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It appears former Auburn and NFL quarterback Cam Newton is coming clean on some things, like what happened between himself and Auburn University, and why he won’t go back to the Heisman Trophy ceremony each year.
You can read more in this excellent piece by Chris Novak on Friday on awfulannouncing.com (Cam Newton says he won’t ever attend Heisman ceremony again ), but apparently, when Newton won the trophy in 2010, the Heisman people, Newton claims, didn’t want his father, Cecil Newton, in attendance for the ceremony due to the controversy that surrounded Cam with his Auburn recruitment – and subsequent NCAA troubles.
The troubles were caused when Newton, who had started his career at Florida, wound up at Blinn Community College in Texas, and then picked Auburn over Mississippi State. Newton now admits to phoning then-Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen to tell him he’d be going to Auburn.
The NCAA allegedly had a money trail from Newton to Auburn, based on at least two sources – Newton claimed this week on Shannon Sharpe’s YouTube broadcast, Club Shay Shay, that the sources were Mullen and his wife.
Newton addressed (in part) the situation and also talked about why he won’t go back to the Heisman presentation.
“And still to this day, it was told during the Heisman ceremony, they said, ‘I think it’s best not to show up for that.’ I took that personally,” Newton said, talking about his father. “I remember winning the Heisman, stuttering; I didn’t wanna be there–I wanted to be with my dad. I wanted to be with my family because this was an opportunity to show my dad. To thank him, and also, my dad challenged me every day.”
Newton told Sharpe he won’t go back to the trophy presentation because “they didn’t care about my family.”
He also said his dad hasn’t been back to Auburn since his playing career.
Cam has attended Auburn games in the past. Have those feelings changed?
