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TLDR: This guy was on the Auburn personnel staff as a student assistant for 6 months, left for Tennessee, and got caught hacking into and sharing sensitive Auburn info with other SEC programs. The address/area listed to where the crime happened is also in the center of where Auburn's athletic facilities are on campus

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Additional info from Justin Hokanson of the Auburn On3 site —

This dude was a maniac

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"Jenrath was part of Hugh Freeze’s staff, and the new staff under Alex Golesh allowed him to stay on and earn an opportunity with the program. He worked in more of a student-assistant type role.

According to those sources, Jenrath was dismissed from Auburn’s football staff during the baseball Super Regional weekend after staff members saw him in the student section during a game. The sources said he had previously told Auburn personnel that he was sick and was not working because of that illness. After staff members saw him at the game, he was fired.

The sources said tensions remained between Jenrath and members of the Auburn football staff following his departure.

In late July, an anonymous email was sent to football personnel at roughly 11 other schools. The email came from an address using the name “Don Julio” and included 12 documents as attachments.

Sources said 10 of those documents contained recruiting evaluations involving prospects in Auburn’s 2027, 2028 and 2029 recruiting classes. The material included evaluations and notes from coaches and personnel staff about recruits.

The email’s subject line was also reportedly Golesh’s home address. Several schools that received the email reportedly forwarded the material back to Auburn.

Good on them for doing that, by the way.

Auburn personnel turned the information over to the Auburn Police Department. Investigators were eventually able to trace the email address back to Jenrath, according to sources.

The sources said Jenrath also continued contacting members of the Auburn football staff after the documents were distributed. They described anonymous phone calls in which the caller would remain silent before saying “Don Julio” and hanging up.

Sources also said Jenrath had recently posted on Instagram about having connections to people at Vanderbilt and Tennessee, and claimed to have provided information to them. Those sources said they were not aware of any additional sensitive Auburn information being provided to Tennessee.

Auburn, of course, plays at Tennessee this weekend.

The documents that were distributed did not contain Auburn’s playbook, NIL information or other details that would reveal the program’s plans, according to the sources. Instead, the information consisted primarily of recruiting evaluations and coaches’ notes about prospects.

A source familiar with the investigation said Auburn personnel believed the coaches’ evaluations and internal assessments qualified as trade secrets, which ultimately led to the criminal complaint.

The timing of the arrest also came shortly before Auburn’s trip to Tennessee. Sources said Auburn personnel wanted the situation addressed before the team traveled to Knoxville because of concerns that Jenrath could appear at the team’s hotel or otherwise cause a disruption.

According to the sources, a warrant was issued last week and Jenrath was notified that he needed to turn himself in. He did so Monday morning and was later released on bond.

Jenrath’s LinkedIn profile also lists an education history that includes the University of Tennessee. Sources said they were unable to find a record showing that he was enrolled at Tennessee.

Auburn has not publicly commented on the details surrounding Jenrath’s arrest beyond the information released by Auburn police. The charges against Jenrath remain allegations and the case will proceed through the legal system."

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