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“Unfortunately for Auburn, an accusation in our society is often enough to gain a conviction in the court of public opinion. Such is life inside the Twitter bubble. Being an ex-con — seven times charged with serious NCAA infractions — Auburn also has the increased burden of proving its innocence to a ‘jury’ whose opinions have been shaped by incidents dating back 20 years or more as well as by unproven accusations dating back to the Cam Newton affair.”

It’s like this — Imagine that someone comes along today and accuses Silvio Berlusconi of bribery, fraud, abuse of office, and solicitation of minors for sex. Although he may be totally innocent of these particular charges, Silvio has a decades-long record of allegations, trials, and convictions on just these categories of charges.

Similarly, Auburn University, one of America’s scummiest sports factories, has been in the grade-changing, fake-independent-study, cash-for-athletes game for decades. As the writer for MrSEC.com notes (I quote him in my headline), that school can do all the internal investigations it wants. You and I know that Auburn smells, and always will. So we figure – probably rightly – that it’s guilty of this most recent batch of charges.

Margaret Soltan, April 23, 2013 2:49PM
Posted in: sport

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2 Responses to ““Unfortunately for Auburn, an accusation in our society is often enough to gain a conviction in the court of public opinion. Such is life inside the Twitter bubble. Being an ex-con — seven times charged with serious NCAA infractions — Auburn also has the increased burden of proving its innocence to a ‘jury’ whose opinions have been shaped by incidents dating back 20 years or more as well as by unproven accusations dating back to the Cam Newton affair.””

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    The other side of the coin, I suppose, is that Auburn still has a reputation as an athletic powerhouse despite the football team’s record last season.

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