.....you should absolutely be talking about the ethics of college sports. But while you do please try to do the following:

1. Pretend like you are Sargent Joe Friday and just report the facts Ma'am!

2. Do not use the headlines to troll posters which you know would be affected to the negative by the news. In other words don't use the FBI investigation to provoke.

3. I know Auburn is involve through Chuck Person who got caught about as red handed as anyone can get caught. It is a fact of life and doesn't bother me. I only hope this will help clean things up everywhere. So I'm using myself here as an illustration. Talking about Person and how what he did might impact Auburn is fair game. Using it to hurl epithets and insults and couching it as talking about the news isn't fair game.

Now I selected Auburn because I haven't seen anything posted yet that seemed to me to be designed to provoke an emotional response from an Auburn fan.

There are however threads and posts that are beginning to cross that line where other schools are concerned. So....

4. .....consider yourselves to be on warning that if this situation is used for trolling you will be treated like people outside after curfew in a hurricane recovery zone. I will consider you to be looter and you will be dealt with accordingly.

5. There have been some great threads so far on this subject and some really fine posts as people reflect upon what needs to come out of this.
I've been impressed by the number of these kinds of posts and want to just encourage more thoughts along these lines.

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Now what I would like for you to do is not to comment in this open thread about the concerns I've expressed above, but to use this thread to post "NEWS ONLY" about any subsequent information that comes out about these FBI investigations.

So post the news, but do not add commentary on them in this thread. Let's use this thread as a go to for news to help cut down on duplicated threads about the news.

If you have something you wish to discuss that arises from the news then please place that in a separate thread.

Thanks! And I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on what should come in the aftermath of the investigations.