"NCAA starting Auburn investigation after firestorm of criticism
AP Auburn, AL - The NCAA opened a full investigation on Auburn University in the midst of overwhelming controversy after three recruits reneged on their commitments to the University of Alabama and signed with Auburn. It all started in February of this year when Brent Calloway, the top player in the state, who had been a Alabama commitment suddenly committed to Auburn and then was allowed to leave school and remain sequestered for a week so Alabama coaches could not even talk to him. Pete Thamel of the New York Times is reporting that an anonymous source has said that he was spotted at Disney World wearing Auburn gear during this time.
Next Cyrus Kouandjio, the top offensive lineman and according to some services the top player overall in the entire country committed to Alabama on ESPN on signing day but his commitment was never received. He then quickly backed off and committed to Auburn a short time later even though he had commited to Alabama on signing day on national TV. In that time the athletic department of his high school received a large "anonymous" donation. ESPN's Joe Schaad is reporting that an anonymous source has said the money has been tracked to a Lee County location.
Those two unbelievable last minute switches stoked the fire but things exploded this week when again the best player in the state of Alabama and a longtime Bama commit, TJ Yeldon, suddenly changed to Auburn and had his high school coach release a statement about that just hours before the dead period for recruiting started which prevented Alabama coaches from even talking to him. Yeldon who was planning to enroll early is now an Auburn student and his recruitment is over.
Alabama shock jock radio host Paul Finebaum was quoted as saying "three high profile players who were committed then all three switch right at the very end under dubious circumstances? Come on it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out something stinks here." Finebaum's show has been more and more explosive after each recruiting defection. Finebaum also insinuates heavily that explosive new evidence against Auburn will come out any day."
Some tongue-in-cheek there but ""three high profile players who were committed then all three switch right at the very end under dubious circumstances" is absolute fact. However there is no uprising since it is Bama getting the recruits but I have no doubt that the fictional article above would be pretty close to what would happen... if the shoe was on the other foot.
