Through the Smoke

This just shows all u dudes who hates on da Clemons, SEC schools, and everybody in da country cheats. We been doing this stuff for yrs n it's finally starting to catch up wit us.

I actually never bought that either. But these are different issues. This was self reported to the NCAA I am sure. I highly doubt that Golden(by all accounts clean and sharp) would let Allen stick around if he were known to be implicated in the Shapiro scandal. I dont think this article shows anything more than what we knew from before. Just a timeline. He didnt give any monetary gifts to players, he showed them around campus and made some phone calls. All minor violations in the NCAA eyes.

exactly

EXACTLY...

GOLDEN RELEASES STATEMENT

Statement from head coach Al Golden
"I have been a college football coach for more than 18 years and I am proud of--and I stand by--my record of compliance over that span. As my colleagues and players on all of my teams can attest, I believe strongly in doing things the right way with the best of intentions. The inferences and suggestions in the Yahoo! Sports story that my conduct was anything but ethical are simply false. I, like all of us at UM, have cooperated fully with the joint NCAA-UM inquiry and will continue to do so, so that our program and our University can move forward.

Because the process is on-going, I am unable to address any specifics or answer questions on the matter."

two things are possible

1: Golden is a complete lying SOB
2: Golden is being honest

believe whichever you want.

oh and until i hear from a RELIABLE source about what is really going on (not yahoo).. i still support the tie

It's already rained two feet on this program, what's another couple of inches?

I interpret Golden's strongly worded statement as good news.

Listen, as people have noted, this is not news to anyone but us. The NCAA has known about these violations, and Golden, I'm sure, has had to answer for them privately already. The fact that the statement is so strongly worded suggests that Golden feels confident, at least in himself, and very probably in Michael Barrow, or I imagine he'd be gone.

And these recruiting violations, while certainly violations, are not major. They pale in comparison to what Shapiro threw at us. They are only rough in the context of an ongoing NCAA investigation into the allegedly egregious violations.

This sucks, and, if corroborated -- small parts of the report probably will be -- our overall penalty may experience a small boost as a result of these more current violations. But the medicine we'll be receiving was coming anyway -- these are merely sprinkles on our shit sundae.

And I know he's "just doing his job", but Charles Robinson can take a long walk off a short cliff. Charles Robinson: Smug, always just off the mark, horse-mouthed and red-headed. The worst.

i would be tripping out right now.

BUT AL Golden has come out and refuted those claims, staking his whole reputation (and possibly career).

Golden has called yahoo's bluff. i'm guessing and hoping yahoo will fold.

What else would coach Golden say?

If he is truly innocent his lawyer should be at the courthouse on Monday morning filling a libel suit against Yahoo and Charles Robinson for libel. If he does not do that then I believe coach Golden knew something was going on.

he seems like a man of integrity BUT all he talked about was HIS conduct, not his staff's or someone else's. Also, is it hard to imagine he didnt know how a recruit got a ride somewhere,etc??? I doubt hes that much of a micromanager.