March 31, 2022 · 6:30 AM

“It wasn’t a duffel bag.”

Man, paying recruits to come play at a school will be the death of college football as we know it.

I bet Spurrier enjoyed that even more than Taylor did.

(h/t AirForceDawg)

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34 responses to ““It wasn’t a duffel bag.””

  1. ApalachDawg aux Bruxelles
    March 31, 2022 at 6:39 AM

    this has been going on since the days of Jim Thorpe

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  2. Derek
    March 31, 2022 at 6:43 AM

    I also believe the ex-Auburn players who say they weren’t paid. Whatever they say, its 100% true.

    The good thing about NLI is that you buy a child WITH a contract so no bag man to be can be hurt in the process. Always protect the most vulnerable. And here that’s the child purchaser obviously.

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    • Senator Blutarsky
      March 31, 2022 at 7:08 AM

      Sure sucks watching the sausage get made, doesn’t it…

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      • Derek
        March 31, 2022 at 7:40 AM

        Rather than watching I’d personally prefer to know that the package of sausage I am opening has previously been subjected to an effective set of rules and regulations designed to ensure that it was produced ethically, morally and hygienically. As an alternative we could spend years promoting the idea that all that regulation is ineffective and unnecessary and ignore the solitary voice out there saying: “you’ll regret it when you’re all puking your guts out” and then when everyone is sick and puking their guts out we could find an article from 1991 where that one guy in South Florida was puking up his Jimmy Dean’s. Isn’t it better now that we’re all sick and we know it? It’s difficult to argue with someone who thinks so.

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        • Senator Blutarsky
          March 31, 2022 at 7:49 AM

          The point isn’t that all regulation is ineffective. It’s that the NCAA is ineffective, or at least it was, at regulating such behavior. It was quite good at cartel, though.

          As Andy Staples put it this morning ($$),

          … The collective is taking a risk that the player will generate enough NIL money to cover the outlay. The pearl-clutchers will say that this subverts the intent of NIL laws, but anyone with a functioning brain knew it would always go this way. The schools colluded to cap this market for years — pushing it underground and pushing dollar values down. The market for the players was always going to reflect their potential value as football players and not their value as endorsers. So the collective that booked the deal with the player in question is hoping that player can bring money to the collective, but that is secondary to the desire for that player to bring wins to the football team that is adjacent to — but not affiliated with — that collective.

          If you want to turn your righteous indignation on someone, turn it on your fellow fans who put an oversized value on entertainment.

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          • Derek
            March 31, 2022 at 8:11 AM

            Can’t I have some righteous indignation for saying what Staples says there over and over through the years only to either be ignored OR told I was dead wrong? Aren’t I owed a mea culpa?!?!

            I’m not going to suggest that the ncaa was an effective enforcer of the rules. There are ways short of eliminating the rules to address that.

            I definitely agree that far too many put blinders on when it comes to college sports and only care 1) if their own team is winning and 2) whether they are entertained. I can’t say that isn’t unique when it comes to society at large though. A whole lot of me first, superficiality and not a ton of intelligent introspection going on out there.

            “But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.” I’ll be here holding the mirror up to it as long as I have breath in me.

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        • classiccitycanine
          March 31, 2022 at 9:20 AM

          I’m not puking at all. I love that players are getting an unrestricted shot at compensation that is in line with their full market value. I’m enjoying the feast now that college sports are a lot less exploitive.

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          • Derek
            March 31, 2022 at 12:36 PM

            You can find someone to defend anything. If history teaches us anything its that what is acceptable to some, all or many has little to do with its intrinsic morality.

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            • classiccitycanine
              March 31, 2022 at 12:54 PM

              Great point Derek. That’s exactly why I support the new NIL compensation model. The old amateur model was unfair, exploitive, and immoral. Of course that didn’t stop people from defending it with high minded moral rhetoric, as you rightly pointed out.

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              • chopdawg
                March 31, 2022 at 1:03 PM

                And all those gullible young men and woman who were dragged into that corrupt system, kicking and screaming!! My heart hurts for them all.

