Quote Originally Posted by KOdawg1 View Post
We already use money.

Our fans have to get out of this mindset that we're a squeaky clean program that would never pay players. We do. The bunch up the road does. The two SEC schools in Alabama do. LSU does. Every one does it.

If you want to be competitive, you have to play the game. You just do. The reason we get skull drug on signing day is because we're really bad at playing the game. And until we get serious about it, we'll continue to recruit in the lower 1/3 of the SEC.
Only the most naive fans would think we or any P5 program is squeaky clean, but I would categorize what we do as bringing a pocketknife to a gunfight.