Stanley McClover or Stanley McC-Liar???

This is an open letter from an Auburn Alumn who asked me if i could provide a venue to react to Stanley McClover and his accusations on HBO regarding Auburn Football and illegal benefits.

If you're not up to date on Mr. McClover check out this story in the New York Times.

"In response to Stanley McClover's outburst of ignorance on HBO February 25th, some may think he did future athletes a favor by coming clean about the alleged transgressions at Auburn.

However, the truth of the matter is that McClover was a student athlete given an opportunity get an education and also an opportunity to play professional sports. McGlover was granted the opportunities that so many dream about, although injuries cut short his dream of becoming an NFL star.

Please don't forget that Auburn was the catalyst for McClover making it to the NFL. As a student athlete, a school is not responsible for what happens once you leave the university. He should be grateful that he even had the chance to reach his goals that so many minorities don't even have the chance to receive.

If he was indeed receiving special benefits that were against NCAA rules, why wait years after he received them to blast the university that gave you an education, and most importantly, an OPPORTUNITY?

I am not saying that benefits are not received at colleges and universities across the country or that Auburn is 100% innocent. I think the recent developments at Ohio State and USC make it clear that change is needed. I didn't take any benefits while I was at Auburn, and to the best of my knowledge, Auburn has run a clean program by SEC standards.

Auburn gave McGlover a head start in life, and all he can do is try to tear down the institution that did nothing but try to better him as a human being.

Here it is several years later, and he's trying to do what? Regardless of what's been said and done, once Stanley McClover is gone and Auburn is still going to be here.

Stanley McClover, you tell me what is your legacy? He says he wanted to help underprivileged kids from being taken advantage of by big time college football to help his non-profit organization.

In reality, what I think is that you have heightened the scrutiny of college sports to the point where kids who don't have many options have less opportunity because of your selfishness.

He said he didn't take any money from HBO, but I beg to differ; we all know that Alabama is a football state and football is king. I know he took 15K from a University of Alabama booster to do the interview. What is more shameless that an Auburn man taking money from Alabama booster to snitch to the whole world?

Stanley, I know you personally so while you are blaming other people about your problems, should we investigate your dealings with LSU? You took 10k from LSU directly and still didn't go to LSU. If you want to air out dirty laundry we can do that all day.  

McClover took another 15K from HBO as well to even do the interview. He also took money from Michigan State and Ohio State, so it seems to me that the only constant in his story is that he always has his hand out looking for handouts. This seriously jeopardizes his credibility as far as dragging Auburn's name through the mud.

Therefore, he is still doing wrong and is the type of person that will do anything to get ahead in life. Furthermore, he said you wanted to go to Ohio State because they were a good institution and a better school, but look where they are now. I suggest McClover leaves Auburn alone and figure out what he wants to do with his life because he had his opportunity and he wasted it."

Sincerely, concerned Auburn Alumni

I posted this letter because someone I know wanted to tell what he knew about the dealings of Stanley McClover.

Holllywood Clayborne

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