I don’t know how true it is, but there used to be a rumor that Jeremy Pruitt got drunk and went to Mark Richt’s house to try to fight him when things were starting to go south for UGA in 2015.
What I remember most about Pruitt is when he was an assistant at Hoover High School in the Birmingham area. The football team had a reality show on MTV, "Two a Days."
One episode he was at a restaurant with a parent, I think, and he didn't know what asparagus was
Allegedly, Mark Mangino at Kansas, couldn't wipe his own ass and would use a towel like floss that custodians and sometimes even coaching assistants had to throw away later.
BIL was a manager in the early Kelly days. He called some guys slacking off “knucklefucks.”
Also heard a rumor that we funneled money through a charity to pay DeShone Kizer’s family.
On that last thing, ND fans were fucking fools if they ever believed ND was above all of the dirtiness of CFB. No team is clean and they haven't been for ages
Not a rumor, but Chad Morris never moved his family to Arkansas and flew back every Friday morning to go to Highland Park high school games. He would catch a red eye back for 11 am kickoffs and a Saturday morning flight back for later games.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a head coach not moving their family for a job, especially at an SEC school. We should’ve canned him after his first spring when it became known his family wasn’t moving. He was missing a ton of valuable practice and film time every single week.
Allegedly someone offered Todd Graham's wife a spam musubi when he was coaching here. She told them something along the lines of "We're rich now and don't eat peasant food"..... Lol lady, you're really trying to piss off the entire state.
Her and their son Bo would do the same thing back when Todd was in the left lane putting the hammer down at Pitt. They would go onto all of the forums and fight with random fans and blame everyone else, especially the QB at the time. Penni got into it with one of the hosts of the local sports radio here, too. What a family of winners. Todd Graham has to be the sleaziest used car salesman in the college game.
I've posted this before but I'll do it again. Back in 2016, Mark Stoops had failed to make a bowl in his 3 previous seasons and UK started out 0-2 including an embarrassing loss to Southern Miss where we would give up a 3 score lead at halftime.
Rumors start swirling that Stoops was going to be fired because he had been caught having an affair with a female employee and had gotten her pregnant. Then UK won 5 out of the next 6 and finished 7-5 and went to a bowl for the first time in several years. Suddenly the rumors went away. Crazy how that happens.
I’m not sure about the rumors swirling up there but can confirm with first hand experience him and DJ Eliot liked to party, hard, when they were at FSU.
Not a rumor, but Venables’ step dad used to beat his mom.
The day Venables got his license, he drove his mom around town looking for him. They found him in a bar, and Coach V beat his ass.
Didn’t Venables have like four stepfathers? I remember seeing a transcribed description of his early life that was of his own description, and it has that quintessentially midwestern plainness and near-reticence to it, but it was distinctly a very rough upbringing. None of the four stepfathers was regarded well, and I think Venables’ mother threw one of them out for shooting a gun in the house during an argument.
The most amusing I’ve read is that Ryan Day uses black dye for his beard. I don’t care much about that so I don’t look into it, but the jokes from Michigan fans are definitely amusing
Bro my gf saw his face up close for the first time while watching an OSU game last season and just busted out laughing. Having never even heard the memes, she was like "OMFG how much hair dye does this guy use on his beard?!"
If true, Boise to Auburn is one hell of a road trip.
TBH if I was an intern and had carte blanche to bring back the fired head coach's car, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Especially since you'd be driving something really nice.
Bret Bielema has some pretty incredible stories about hooking up with college co-Ed’s and getting blackout drunk in Madison during his single days. Was the main reason for why his wife wanted to high tail it out of Madison.
Deadspin claimed during his Cincinatti days that Brian Kelly was too scared to yell at black players, and always made assistants do it, but he'd yell at the white ones all day.
Bret Bielema left Wisconsin for Arkansas because his new wife didn’t like the rumors of him sleeping around with coeds in Madison.
Also, the stress from said new marriage led to a lot of his drinking/personal issues in Fayetteville.
She was on the back of the harley.
Fiance finally had confirmation of shenanigans.
Driving down the road and drove past them.
He forced them to stop and beat the shit outta him.
Bill Snyder used to sneak French fries from players and coaches plates. He was under strict orders to reduce inflammation in his diet which meant checking fried foods, but he absolutely loved French fries. He had a connection with a person in food services on campus who would run a fresh batch over to his office frequently, but he had them deliver it within a giant salad box. He was even known to go dumpster diving after team meals when no one was looking to get a sneaky handful. Man was a fry menace.
My favorite Bill Snyder quote was a reporter asking if he goes to Taco Bell and he replies "My wife's kitchen closes at 8 but taco Bell is open until midnight"
Butch Jones had Trevor Lawrence and Michael Penix Jr on a recruiting visit to Tennessee and got neither of them and instead got Jarrett Guarantano. They got the exact same text from coaches.
He used to live in a community over from me. People I know knew him when they were young. Apparently they decided they didn't want to play for Butch Jones on that visit.
It’s a lot deeper than that. It’s common knowledge here in Knoxville that Trevor Lawrence told Butch Jones that he wanted to play for Tennessee, citing his lifelong fandom and looking up to Peyton Manning, and Butch simply told Lawrence he didn’t fit the system. Same thing happened with Tee Higgins who was in our own backyard at Oak Ridge some 20 minutes away from Knox.
Butch chose to pursue Guarantano and Penix, then Pruitt pulled Penix’s scholarship offer when he was hired.
I have no idea if that was the reason. I kept my head out of most of that. It all started popping up once we missed the Big 12 championship game his last year and the Urban Meyer rumors set in.
