Cam Newton Paid $180K by Auburn? He Clears The Air & Explains Why He'll Never Go to Heisman Ceremony

you go to Auburn and then there's this Auburn bought Cam Newton his daddy received this large monetary sum of money yeah how what would so so what's going on how did this come about allegedly yes you know um before you so what where were the schools that you could have gone to okay you go to Auburn so where after blind where were your choices Oklahoma Kansas State Mississippi State alurn okay it was a whole different recruitment process when I was in Jo rather than coming out of high school okay out of high school I was looking for gear and a good time right by way of uh you know female the hostesses yeah in Jo oh I was I was a millionaire mentality how are y'all going to incor at me in this offense with my skill set not what uh uh Sam Bradford was doing cuz that that ain't how I play the game right I'mma bring a whole different element of this offense that you got to start shaping some around Kansas State the same way Mississippi State Dan Mullen right and he knew Dan Mullen was the offensive coordinator and the quarterback coach while I was at Florida okay so you had some familiarity there a lot of familiarity and his plan was I remember coach mull had called me and at that time me being the type of player I was if a Coach calling you that means you don't did something you ain't go to study hall you didn't go to class it was something but this conversation was him telling me that he was going Mississippi State to Mississippi State it ended up being Mississippi State he didn't tell me the the the team and I was saying to well he asked he want me to consider transferring to Mississippi State but coach ma uh um not maon coach Meer Urban had to sign off on that and I knew he wasn't gonna sign off for that so I had to go to junior college now when you when you say the things like going through the whole NCAA pay for play Scandal this is where I don't think I've ever had the opportunity to to share this if you really go back and you know the reports to what it said it said two sources yes said that Cam Newton and his father took money to go to alurn to Auburn those two sources was Dan Mullen and his wife Megan Mullen how do we get to that I'll tell you the day I was going to commit to Auburn at of Junior College it was neck and neck Mississippi State Mississippi State and Auburn when I went to Auburn as my mental was was solely focused on success I was trying to I was really trying to play catch up to the Joe Hayden the Maris pouny the Aaron Hernandez who are already in the league and I said to myself we came in together in in Florida they already in the league I'm trying to find the fastest way that I can get to the league when I went to Auburn they mentioned that they will have 22 seniors coming back Mississippi State probably only had three to four these are all different things as a 20y old college player and a 16 17 year old kid you don't think that that's a big thing but it really is my whole determining Factor was I wanted to go to a school that could get me to a BCS game okay that was either the tosos bowl Orange Bowl Sugar Bowl whatever if I went there in my tenure at that school I was going top 10 okay cuz I knew in order for us to get there I would had to play my best form of football right when I was about to commit to Auburn one of the things that my father told me that I had to do as a man he said you got to call Coach Mullen and you have to tell him the decision that you're going to make be a man said damn po like why though you know what I'm saying he going to find out sooner or later tick you know what I'm saying he read but that's how my father raised me okay he said you going to have to be a man and that's that's that's where I always challenge Society now we need more men empowering men MH not boys raising boys you dig what I'm saying but certain circumstances play out like that but to that point I put a lot of focus on my father I said pop you a man of God if it's on your heart to wherever we going to decide to go that's where we going to go man my at that time we were exploring so many different things and he came back wrote it down on the sheet of paper I UNL I looked at it it had Auburn on it I said I ain't going to even question it that's where we going okay that day that I was going to make it public I had to call Coach Mullen I remember having a conversation it was extremely awkward because when I called him he answered how's my quarterback doing and I said coach I just wanted to be a man and call you and and tell you and uh Miss Megan that I'm going to Auburn and I didn't want you to hear through the Great Vines I don't want you to hear it on ESPN I wanted to be a man that call you and he asked me this question H but how cam like you you know I was going to do right by you BL we need you and I gave him this quote it was just too good to be true now too good to be true for me right was you got 22 seniors right they battle tested I ain't going into a locker room with freshman these they ready to win right now they just need me to propel them to Elite status Mississippi State needed a me and some and I don't think Mississippi State Garners the the measure of recruits like come on that's it's Mississippi State here and still Mississippi State at that particular point in time and I heard Miss Megan in the background I was like did he did he commit did it commit he like no and then that's when I talked to her I was like man I just apologize but this is a business decision that I I'm sadden that it that it didn't work out had that conversation when I was 20 and I thought I was doing the right thing so fast forward to the success going on at Auburn first game we played Arkansas State I think the next game or the first Prime Time game we had was versus Mississippi State it was on a Thursday night we ended up winning that football game and I'm big on energy I'm big on just posturing certain things at the end of the game I looked at him and I wanted I wanted to shake his hand and say Coach man appreciate you man thank you and it was a little iffy though you know what the what what the hood teacher like you know what I'm saying like my Spidey senses is a little up they were tingling he on he on some he on some bull you dig what I'm saying I ain't really know what it was his wife was there we spoke condolences man good luck for the rest of the year you know what I'm saying Blas blah the report pain two weeks after that and if you remember