FOXSports.com is reporting that Auburn quarterback Cam Newton had three separate instances of academic cheating while enrolled at Florida in 2007 and 2008.
Newton was arrested for the theft of a laptop from a Florida student’s dorm room in November 2008. He again violated the university’s honor code by putting his name on another student’s paper and turning it in, according to the source. Newton was caught after the instructor asked the real author of the paper why he had not turned in his work, the source said.
According to the source, after the student said he had turned in a paper, he and the instructor went through all the submissions and discovered that Newton had put his name on the paper in question.
Newton subsequently turned in a second paper to the instructor, but it was later found to have been purchased off the Internet, according to the source. The source said Newton was to appear for a hearing in front of Florida’s Student Conduct Committee during the spring semester of 2009 but instead transferred to Blinn College.
This report comes less than a week after ESPN.com report that a man named Kenny Rogers claimed to represent Newton and allegedly sought $180,000 for to attend Mississippi State. Newton and Auburn maintain that the 2010 Heisman candidate has done nothing wrong, but this latest report makes you wonder what else is yet to come out.
Meanwhile, the Tigers currently rank No. 2 in the BCS standings and have a date with Georgia this Saturday. They control their own destiny in the SEC West, although they have to travel to Tuscaloosa in two weeks to take on Alabama so they have a tough road to hoe.
