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Must Read ***Interview With A Bag Man****
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:35 am
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:35 am
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Spencer Hall ?@edsbs And now, @38Godfrey talks to that most elusive of creatures: the bag man of the SEC. LINK …
There's a weird code of personal conduct for a bag man. It's okay to be flashy, but within the limits. Set up your lavish tailgate, put a deposit down on a luxury box, or name your child after a famous player or coach. After all, you're passionate enough to be paying, so you might as well enjoy yourself.
But while drawing attention to yourself is fine, drawing importance to yourself is forbidden. You are now somebody in one very small social circle but forever destined to be nobody in the public eye.
"Coach has met me a few times. I've talked to Coach. But Coach doesn't really know me from Adam. How many other folks do you think he meets a week? After he got hired, I walked up and shook his hand, and the guy introducing us says, "Hey Coach, this here's [first name], he takes care of stuff for us.' Now, what does that really mean? Do I charter planes for the university? Do I run a company that sells concessions to the stadium? Or do I make sure kids get taken care of? Coach doesn't know what I 'take care of.' He knows someone out there is doing this, and that's all."
"There's some guy I know. He's in the [official booster club for the university]. I've known him almost all my life; he's a friend of my family. Guy gives about $50,000 a year to the program. And so he gets to wear a jacket and have his name in the [annual alumni magazine] and gets to shake hands with the coaches and feel really goddamn important. I see this guy all the time, and we talk about the team, and he's always trying to big dick about how important he is to the program. Now let me ask you, who do you think is more important to this team winning next season? Him with his $50,000 getting bathrooms painted in the basketball arena, or what I do with not even a quarter of that much money?"
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Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:36 am to undecided
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:37 am to undecided
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:38 am to undecided
You'd think it wouldn't be that difficult to find out where he was during this period.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:39 am to undecided
Someone mention bag man?
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:41 am to undecided
Is a bag man the person who bags my groceries because I've been trying to think of something to call him.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:41 am to undecided
#DannySheridanApproves 
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:42 am to undecided
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"That in and of itself isn't a crime. Sometimes we go to the Waffle House."
Well, we know he's not in College Station, TX.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:44 am to undecided
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Remember, your job as a bag man isn't to hide the benefit. It's to hide the proof.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:45 am to UMTigerRebel
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Remember, your job as a bag man isn't to hide the benefit. It's to hide the proof.
That's the equivalent of "Thuggin means never having to say your sorry." - UTurn
This post was edited on 4/10/14 at 10:46 am
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:45 am to undecided
This guy is really dying to feel important.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:47 am to UMRealist
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You'd think it wouldn't be that difficult to find out where he was during this period.
Let's pray to the good Lord above that doesnt happen or we all might be fricked. Remember with Albert Means, Bama got the worst of it but Tennessee and Kentucky got nailed too. In the SEC we out bid each other so if one school goes down we all do
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:50 am to undecided
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You've probably read a detailed breakdown on some message board about how your rival school managed to land that prized wide receiver, and it probably involves something to do with a bank account.
The player might have been bought, but he didn't pop into the local savings and loan to pick up his check. Bank accounts carry more potentially traceable information than any other facet of an illegal payments system, even more than phone records. Yet in almost every popular Internet rumor about a recruit's family being paid off, there's some mention of a bank account or a slush fund that boosters pay into and athletes take out of.
"If you hear stories about bank accounts, they're fake. Why would there be a bank account? Yeah, I'm gonna open a checking account with statements someone could subpoena. Oh and hey, in this small town of however-many-thousands of people I'm gonna go in and open some account and then ask for a bunch of black teenagers to be put on there and ask for a bunch of debit cards they could get caught with. Why don't I just take out a fricking ad?"
Now he tells us
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:51 am to undecided
Bag man in action
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:54 am to undecided
Why's this Godfrey frick tellin our bidness?
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:55 am to five_fivesix
Scam Newton
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:56 am to undecided
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Often a full assessment of a recruit's situation reveals that a promise of cash payments isn't the way to go. Sometimes a recruit's family could be so far under the poverty line that any kind of sudden flush spending would draw the attention of the NCAA, or the recruit is so high-profile that he's receiving multiple cash gifts from competing boosters. That's when the personal touch becomes a better option.
"I've paid to put a single mother through rehab. It was the recruit's older sister. He's playing ball and mama's raising two grandchildren, his sister's kids. Mama's tired and doesn't want to raise another set of kids. So we make the calls and arrange for the daughter to go to rehab, then set her up with a job when she's done. Fast track her to a job at a private business, nothing suspicious. Now mama can enjoy her son playing and the daughter is back on her feet. And when it came time to sign, we made sure she saw something [cash], but I promise you that meant more than just money."
This was nice of him
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:03 am to everytrueson
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:04 am to undecided
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"We can only get away with whatever's considered reasonable by the majority of the folks in our society. That's why it's different in the SEC. Maybe that's why we're able to be more active in what we do. Because no one ever looks at the car or the jewelry and says, 'How did you get that, poor football player?' They say, 'How did they get you that and not get caught, poor football player?'"
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:04 am to undecided
I don't know what this means for the future, but I feel like saying NO SHITE?
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