Blakely appeal denied

[McWeagle 4]

Auburn RB Mike Blakely has been denied his waiver to play this fall by the NCAA. Will be a redshirt freshman in 2012. http://bit.ly/pI9HiQ @JHokanson

[ShocksMyBrain 9,419]

Bummer

[TitanTiger 20,708]

Well, that sucks. Hope Tre Mason gets good news from the Clearinghouse in time.

[AURaptor 1,137]

[quietfan 233]

Wel, it seemed a long shot at best anyway....

Looks like we'll have a lot of freshman running backs in 2012: Blakely, Yeldon, Robinson...others? Hope one or two have freshman seasons resembling Michael Dyer's!

[AU alum 2]

Well, I can't say I'm surprised.

[mcgufcm 4,107]

Not surprising in the least. I did have my fingers crossed though.

[aucanucktiger 1,818]

And in light of the info below reported on SI.com Sunday, hopefully the NCAA continues to do the expected by closing the little witch hunt based on one source, one sided info w/out any action whatsoever. Unbelievable.

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NCAA tells Auburn coach Chizik that investigation is ongoing

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An NCAA official told Auburn coach Gene Chizik that it is not done investigating the Tigers’ football program and the recruitment of Cam Newton, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Chizik asked NCAA vice president for enforcement Julie Roe Lach several questions, including why the NCAA had not announced that the Newton investigation was finished, during a presentation at the Southeastern Conference meetings in Destin, Fla., last month.

“You’ll know when we’re finished,” Roe Lach told Chizik, according to several coaches who were at the meeting, the Times reported. “And we’re not finished.”

Vanderbilt basketball coach Kevin Stallings, LSU basketball coach Trent Johnson, Mississippi basketball coach Andy Kennedy and Arkansas basketball coach Mike Anderson all confirmed the exchange to the newspaper.

Kennedy told The Times he believed Chizik “was trying to get some finality to when the process was over, and it was an interesting debate, to say the least. I think the format of the meeting was set up to be generally about the lay of the land going forward. when he got into specific questions regarding their situation, I think we were all sitting back saying, ‘I didn’t know that we were going here.’”

Newton won the Heisman Trophy and led Auburn to a perfect season and national championship last season, his only one with the Tigers.

Late in the season, the NCAA ruled that Newton’s father, Cecil, had tried to get Mississippi State to pay $180,000 for his son to play for the Bulldogs. Cam Newton ended up choosing Auburn instead of Mississippi State when he was being recruited out of junior college.

The NCAA also ruled there was no evidence Cam Newton or Auburn knew about Cecil Newton’s pay-for-play scheme, so neither was punished.

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[Duder 238]

Damn. I figured this would be the case but still hoped

[AuburnKnight 0]

The emoticons say it all.

[AU Jack 0]

Lame

[Mikey 16,781]

As expected. I guess it cost very little to ask for immediate eligibility but it was a long shot at best.

[cptau 169]

The upside is that he will have a full year to learn the offense and build himself up physically. He has to be disappointed, but at least he's not stuck in Florida.