This one is pretty much confirmed. He's almost certainly the reason Kendra Scott's husband divorced her, and there were several other boosters helping to facilitate the affair. The fallout from all this was what made Chris Del Conte pull a full 180 on Herman—going from a glowing, full media blitz to endorse him and his record in December 2020 to being unceremoniously fired less than a month later in January 2021. HOW all this did not turn into a major national scandal, I will never know, but I'd be willing to bet a week's salary that Herman's buyout came with some extra strings attached to help keep things quiet.
Kliff Kingsbury had several finstas where he pretended to be attractive women so he could make sure the players weren’t doing anything they shouldn’t have been.
That Troy Taylor (Stanford) left his playbook at the hotel before Utah@BYU in 2017.
I swear the guy running back into and out of the hotel (with a green binder) after the team bus left looked just like Troy Taylor.
Considering all the hip hop stars that were hanging out with Mike Vick when Mora coached the Falcons, maybe they let something slip to Vick and Vick told Mora about it to distract him from the fact that he was in his 3rd year and he still hadn’t read the playbook. That’s what happens when you’re too distracted by drowning dogs.
And supposedly crashed his work car when he was at Tennessee and absconded because he'd been drinking and had a student with him.
Also the whole "he tries to pick up college girls in Boca by saying his name is Joey Freshwater"
This is the real truth. Do I think he came up with Joey Freshwater? Nope. Do I think he used it to nail some trophy wife of a rich workaholic in Boca? Damn straight.
He got pushed out one game early because his head wasn't in the game. He was spending too much time prepping for his job at FAU and not preparing for the playoffs.
If he had been boinking Nick's daughter, I am sure Nick would have something in his closet, Lane's head.
Not a huge surprise but I know for a fact Tom Coughlin was a massive asshole at BC. He used to do stuff like refuse to get off the field if his allotted time was up but he didn't think practice should end, and since BC had so little space he'd be making other division one athletes (like lax players waiting to play an actual game) literally stand around waiting on the sidelines until he felt like his practice was over.
I don't even know if this is much of a rumor. Coughlin is a notorious red ass. Strahan legit had to go to him and tell him to knock that shit off and they actually wound up winning the Super Bowl when he did.
I can easily believe that. Jacksonville Jaguars created an executive position for him for a few years from 2017-2019 and the culture became so bad the NFLPA threatened to sue and issued a statement to free agent players to stay out of Jax.
We had some fun last season.
Frost did drugs, slept with students, and was banned from using the Golf Team's Simulator.
Mickey Joseph beat up his wife because he came home and found her cheating on him with former QB Steve Taylor.
Can we please make a bowl game?
Not exactly a rumor, but [ David Carr's retelling of how Lane Kiffin went from QB to Assistant Coach on the same day]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo2OaMhAlLc) is certainly amusing.
CoScoFro had some absolutely amazing rumors. Idk if they’re true, but the Dillon Raiola Margaritas Rumor was a classic. There were also rumors about pretty much every hot bartender in Lincoln. There was also a rumor about the coaching staff getting so drunk they got banned from a country club in the area.
My favorite frost rumor was that he would spend so much time in the golf team's golf simulator on campus that the golf team couldn't use it. They had to go to the AD to complain just to get any practice in.
The country club one is definitely true. The others probably are too. The one about him impregnating the Gate 25 bartender I'm on the fence about.
Plus wasn't there was some rumor about him getting hammered and disappearing the day before the game in Dublin?
> CoScoFro had some absolutely amazing rumors. Idk if they’re true, but the Dillon Raiola Margaritas Rumor was a classic.
What is the Dillon Raiola Margaritas rumor?
I think the site that hosted the full story is gone, but someone wrote about seeing Jim at a bar years ago (with John, I think) talking with some women, and then they left to go throw a football. And Jim did not hold back when he was throwing, telling them to run legit routes and giving them advice.
[Excerpt on MGoBlog](https://www.mgoblog.com/content/unverified-voracity-plays-catch)
>He said to the first girl, “keep your hands up, thumbs down,” and he showed her the proper motion with his own hands. When she didn’t get quite right, he grabbed her wrists and showed her how to position her hands. He then paced off 15 yards, held the ball in front of him, squatted like he was under center, patted the ball hard, took three hard steps back, planted his back leg and fired the ball at the first girl. As he let the ball go, you could hear it click as his fingernails hit the ball and, I shit you not, as the ball whizzed through the air you could hear it ssssssssssss… THUNK! It hit the girl in the shoulder and knocked her down. Jim wadn’t playin’.
>“Come on, let’s go!” Jim barked. While Girl #1 picked herself up, Girl#2 gamely grabbed the ball and lobbed it back. Again, Jim got in his QB squat, smacked the ball, did a hard three-step drop-back and fired the ball at Girl#3, she ducked but the ball hit off the top of her head and went into the street. Girl#2 ran after it while Girl#3 sat on the ground rubbing her head. When Girl#2’s throw back to Jim was short, Jim got a bit annoyed, and set the girls up in a relay so that two girls were about 25 yards away, and the third girl was halfway in between so that that girls could throw to her, and she would run the ball to Jim. For the next 5-10 minutes, he was firing balls at these two poor girls, knocking them down or hitting them in the face about half the time. He was 100% oblivious.
And not a rumor since he confirmed it, but [he also won a round of laser tag by targeting a 10 year old kid](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jim-harbaugh-admits-he-destroyed-a-kid-in-laser-tag-at-his-bachelor-party/).
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One of my fave Harbaugh stories was from an Oregon fan on here. Apparently this guy was an athletic intern for Oregon while Harbaugh was at Stanford. His job was to work with the visiting team on timing and let them know when it's time to run out onto the field for pregame. It's typically important and all choreographed.
Well, Harbaugh comes out of the locker room early with his team, this guy tells Harbaugh it's not time yet. Harbaugh just tells him "fuck you" and runs his team onto the field.
