Why do so many Alabama Crimson Tide football players drive nice cars?
Derrick Henry:
Dre Kirkpatrick:
Ronnie Harrison
Jarren Reed:
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Police say Alabama defensive lineman Jarran Reed was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. Tuscaloosa police say Reed was stopped early Sunday after hitting another car while both backed out of parking spots. Police say Reed drove a 2011 Dodge Charger toward the parking lot's exit before he was pulled over.
Ha Ha Clinton Dix:
The night before Ha Ha Clinton-Dix was set to leave Alabama headed to Florida to visit his family, he loaded his car with all his essentials: clothes, shoes, an iPad ... and money.
Overnight, his 2012 Dodge Charger was broken into. The Alabama standout safety was easy prey for robbers, with his doors left unlocked and his vehicle loaded with valuables, including about $200 in cash, a source close to the situation told Sporting News.
Altee Tenpenny:
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A 20-year-old college football player was killed in a one-car crash in Mississippi, a local coroner said Wednesday. Altee Tenpenny was pronounced dead at 6:57 p.m. Tuesday at Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville, Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson told The Associated Press. Tenpenny, who played at Alabama in 2013 and 2014, was taken to the hospital after he wrecked a 2008 Dodge Charger near the community of Glen Allan, Johnson said.
Trent Richardson (not a Charger but...)
On August 28th, 2011 Alabama running back Trent Richardson was pulled over for speeding in Chilton County, Alabama. The Crimson Tide star was going 85 in a 70 and the officer noted that he blamed the "large rims" on his vehicle for the speeding violation. What was the vehicle? A 2011 GMC Yukon which retails for in the neighborhood of $40,000 even without the added expense of new rims. Raise your hand if it makes sense that an "unemployed" athlete at Alabama with two children, no job, and a non-wealthy family could afford a brand new SUV. Put your hands down Alabama fans. Trent Richardson could be flying in his own private jet and you'd talk about how it's perfectly reasonable for him to avoid traffic this way.
DJ Fluker:
Trey Depriest:
$$$$$$$$$$$ the bagman cometh
Since when are 6yr old cars a sign of bagmen. Give it a rest.
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Hi Nick Saban!!!!!
standing in front of the neighbors car. His car is the truck across the street. He wanted to show off the new reflective tape on his bumper.
Derrick Henry's is a challenger and the last dude has a fusion.
wouldn't surprise me if a lot of colleges have the same setup osu did...they just got caught.
Let's not pretend Michigan doesn't have something like this too. I remember when I was in college and went to a movie with some friends, I watched the entire Michigan OL roll up in newer model SUVs. Each guy with his own SUV like a scene out of Swingers.
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Yep. Let's chill in the throwing rocks in a real glass house...
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You see the same thing around Ann Arbor.
yes, you're exactly correct. Many Michigan players drive very nice cars too. My roommate in college was on the team so I've explained how it happens on here before and here goes again:
A large percentage of the team in the 2000s drove brand new SUVs (Cadillac Escalade's, Chevy Tahoe's, etc) and equvilantly nice cars and I'm sure that's still the case. It was done 100% within compliance (and c'mon this would be way too obvious if it wasn't compliant) and here's how:
"Full" scholarship athletes get tuition, room and board paid for. So tuition is free and they get a monthly stipend for room and board.
Most regular students spend most of their typical room and board "budget" on rent (which is high in Ann Arbor compared to other places in Michigan), food and entertainment. These guys wanted to buy cars and made sacrifices in other areas of their budgets. Many of them lived in Ypsilanti and paid $200/mo in rent whereas many students paid $600/mo+ to live walking distance from class (and that's the average rent on which athletes' monthly stipend is based). They also get meals provided at the football facilities and don't do a lot of partying and going to the bar and things that other students are doing. So they spent the difference in rent and board on cars because that was their priority. $500/mo will lease you a really nice car and that's what they preferred compared to living close to campus.
Perfectly compliant, perfectly fine to do.
Not that I doubt this at all, but I saw Wilton Speight "driving" a moped with Drake Harris on the back of it while I was driving through A2. I even cackled a bit when I noticed who it was.
You kind of lost me when you said football players don't do much partying or drinking. From my experiences and understanding that is a smidge inaccurate.
Not when I was there....
In fact the best players didn't have cars or drove absolute pieces of shit on wheels. I saw that parking lot pretty much every day.
Braylon had a newer Explorer, but from what I understand, his Dad does pretty well for himself.
