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Cam Newton is an electric player when it comes to college football, he is the leading candidate for the Heisman trophy and he has lead Auburn throughout their current undefeated season. A story came out this week talking about how he was involved with a former Mississippi State player who was trying to get Newton to sign with his former school. As the report said he represented the Newton family and he wanted almost 200,000 dollars from the the university to send Cam Newton there to play. Now I have no idea if these allegations are true or false, but I do know one thing for sure there is absolutely no room for this in college football. College football is a game of passion and tradition because the players do not recieve any money for their play, they play simply out of love for their game. This same idea keeps popping up in the news almost every year, players getting paid to sign with different colleges. All I know is that it ruins the game of college football that so many people includiong myself know and love.  
The NFL is a money based league, football on the college level at this point is not. That is why you see college players fighting for their school and pro football players holding out or skipping practice. On the college level it is strictly football, not money and politics. If players in college recieve money for their play it will simply taint the game and turn college football into a game full of big egos and salaries. If these allegations are true about Cam Newton then what will happen? Reggie Bush got his Heisman taken away for recieving money this year and I hope the same tough jurisdiction for every player who gets paid to play in college. I know that it happens all of the time and there is really little anyone can do to stop this from happening, but I really wish that instead of numbers of wins or national championships, coaches got paid for integrity. Integrity is what the game needs, paying players is no different from a baseball player taking HGH. It needs to be stopped before it ruins the game that I love.