dad, Furman Bisher, etc. Now, everybody wants to be a Finebaum. Is it just a hunch that Mark Schlabach is a Georgia grad and was a major player at ESPN in this story "breaking" now, just 10 days or so before the Auburn-Georgia game? Hell, no. I remember the "Brent Fullwood isn't going to class" story - just before an Auburn-Alabama game. This "news" has evidently been out there since at least the summer. My guess is, lots of sportswriters had heard about it, but dismissed it because Kenny Rogers was involved. If this is an attempt to damage Cam Newton, maybe everyone should be reminded of the past troubles of Oregon's LaMichael James. I have every confidence in the Auburn football staff, athletic department and Coach Chizik. Ironically, all this could galvanize this team even more. If this turns out to be a vicious, dishonest attempt by some to smear Cam Newton and Auburn, I hope AU and Chizik have a long memory. War Damn Eagle. HEY!