How much cheating actually goes on in the SEC?

Oodles. The issue with fans isn't the cheating, it's the fact that certain fanbases are absolutely stupid enough to believe their rival is corrupt and their program is clean. That's god-mode level denial and laughable as hell.

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Are we cleaner or dirtier as a league then we were say, 20 years ago?

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Cleaner. Too much technology, too much ability to get the information out on the Internet. It forces coaches and boosters alike to worry a lot more about how easily the news can get out. That's not to say it's clean, just a bit cleaner.

Aubie fan asks obvious question with obvious answer.

Wheres the Saban dossier?

I think most of the coaches do their best to retain plausible deniability with current players, but it’s not exactly a well kept secret among anyone close to the program that boosters often take care of rent/car payments/etc. at a pretty high rate. When players return for their senior season when they’re projected to be drafted that is almost a guaranteed situation where they’re getting taken care of.

Recruiting stuff is kept much closer to the vest, it seems. There’s no doubt that there’s cheating going on in the high level recruiting battles, but I think 75-80% of recruitments are pretty clean.

Seems like much of the shift of "benefits" in the last couple decades has gone from the player to all the people who influence the player… i.e. parents coaches, uncles, "handlers" etc. in the form of untraceable things such as job opportunities , house sitting gigs, contracts awarded etc

Define cheating.

Speeding ticket level stuff like players getting low value free stuff like any other local celebrity?

Tons and it happens everywhere, not just the SEC.

Legitimate mild-to-moderate NCAA issues like arranging accommodations/transportation/ect for recruit family & friends?

Probably infrequent but not exactly uncommon.

High volume level 1 stuff? Not that much. Like someone else said, technology makes it much harder to keep that under wraps for very long.

Every recruit on a visit to a school is getting impermissible benefits to a degree. Most of these recruits will meet a booster who will help them out if they go to that school. Usually the recruits learn that they can get free food and free drinks at certain restaurants and bars in town. If you believe boosters are throwing crazy money around for these kids you're wrong.

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How much cheating actually goes on in the SEC?

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Lots

I’ve personally witnessed boosters paying players small petty cash twice. Once at Ole Miss to Patrick Willis in the Grove in the tent I was in. Gave him $500 to “have some fun” after a game. This was a good friends Dad.

And a guy gave Perrilloux a wad of cash to play video poker at Daiquiri Cafe like a week before he won us the SEC championship game.

Perrilloux was also smoking cigarettes

ETA: and I know some boosters in Baton Rouge that are parents of my friends that give players “jobs” for extra cash, this technically legal though because they do work...somewhat.

One guy had Jamarcus Russell “babysit” him when he was in high school. Russell would just chill alone at the house on a Friday night watching tv.