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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:07:23 PM EDT
[#1]
Hell, in my area of Abalama, they use police escorts for busses of high school jocks. Another waste of tax payer money.
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:07:38 PM EDT
[#2]
State cops at state schools
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:07:45 PM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My friend is on Saban’s detail, I got to cover Tubberville during an Iron Bowl in 2006. It’s considered a type of Executive Protection. Haters gonna hate, Roll Tide. I worked a security detail for Tubberville when he was running for senate. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:08:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So Northern and West Coast coaches are safe without them? I blame Bobby Bowden, 100% This MF'er https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/168790/ewscripps_brightspotcdn_jpg-3076090.JPG Having lived in Tallahassee during the 90s I think Bobbie Bowden could have shot someone in broad daylight and the police would have buried the body and made the whole thing disappear. They used to sweep a whole lot under the rug. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:10:04 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Hell, in my area of Abalama, they use police escorts for busses of high school jocks. Another waste of tax payer money. We do those also. Paid for by the schools. Double the hourly rate. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:10:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 30 seconds on google, and I’m mostly retarded. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/430926/IMG_0955-3076107.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I have not been able to find images of their coaches being escorted by state troopers. Edit 2: A lot of the stadiums are state owned or stated supported. Which also means they need to be protected by the state. 30 seconds on google, and I’m mostly retarded. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/430926/IMG_0955-3076107.jpg Is that at home or away? |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:10:48 PM EDT
[#7]
When I was real little the governor of LA used to go to all the LSU home games, he got a state police escort for a short distance from the capitol or mansion to the game down interstate, he would go to the games with the LSU flag flying from the car. That was many decades ago. Charlie Mac was still coach. Pretty sure he didn't fight the mass traffic coming or going.
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:14:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is that at home or away? It looks like a home game to me, but not positive. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:15:00 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you saw how much money it brought into universities... Anyone using the term sportsball should simply be ignored or ridiculed attempting to use reason or logic is useless, they are here to virtue signal.... |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:19:13 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Which private university is good at Sportsball again? Duke, Notre Dame, BYU, USC, Standford, Boston, Brown, etc etc etc. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:26:19 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bodyguards? Yup. I will admit that some of my fellow Southern folk take a fucking game a bit too seriously. Hell, one rabid Alabama fan murdered some historic oak trees down in Auburn a while back. He was so vindictive he slow poisoned them. Even most Bama fans were openly "WTF?" I used to work with one hardcore Bama fan. I asked if a rumor was true about him smashing his TVs after Bama lost a game. He said: "No, but i have killed a couple of radios in the past."  |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:28:03 PM EDT
[#12]
People get insane over sports games. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:29:43 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I've always wondered about that. Why would the visiting team's State Police even have jurisdiction and law enforcement powers in a different state? That thought never occured to me. Interesting. I guess blanket carry applies to out of state cops and the state will pay them for travel events. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:30:51 PM EDT
[#14]
They are occasionally needed when butt hurt sports all fanatics try to take out their frustration on a coach.
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:31:02 PM EDT
[#15]
always wondered the same.
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:34:03 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Highest paid state employee. So of course the state is going to guard their own employee, with their employees. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:34:37 PM EDT
[#17]
Sportsball in general is pretty gay.
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:36:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What? Who else would pay the head coach of Florida STATE university? Or Alabama? Or Ohio State? https://moneymint.com/highest-paid-public-employees-by-state/ Tv contracts, ticket sales, donations. They’re state employees in name only. Athletic department plays for all security as well. Athletic departments use the name of the university and little else. Essentially an independent corporation. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:36:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Which private university is good at Sportsball again? USC is one. Notre Dame used to be. Head coaches get death threats from time to time. Not to mention some folks are simply fucking crazy. Bear Bryant got severe death threats over the GA Tech debacle back in the 1960s. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:38:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've always wondered about that. Why would the visiting team's State Police even have jurisdiction and law enforcement powers in a different state? All that is worked out before the game, during pre-season. Each state grants the other a waiver (of sorts) to do so. In the SEC, it's been done for decades. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:39:02 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Saban’s troopers have had to shove some folks away over the years. I recall (I think) a loss when the opposition ran onto the field and one of the troopers close lined a female student. He doesn’t need troopers, he has Jermaine Burton Dude will punch anyone, even co-eds. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:39:25 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The Tiger Athletic Foundation pays the overwhelming majority of the salary of the LSU head coach, and pays for the expansions of the stadium and thus owns the rights to the seats. Every year the athletic department (at least pre covid) made a donation to the general scholarship fund from the money they made, and yes they show a profit. Moving a large chunk of the salary and building/stadium upgrades to a prive organization cuts through a shitload of red tape. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What? Who else would pay the head coach of Florida STATE university? Or Alabama? Or Ohio State? https://moneymint.com/highest-paid-public-employees-by-state/ The Tiger Athletic Foundation pays the overwhelming majority of the salary of the LSU head coach, and pays for the expansions of the stadium and thus owns the rights to the seats. Every year the athletic department (at least pre covid) made a donation to the general scholarship fund from the money they made, and yes they show a profit. Moving a large chunk of the salary and building/stadium upgrades to a prive organization cuts through a shitload of red tape. Exactly. Tickets sales, season ticket holders, tv contracts , etc. and don’t think you’re gonna just call, say UGA athletics, and buy season tickets for one year. You have to make a sizable donation to athletic committee and then buy your tickets. After every other season tix holder has made their donation, and bought their tix. You are at the end of a very long line. With other people that wanna buy season tickets. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:40:47 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Tv contracts, ticket sales, donations. They’re state employees in name only. Athletic department plays for all security as well. Athletic departments use the name of the university and little else. Essentially an independent corporation. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What? Who else would pay the head coach of Florida STATE university? Or Alabama? Or Ohio State? https://moneymint.com/highest-paid-public-employees-by-state/ Tv contracts, ticket sales, donations. They’re state employees in name only. Athletic department plays for all security as well. Athletic departments use the name of the university and little else. Essentially an independent corporation. Hmmm… inside sources to me say you’re wrong. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:47:03 PM EDT
[#24]
The trooper in the FSU pic has the eyes of a man who carries a 12 pack of whoop ass at all times.
