Filed under: Auburn, SEC, BCS Championship Game
It takes a complete dirtbag to attempt to sell his son's services to the highest bidder while not even including that son in the decision-making process. We have a word for that: pimping.
And the king pimp of the 2010 sports universe is easy to see, he's a preacher from rural Georgia whose son happens to be the best college football player in the land. Only none of that son's wins and none of his records may end up counting after all. That's thanks to Cecil Newton, Sr., a runaway nominee for FanHouse's anti-sportsman of the year.
Cecil demanded $180,000 for his son to play football at Mississippi State. When State blanched at the outright greed -- no one in Starkville who was in the business of paying players had access to that kind of money -- Cecil relented and accepted no money for his son to play at Auburn. (Insert wink and nod here).
All his flaws were manifested in what turned out to be the most criticized 60 minutes in television history not involving Tori Spelling.
-- David Whitley on why LeBron James is the Anti-Sportsman of the Year
Meanwhile, if you believe Cecil's story -- and how could you at this point? -- his son had no knowledge of the entire plot. Leaving aside certain obvious questions -- Would no recruiter have ever mentioned to Cam that his dad was asking for money during the recruiting process? Did daddy dearest's cell phone never ring in the presence of his son while they were discussing pay-for-play options? -- Cecil's gaming of the college football system represented the height of cynicism and, for a man of the cloth whose life calling supposedly includes leading others through the valley of temptation, a complete and utter failure as a human being.
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Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/07/cecil-newton-sr-anti-sportsman-of-the-year/
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