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2 hours ago, notre dame joe said:

Wikihow missed Make audio recordings, edit away context, for your future lawsuit. 

 

Tell me about going to Texas A&M for a road opener.

Don't worry about finding the stadium, you'll be given plenty of help, but watch your cornhole.

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Don't worry about finding the stadium, you'll be given plenty of help, but watch your cornhole.

Seriously - fly into Houston, not close to campus at all (1 1/2 to 2 hours drive from IAH). Hotel accommodations are not of the premium level.
For one, expect the humidity level to be higher than a Northerner has experienced in August/early September. Dress in “light” clothing.

Campus is actually providing things to see if you come in early, like the day before. The George Bush (Senior) Museum is just on the outskirts of the campus and is actually quite nice.

If you haven’t ever experienced the “aggy cult,” you are forewarned. Pre-game they make it feel like you’re playing Army or Navy, but their tan clad students are mostly playing cos-play! So don’t step on the grass!

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5 hours ago, Leanderman said:

"Don't worry about finding the stadium, you'll be given plenty of help, but watch your cornhole."

Of course do not forget to visit the dead dog scoreboard on you trip
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So aggy is onto Reveille X now. Does that make it A&M 9, Guest 0?

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2 hours ago, Royalfan5 said:

The NCAA going with double NU/Aggy first round tourney games is pretty funny at least 

Nebraska has never won a game in the men’s basketball tournament. Very nice no win situation for aggy.

If they win then it was expected because Nebraska has never won. If they lose they go down as the same that finally got Nebraska over that hump.

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4 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

Nebraska has never won a game in the men’s basketball tournament. Very nice no win situation for aggy.

If they win then it was expected because Nebraska has never won. If they lose they go down as the same that finally got Nebraska over that hump.

And if they win, they get destroyed by Houston in the second round 

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On 3/16/2024 at 8:49 AM, closetojumping said:

Okay, yeah. You don’t have to pussyfoot around it. Taylor is a known bagman and it ultimately caused his fall from grace at SEC schools in a public manner because of the level of overt corruption he took it to eventually. It’s a worthless skill now. He’s just an old asshat on a staff of asshats. 

his career path is super unique for some...unknown reason.

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still can't believe that A&M let Elko hire that guy. i am SO looking forward to watching their RB room descend into a flaming dumpster fire.

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“Bagman” is such a great term. 
 
Problem- you want to pay a player, against the rules. Where does the money come from? How is it delivered? Constraints- no records of transaction , no misdirection of funds, no traceability to coaches, administrators or Big Money Donors  

Where does the money come from? Not from coaches and not from the school  it has to come from BMDs  

What form does the money come in? Cash, because you don’t want records of checks or wirings  

Solution- “bagman”. Put cash in a bag and have a low level employee or associate hand deliver it, along with precautions about triggering auto bank disclosures of excessive cash amounts. 
 
In the late 1980s, the Ags were being blackmailed by a former player, George Smith, in Georgia. Rather than hand deliver a bag of cash (requiring a couple days of driving or a plane ticket), the Ag football office FedExed $20k in cash, which was then opened by Smith in view of a DMN writer. 
 
And that’s why bagmen were needed. 
 
In recruiting, SMU used young boosters to deliver the cash to recruits around the state. That way, the BMDs (like Edwin Cox and Bill Clements) didn’t get their hands dirty, the recruits got the cash, and the young boosters (like Sherwood Blount) got to network with the BMDs, in ways they never would have been able to, otherwise. 
 
SMU used junior AD employees to deliver the cash to players on the team. 

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1 hour ago, statsman said:

“Bagman” is such a great term. 
 
Problem- you want to pay a player, against the rules. Where does the money come from? How is it delivered? Constraints- no records of transaction , no misdirection of funds, no traceability to coaches, administrators or Big Money Donors  

Where does the money come from? Not from coaches and not from the school  it has to come from BMDs  

What form does the money come in? Cash, because you don’t want records of checks or wirings  

Solution- “bagman”. Put cash in a bag and have a low level employee or associate hand deliver it, along with precautions about triggering auto bank disclosures of excessive cash amounts. 
 
