It would be fishy indeed if MSU boosters who were claiming to cooperate with the NCAA held back a smoking gun. This should have been known back in July.

The lack of concrete evidence does not prove innocence. This is the real world, not a court of law. The presumption for most people without a rooting interest for a long time has been that the only question is whether the NCAA will catch and punish the guilty parties. It’s quite clear that the magically repaired church (work done by the guy who became $cam’s agent according to news reports) was funded by something other than member donations. It’s been admitted on the record by Papa $cam that he asked one school for money.

Did anybody besides Auburn fans (and the NCAA officials looking for a way off the hook) really believe $cam didn’t know about any of this? That doesn’t pass either the smell or the laugh test. It’s a nonsense assertion meant to provide the barest possible figleaf of deniability to keep the NCAA from choosing one of the participants in the national title game.

I still think the powers that be will do everything they possibly can to avoid a second vacated title. However it’s pretty obvious from the on the record known facts that Auburn played a student (ha) athlete they knew or should have known was ineligible hoping they could hold off the investigatory dogs long enough to hoist (heist?) the crystal football.

Yes, as an Alabama fan I view the world through crimson glasses. But there are plain, publically admitted facts by the parties involved that are more than evidence to apply Occam’s Razor and reach a pretty firm conclusion. To be clear, I am not saying the NCAA should act without evidence. What I’m saying is that didn’t (and I suspect still don’t) want to find any evidence.