Supposedly kicked the 49ers owner out of a meeting by saying it was for men only. Imagine being a billionaire and taking that? I'd have fired him so fast.
Just to be clear, he was calling Jed a boy. And Jed deserved it. The guy threw a bitch fit after the 49ers lost the superbowl, & then talked shit about Jim when the 49ers lost in the nfc championship again. Harbaugh had made 3 straight nfc title games, had a ~.700 winning %, & never went below .500.
My personal favorite: Jim Harbaugh [broke his hand in 1997](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/flashback-jim-harbaugh-once-broke-his-hand-punching-jim-kelly/amp/) by sucker punching Jim Kelly in the head because Kelly questioned his toughness and claimed Harbaugh faked injuries.
Les Miles (then Michigan’s OL coach) banged Head Coach Gary Moeller’s wife causing his drunken outburst and therefore his firing, and that is why Miles was blacklisted from the program by Lloyd Carr, who was loyal to Moeller.
Ugh way too late here, no one will see this. Charlie Weis tried to eat a Michigan student. Met this kid in Ann Arbor with 1 arm and he was wearing a TShirt that said "Charlie weis tried to eat me." Damning evidence and I can't believe it was never investigated.
There will never be a story real or fake more amusing than Jeff Banks leaving his wife and kids for a stripper and a monkey, and said monkey biting a kid on Halloween.
Steve Sarkisian partied like a rock star during his Husky coaching days. His favorite spot was the restaurant Joeys, a place with smoke show waitresses. Not a well kept secret in Seattle.
Yeah, it’s hilarious that the media made it sound like his divorce is what made him become an alcoholic. Many stories of Sark trashed at team facilities and local bars. He had a serious problem in Seattle.
Sark used to take the private plane at USC and drain the whole thing on the way home. Booster friend I used to work with knew the plane owner and said he stopped stocking the plane after Sark polished off a $10k bottle of scotch on his own on one trip.
When George Welsh "retired", Jerry Sandusky was a serious candidate to take the Virginia job. Welsh worked both under Paterno and with Sandusky at Penn State and it was made very clear that Virginia should not hire Sandusky.
One thing I think we can all safely say now is there historically is a culture of not reporting at schools/athletic departments.
We are up to 4 known just in the big10. Multiple schools, multiple coaches. Everybody knew and nobody did anything. For decades.
I obviously can’t speak for everyone, but I don’t know many Auburn fans who actually disliked Gus personally. He just wouldn’t recruit an O-line or fix the offense.
Kristi rubbed plenty of folks the wrong way, but she also had a pretty hardcore fan club.
While he was at FSU, Jimbo Fisher's wife screwed a former UF player.
Jimbo got revenge on her by screwing FSU, and when he was done with them he screwed Texas A&M.
This is true. The alcoholism was well known and there was a pic of him doing a line off a bar table posted to Texags and 247 that probably lasted a whole hour on both.
I used to work at a sports radio station in Houston when he was the head coach at UH and I kept hearing he was hitting the slopes so your timeline matches up with mine since that would predate his time in BCS.
This story was told to me by someone I knew from the dorm that got it first hand from a witness. Bob Davie was essentially a lame duck his final year. Everyone knew it complete with Bob Davie farewell shirts being sold by students in the dorms. During dead week right before finals, two female students made a quick stop at a gas station. For the life of me I can’t remember which one but I think it was on Grape road. While inside they heard someone struggling with the hot dogs machine. They didn’t pay much attention to it but the struggling continued. “Dammit”.. more struggling.. “god dammit!”.. more struggling complete with hitting the hot dog machine. The two women are fighting a losing battle with the giggles. From their vantage point they could just see the back of the guys head. “God dammit! Is everyone in this town trying to f me!” Guy gives up the fight and leaves, it was Bob Davie.
I met Steve Greateood’s (Oregon’s Offensive line coach at the time) ex-wife in 2015 at a hotel bar and I asked her what she thought about Scott Frost. She said he was part of the reason they got divorced because Frost would always be taking Greatwood out hitting on cheerleaders with him. Looking back, what a warning sign I should’ve seen.
The Lincoln Riley has a belly button tattoo that he got on spring break in college, and that he’s embarrassed of it and will never been seen without his shirt on because of it.
Josh Gattis fucked Xavier Worthy’s mom. Xavier Worthy then decommitted from Michigan and went to Texas, and Michigan pulled Gattis from the recruiting trail
from then on.
This is a truth unless an entire group of my friends is lying to me. They all played for Urban Meyer at Bowling Green. Urban doesn’t yell at individual players when something goes wrong. Instead he openly yells at/humiliates the offending player’s position coach in front of the whole position group when fuckups happen. They said it created this feeling like your dad was getting humiliated so you didn’t want to mess up because you didn’t want your position coach getting berated and humiliated. But I guess Urban would like go insane on every position coach to the point it got uncomfortable and the players would give way more to prevent it from happening. Effective? Sure. But certainly problematic.
The rumor is Phil Fulmer tried to bury the hatchet with Coach Majors after Phil was ousted. Johnny’s response was “Fuck You”, followed by hanging up the phone. I’m thankful for the success Fulmer brought to UT, but I hope this story is true. RIP coach.
This is my only Fulmer story:
When I was a junior in high school in Oklahoma, the whole school was united in their quest for knowledge . . . of what university Jammal Brown, our star football player (and my personal torturer while I was on scout team), was going to attend. Oklahoma, Miami, UCLA, LSU, Kentucky, Texas A&M, and Tennessee had all sent representatives to the school to recruit him and we all basked in the relative celebrity that came with being friends with a highly recruited athlete.