Believe it or not some of these players do actually come from parents with money. Not pretending to know all the details but I don't think we should point the finger at ourselves if we're not even sure we're guilty of the same thing.
The general point is that no one knows shit. Sometimes players drive nice cars, sometimes they drive beaters. And sometimes, players who are set to make millions or at least several hunderd K in a year or two don't care about short term debt, and get a nice car.
Or in OP's case, a $27k car...which is really only like $400-500/month on a 6 year loan.
Having parents take care of things like a car is more common, I think, when the kid is on scholarship. For me, when I got accepted to the Air Force Academy, my folks bought me a car since they didn't need to use the money they'd saved for tuition.
Nothing i wrote was excluding Michigan.
The last picture is a Ford Fusion. If you're going to break the rules, at least break them in style. Amateur
IN front of a Waffle House
I love Waffle House.
Yea, let's not knock the place that offers the worlds best chocolate chip waffles.
Not to mention smothered, covered and chunked hash brows
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Literally no fail, every time, freakin shells pecan shells in the waffle.
You've never had my chocolate chip waffles covered in bacon and syrup.
does that stuff go well with beer?
Perry's (the ratty old place across from Old Town) is pretty good for those of us who don't have the hookup. . .
Well, to be fair, you have never invited me over for chocolate chip waffles.
How's your hash brown game?
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I like em...
kinky.
Either that or sumthin sumthin sumpthin phrasing.
It wasn't even a Waffle House - it was some shack named Hot Wafflez! So I drive a Fusion, but I'm 50! And this guy was in front of a bobo Waffle House... C'mon, man!!!
55 and drive a Fusion as well. I like it.
Pure coincidence! Move along, nothing to see here!
There's literally only one charger in this post. I see a challenger, a charger, and a Ford Fusion.
Also, lots of young people tend to like the charger because it has the styling a muscle car but is also quite affordable. I love to pile on Bama like everyone else, but this looks like a case of "young athletes like cars that look powerful." Denard drove one when he was at Michigan and tons of other M team members had them when I was there.
Pure Canadian muscle.
I wonder if Sergio Marchionne is a 'bama fan???
New title: "Why is One Alabama Player Driving a Charger?"
Reed: Charger
Kitkpatrick: Charger
Tenpenny: Charger
Clinton Dix: Charger
That's four buddy.
Man, you have a lot of buddies, you must be real outgoing
I think the NCAA has more important things to worry about than Bama players getting free cars. Somewhere in the north players are stretching an extra 15 minutes and must be stopped! And have you heard that some players want cream cheese on their bagels? What the fuck is that about?!? The NCAA must focus on stopping these major injustices before they get to minor things like free cars, cash bounties for players, or rape charges.
Obviously /s
Clinton Dix
That Charger R/T that Ha Ha is driving can fly. It also has Ohio plates which implies that it's his car legitimately.
You think bag men's money can't cross state lines?
The likeliest scenario regarding cars (and the one that has actually been documented in places where this has been caught) involves local, friendly dealerships allowing players to use nice cars for no or little cost for months at a time. Thus issues with "dealership tags" and so on. Part of the suspicion raised in the OP is the possibility that one Tuscaloosa dealership (Dodge dealership, obviously) may be allowing a number of players to use cars.
Bag Man money is another possibility, but that is less likely to regularly express itself in the form of an expensive car because the money could be used for lots of other things, both by the player and his family. Plus, bag man money does tend to be local, and a lot of the bag man stuff seems to be smaller-time stuff. Rent payments, that sort of thing.
The kind of money necessary to support a $500/month car payment is not delivered in a bag to a doorstep. We are talking six-figure payment arrangements. That might be happening, but that's not bag man level.
Coached at OSU. He's learned from the best.
are dodge chargers nice cars? I was expecting to see newer and nicer cars.
Compared to most of their peers in college a brand new anything is nice.
body style since 2006. You can grab one under 10k, these are cars I don't look at and call nice.
So what's nice by your standards? A Rolls Royce? Lambo? Bugatti? That's probably a little bit too obvious to see football players driving those
check a corvette. A charger is equivalent to a camry, accord. It's a 4 door family car. It's a police car for god's sake. Heck Pryor driving a 370z at Ohio state was more suspicious. If your goal in life is to own a 06' charger then you're not aiming high at all.
Compared to the 1980 orange Ford Fiesta I was rolling around campus in, I would say a Charger is a pretty darn nice car.