By now you've all seen the hit, and so has the SEC office, which has decided not to suspend Auburn's Nick Fairley.
"He's not being suspended. The matter is being handled internally between the conference and the institution," SEC spokesman Charles Bloom said in an e-mail Tuesday afternoon.
Here's a YouTube of the now-infamous helmet-to-back hit that Fairley, the Auburn defensive tackle, put on Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray in the third quarter.
Not suspending Fairley for the Iron Bowl will be a controversial decision in some quarters. He was given a personal foul, which the SEC apparently deemed sufficient. Georgia center Ben Jones was suspended for the first half of the Colorado game, after the SEC and Georgia got together and decided the discipline was warranted.
Georgia head coach Mark Richt has consistently declined to comment on the Fairley issue. He did say on his radio show Monday night that "I do believe in standing up for our boy."
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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This is so disappointing. Here is to hoping for some karma.....
Worse than the late hit to the back was the raking of Murray's chin by Rainey using his helmet. Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QfSRUk0fuA&feature=player_embedded
The hit to Murray's back was cheap and deservedly got penalized. The couple of times he picked up Murray and drove him to the ground were bad as well. I would have liked to see the SEC suspend him for a culmination of all of the questionable crap he pulled.
Wow, glad to see there's no sort of corruption in the SEC office trying to protect their NC team.
Roll Tide. Tear this thug apart.
David, according to David Pollack, he's warning Auburn fans to 'brace themselves' over something he's hearing. So yeah, it appears Karma is about rear it's head.
On the Fairley thing, I saw somewhere that the difference is it wasn't Murray's head or neck that was hit, so that's why the SEC isn't suspending him. If the win gets yanked, I can live with that.
@King Jericho
I hope Bama gets him one way or another as well. I would love to cheer for any SEC team in the NC, but not this year. Roll Tide. Go Cocks. If they still make it, go OREGON!!
I hope someone gets him back for all of the dirty plays he has committed this year.
Seth, my comments don't matter in this huge college football world, but I wish there was a way that I could personally thank Aaron Murray joining the Georgia Bulldogs. I love him as our QB and I'm glad he is fighting and performing the way he has for the Bulldog nation. I hope he is just as good (and ever better) in the coming years. It sucks that a guy like that has to put up with those kinds of dirty plays. It could have been one play away from permanently injuring him and ending his career. Pathetic....that is football now I suppose. I never thought I would say this, but I sure wish the NCAA would take some of the NFL rules for things like this.........
The SEC didn't have the balls to suspend someone from the Iron Bowl! I understand the Ben Jones first half suspension but how can they do that and not do anything to Fairley?
If Justin Houston does the same thing to Newton I wonder what the SEC does?
I just don't understand the biased treatment. Going back to the Aj Green's discipline as apposed to Marcel Dareus.
If the NCAA can ruin our season cause of a damn jersey then something can be done to Fairley, Newton, Dareus, or even Chris Rainey!
All of the above actually did bad things! The penalties have to match the crimes!
The SEC didn't have the balls to suspend someone from the Iron Bowl! I understand the Ben Jones first half suspension but how can they do that and not do anything to Fairley?
If Justin Houston does the same thing to Newton I wonder what the SEC does?
I just don't understand the biased treatment. Going back to the Aj Green's discipline as apposed to Marcel Dareus.
If the NCAA can ruin our season cause of a damn jersey then something can be done to Fairley, Newton, Dareus, or even Chris Rainey!
All of the above actually did bad things! The penalties have to match the crimes!
With or without Newton and Fairley, Sanford is going to be ROCKING next November...
Ben
It is going to be absolutely amazing when the hammer drops on Auburn.
Seth, please tell us if you are hearing anything. If you don't feel comfortable with specifics, at least give us the inside scoop on what happens in situations like this, how it goes down behind the scenes, how reporters discuss it with each other or pass information to each other, etc.
Thanks!
This was a kinda interesting little thing I read about the Newton situation.
"If this is true, a clear reading of this SEC bylaw would suggest that in making this demand "a student-athlete or any member of his/her family ... agrees to receive, directly or directly," an improper benefit that would rule him ineligible not just at the school in question but at all schools in the conference in every sport. A solicitation is a request or encouragement of another to perform an act. If Cecil Newton solicited Mississippi State then he agreed to receive the improper benefits by nature of the solicitation."
Again this is just something I read. Thought it was interesting.
I have never been more disappointed in college football than i am now. The SEC has become a league of thugs. They are just teaching kids today that its ok to cheat and take cheap shots as long as you are a potential champ. The AU fans should be disappointed at the least and they are proud of their cheating Newtons. The AU fans even went as far as treating a potential recruit badly because he was a UGA commit. They have proven to me they are classless and they deserve the NC less than any other team in the nation. I will be at the AU vs. UGA game next year and i will be waiting for one AU fan to step out of line. A bed in the big house will never be more comfortable. Go Dawgs! and Roll Tide! and most of all screw you war pigeons.
I am disappointed in the SEC and the GA staff. Richt should have put together a video and published it and then sent it it to the SEC staff. He makes enough money to pay a fine. Oh, by the way, if cheater boy and 90 come back next year, we are getting beat again. One thing is sure our coaches are consistent.
I am also disappointed that the SEC won't take any action, but there's a part of me that wonders if this is because they know something else is coming down the pike and they don't want to give the Auburn fanbase some sort of grounds to claim that they are being persecuted.
I am not surprised that Richt didn't do anything like Anon@8:49 suggested. Good lord, by now do you not realize that isn't something that Richt would ever do?
Next year should prove to be interesting: the fans in Sanford will want blood, for sure. But don't kid yourselves: Fairley and Newton will have already abandoned the sinking ship that is Auburn for NFL paydays.
Karma - We have Auburn fans worshiping at the feet of a few players that will move on to the NFL very soon. The players in question will NEVER be punished - yet Auburn will get bitch slapped by the NCAA.
How dumb do you have to be to be an Auburn fan - can they not see beyond today? Is one winning season so important to them that they are willing to become the joke of college football. Karma indeed and a little ignorance thrown in for seasoning.
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