Auburn football: Jay Jay Wilson scandal adds to SEC drama

Auburn football has joined the fray when it comes to shady dealings with recruits after violations with the Alabama and Georgia football programs were implicated by well-known Georgia high school coach Rush Propst:

Needless to say, fans had some pretty witty responses to these allegations:

It was a fun day for Auburn football’s faithful…until a late afternoon bombshell rocked Tiger fans all over the map.

According to a lawsuit filed by a former university employee, Auburn football made sure that Jay Jay Wilson was eligible for the postseason through nefarious means:

"According to the lawsuit, Auburn “caused, or allowed to be caused, significant pressure to be placed on” a university professor to change a failing grade of D to a passing grade of C for a player identified as an Auburn football graduate transfer from Arizona State. Former Auburn tight end-/H-back Jay Jay Wilson is the only player from the 2019 team who fits that description."

If this is true, the Auburn football program will take a public lashing, but college football scandals tend to be swept under the rug pretty quickly in an ever-changing news cycle.

This is a bad look, by all means. Intimidating a professor to unrightfully grade a player’s course work for the semester is educational malpractice. That Wilson was far from an impact player (he had two catches for 12 yards in the Outback Bowl) makes it an even stranger situation.

Then again, given the fireworks the Rocky Top-McDonalds bags drama, and the Rush Propst scandal, it’s just another day in an SEC offseason.