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I highly doubt he is going to drive a Lamborghini in Rabun County.

 

Thought the samething when I 1st saw the post, 441 is well known for having various speed traps through that area of NE Georgia. Even 129 between Athens and Jefferson has its share of speed traps if you're not careful. I got stopped a couple of times traveling from Commerce to Athens in the Nicholson area of 441, and I was just going 5-10 miles over the speed limit.

Just one more note, during the 90's the vehicle of choice for UGA football players were Cadillac Escalades. It was a common occurance to see them on East Broad and Baxter near the University, or when a player was involved in some sort of vehicle accident it typically involved a Escalade.

 

Nice, I posted a story about Devin Moore in Doc's defense thread..

 

Well... they must not have made enough for a nice car or we'd know about it.

 

Great news.

 

What do you suppose Fred Taylor did with the 50k he said Georgia gave him? You think he came to UF for free if that type of money was available?

 

One or two super stars making money from some anonymous donor is not how UGA, FSU, Bama, Clemson and OSU operated well before the NIL. So someone paid Taylor, that's not indicative of a school's tacit approval of a mass pay to play operation. I doubt anyone in the UF administration was behind Fred's supposed 50K deal. The schools that I mentioned had several players making money, and buying cars with it, long before the NIL saw even legal. Those other school admins had to be in on it.

 

If coaches and admins just look the other way, there’s no need for them to have any first hand knowledge. What purpose would it serve to have your coach and admins complicit. The coach can be oblivious like the fans who think they are watching amateur sports.

 

Schools that had their football parking lot loaded with nice new cars were, HAD to be complicit. What I am saying is that most of our stars were riding scooters when this was going on at other schools. So to say that we were one of the schools that paid it's players doesn't fit the reality of the past. And even if one player got cash that's not what I am talking about here. I'm talking about there other schools that "looked the other way" so to speak. One player getting a friend to donate to his needs is NOT THE SAME thing as institutionalized fraud in pay-to-play schemes.

We're still catching up to those other schools that had "NIL" well before it was even legal. That is my point.

 

That's a true freshman!

 

we were definitely way behind but Leon Orr said every single player on the team was on the payroll. I don’t think he’s completely making up stuff out of thin air. We were definitely not one of the leaders and pay for play, but they were getting paid

 

Who was that?

 

Found it player was Teddy Foster CB correct?

 

Who are we rooting for here? Should we be moping because our best Offensive star couldn't score in a 1:1 situation or ecstatic that we finally had defensive back look like he didn't mind sticking his nose into a tackle? Its always a dilemma with these intrasquad activities on what to get excited about

 

Food money is not car and house money, the amount is what matters.

 

While player pay is probably much higher these days due to them openly able to negotiate vs. A booster telling them to take it or kick rocks but in no way we got players like Harvin, leak, VHIII, Fowler, Cece jefferson, martez Ivey, Rex grossman, brandon Spikes, easley, floyd, ronald powell or any elite player who we've signed over the last 30 years for free when our rivals and and conference foes were throwing money at kids. It's one thing to not be spending as much bit to say we were not paying our players is just ignoring common sense.

Remember Rick .... de-Nile is not just a river in Africa

 

Those cars they were driving were nothing more than leases. Basically a company car lent to them. They didn't own those cars. They were loaners.

 

And honestly, giving them any amount of money back then could have made them ineligible. Hell Dez Bryant got ruled ineligible for just having dinner at Deions house.

So we were still breaking the rules, why get in the same amount of trouble for burger money when you can pay a bit more for better players for the same risks? I think we did but asked for a bit more discretion from players.