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                • Derek
                  March 31, 2022 at 1:09 PM

                  Aspiring to be a scholarship athlete at a university is the product of either a diseased or coerced mind. Possibly both.

                  You’d never have gotten me to wear a football uniform and run out of the tunnel into Sanford Stadium at full capacity for nothing but a free education. Who am I? David Pollack? The fool!

                  Fucking Stet paid his OWN way to do it?

                  He must be a complete and utter moron.

                  You must agree.

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    • ryanthepmgncom
      March 31, 2022 at 10:33 AM

      Yeah gotta protect those children. God knows all that cash could give them CTE if it hits em in the head!

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  3. Gaskilldawg
    March 31, 2022 at 6:57 AM

    I used to be friends with a former southern college football coach who was on the staff for a couple of the Goff years. He was coaching at another school when the NCAA put us on probation for the Palm Beach County deputy sheriff matter. UGA admitted violations including that the deputy was “a representative of Georgia’s athletic interests.” UGA offered to serve penalties that I thought were more harsh than I thought would be reasonable. I asked my friend why UGA would fold as it did, and his answer surprised me. He said UGA wanted to offer itself up to “end the investigation before the NCAA finds out what Coach ________ was doing down in Florida. ” We would have been recruiting Taylor at the time of the deputy matter.
    Reading this post fits what my coaching friend told me over 20 years ago.

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    • akascuba
      March 31, 2022 at 7:07 AM

      Hey I’m in Palm Beach County they would never do anything wrong here. Illegal cash handed off in the Gold Coast never happened. It must have been some other body who done somebody wrong. 😇

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      • Down Island Way
        March 31, 2022 at 9:36 AM

        Is this conversation less about something, something UGA or more about there wasn’t a hand bag, sack, back pack, envelope or a FU hand shake this dude ever said NO too…#FTMF

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  4. Ran A
    March 31, 2022 at 7:56 AM

    Realize that this is about athletes being paid; but what I enjoyed is UF folks talking about “those were the days”… Well, them days is over with…

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  5. chopdawg
    March 31, 2022 at 8:54 AM

    Who is this Will Compton and why should we believe him?

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  6. RangerRuss
    March 31, 2022 at 9:28 AM

    I always found it best to keep my fuckn mouth shut about things the general public doesn’t need to know.

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  7. FlyingPeakDawg
    March 31, 2022 at 10:12 AM

    Some kids want to attend their favorite school. Some want an education. Some just want to play ball. Some just want the money.

    Some alumni want to pretend they are a GM. Some just want to “help”. Some are asked to help.

    Some assistant coaches won’t cut corners. Some do. Some do what’s necessary. Some cover for their HC’s.

    Some HC’s won’t play the game. Some just look the other way. Some see to it that a system is in place.

    This has been all true for years. NIL has simply changed the structure and brought some transparency to it. AD revenues, TV contracts, spending and coaching staffs and salaries are all skyrocketing, but some are deeply offended that the SA’s are now participating in this increased wealth? Stanford just signed for $160M, but he wasn’t worth anything extra when #8 jerseys were flying off the shelves in the bookstore while he was at UGA?

    This was the problem…the schools could have let the kids participate in the increase in value their skills were bringing to the table. Instead, the adults hoarded it (see Scott, Larry…plush offices). Is NIL and collectives the best way to handle this? Of course not. But those in charge had their chance to fix this…multiple times…and failed. We alumni and fans did not hold them accountable. The market has now taken control…just like before. Don’t blame the kids. They’re still pawns in the game, but some are just a little richer.

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  8. godawgs1701
    March 31, 2022 at 10:37 AM

    All I see there is that Spurrier knowingly played an ineligible player. lol

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    • RangerRuss
      March 31, 2022 at 12:32 PM

      I always hear how SOS ran such a clean program with no cheating blah blah blah as if that made up for the fact that he was an insufferable prick as well a very poor sport. That’s all a bunch of chickenshit lies. In the end Spud ended his college football career the same way he started it, with a big ol’ embarrassing ass kicking from the Dawgs. I hope that haunts his dreams.
      Fuck that asshole.

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  9. gobblinglawyer
    March 31, 2022 at 12:44 PM

    Send his ass a 1099.

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