Bagman question
As I was reading the earlier thread about what the Rome trip cost, it dawned on me that I had no idea what the going rate is for paying a player to come to your school. Did Laquon Treadwell, for instance, get 25K per year? 50k? I am sure it varies by how good the player is. I seem to remember speculation that Rashan Gary could have made a quarter million if he had gone somewhere else.
My city has made retailers charge 10¢ for a bag with handles. Most people use reusable bags.
What about boxers or briefs???
What is "Post-grad job training for MSU grads," Alex?
....as well as....
Rumor is Cam asked for 250k if I remember correctly.. No idea what someone who's not Heisman/first overall caliber commands
This is a strange question and I'm not sure of 2 things: one, how you could expect anyone to know the answer on the board and more importantly, why you would want to know??
It is widely accepted by people around here (including me) that there is dirty stuff going on in college sports, especially in the SEC. However, don't believe every wild rumor you hear; it is likely that the more authoritatively a person states that a certain player was making an astronomical sum (such as the occasionally floated "He had to take a paycut when he went to the NFL (NBA, NHL, etc) you know") the less accurate such a statement is.
The "bag man" cash amounts discussed in the article are almost certainly relatively small. But those might be, depending upon the situation, just window dressing. Remember that the most incriminating piece of evidence in the Laremy Tunsil revenge dump was Tunsil asking a guy for rent money for his mom. That's not a five-figure payment we're talking about. Things might get into five figures over a guy's career in those amounts, but not in large quantities. The Alabama Dodge dealership car loans to all of those Bama players? Seems incriminating, but how much does that actually cost the dealer? Maybe not that much.
The truth is, we don't know. We can suspect and we can guess, but we don't know.
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Neon Boudeaux got a Lexus, but he also adorably wrestled with small white children...
Logged in to say nearly the exact same thing. You beat me to it. +1 to you.
It took me over 20 years to realize how silly that first name was.
And Butch McRae got a house.
Sept 2---please hurry!
The first rule of being a bagman is you do not talk about being a bagman
Bagman.
...I would say that OP is a closet Spartan trying to get someone on here to boast about something that could hurt our program.
at least 200k, which I respect.
Teams need to pay their players more like Clemson. A steady rise up the recruiting rankings that correlates with at least some success is infinitely more believeable than LOLe Miss. I guarantee you Dabo got bagmen runnin around, and I respect it.
hard hitting questions here...
1. Do "bagmen" still actually carry duffel bags of money? suitcases? Or are they wiring money in these modern times?
2. Do the bags initially come with those expode-with-blue-ink-bank-style things in case the recruit is a mole?
3. Why haven't luggage companies approached someone about being a sponsor? "Today's game is brought to you by Samsonite, maker of the first holds $1,000,000 briefcase."
The board has spoken, and I bow to their verdict. LSA 1986 grad here. Rome was great, totally legal. Bagmen not so much. Just curious, but apparently should have let it kill the cat.
You don't talk about Bagmen.
but seriously, the sums are typically smallish, money enough to be flush but never enough to be traced back nor big enough to raise questions amongst the Staff or AD...
You really should read the Field Guide to the Bagmen of the Eastern United States....know your signs:
It's "common knowledge" in the south that Auburn gave him $200,000+ to play for them. Does this answer your question?
The Rome trip cost about $6,000 per person (coaches, players, staff, etc.).
I'm not sure why you got downvoted. Legitimate topic, as far as I'm concerned.
I've seen at the prep basketball level one family pay well into five figures per year to get other kids to come to our school to play. Most of that was in tuition, transportation, etc. and not straight up cash.
At the high major recruiting level, Sam Webb and others said that Rashan was offered in the six figures by at least one school. Mid-six figures iirc. I've never seen that kind of offer myself, but it doesn't surprise me at all based on what I have seen. In fact, I'd be surprised if a player like Rashan wasn't offered something like that.
The only former player that I know of that is relatively open about his recruitment experiences is Jalen Rose, who in the past claimed that schools, "wine'd and dine'd" him, gave him money and that if he was "not getting laid" during the recruitment visit then he wasn't going to go to that school.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/4/10/5594348/college-foo…
Take it at face value, a story....because it's pretty long. How much is truth is something I wouldn't have a clue about. All the smoke and mirrors with the phones sounds a little over the top, but who knows. Like minded people tend to find a way to find each other.