OT: Sources say Tennessee was dropping McDonald's bags of cash to recruits - Dan Patrick Show

Dan Patrick is a deeply credulous person who should be ignored.

Ah yes, Dan Patrick. You might remember him from being wrong about everything as it related to Big Ten football being played this season. 

Little known fact, chicken McNuggets are an accepted form of currency in most parts of the rural south.

The NCAA has made it pretty clear they won't punish you for the crime as much as the stupidity you employed in committing them.  This is pretty high up there.

Ha! I can't wait to see resident shovelhead Clay Travis' hot take on this. 

Sounds like a self imposed 1 year bowl ban to me.

If no Instagram post flashing wad with cheerleaders it didn’t happen. 

If true this is amazing and I fully support it. Firing a guy this resourceful was a mistake, if anything Pruitt deserved a raise.

Wow... if that’s true... wow. My biggest fear is “losing” college football. Seems we are headed down that road. ?

Thought this had something to do with Mike McDonald when I read the headline. I was thoroughly confused.

McDonald’s bags?  Lucky it wasn’t Burger King... could have been a Whopper of a situation. 

Good! Players should get paid and the useless NCAA doesn’t do anything to prevent this shit so who cares? If we choose not to do it or do it to the same extent because it’s against rules that nobody enforces then I suppose that’s our choice as a program and university. It’s illegal to jaywalk but police don’t enforce it so if you choose not to cross the street wherever you want then that’s up to you.  

“I’m shocked!” said nobody.

Why hand the bags to the recruits?  Just have the bag in a vehicle and when someone picks the recruit up and the recruit sees the bag, just say "finder's keeper!" Problem solved.

Tale as old as time. School's recruiting takes a significant uptick for no discernable reasons, wait 3-5 years, 'omg. turns out that school was paying players. can u believe it'.

Eventually Georgia will get busted too

NCAA is gonna come down hard on Tennessee Women's Swimming & Diving for this.

Should have ate at Arby's,

I just read this and what a bunch of fucking idiots man. Handing out bags of $100 egg McMuffins. Wow. The real story is that had Pruitt managed to have a winning record then I guarantee you that this story would have never got out nor would he have been fired 

This is the problem with the transfer portal.  All of these guys get a second cut at the cash.  If you're probably not at the guaranteed pro level, you're a dumbass to stay at your school, especially for grad transfers.  

Did the bags just contain cash or were they cool enough to include a sandwich and fries?

Did they at least give them some nuggets with it?

Tennessee will be forced to fill in the open squares in its end zone checkerboards.

Do they have any CBs or DTs they can send over?

Or LBs...

Pruitt came from the Saban coaching tree.  Is this news a surprise to anyone?

When I worked in Moscow in the 1990s, I had to pay my employees in cash. My bank was right next to a McDonald's, so every month I made a trip to the bank and exited with a McDonald's bag full of cash to make payroll. The bank insisted, since a big bag labeled "ING Bank" basically said "rob me."