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:47:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They are always looking for uniformed cops to work those details. If you are off, want the work and your admin approves. And that goes for more than football. I've worked private security and traffic control in other cities because they couldn't get their own cops to work. I wasn’t really hungry enough to do traffic at sporting events-Falcons, Hawks, Ga Tech., etc. i don’t know what they paid, I worked mostly movie sets and construction jobs. Helicopter lifts paid the best, without much effort. Our motormen escorted the buses for college and pro teams. I think each motorman made $400 per movement. Escort team to hotel, $400, then restaurant, $400, back to hotel, $400, to stadium for practice or walk through $400, etc. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:49:55 PM EDT
[#26]
Isn’t just the south….
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:50:08 PM EDT
[#27]
I guess OP didn’t see the 70 state troopers at the intersections directing traffic into and out of the games.
 Maybe 80,000 taxpayers should just figure it out for themselves. That would show who has the smartest fans. On another note. The referees get escorted out of those games faster than the President. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:50:19 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone using the term sportsball should simply be ignored or ridiculed attempting to use reason or logic is useless, they are here to virtue signal.... It gets the point across. I don't need to list them all out. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:51:34 PM EDT
[#29]
its a southern thing, troopers look intimidating
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:56:15 PM EDT
[#30]
Just watched the end of the Peach Bowl
Ole Miss = Troopers Penn State = regular old cops Y'all Southern boys like the hats I think. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:57:30 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I guess OP didn’t see the 70 state troopers at the intersections directing traffic into and out of the games. Maybe 80,000 taxpayers should just figure it out for themselves. That would show who has the smartest fans. On another note. The referees get escorted out of those games faster than the President. I guess you don’t know that most traffic direction is not paid for by any government. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:58:21 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just watched the end of the Peach Bowl Ole Miss = Troopers Penn State = regular old cops Y'all Southern boys like the hats I think. You’re in fucking Texas! Tell us about cowboy hats and pie sized belt buckles. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 4:58:39 PM EDT
[#33]
Smash Lampjaw here has been on coach detail for years.
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:00:24 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Trooper Smash Lampjaw here has been on coach detail for years. https://www.si.com/.image/t_share/MjAxNjYxNzUyNzI1NzQzMjQ3/josh-heupel.jpg Looks like a drill instructor, just in a trooper’s uniform! |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:09:43 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What about private universities? 