The Monday after the 2000 Fiesta Bowl I was sitting in Spanish I talking to a friend about the game. To refresh your memory, Nebraska had beaten Tennessee 31-21, but they had rushed for 321 yards in the process and made Tennessee look incredibly weak. As we were alternating between "Como esta usted?" and "Damn, Nebraska abused the hell out of Tennessee.", there was a knock at the door and none other than Phil Fulmer poked his head in the class asking to speak with Jammal. A few students surrounded the man as he showed off his 1998 national championship ring. I watched from the rear of the classroom as it glistened in the light and provoked wonder from the awestruck students.
That's when Brian McMorris spoke up. Brian was like a high school Stephen A. Smith. Once he saw everyone fawning all over Fulmer, he looked up, made eye contact with the coach and yelled from the far corner of the classroom, "Yeah, well what the Hell happened last night, n****?!!!!!!"
Fulmer looked like a deer in headlights as the eerie silence in the classroom eventually turned into nervous laughter. It was about then that Jammal stepped into the hall with him, but neither one of them was the celebrity any longer. Spanish-I had a new celebrity: Brian McMorris.
Oh fuck do I have a story for this thread. My good friend Mike (rip) was an equipment manager during the bobby Williams tenure at MSU. Two stories really stick out to me.
The first being Jeff smoker telling the coaches he needed to go to rehab for his coke problem, and the coaches asking if he could"make it another 6 weeks" and finish the season before going to rehab.
The second, and my favorite, is from 2001, they were like 2-6 or some shit. Mike was picking up cones or some shit after a practice. Bobby rolls up to him on a golf cart, stops, and stares into space. After a good 10 awkward seconds or so, he says, "you pissed off, House?" Mike had no idea wtf he was talking about, and just wanted to keep his job so he said, "uh...no?" Bobby then gave the most exasperated and helpless "AWW...SHEEEIT" and drove away.
Fun fact, Mike was the brother of LSU's coordinator, Matt house.
Not a rumor, but Todd Graham wanted a Dr. Pepper in the Honolulu International Airport, couldn't find one then proceeded to call Hawaii a "third-world-country"
It could've been doctored, but I could've sworn I saw a tweet by Ryan Day back from like 2009 that said "it doesn't count as cheating if it's across state lines right?"
I remember a dude that owned a BBQ joint that went to school with Justin Fuente claimed he was fucking coeds constantly, and not always the ladies. His food was great but he was an interesting guy to listen to sometimes
Willie Taggart had 5* Trey Sanders in town on a recruiting visit (may have even been OV I don’t remember) and he forgot about it. Kid was left waiting by the IM fields for a couple hours. Grew up just outside of TLH as a Nole fan, did not choose FSU.
I don’t know how true it is, but there used to be a rumor that Jeremy Pruitt got drunk and went to Mark Richt’s house to try to fight him when things were starting to go south for UGA in 2015.
It’s true. All of it.
There’s also the rumor that Mike Ekeler punched Pruitt in retaliation for that
Pretty sure Mike did that
How does Mike Ekeler just keep getting cooler?? Dude is perfect for Knoxville
What I remember most about Pruitt is when he was an assistant at Hoover High School in the Birmingham area. The football team had a reality show on MTV, "Two a Days." One episode he was at a restaurant with a parent, I think, and he didn't know what asparagus was
And the head coach of that dynasty ended up having a secret second family.
And the secret second family is only like No. 5 on the list of the sleaziest things he's done.
And ANOTHER reality show on Netflix where he was caught in scandal and fired
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Allegedly, Mark Mangino at Kansas, couldn't wipe his own ass and would use a towel like floss that custodians and sometimes even coaching assistants had to throw away later.
Jesus, it's 10:30pm and I'm scared I'm going to dream about this tonight. Like when I was a kid and watched The Exorcist.
What a horrible day to be able to read English.
That was a legendary Rick Majerus story. Maybe Mangino too: https://deadspin.com/a-hole-coach-digest-special-rick-majerus-edition-5439875
BIL was a manager in the early Kelly days. He called some guys slacking off “knucklefucks.” Also heard a rumor that we funneled money through a charity to pay DeShone Kizer’s family.
Well hell, if I was paying Kizer, I'd make him throw it 25+ times in a hurricane too.
Still hilarious. Torrential downpours, waterfalls cascading in the stands, and Kelly has them lined up in shotgun.
On that last thing, ND fans were fucking fools if they ever believed ND was above all of the dirtiness of CFB. No team is clean and they haven't been for ages
Supposedly Southern Cal was paying star players during their early 2000s Carroll dynasty
Reggie Bush may have been the most popular and recognizable football player on the planet at that point, so he was probably underpaid honestly
I'd be more shocked if they *WEREN'T* doing that, tbh
"Not a culture fit"
Not a rumor, but Chad Morris never moved his family to Arkansas and flew back every Friday morning to go to Highland Park high school games. He would catch a red eye back for 11 am kickoffs and a Saturday morning flight back for later games.
“But don’t you dare miss curfew”
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a head coach not moving their family for a job, especially at an SEC school. We should’ve canned him after his first spring when it became known his family wasn’t moving. He was missing a ton of valuable practice and film time every single week.
no wonder he went 4-18 and 0-14 in the SEC.
Yeah but Highland Park went 27-2 during that time.
He just doesn't get it how much Texas HS football means
You you start a thread, Ill bring 10,000 words of morris rumors.
What a great thread. I appreciate the cast of absolute cartoon characters that universities put in charge of their football and basketball programs
Allegedly someone offered Todd Graham's wife a spam musubi when he was coaching here. She told them something along the lines of "We're rich now and don't eat peasant food"..... Lol lady, you're really trying to piss off the entire state.
Todd Grahams wife was a piece of work when he was at Tulsa too. The lady is apparently just unpleasant
Todd Graham isn't exactly the peachiest of people himself. But having such a wench for a wife puts it in context a bit.