it was two sources it was Dan Mullen and his wife that created all this Ruckus Cam and his daddy took money yeah now fast forward to now when it's becoming a big story I remember after the game we had another Prime Time game on Saturday night we played South Carol Carina that was when the world knew who Cam Newton was another phone called by coach coach chisik and and anybody who played at Auburn knew if if somebody's calling you from a no call ID it's coach chizy that ain't a good call that you want to have but I was in good standards you know what I'm saying we undefeated at that particular point in time he said cam I need to talk to you and your P or your parents still in town said yes sir said I need y'all to come to my office and we need to have a conversation cool boom I'm thinking you you know you about to just stay the typical man you're doing an amazing job blah blah blah y'all rais unbelievable young man oh my goodness it's working out fine I remember look it was me my mom and my dad and Coach chisik sitting across from us and you know coach chisik you know hey I just want to let y'all know it's about to be a report that comes out that a scandal uh and the NCAA is about to do an investigation on you guys' family so looking around like on who for what say uh there's a report that you guys took money to come here so I'm like okay cool how much we talking boom he said 180,000 looked at my mama my mama looked at me we bust out laughing are you did like for real we laughing coach chis ain't laughing I was like oh you for real so I'm saying to myself I'm looking at my mama mama you got 180 pop you got like well I'm from you can't hide that type of money I Ain never seen a I ain't never seen ,000 let alone1 180 to 200,000 right that'll be hard to hide especially man in our house but we going man I done find so much from PlayStations the Sega Genesis the all that that they tried to hide from us I'm like man how who right who got it it was it was a suspicion to us like who got this money that y'all proclaiming us to have got and he was just reporting news he like listen I don't know who did it or who got it but the NCAA is about to open an investigation and uncover as much as they possibly can okay and during that stint from that week on throughout even the national championship that burden was always on and I no longer was an amateur athlete I had to operate as if I was a CEO I had to operate and be stoic and and be strong and and and when somebody would ask cam you all right yeah yeah yeah I'm good no good and well I was suffering in silence nobody could could could go through what I went through not my family not my teammates not my coaches not only am I being investigated throughout the day I'm trying to play the best form of football that I possibly can during game time and I'm going through so much I can't I can't speak to them I'm talking to my dad I'm talking to my brothers I'm talking to you know my family but they don't get it they they they there for support but it's not like we understand what you saying that's the only thing that they can say and I'm saying to myself bro it's hard we playing after that you got LSU you got Arkansas you got Georgia you got all these games that I'm like yo on top of that this is the greatest season that the Auburn university has ever had you got Alabama how are you doing this I was having an outer body experience in in my body like I'm like yo I'm surprising myself with the measure of focus that I had to go through and still that's what brought my family closer because even though I know even though I knew still to this day nobody took money from it that was just a grenade thrown into the crowd to just have a bitter person he didn't come to my school so he had to have taken some money to go to that school because we had already had a relationship but I was thinking to myself you didn't play me while you was at Florida these are all things that I'm saying like I seen your true self right I didn't want to get burnt twice so on top of that these things are happening and through it all by the like I say by the grace of God I was able to Ste perform at a high level and my father jumped on that grenade knowing good and well he ain't take no money knowing good and well he said look how can we allow my son to play well we gonna need somebody to take the to take this rap my father said without blinking I I'll take it paint me however you want to paint me right I'll do it for my son he going to be eligible to play cool I'll take it well Cecil you can't you can't come to no more games and still to this day it was told while during the hman ceremony they said I think it's best for you not to show up for that I took that person and the person that meant the most that had the greatest impact on Cam Newton the player the man that he became at his At His Highest moment to date the man that meant so much to you couldn't be there to share it with you could not share the moment I remember winning the hosman ceremony stuttering I was nervous but I I didn't want to be there I wanted to be with my dad I wanted to be with my family cuz this was my opportunity to to show my dad like thank him to thank him but also my dad challenged me every day boy that's not right boy you got to be a man I'm seven 8 12 13 15 17 still in college son you got to be a man that ain't no man take responsibility take accountability this was this was me showing him pop I'm being a man pop look at me look at what you created man man this us this ain't just me this ain't Cam Newton this for our whole lineage this is for the whole Newton name this what you created let me share that with you everybody was excited but I they stripped that from me right but Archie Manning that ain't no question but if it's Lamar ball that's a problem Deion Sanders oh he playing all that the these are great forms of King Richard men who meant so much and that was trying to put their family in the best situation Tiger Woods father those these people my father has did nothing wrong and was painted as a villain still to this day he still ain't been back to Auburn truth be told do you get an opportunity to get back to Auburn yeah but I ain't never been back to the Heisman right for what they didn't care about my family at that point in time because if they knew we was telling everybody like 180,000 200,000 you can't hide that not in my community not in my culture you would have seen it in a car you would have seen it in a house you would have seen it in a something y a business the