In the late 1980s, the Ags were being blackmailed by a former player, George Smith, in Georgia. Rather than hand deliver a bag of cash (requiring a couple days of driving or a plane ticket), the Ag football office FedExed $20k in cash, which was then opened by Smith in view of a DMN writer. 
 
And that’s why bagmen were needed. 
 
In recruiting, SMU used young boosters to deliver the cash to recruits around the state. That way, the BMDs (like Edwin Cox and Bill Clements) didn’t get their hands dirty, the recruits got the cash, and the young boosters (like Sherwood Blount) got to network with the BMDs, in ways they never would have been able to, otherwise. 
 
SMU used junior AD employees to deliver the cash to players on the team. 

Somewhere, floating around the internet, is an NCAA report on Alabama recruiting violations in the 90's. They promised a kid $20k for signing. $10k up front and $10k after signing. The kid took the first briefcase full of $100's and then signed with someone else. Boosters were out $10k and couldn't do a thing about it.

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2 hours ago, Crapinon said:

Somewhere, floating around the internet, is an NCAA report on Alabama recruiting violations in the 90's. They promised a kid $20k for signing. $10k up front and $10k after signing. The kid took the first briefcase full of $100's and then signed with someone else. Boosters were out $10k and couldn't do a thing about it.

 

Pretty small briefcase. Perhaps you meant to say "wallet"?

 

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“Bagman” is such a great term. 
 
Problem- you want to pay a player, against the rules. Where does the money come from? How is it delivered? Constraints- no records of transaction , no misdirection of funds, no traceability to coaches, administrators or Big Money Donors  
Where does the money come from? Not from coaches and not from the school  it has to come from BMDs  
What form does the money come in? Cash, because you don’t want records of checks or wirings  
Solution- “bagman”. Put cash in a bag and have a low level employee or associate hand deliver it, along with precautions about triggering auto bank disclosures of excessive cash amounts. 
 
In the late 1980s, the Ags were being blackmailed by a former player, George Smith, in Georgia. Rather than hand deliver a bag of cash (requiring a couple days of driving or a plane ticket), the Ag football office FedExed $20k in cash, which was then opened by Smith in view of a DMN writer. 
 
And that’s why bagmen were needed. 
 
In recruiting, SMU used young boosters to deliver the cash to recruits around the state. That way, the BMDs (like Edwin Cox and Bill Clements) didn’t get their hands dirty, the recruits got the cash, and the young boosters (like Sherwood Blount) got to network with the BMDs, in ways they never would have been able to, otherwise. 
 
SMU used junior AD employees to deliver the cash to players on the team. 
Before the days of everyone having ring cameras or other sources of home security the mailbox drop was a good way to do it. According to an ex LSU bagman I met in a bar many years ago they would simply drop off a plain, unmarked envelope filled with cash in the proper mailbox, then shortly after someone would call the player or family member contact to chat, talk about how great it would be if they (or their kid) played for (insert SEC school) then towards the end of the convo casually ask if they had gotten their mail for the day...and if not they should check it out asap. The last part was to make sure they know who it was coming from, yet no paper trail that would give them away. According to this dude it was so common at one point in time they had to stop using it in some cases and go back to direct handoffs. No, not because the NCAA was aware, but rather relatives/friends/acquaintances of highly sought after recruits knowing about this method and going through the kids parents mailbox looking for unmarked envelopes to steal.
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Japanese Steph Curry, Mr. Reynolds?  You're just gonna leave that there?  Asian Curry?  Corn on one side, rice on the other?  The simulation is just a giant spherical Crispix?

What in the fuck is going on here anymore people?  The closer we get to Easter, the more insane this all gets.    

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I haven’t seen a second of corn basketball this year, but I’m looking forward to see TexAgs reaction to this dude. 
 

That dude is not going to settle well on the aggy front, with the GB Museum on campus. Anti-Japanese based on Bush.

I hope he tears them up!

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The smile on his face when the cop asks him if he's the  ole ball coach  from A&M (~2:28) cracked me up. I'd have told the cop to "shut the fuck up, nobody needs to know anything about that up here"

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On 3/18/2024 at 12:20 AM, TKthunder2 said:

Nebraska has never won a game in the men’s basketball tournament. Very nice no win situation for aggy.

