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Do schools really pay players??

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Everyone on Miami got at least a little something. If they are a d1 school kids are getting paid
 
Mackmiller974 said:
So I'm not really sure how recruiting goes behind the scenes. When people say GA and Bama and etc dropped the bag to land a recruit I always thought they were just talking ****. So is it true? Are schools boosters actually paying kids on a regular basis? How do they get away with this if so? Are we dropping the bag or are we a clean program? If not then why aren't we dropping the bag lol
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Not everybody, but many people do. Sometimes it’s a house, sometimes it’s a car, sometimes it’s a job for mom or dad. On occasion they pay people‘s bills or mortgage payments. As far as cash, it’s less common and usually happens when the big boosters come through The locker room after a big win. They hand out the $500 handshakes or plane tickets. When Derrick Thomas was at Alabama, he told me that when he wanted to fly home to see his mother, all he had to do was go out to the airport and an Alabama Alumni would make sure he got on the plane.

Dabo Swinney (Alabama Coach 1996-2000) was the bagman for Alabama when Mike DuBose was HC (1997-2000). That has to figure in to Clemson‘s rise in the ACC. Dabo learned the trade at Alabama and DuBose learned the trade from Bear Bryant, who’s favorite marching orders to his recruiters was “never pay more than the going rate”.
 
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Coach Macho said:
Nothing is more "in play" than us simply being trash on the field.
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Which is the reason I think Briles fixes this offense, and UM scores points with reckless abandon against everybody. When UM is up by 30 in the middle of the 4th, he substitutes in the younger guys and runs the same plays and keeps on scoring. Because it's the system, and I think south Florida stars will want to come play in that system. Modernize this dreadful offense. And Richt either needs to do it himself, or the next AD will do it for him. Hopefully.
 
It happens, but not every recruit can't be bought. If we're going to play clean, then we need to work on the on-field product to start competing. We're not there yet, actually far from it now that we have to reset what Manny Diaz brought on the defensive side of the ball.

The other equation is for the staff to identify which ballers will overlook the bags. The guys like Deejay, Malek, Lingard, Hightower. However, going all in on studs like Michael Johnson, Jr. or Evan Neal without playing the bag game or having anything to show for it on the field is just ridiculously stubborn of Richt. There's a plethora of talent you can win with that doesn't need require having to drop all the eggs in the 5* basket. Absolutely no fcking way that UCF is beating Auburn and going undefeated two years in a row with a bunch of 3*, low 4* athletes and a short QB from Mililani, HI, all the while we're dropping games to middle of the road ACC teams.

The recruiting efforts by the staff are just dumb and lazy. At least at Georgia, there were bagmen willing to do the dirty work whether or not Richt was aware of it. Miami, he don't have that.
 
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I just asked my friend who is a coach. D2. He said he’s never seen it there but he’s heard first hand accounts of the shenanigans at D1. He left it at that. One of my closest friends for 40 years. No bs
 
My dad had a friend that was a QB at a D3 school back in the day. After a win, they would come back to $100 bills stuffed in their locker room shoes. This was D3. Imagine what happens in SEC...
 
Cribby said:
We’re the Royals, Bama/Uga are the Sox/yanks.

We have some guys out there doing the equilivent of a small business , mom in pops.

But nothing close to the big dogs.
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Fixed. The Glass family are the cheapest mfers in MLB. And they got $$$.
 
OP, ever seen the movie Blue Chips with Nick Nolte, Shaq and Penny Hardaway?
If not, watch it.

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Being from Georgia they ALWAYS had the boosters. Kirby simply said “Buy every ******* piece of talent u see idgaf the price” and they went crazy.
 
Coach Macho said:
How do we sign kids who are being recruited by UGA/Clemson/Bama then?
Bags didn't work for them?
They weren't elite enough to receiver bags?
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We don't do the first very often lately( beat Bama/Clemson for kids).
I suppose bags didn't work or we matched/ came close on the few battles we do win.
I don't know if literally every player that is offered by Bama/UGA/ETC gets offered $$$. My guess is no. I would assume that only the 5 star prima donnas that let it be known that they are open to it get bags.
 
Everyone in the country is doing SOMETHING.....

To what extent shows how much they care about winning... blue bloods like Bama, Texas, OU, LSU, etc... get passes because of their huge network with alumni and just the sheer amount of money they bring in

Its when teams like Ole Miss, SMU and those kind decide to go all in do things get pretty bad
 
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It's mainly the parents or 'mentors' who reap the cash benefits. Harder to trace that way when you really think about it.
 
But short answer yes ... every team does it to whatever extent they can ... you know some are a little more obvious with it
 
Most big time players are getting "incentives" its not always money. Bagman ain't just handing over cash...they're moving families from Hawaii to Alabama. Or from South Florida to LSU so their parents can get a job conveniently near or on campus. Don't remember what recruit, but he was wanted so badly (by Texas I think?) that he was offered a share in an oil rig company.

Edit: I'll also add, they aren't doing huge things all the times. Some kids get offered "a future job if football fails".
 
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