Auburn Football Scandal: Four Players Admit They Accepted Money from Boosters

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Auburn Players Tell HBO Real Sports Boosters Paid Them

An Auburn football scandal recently broke, but no it didn't involve Cam Newton.

Stanley McClover, Troy Reddick, Raven Gray and Chaz Ramsey all told Bryant Gumbel of HBO Real Sports that they were indeed paid money from boosters while attending college.

The report says " McClover also said he received money while on recruiting visits to Michigan State and Ohio State and while attending an all-star camp at Louisiana State. He originally committed to play for Ohio State but said he changed his mind when he asked for and received money from Auburn."

Boosters have been paying players for decades now. It's rare that certain players will go on a television show and admit to the wrong doings. These players played for Tommy Tuberville and were all off the team by 2007.

Gray received around $3,000 from a booster and told Andrea Kremer that, "Loyalty is the key. This man give me money, I'm going to be loyal to him and go to Auburn."

All players agreed to the fact that they felt like they owed it to the Tigers to attend school there. After all they did just give them thousands of dollars.

This is just another blip in the corruption of the NCAA. It happens every year, and the majority of teams out there do it. Boosters with loads of cash see these poor kids with tremendous talent so they toss a grand or two the kids way to get them to go to their school.

My question is when is it going to end? When are schools going to crack down on this?

They are working on the problem, but it's never going to stop.

The Tigers will be punished by the NCAA, and more than likely they will look even further into the Cam Newton saga.

If boosters are paying scrub players a couple thousand dollars, then what kind of money are they giving the best player to suit up for the Tigers in over two decades?

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