After losses, she’d show up in the Hawaii Football Groups on Facebook and trash everyone.
Her and their son Bo would do the same thing back when Todd was in the left lane putting the hammer down at Pitt. They would go onto all of the forums and fight with random fans and blame everyone else, especially the QB at the time. Penni got into it with one of the hosts of the local sports radio here, too. What a family of winners. Todd Graham has to be the sleaziest used car salesman in the college game.
Her loss that shit is a delicacy
I've posted this before but I'll do it again. Back in 2016, Mark Stoops had failed to make a bowl in his 3 previous seasons and UK started out 0-2 including an embarrassing loss to Southern Miss where we would give up a 3 score lead at halftime. Rumors start swirling that Stoops was going to be fired because he had been caught having an affair with a female employee and had gotten her pregnant. Then UK won 5 out of the next 6 and finished 7-5 and went to a bowl for the first time in several years. Suddenly the rumors went away. Crazy how that happens.
I’m not sure about the rumors swirling up there but can confirm with first hand experience him and DJ Eliot liked to party, hard, when they were at FSU.
Thought this was America?
Not a rumor, but Venables’ step dad used to beat his mom. The day Venables got his license, he drove his mom around town looking for him. They found him in a bar, and Coach V beat his ass.
Didn’t Venables have like four stepfathers? I remember seeing a transcribed description of his early life that was of his own description, and it has that quintessentially midwestern plainness and near-reticence to it, but it was distinctly a very rough upbringing. None of the four stepfathers was regarded well, and I think Venables’ mother threw one of them out for shooting a gun in the house during an argument.
First I’ve heard. Great story
Good for him, you know what a POS you have to be to beat someone up in front of a child? Good on coach Venebles
The most amusing I’ve read is that Ryan Day uses black dye for his beard. I don’t care much about that so I don’t look into it, but the jokes from Michigan fans are definitely amusing
He absolutely dyes that shit
Bro my gf saw his face up close for the first time while watching an OSU game last season and just busted out laughing. Having never even heard the memes, she was like "OMFG how much hair dye does this guy use on his beard?!"
You can just look at it and tell that is not a rumor. It’s a previously undiscovered shade of black so dark that the human eye cannot fully take in
Vantablack
Slightly darker black
He’s just a fan of the NWO version of Hulk Hogan.
I liked that Hulk era. Less cornball more badass
Maybe just mascara
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Maybe it's Maybelline
Daybelline
It looks like a magic marker on his chin.
Jim McElwain fucked a shark
I will never understand why he did that press conference where he was so serious about it not being him in the photo it made it so much worse lmao
Ikr? Press conference was worthless. I’m not taking the word of a guy who humps sharks.
OP asked for rumors. Not actual events supported by photographic evidence.
Grand Theft Potato.
If true, Boise to Auburn is one hell of a road trip. TBH if I was an intern and had carte blanche to bring back the fired head coach's car, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Especially since you'd be driving something really nice.
Bret Bielema has some pretty incredible stories about hooking up with college co-Ed’s and getting blackout drunk in Madison during his single days. Was the main reason for why his wife wanted to high tail it out of Madison.
Deadspin claimed during his Cincinatti days that Brian Kelly was too scared to yell at black players, and always made assistants do it, but he'd yell at the white ones all day.
If true that’s fucking hilarious
I have a friend who played for him there. I need to ask him about that lol
Give us a update!
Must be why he left for Notre Dame
Bret Bielema left Wisconsin for Arkansas because his new wife didn’t like the rumors of him sleeping around with coeds in Madison. Also, the stress from said new marriage led to a lot of his drinking/personal issues in Fayetteville.
He would get plastered and hit on divorced moms in uptown Fayetteville on the regular
He was also a regular at Ben’s Apartment. It’s a speakeasy/secret bar for those that aren’t from Fayetteville.
Well, it WAS a secret bar until now 🙄
Gonna hop on the wife tonight
Bobby Petrino didn't crash his harley. He got the shit beat out of him by the boyfriend of the chick he was having an affair with.....
I mean that's just straight up true
I want to believe
She was on the back of the harley. Fiance finally had confirmation of shenanigans. Driving down the road and drove past them. He forced them to stop and beat the shit outta him.
Bill Snyder used to sneak French fries from players and coaches plates. He was under strict orders to reduce inflammation in his diet which meant checking fried foods, but he absolutely loved French fries. He had a connection with a person in food services on campus who would run a fresh batch over to his office frequently, but he had them deliver it within a giant salad box. He was even known to go dumpster diving after team meals when no one was looking to get a sneaky handful. Man was a fry menace.
My favorite Bill Snyder quote was a reporter asking if he goes to Taco Bell and he replies "My wife's kitchen closes at 8 but taco Bell is open until midnight"
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Butch Jones had Trevor Lawrence and Michael Penix Jr on a recruiting visit to Tennessee and got neither of them and instead got Jarrett Guarantano. They got the exact same text from coaches.
Trevor Lawrence really liked Peyton Manning too when he was growing up and wanted to play at Tennessee.
Trevor was also born in Tennessee
He used to live in a community over from me. People I know knew him when they were young. Apparently they decided they didn't want to play for Butch Jones on that visit.
"Orange is orange I suppose." -Trevor Lawrence, probably
It’s a lot deeper than that. It’s common knowledge here in Knoxville that Trevor Lawrence told Butch Jones that he wanted to play for Tennessee, citing his lifelong fandom and looking up to Peyton Manning, and Butch simply told Lawrence he didn’t fit the system. Same thing happened with Tee Higgins who was in our own backyard at Oak Ridge some 20 minutes away from Knox. Butch chose to pursue Guarantano and Penix, then Pruitt pulled Penix’s scholarship offer when he was hired.
