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Title: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: MLB10 on March 23, 2011, 10:56:26 AM http://www.phillygameday.com/2011/01/cam-newton-denies-ever-receiving-education-from-auburn/
This has got to be an Onion style article...enjoy anyway! It would be too funny if this is real. Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: ricky023 on March 23, 2011, 10:59:52 AM Awww shootfire, this boy doesn't have much about anything I don't know about him. So no degree and no education he has nothing to fall back on except the money his daddy got? RTR!
Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: Chechem on March 23, 2011, 11:12:21 AM Quote Cam, “People can say what they want, but I didn’t go to a single class when I was there. Not one. I promise you the only way those professors even know who I am is through the news.” Nothing new here. Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: crimsonmom on March 23, 2011, 11:57:28 AM I don't get this?! Can you play football at a college you are not a student at? Can you be considered a student if you do not attend class? Or is he saying he didn't get "special" treatment? Sorry to sound so dumb but????
Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: SUPERCOACH on March 23, 2011, 12:09:05 PM I'm pretty sure the article is meant to be a joke, although it is not far from the truth.
Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: Marshal Dillon on March 23, 2011, 12:42:55 PM That site deals with the Philly sports scene (76ers, Phillies, Eagles, FLyers, etc) and sports satire. When they siad 50,000 other athletes had come forward to say the same thing about not going to classes, that gave it away.
;D Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: che boludo on March 23, 2011, 12:56:26 PM An interesting study was done on the actual discrapancies between student athlete graduation rates, specifically the differences in black athletes and white athletes.
"Despite small gains in the graduation rates of bowl-bound college football players, a “huge gap” still exists between white and African-American players from Football Bowl Subdivision schools, according to an annual study released Monday by the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport." FULL STORY (http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=0024004104f4cdafd011e1848c97b007ad8) The report led to this article comment from ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?page=johnson/110111): Quote Auburn, in fact, had the biggest gap among all bowl teams, graduating all of its white players but slightly less than half its black players (49 percent), according to data released by the University of Central Florida. Tigers coach Gene Chizik, when asked about the numbers, told The New York Times the university does a "great job" educating its athletes. Clearly not all of them, Gene. link to full UCF report: click here (http://www.tidesport.org/Grad%20Rates/2010-11_APR-GSR_BowlStudy.pdf) Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: BAMAWV on March 23, 2011, 01:08:06 PM Probably true for his final semester because he was on his way to the NFL before his grades hit the clearinghouse. Was he enrolled in the spring of 2010? But for an athlete to do this their entire career, professors would have to be complicit, and I doubt most of them would agree to that.
Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: MLB10 on March 23, 2011, 02:37:24 PM Like I said in my OP, I thought it was the Onion. I checked the address link for The Onion. Then I thought "well, this IS cam...if somebody is gonna say something this dumb it would be him."
Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: cbbama99 on March 23, 2011, 02:43:14 PM Hey don't blame Cam. He knows his limitations. He WAS going to take a class, but realized stealing a professor and 150 other students was a lot harder that a laptop.
Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: ricky023 on March 23, 2011, 02:57:41 PM Well I can't say but it sure seems funny published to the Public. RTR!
Title: Re: Cam newton denies receiving education at auburn...this has gotta be a joke? Post by: MDB Tide Roll on March 23, 2011, 10:26:50 PM Uh, someone actually thought it was possible to receive and education at the cow college?
Nawww, has to be a joke. |