re: Bagmen of College Football

I’ll play. A tactic used by an SEC school was to get small town kids was to make sure a couple kids they grew up with were admitted to school (small town kids played rec leagues together) and booster use the non scholarship kids to funnel money and gifts via previous relationship.

One I saw was a Defensive guy that came out of a small town that had a very average classmate get into school paid by a booster. Any time the player needed anything it went through the other kid. Car, scooter, jet ski, cash etc would be given to the other kid for the classmate. Great deal for all involved. Kid got to go to the instate football school, booster got cover for gifts (nobody questioned pre existing relationship) and school got to pretend it didn’t know what was happening.