ESPN: Bill Bell Got Text Message Outlining Payment Plan
by Year2 on Nov 17, 2010 6:27 PM EST
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PrintESPN's three original reporters on the Cam Newton case (Mark Schlabach, Chris Low, and Pat Forde) have come out with a new story regarding what Bill Bell told the NCAA.
According to those three, Bell got a text message from Kenny Rogers (claiming to represent Cecil Newton) that outlined a payment plan for Cam Newton's services. It was to be $80,000 the day after Newton committed, $50,000 a month later, and $50,000 more another month later.
Bell kept the message on his phone, but it was water damaged and he's working with his carrier to recover the message. He also has voice mails from Rogers that he played for the NCAA. Also new to the story is that Bell claims that Cecil Newton talked to him directly and indicated that it would take money to get Cam to Mississippi State. Previously, we had only head about Rogers contacting Bell, not Newton too.
It's unclear whether the three guys got their information from Bell directly or the NCAA. All the quotes from Bell in the article could either be from Bell or from a transcript of his NCAA testimony. It's also worth noting that nothing in this new report implicates Auburn, though it is the first sign we have that there's firm evidence against Cecil Newton.
This story broke right as Kirk Herbstreit was making an appearance on Paul Finebaum's show. When asked his reaction, Herbie said that "another story is probably going to break later tonight or tomorrow." I'm not sure if he was saying that as fact or as speculation, but his tone indicated more the former than the latter.
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It’s also worth noting that nothing in this new report implicates Auburn, though it is the first sign we have that there’s firm evidence against Cecil Newton.
This is true but we’d all be putting our heads in the sand if we thought he’d ask for money from MSU and not from Auburn…
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I guess.
But really, no one knows what the hell is actually going on here. The weird thing is there’s more and more smoke everyday, but we still haven’t seen an actual fire. The wet cell phone excuse seems to illicit an initial “yeah, right” reaction from me, as do largely irrelevant stories about cheating and traffic tickets.
I do highly suspect something untoward is going on in this whole thing somewhere — I’m not completely naive. But the nature of a lot of these allegations seem to bring the motivation of bringing them forth into question.
That’s not to say I don’t expect something to come of this. I totally do.
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What kind of water is in the phone?
According to the story …“Bell kept the message on his phone, but it was water damaged and he’s working with his carrier to recover the messages.” It’s been two weeks; no phone message recoveries?. Where and when did Bell get his phonewet. A wet phone sounds ‘fishy’. Did the FBI take the phone to see it was containimated with. Was it potable water (chlorine) or water that would match his story i.e. salt water if if got wet in Costa Rica, etc.? Does anybody watch NCIS?
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