Saw a bumper sticker that read, "National Championship Without Probation." Now this could refer to either of South Carolina's NCAA baseball championships in recent years. But I suspect it goes back to that time when Auburn had a quarterback named Cam Newton, the Gamecocks played them in the SEC championship, getting beat by about 80, and Auburn went on to win the national championship.
The supposition is that if Newton hadn't been allowed to play, we would have easily won the SEC and then the national title. Or if their title was disallowed due to probation, we could at least stake a claim to deserving the ring. But things didn't turn out that way. Although their coach didn't survive too much longer, I don't think they ever actually got any kind of probation or even punishment. But boy were we sure that they were going to go down. But we're not bitter.
As best as I can tell, the bumper sticker is no longer for sale anywhere, which isn't too surprising either. But it undercuts the possibility that it's about baseball.
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