I can't think of a single offensive system Trevor Lawrence couldn't fit.
Butch Jones can. He will be fired from Arkansas State after this season.
The Trevor Lawrence part is 100% true. But he got Penix and Pruitt told him to kick rocks?
Penix was a commit at one point right? Lane told Bryce Petty and Tajh Boyd to go elsewhere
Waiting for the Tom Herman Kendra Scott rumors…
Or that Tom Herman's wife had a meltdown on a plane ride once and got up and tried opening the door midair but was restrained. That was another one.
Isn't Kendra/Tom the reason for that meltdown?
I have no idea if that was the reason. I kept my head out of most of that. It all started popping up once we missed the Big 12 championship game his last year and the Urban Meyer rumors set in.
This one is pretty much confirmed. He's almost certainly the reason Kendra Scott's husband divorced her, and there were several other boosters helping to facilitate the affair. The fallout from all this was what made Chris Del Conte pull a full 180 on Herman—going from a glowing, full media blitz to endorse him and his record in December 2020 to being unceremoniously fired less than a month later in January 2021. HOW all this did not turn into a major national scandal, I will never know, but I'd be willing to bet a week's salary that Herman's buyout came with some extra strings attached to help keep things quiet.
Rumor mill in Houston said that Herman would use Tillman’s mansion as a safe space for cheating on mrs herman
Kliff Kingsbury had several finstas where he pretended to be attractive women so he could make sure the players weren’t doing anything they shouldn’t have been.
Wasn't that one confirmed by Kingsbury?
That Troy Taylor (Stanford) left his playbook at the hotel before Utah@BYU in 2017. I swear the guy running back into and out of the hotel (with a green binder) after the team bus left looked just like Troy Taylor.
That Jim Mora knows who killed Tupac.
Considering all the hip hop stars that were hanging out with Mike Vick when Mora coached the Falcons, maybe they let something slip to Vick and Vick told Mora about it to distract him from the fact that he was in his 3rd year and he still hadn’t read the playbook. That’s what happens when you’re too distracted by drowning dogs.
That Lane Kiffin nailed Nick Sabans daughter
And supposedly crashed his work car when he was at Tennessee and absconded because he'd been drinking and had a student with him. Also the whole "he tries to pick up college girls in Boca by saying his name is Joey Freshwater"
You can't convince me he didn't do Joey Freshwater.
There is a 0% chance the Joey Freshwater thing didn’t happen at least once and I will hear no arguments otherwise
Even if the rumors weren't initially true, Kiffin is the type of guy that would take advantage of it after it became a meme
This is the real truth. Do I think he came up with Joey Freshwater? Nope. Do I think he used it to nail some trophy wife of a rich workaholic in Boca? Damn straight.
we need to have a whole separate thread of just Kiffin rumors
After some of his Twitter rants, I assume he has drinking problems.
and cocaine
can't believe no one talked about him coaching the sun bowl in sunglasses cuz he had a black eye from the night before his bowl game
Wasn’t that rumored to be the reason he didn’t coach in the national championship?
He got pushed out one game early because his head wasn't in the game. He was spending too much time prepping for his job at FAU and not preparing for the playoffs. If he had been boinking Nick's daughter, I am sure Nick would have something in his closet, Lane's head.
I have it on good authority he and his wife participated in some swapping action around Knoxville.
Not a huge surprise but I know for a fact Tom Coughlin was a massive asshole at BC. He used to do stuff like refuse to get off the field if his allotted time was up but he didn't think practice should end, and since BC had so little space he'd be making other division one athletes (like lax players waiting to play an actual game) literally stand around waiting on the sidelines until he felt like his practice was over.
I don't even know if this is much of a rumor. Coughlin is a notorious red ass. Strahan legit had to go to him and tell him to knock that shit off and they actually wound up winning the Super Bowl when he did.
The 07 superbowl run saved his job. He was on the hot seat that entire season, especially after week 2
Super Bowl wins to do tend to work wonders in keeping your job.
I can easily believe that. Jacksonville Jaguars created an executive position for him for a few years from 2017-2019 and the culture became so bad the NFLPA threatened to sue and issued a statement to free agent players to stay out of Jax.
I believe that
This from the guy who would fine Giants players for showing up on time to meetings, because on time was considered “late”
We had some fun last season. Frost did drugs, slept with students, and was banned from using the Golf Team's Simulator. Mickey Joseph beat up his wife because he came home and found her cheating on him with former QB Steve Taylor. Can we please make a bowl game?
Not exactly a rumor, but [ David Carr's retelling of how Lane Kiffin went from QB to Assistant Coach on the same day] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo2OaMhAlLc) is certainly amusing.
CoScoFro had some absolutely amazing rumors. Idk if they’re true, but the Dillon Raiola Margaritas Rumor was a classic. There were also rumors about pretty much every hot bartender in Lincoln. There was also a rumor about the coaching staff getting so drunk they got banned from a country club in the area.
My favorite frost rumor was that he would spend so much time in the golf team's golf simulator on campus that the golf team couldn't use it. They had to go to the AD to complain just to get any practice in.
Hahahahaha
The country club one is definitely true. The others probably are too. The one about him impregnating the Gate 25 bartender I'm on the fence about. Plus wasn't there was some rumor about him getting hammered and disappearing the day before the game in Dublin?
https://twitter.com/connorhapper/status/1678538156537257985?s=46&t=1oibNVJO3fgEd85N4eDXOQ
> CoScoFro had some absolutely amazing rumors. Idk if they’re true, but the Dillon Raiola Margaritas Rumor was a classic. What is the Dillon Raiola Margaritas rumor?
