What does it take to win a national championship? In order to keep preserve Cam Newton's eligibility, Auburn University was willing to shell out six figures.The Birmingham News reported Wednesday that Auburn has spent approximately $170,000 in attorney fees during the ongoing Cam Newton NCAA investigation. Lightfoot, Franklin, White LLC, the school's Birmingham-based legal counsel has once again pulled in the big bucks defending a high profile NCAA investigation.
Michigan paid the same firm $600,000 during its recent infractions case, and Connecticut paid $338,000 over 12 months during the investigation of the Huskies basketball program.
As the report details, spending such a large amount of money for legal counsel is not unusual with such a high profile investigation. After all, Auburn was competing for a national championship - a reward that holds no price tag in the hearts of Tiger fans.
However, if you are measuring dollar amounts against each other, it should be noted that Auburn's need for legal assistance is likely far from complete. The NCAA has issued no ruling to completely close the Newton case at Auburn. Some would assume with Newton gone, the trouble would go away. But after a Heisman Trophy and National Championship, this story isn't fading away any time soon.




...i guess you have a high opinion of me there boss man..lol. i am not too big to admit that BAMA has more NC's than AU. you say you guys are considered in everyone eyes to be far superior to us, however, you have been far from that the last decade which is the time frame that im referring to. not sure how you are superior to us when we have beat you 8 out of the last 11 games. maybe the history of your program has more to show than AU. your statement about AU has failed every YEAR in my life is far from correct. do your research before you pull statements out of your ass. undefeated in 93', 04'(screwed out of NC game), and then of course this year. you are not going to like the fact that we have owned you the last decade so of course you are going to refer to total NC's as opposed to the last the decade, just as im going to talk about the last decade as opposed to NC's. we could go back and forth forever on this but lets just agree to disagree. i so anxiously await your response.