Link: Barnie's website hacked by media

JBama_in_PCOLA said:

Auburn said that their website was hacked whenever Rashaan Evans announced he was going to Bama. I'm not so sure about that one. It took them that long to figure it out? Sounds like a bunch of cow manure....


What say you?

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/07/auburn_tells_ncaa_leaked_bio_o.html

Also check out their list of self reported violations. WOW!

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PacadermaTideUs said:

OK. So I plugged all those self-reported dates into excel just to do a little calculation. And I guess another way to factually put it would be to say that Auburn committed a violation approximately every 8.25 days. On average, of course.

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Feb. 5: A bio page for Rashaan Evans is discovered via a "hack" by "media personnel." The prospect, who had yet to sign with a school, later chose Alabama over Auburn.

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TideMan09 said:

If the NCAA allows that excuse then I'll lose what speck of respect fro the NCAA I had left..All it boils down to is The Barners thought Evans was a sure thing, so much so, they let his pre-mature commitment to them get out a tad bit to soon, just fess up to it, and don't look like idiots with a bogus excuse like that..Man up Barners..Heck..Evans was a surprise get for us as well..We already had him penciled him in signing with The Barn..Just fess up to the mistake..And remember anything can & usually does happen on signing day..Especially with Coach Saban recruiting..

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AlistarWills said:

This has bugged me since it happened, with the excuses they gave. I work in the IT field so I have a little experience with this. Basically, the page was created, which I'm sure any school would do for a kid they think is going to commit to them just so they can publish when the announcement happens. All you have to do is publish it when the announcement is made instead of trying to create the page on the fly. So, with all that said, the page doesn't get a URL till it's published on the site. agbarn published the page because they thought he was a lock. Furthermore, what about the Youtube video they produced with his highlights and their logos, and uploaded. That video was embedded in the page they published and had to be put out on Youtube well before that morning so the bio page could be created.
I love how they painted with a broad brush and said "the media" found the URL instead of pointing at one specific news source so they couldn't be hit with a libel suit.

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"Media personnel were able to hack into the site and 'find' the code to pull up the bio," Auburn officials explained in a self-reported violation submitted to the NCAA in March.

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