🏈 It won't be long before this and other sport events will be way overpriced.

[rick4bama]

Alabama Freshman RB Ezavier Crowell purchased his mother, a new vehicle for Valentine’s Day! Very nice.

 

[Justneedme81]

I'm confused ......

 

[alabama mike]

There are several things to say about the photo but I will just keep my mouth shut. My mom always said if you cant say something nice....and sometimes I cant.

 

[rammerjammer]

Well. The old saying, a picture is worth a thousand words would be apropos here.

I tried to find a link but it was dead. Back during the $cam Newton era, there was a great article written by Steven Godfrey, called "Meet the Bagman". He interviewed a prominent (unnamed) booster at a SEC school and got the scoop on how things were done on the down low at many schools across the south, in order for payers to get paid. Vehicles were the easiest thing to get for kids this day and age. He said every major university had boosters that were car dealers and every level. You had big time guys that had Ford/Chevy/Dodge/Toyota......then you had mid level guys that were local to one town that had dealerships that dealt in really good quality used cars. Then your stereotypical scum bag that would sell the same car and re-posses it 3 times all while charging 19% interest.

He told how every kid had a relative somewhere in the family that had enough money to "buy" it for the kid. Find that relative and run the paperwork through him/her to make everything legit on paper. Couple that with how many boosters are business people. Anyone remember the early 2000's under Stoops? Can't remember the name, but his QB and several other high profile players had a summer job at a dealership in Norman. They would show up, clock in and go to workouts at school. Supposed to be washing cars for the dealer. Never picked up a sponge.

I remember reading an article around 1990 when FSU was coming into prominence, about their QB at the time, Casey Weldon. He was in college and married with a kid. He "worked" for a local alumnus in Tallahassee that owned a fire safety business. This was all in an SI article at the time. Said he made 60k that year selling fire extinguishers, while going to school and playing football. A quick google search says that would be like making 150k in 2026.

I wonder how NIL has made this easier or if it has done away with loop hole paperwork needed to hide stuff?

Either way......I still say, if you close the transfer portal and put guard rails up against so many transfers that college football will go back to something that we all grew to love and enjoy. Money has been and always will be there.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

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Alabama Freshman RB Ezavier Crowell purchased his mother, a new vehicle for Valentine’s Day! Very nice.

The way he runs....he keeps it up....he will have money to buy his mom lots of other stuff...... glad he spent some $$$ on her....
And nice car....

 

[TerryP]

tried to find a link but it was dead. Back during the $cam Newton era, there was a great article written by Steven Godfrey, called "Meet the Bagman". He interviewed a prominent (unnamed) booster at a SEC school and got the scoop on how things were done on the down low at many schools across the south, i

Meet the Bag Man: How to buy college football players, in the words of a man who delivers the money

How some college football players are bought, in the words of a man who delivers the money.

web.archive.org

Anyone remember the early 2000's under Stoops?

Rhett Bomar was one.

 

[Rolltide24]

Here’s a good read, Rammer. Article from last summer. Even gets in to the most notorious car given to a collegiate athlete, the gold Trans Am. Long read, but very insightful. Texas seems to have the market on car dealer magnates.

'We are what we drive': How car dealers became college football's power brokers

More college football players are driving sports cars than ever before. But the connection between dealers and programs goes back decades.

www.espn.com

 

[TerryP]

Texas seems to have the market on car dealer magnates.

<Overheard>

"Hi, my name is Travis Carroll, and I'd like to talk with you about auto financing."