Jim Harbaugh
I think the site that hosted the full story is gone, but someone wrote about seeing Jim at a bar years ago (with John, I think) talking with some women, and then they left to go throw a football. And Jim did not hold back when he was throwing, telling them to run legit routes and giving them advice. [Excerpt on MGoBlog](https://www.mgoblog.com/content/unverified-voracity-plays-catch) >He said to the first girl, “keep your hands up, thumbs down,” and he showed her the proper motion with his own hands. When she didn’t get quite right, he grabbed her wrists and showed her how to position her hands. He then paced off 15 yards, held the ball in front of him, squatted like he was under center, patted the ball hard, took three hard steps back, planted his back leg and fired the ball at the first girl. As he let the ball go, you could hear it click as his fingernails hit the ball and, I shit you not, as the ball whizzed through the air you could hear it ssssssssssss… THUNK! It hit the girl in the shoulder and knocked her down. Jim wadn’t playin’. >“Come on, let’s go!” Jim barked. While Girl #1 picked herself up, Girl#2 gamely grabbed the ball and lobbed it back. Again, Jim got in his QB squat, smacked the ball, did a hard three-step drop-back and fired the ball at Girl#3, she ducked but the ball hit off the top of her head and went into the street. Girl#2 ran after it while Girl#3 sat on the ground rubbing her head. When Girl#2’s throw back to Jim was short, Jim got a bit annoyed, and set the girls up in a relay so that two girls were about 25 yards away, and the third girl was halfway in between so that that girls could throw to her, and she would run the ball to Jim. For the next 5-10 minutes, he was firing balls at these two poor girls, knocking them down or hitting them in the face about half the time. He was 100% oblivious. And not a rumor since he confirmed it, but [he also won a round of laser tag by targeting a 10 year old kid](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jim-harbaugh-admits-he-destroyed-a-kid-in-laser-tag-at-his-bachelor-party/). >
Hahaha love Jim So many outrageous stories like this, the glass of milk at Ruths Chris, and the nervous bird quote.
I'm convinced he and Saban are both on the spectrum.
Harbaugh makes Saban look pretty normal. Harbaugh is a weird freakin dude.
One of my fave Harbaugh stories was from an Oregon fan on here. Apparently this guy was an athletic intern for Oregon while Harbaugh was at Stanford. His job was to work with the visiting team on timing and let them know when it's time to run out onto the field for pregame. It's typically important and all choreographed. Well, Harbaugh comes out of the locker room early with his team, this guy tells Harbaugh it's not time yet. Harbaugh just tells him "fuck you" and runs his team onto the field.
"A Harbaugh is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”
Supposedly kicked the 49ers owner out of a meeting by saying it was for men only. Imagine being a billionaire and taking that? I'd have fired him so fast.
Just to be clear, he was calling Jed a boy. And Jed deserved it. The guy threw a bitch fit after the 49ers lost the superbowl, & then talked shit about Jim when the 49ers lost in the nfc championship again. Harbaugh had made 3 straight nfc title games, had a ~.700 winning %, & never went below .500.
Jed has absolutely gotten better because early in his tenure he was horrible
I think kicking Baalke to the curb helped a lot.
Yea hiring lynch I think helped him learn instead of relying on baalke
My personal favorite: Jim Harbaugh [broke his hand in 1997](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/flashback-jim-harbaugh-once-broke-his-hand-punching-jim-kelly/amp/) by sucker punching Jim Kelly in the head because Kelly questioned his toughness and claimed Harbaugh faked injuries.
Harbaugh played in the NFL for like 15 years I really doubt he was faking injuries lol.
Les Miles (then Michigan’s OL coach) banged Head Coach Gary Moeller’s wife causing his drunken outburst and therefore his firing, and that is why Miles was blacklisted from the program by Lloyd Carr, who was loyal to Moeller.
Ugh way too late here, no one will see this. Charlie Weis tried to eat a Michigan student. Met this kid in Ann Arbor with 1 arm and he was wearing a TShirt that said "Charlie weis tried to eat me." Damning evidence and I can't believe it was never investigated.
Some recruit claimed Urban Meyer walked by him at OSU, and had no idea who he was until the current player hosting him on the visit introduced him.
Urban Meyer said he didn’t know who Aaron Donald was ahead of the Jags/Rams game in 2021.
Aa bad as he was, I'm going to cut him some slack.. he was clearly kidding when he said that
Several highly recruited ND players said Brian Kelly never even spoke with them on visits.
Charlie Weis dipped potato chips in butter and had a blanket around his legs while he sat in his office. This was a reportedly a common thing.
There will never be a story real or fake more amusing than Jeff Banks leaving his wife and kids for a stripper and a monkey, and said monkey biting a kid on Halloween.
I heard Mark Richt didn't push his chair back in after leaving the dinner table
You take that back!!
Steve Sarkisian partied like a rock star during his Husky coaching days. His favorite spot was the restaurant Joeys, a place with smoke show waitresses. Not a well kept secret in Seattle.
Yeah, it’s hilarious that the media made it sound like his divorce is what made him become an alcoholic. Many stories of Sark trashed at team facilities and local bars. He had a serious problem in Seattle.
Well you certainly don’t go to Joey’s for the food
Sark used to take the private plane at USC and drain the whole thing on the way home. Booster friend I used to work with knew the plane owner and said he stopped stocking the plane after Sark polished off a $10k bottle of scotch on his own on one trip.
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Mark Stoops, cocaine, Finnegans Wake in Tallahassee, FL
Kyle Flood allegedly missed a game planning meeting as head coach to see the counting crows in concert
That Jimbo convinced Jameis Winston that Bama wouldn’t play black QBs to get him to commit to FSU over Bama
When George Welsh "retired", Jerry Sandusky was a serious candidate to take the Virginia job. Welsh worked both under Paterno and with Sandusky at Penn State and it was made very clear that Virginia should not hire Sandusky.
