re: Have you ever partook or have first hand experience of cheating in the SEC

I also took a beer out of the hand of an alltime OM great QB when a bunch of cops walked into a bar and everyone knew he was underage.

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Had a HS teammate that had a corvette parked his driveway that was "his to use" had he signed with AU.UT must have outbid them because he ended up going to Knoxville.

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why didn't he just keep the car like Eric Dickerson?

The first girl I dated at LSU, her father wanted to be a booster really bad or some shite. He is a New Orleans lawyer fwiw. Anyway, we are on at the West Campus Apartments parking lot and he sees a few players and calls them over to his Porsche. He starts talking shop and compliments them on the last game they had, I believe it was 2011 Auburn. He then hands them each a 100 and tells them, "Keep the good work up, oh and my daughter lives here so keep an eye out for her" and talks about how he will email Coach Miles and how he's part of the gridiron club so Miles will really like to hear good news about how nice his players are off the field. Any time he would see them he would repeat this. It just felt creepy.


I've smoked with a few Bama and LSU players, all former

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I know someone who claims he gives players for an SEC school smalltime handshake money. Guys who are already at the school

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this. used to be called the "matchbox" hand shake because a c-note was folded and put into the box. it has been going on for decades. they used to have "functions" where the boosters met with the players and handshakes were plentiful. they probably have to use different methods these days.

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Yes. Once while working a Black Friday sale at my dad's store in University Mall, I personally allowed Robert Lester to use the Employees Only bathroom when he asked if he could go. I probably wouldn't have agreed were he not an Alabama football player

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NCAA sanctions inbound. Brace yourself.

The sophistication and subtlety now is what keeps most teams from getting caught. All teams cheat at some level. Every. Single. One. Including yours. Including mine. What got OM in trouble is going above and beyond and being sloppy.

One of the things I've heard of at a couple of places over the years is having players go to a place of business (usually clothing store or shoe store) and pick out whatever they want. They go to counter and say something like "I'm gonna check out a couple of other stores. Can you hold this for me behind counter and I'll come back to get it later? My name is X (never real name)". Then later someone else comes in, usually after a shift change, and says "you're holding something for me. My name is X" and pays for it. Gives to player later.

Mostly it isn't the school doing it, but people with some level of connection. One of OM's issues was school knowing/being involved.

Yes. I know Freddy Weygand. He paid Cam Newton 180k to go to auburn

I let Ramar Smith take an extra hit off the blunt.

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The first girl I dated at LSU, her father wanted to be a booster really bad or some shite. He is a New Orleans lawyer fwiw. Anyway, we are on at the West Campus Apartments parking lot and he sees a few players and calls them over to his Porsche. He starts talking shop and compliments them on the last game they had, I believe it was 2011 Auburn. He then hands them each a 100 and tells them, "Keep the good work up, oh and my daughter lives here so keep an eye out for her" and talks about how he will email Coach Miles and how he's part of the gridiron club so Miles will really like to hear good news about how nice his players are off the field. Any time he would see them he would repeat this. It just felt creepy.

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The father pimping out your girlfriend like that? Yeah, I bet that DID feel creepy.

I met a few Vandy athletes in college, and while I can't prove he was unqualified, I did hear one guy use a tertiary subjunctive with a predicate nominative gerund in a manner that suggested he might be faking his way through school and possible barely even knew the Latinate origins of the case.

I still feel guilty to this day for not reporting him to Compliance.