church something they couldn't find nothing and this was an investigation that took place for more than about 3 to five years nothing but when I'm suffering and all everybody really cared is are you all right can you play I Was ineligible for a day and boy what we going to do I got eligible again and now every it put everybody at ease not knowing that like bro y'all at ease I'm not at ease yeah but I I used those what is it 12 minutes I used that 40 minutes or 42 minutes on Saturday to inflict what was being inflicted to me complete disregard to how I felt and whoever I was playing they was going to feel me so you're seeing a lot of examples of me using my circumstance not letting my circumstance use me right Jimmy Clawson Tim TBO Urban Meyer the NCAA Dan mull Dan man somebody got to pay for this and I'm doing this is a peaceful protest sort of speak I ain't going off the rail and saying like man let me tell y bro y'all y'all y'all doing too much NCAA you call them a house you know people with reports of ESPN all everybody CNN like this was big news you don't care about my family people were staking out of my house asking like did you do it going into stadiums where they disrespecting me by playing Son of a Preacher Man like these are these are facts right all scam Newton you think what I'm saying yes this Ain it's a whole thing that people ain't thinking about what I went through right and I'm telling you like bro that ain't that's what I displayed there is no different than what an average black man or a black family goes through on a regularity it may not be through Sports it may be through circumstance Mom working two and three jobs to provide single parent or the father's is is not around or he's trying to provide as best as he can these are all uh uh trauma that I was lucky to use that trauma to put on my shoulder to say I I gotta keep going I got to keep going this my way out I ain't about to be no doctor I ain't about to be no lawyer I'm about to be a football player and I don't care what my circumstance is I got to perform and put that compart aliz that put that away for these 42 minutes while I show the world I'm the best football player the game The Iron Bowl mhm you guys go down 24 nothing that team is loaded that's that may be the best Alabama team ever you guys are in Tuscaloosa you fall behind 24 nothing yep that would you say Carolina put your but that was the game that was your you know say a Heisman moment you had a Heisman game the entirety of the game from the point that you were down 24 nothing could really be your highlights and you don't need any others yeah what's going through your mind what's go what's the team psyche at that point in time you're in Tuscaloosa yeah that's your chiefest rival that's the that might be the greatest rivalry in in in college sports I understand Duke North Carolina Ohio State Michigan but they're not in state yeah and it's divided you either love Alabama and hate Auburn you either love Auburn or you hate Alabama there is no in between it ain't no cousins know it's bad blood yeah and I didn't know that and I think coach chisik did a great job leading up until that week because that always will be the game around Thanksgiving mhm and school's out right that's just the first uh uh introduction to what professional sports will be all we had to do is prepare for that game you know Training Table work out watch film whatever and he would give us speakers to talk about what that game was like now me being at the University of Florida I was a part of some rivales Georgia Florida Florida Florida state Florida Miami I witnessed all of them they were rivalries but the Iron Bowl is a little different it's a different energy different I remember going to the game and they had cancelled our um tiger wal that's when you get off the bus and then you have your fans and I asked I said why we don't got Tigo wall simple question or simple answer was it's just not safe damn we in kind of in this amateur sports right mm man we was approaching you know the stadium this the bus rocking bus rocket and I remember looking outside it was a couple who had to be 70 plus they flicking us off damn it's Grandma Grandpa all they all about it me on them was flicking us all and I said oh it's that type of game when we entered or when I entered the stadium on the field they throwing you know beer bottles and beer on like oh it's that type of game all right I see what we got going this disrespect is overload we go down 24 I'm okay cool we got to score before halftime I'm saying to myself bro cam if you going to do anything great just going to cement your legacy right here and dare I just make it all about me because we had unbelievable effort from Nick Fairley uh the defense um Terrell Zachary Darin Adams uh Michael Dyer uh lee zimba like these guys were a part of that puzzle to get us to it now I got a lot of the credit but these were the unsung heroes too and I just remember making it so personal like we this ain't where we stop at we got to keep going right and as you know being an athlete that's what gives you that stamp of approval that we want to hear what your take was what was it like in the locker room did you have to grab somebody by their shoulder p and say we got 30 more minutes to impact the rest of our lives what we going to do I'm about to barbecue you going to get a plate let's rock and roll them type of stories you can't get by just reporting the news cuz it it take a different measure of of of experience and even though Travis Kelsey may be able to be talked to in this type of way you can't talk to Shannon sharp like that sometimes you don't even got to talk to him you just got to look you straight bro those type of connections or Wifi is is something that only having the experience in the game can share that and I did not want that opportunity to be missed because I was fighting so much more off the field that on the field was just a playground that was my place of Refuge you can't talk to me reporter while I'm playing yeah I'm at peace blah la la la la la la la la and every time I ran I ran with with with with a I wanted to hurt somebody cuz I was hurt and I Ed it as a way to give me my Edge want to join Club sh Shay become an official member by hitting that subscribe button where you never know who's going to be joining us for drinks and conversation don't be late to the party because you know we like to do something before to something

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Published: Thu Apr 11 2024