OT for us all: meet the college football bagman

I'll just leave this here because I know the Recruiting Board loves them some North La.

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Enemy territory. Just as your team has boosters active in other states, so too are enemy agents inside your borders. In many cases they're concentrated in a single area, like an in-state rival's town, a town close to the border, or just an area with a concentration of sidewalk fans who support someone else.

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"Hey, how'd he get that ride? His uncle bought it. How did his uncle buy it? Paid cash. Paid cash, how'd he do that? shite, we don't know, but here's the receipt where he paid cash, and now y'all ain't got shite. Go tell the NCAA you think we're cheating because this kid's uncle bought him a used Tahoe in cash, you racist."

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The Bag Man excuses himself to make a call outside, on his "other phone," to arrange delivery of $500 in cash to a visiting recruit. The player is rated No. 1 at his position nationally and on his way into town. We're sitting in a popular restaurant near campus almost a week before National Signing Day, talking about how to arrange cash payments for amateur athletes.

"Nah, there's no way we're landing him, but you still have to do it," he says. "It looks good. It's good for down the road. Same reason my wife reads Yelp. These kids talk to each other. It's a waste of money, but they're doing the same thing to our guys right now in [rival school's town]. Cost of business."

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Malachi Dupre visited Oxford on 1/27/2014.

Also the part where he talked about their doing the same thing to our guys, LSU was still after Breeland Speaks

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I can only think of one SEC school that's consistently called by "the mascot" in conversation.

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Seriously? the Tigers, the Tide, the Gators, the Rebels, etc etc etc

Everyone call their team the ______ when talking to other fans..

Maybe, but most people use the school name to talk about LSU, Ole Miss, Auburn. UF I can see being called the gators consistently. Not saying it's any kind of proof, and I really don't care, but 'the tide' is at least more popular in speech than saying 'the rebel black bears'... you would just say Ole Miss. I just thought it was curious.

The way they talked about a local rival I just feel like it has to be the mississippi or alabama schools. But, it's every school tbh.

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Everyone call their team the ______ when talking to other fans..

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I don't. I say LSU. Mizzou fans I know say Mizzou. Mississippi State fans I know say State. Ole Miss fans I know say Ole Miss.

I don't know if I know anyone that refers to their school by the mascot.

Certainly don't know anyone that actually went to the school that would refer to it that way.

That settles it

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or name your child after a famous player or coach

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