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:13:01 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I wasn’t really hungry enough to do traffic at sporting events-Falcons, Hawks, Ga Tech., etc. i don’t know what they paid, I worked mostly movie sets and construction jobs. Helicopter lifts paid the best, without much effort. Our motormen escorted the buses for college and pro teams. I think each motorman made $400 per movement. Escort team to hotel, $400, then restaurant, $400, back to hotel, $400, to stadium for practice or walk through $400, etc. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: They are always looking for uniformed cops to work those details. If you are off, want the work and your admin approves. And that goes for more than football. I've worked private security and traffic control in other cities because they couldn't get their own cops to work. I wasn’t really hungry enough to do traffic at sporting events-Falcons, Hawks, Ga Tech., etc. i don’t know what they paid, I worked mostly movie sets and construction jobs. Helicopter lifts paid the best, without much effort. Our motormen escorted the buses for college and pro teams. I think each motorman made $400 per movement. Escort team to hotel, $400, then restaurant, $400, back to hotel, $400, to stadium for practice or walk through $400, etc. I don't work a lot of those things. The situation and pay needs to be pretty good. I worked a Thanksgiving night pre-Black Friday sale at retailer once, it paid $400 for 3 hours. Cash. Most other gigs are in the $50 an hour range. I usually work Friday nights anyway so during football season if they are short on people working the game I will switch from patrol to the stadium. Pay rate doubles when I do that. I'm already there. Might as well make double. Oh and Saturday morning wedding details. Nobody wants to hang over, nobody wants to come in early. Those are usually $100 an hour, three hour minimum. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:20:15 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't work a lot of those things. The situation and pay needs to be pretty good. I worked a Thanksgiving night pre-Black Friday sale at retailer once, it paid $400 for 3 hours. Cash. Most other gigs are in the $50 an hour range. I usually work Friday nights anyway so during football season if they are short on people working the game I will switch from patrol to the stadium. Pay rate doubles when I do that. I'm already there. Might as well make double. Oh and Saturday morning wedding details. Nobody wants to hang over, nobody wants to come in early. Those are usually $100 an hour, three hour minimum. I loved those kind of jobs. Guys today really don’t wanna do anything on the side. I was talking to a guy that I worked construction jobs for and he said that the officers in the northern suburbs are getting 80 to 90 an hour. He said that he has a hard time filling slots, on occasion. And you’re right, cash is king! |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:21:48 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Gives them a reason to be at a football game? opposing players wanting to take a swing? Other than that I got nothing Or maybe the troopers were there to hold Woody Haye’s beer while he took swings at opposing players.   |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:26:51 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We do those also. Paid for by the schools. Double the hourly rate. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Hell, in my area of Abalama, they use police escorts for busses of high school jocks. Another waste of tax payer money. We do those also. Paid for by the schools. Double the hourly rate. Where does the schools get the money? Hopefully not the tax payers. Still a waste of resources. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:26:51 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryThe Notre Dame coach doesn't get state troopers for protection. Look to be campus police by their shoulder patches.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:28:47 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There’s so many trashy idiots in Florida who barely graduated highschool who get in major fights over Gators vs. Noles. Or the retard who killed that tree for Alabama and went to jail, etc. It’s silly and trashy. Case in point, that retard bammer fan was a former state trooper - Texas DPS to be exact. Bear Bryant is said to have started the tradition. I believe Paterno saw it and decided he needed it too, things snowballed from there For the agencies, I understand it is something of a recruiting tool and also a way to incentivize standards. Notice most of the troopers who get these plum assignments are generally physically fit, squared away dudes. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:29:05 PM EDT
[#42]
If you were paying someone $10M a year and did not have security at the games? Think about this and ask your question again.
I think at the LSU home games, there is a local BRPD and a LA State Trooper guarding the coach |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:31:41 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you were paying someone $10M a year and did not have security at the games? Think about this and ask your question again. I think at the LSU home games, there is a local BRPD and a LA State Trooper guarding the coach Looks like a really huge trooper (who is a former LSU football player) protects the LSU coach  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:32:39 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Has there ever been a need for a State Trooper? I think it's a Southern (SEC) thing Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Bodyguards? Has there ever been a need for a State Trooper? I think it's a Southern (SEC) thing Those same troopers also escort busses and team vehicles to and from games |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:35:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryNorthwestern University is in IL. That is from a game at Rutgers in NJ. Looks like a NJ state trooper and two either city or campus officers. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:36:42 PM EDT
[#46]
Security and Tradition. Try getting a coach off a football field and out of the stadium after a major win without an escort.
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:37:14 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: USC is one. Notre Dame used to be. Head coaches get death threats from time to time. Not to mention some folks are simply fucking crazy. Bear Bryant got severe death threats over the GA Tech debacle back in the 1960s. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Which private university is good at Sportsball again? USC is one. Notre Dame used to be. Head coaches get death threats from time to time. Not to mention some folks are simply fucking crazy. Bear Bryant got severe death threats over the GA Tech debacle back in the 1960s. He had to wear a helmet onto and off the field because Tech fans were throwing whiskey bottles at him |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:40:11 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My friend is on Saban’s detail, I got to cover Tubberville during an Iron Bowl in 2006. It’s considered a type of Executive Protection. Haters gonna hate, Roll Tide. Do you know why Bama fans say Roll Tide ? .. . . .Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:43:30 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Exactly. Tickets sales, season ticket holders, tv contracts , etc. and don’t think you’re gonna just call, say UGA athletics, and buy season tickets for one year. You have to make a sizable donation to athletic committee and then buy your tickets. After every other season tix holder has made their donation, and bought their tix. You are at the end of a very long line. With other people that wanna buy season tickets. One year a friend of mine got his donation check sent back to him with a little note from UGA telling him to send a bigger check for season tickets. He did and still does. |
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Posted: 12/30/2023 5:46:11 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Where does the schools get the money? Hopefully not the tax payers. Still a waste of resources. Sales tax money. I'm not sure why you say it's a waste. It does many things. Provides security and a deterrent to criminal activity. Break up a few fights. Bust some folks breaking into vehicles etc...deter active shooters. It's not taking away from regular patrol activities. |
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