If they win then it was expected because Nebraska has never won. If they lose they go down as the same that finally got Nebraska over that hump.

Go Big Red!

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3 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

If he just refused the tests he gets off that easy.  He technically wasn’t driving.  The dbag cop in the background just annoyes me too.  

Yes $10,000 will still get him off. They say sitting in the driver seat = driving even when parked but yeah never do the tests, talk as little as possible and be nice because you are on camera.

aggy gonna do dumb shit

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16 hours ago, nnm said:

I haven’t seen a second of corn basketball this year, but I’m looking forward to see TexAgs reaction to this dude. 

 

the guy averaging 14.9 PPG, 2.3 RPG, 1.4 APG and shooting <50%?

the guy who has scored >30 points twice this season (31 and 30) - one of which required OT and going 5/8 on 3's and 8-8 at the line and the other which required him to go 5-8 from 3 and the other which required his single best shooting FG% of the season?

the guy never has had more than 6 rebounds in a game this year and hasn't ever had more than 4 assists in a game. dude averages 1.4 assists per game vs 1.2 turnovers per game.

i fully expect him to go for 40 against A&M now lol

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1 hour ago, Zeus said:

They say sitting in the driver seat = driving even when parked

Yep. Know a guy who left a bar and realized he shouldn't drive, so he decided to sleep it off in his driver's seat. Cops found him in the parking lot and arrested him because they said the key in the ignition showed intent to drive.

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1 hour ago, Born Burnt said:

Yep. Know a guy who left a bar and realized he shouldn't drive, so he decided to sleep it off in his driver's seat. Cops found him in the parking lot and arrested him because they said the key in the ignition showed intent to drive.

My ex-BIL was arrested in FAR west Texas in the 80's for DWI. He contacted a local attorney who told him that he could handle the case for $10,000. My BIL ask him how he was going to handle it. The attorney said just give him $10,000 and don't ask any questions. It magically all disappeared. 

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7 minutes ago, Crapinon said:

My ex-BIL was arrested in FAR west Texas in the 80's for DWI. He contacted a local attorney who told him that he could handle the case for $10,000. My BIL ask him how he was going to handle it. The attorney said just give him $10,000 and don't ask any questions. It magically all disappeared. 

I once contacted an attorney regarding some legal issues.  I told him I had two questions and also asked what I should expect to pay for his counsel regarding the two questions.

 He said "$1,500.00.  What's the second question?"

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1 hour ago, Born Burnt said:

Yep. Know a guy who left a bar and realized he shouldn't drive, so he decided to sleep it off in his driver's seat. Cops found him in the parking lot and arrested him because they said the key in the ignition showed intent to drive.

I did not buy this so I Googled it and it is worse than that in Texas they do not even require intent.

"If you are on private property and intoxicated, your vehicle may look like a good place to sleep it off. But don't put yourself in the position of appearing to operate the vehicle, or you may suffer a DWI arrest. Texas DWI law does not require your intent to drive somewhere."

https://www.dougmurphylaw.com/dwi-guide/defending-dwi-arrests-on-private-property

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2 hours ago, Crapinon said:

My ex-BIL was arrested in FAR west Texas in the 80's for DWI. He contacted a local attorney who told him that he could handle the case for $10,000. My BIL ask him how he was going to handle it. The attorney said just give him $10,000 and don't ask any questions. It magically all disappeared. 

 

2 hours ago, deadshank said:

I once contacted an attorney regarding some legal issues.  I told him I had two questions and also asked what I should expect to pay for his counsel regarding the two questions.

 He said "$1,500.00.  What's the second question?"

What are those lawyers’ Surly handles?

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6 hours ago, Crapinon said:

My ex-BIL was arrested in FAR west Texas in the 80's for DWI. He contacted a local attorney who told him that he could handle the case for $10,000. My BIL ask him how he was going to handle it. The attorney said just give him $10,000 and don't ask any questions. It magically all disappeared. 

What do you think the split is between the lawyer and the PD?

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