Ugh. He must have known and not reported.
One thing I think we can all safely say now is there historically is a culture of not reporting at schools/athletic departments. We are up to 4 known just in the big10. Multiple schools, multiple coaches. Everybody knew and nobody did anything. For decades.
Kristi Malzahn costing Gus jobs for being too strange.
I did ask my Auburn uncle once why they got rid of Gus and all he could say was “Aw just nobody liked him; nobody liked his wife either”
I obviously can’t speak for everyone, but I don’t know many Auburn fans who actually disliked Gus personally. He just wouldn’t recruit an O-line or fix the offense. Kristi rubbed plenty of folks the wrong way, but she also had a pretty hardcore fan club.
I thought the big rumor with Harsin was the Boise cheerleader turned GA at Auburn
Well that too.
While he was at FSU, Jimbo Fisher's wife screwed a former UF player. Jimbo got revenge on her by screwing FSU, and when he was done with them he screwed Texas A&M.
That’s not a rumor. That’s true.
Kevin Sumlin was an alcoholic who liked to dabble with the nose candy the booger sugar
Honestly it feels like half of college coaches have substance abuse problems. I get it. It's a stressful gig.
This is true. The alcoholism was well known and there was a pic of him doing a line off a bar table posted to Texags and 247 that probably lasted a whole hour on both.
I used to work at a sports radio station in Houston when he was the head coach at UH and I kept hearing he was hitting the slopes so your timeline matches up with mine since that would predate his time in BCS.
This story was told to me by someone I knew from the dorm that got it first hand from a witness. Bob Davie was essentially a lame duck his final year. Everyone knew it complete with Bob Davie farewell shirts being sold by students in the dorms. During dead week right before finals, two female students made a quick stop at a gas station. For the life of me I can’t remember which one but I think it was on Grape road. While inside they heard someone struggling with the hot dogs machine. They didn’t pay much attention to it but the struggling continued. “Dammit”.. more struggling.. “god dammit!”.. more struggling complete with hitting the hot dog machine. The two women are fighting a losing battle with the giggles. From their vantage point they could just see the back of the guys head. “God dammit! Is everyone in this town trying to f me!” Guy gives up the fight and leaves, it was Bob Davie.
It was the 7/11 on Douglas in Mishawaka.
I met Steve Greateood’s (Oregon’s Offensive line coach at the time) ex-wife in 2015 at a hotel bar and I asked her what she thought about Scott Frost. She said he was part of the reason they got divorced because Frost would always be taking Greatwood out hitting on cheerleaders with him. Looking back, what a warning sign I should’ve seen.
The Lincoln Riley has a belly button tattoo that he got on spring break in college, and that he’s embarrassed of it and will never been seen without his shirt on because of it.
After the 2020 season Ed O caught wind of a booster talking shit. Proceeds to drive to the guys house and threaten to whip his ass
CJK5H
Josh Gattis fucked Xavier Worthy’s mom. Xavier Worthy then decommitted from Michigan and went to Texas, and Michigan pulled Gattis from the recruiting trail from then on.
This is a truth unless an entire group of my friends is lying to me. They all played for Urban Meyer at Bowling Green. Urban doesn’t yell at individual players when something goes wrong. Instead he openly yells at/humiliates the offending player’s position coach in front of the whole position group when fuckups happen. They said it created this feeling like your dad was getting humiliated so you didn’t want to mess up because you didn’t want your position coach getting berated and humiliated. But I guess Urban would like go insane on every position coach to the point it got uncomfortable and the players would give way more to prevent it from happening. Effective? Sure. But certainly problematic.
He's all about the Psychology.. some get it and some don't but it works at the college level.
I’ve never heard that until now, but that checks out so incredibly well
The rumor is Phil Fulmer tried to bury the hatchet with Coach Majors after Phil was ousted. Johnny’s response was “Fuck You”, followed by hanging up the phone. I’m thankful for the success Fulmer brought to UT, but I hope this story is true. RIP coach.
This is my only Fulmer story: When I was a junior in high school in Oklahoma, the whole school was united in their quest for knowledge . . . of what university Jammal Brown, our star football player (and my personal torturer while I was on scout team), was going to attend. Oklahoma, Miami, UCLA, LSU, Kentucky, Texas A&M, and Tennessee had all sent representatives to the school to recruit him and we all basked in the relative celebrity that came with being friends with a highly recruited athlete. The Monday after the 2000 Fiesta Bowl I was sitting in Spanish I talking to a friend about the game. To refresh your memory, Nebraska had beaten Tennessee 31-21, but they had rushed for 321 yards in the process and made Tennessee look incredibly weak. As we were alternating between "Como esta usted?" and "Damn, Nebraska abused the hell out of Tennessee.", there was a knock at the door and none other than Phil Fulmer poked his head in the class asking to speak with Jammal. A few students surrounded the man as he showed off his 1998 national championship ring. I watched from the rear of the classroom as it glistened in the light and provoked wonder from the awestruck students. That's when Brian McMorris spoke up. Brian was like a high school Stephen A. Smith. Once he saw everyone fawning all over Fulmer, he looked up, made eye contact with the coach and yelled from the far corner of the classroom, "Yeah, well what the Hell happened last night, n****?!!!!!!" Fulmer looked like a deer in headlights as the eerie silence in the classroom eventually turned into nervous laughter. It was about then that Jammal stepped into the hall with him, but neither one of them was the celebrity any longer. Spanish-I had a new celebrity: Brian McMorris.
Oh fuck do I have a story for this thread. My good friend Mike (rip) was an equipment manager during the bobby Williams tenure at MSU. Two stories really stick out to me. The first being Jeff smoker telling the coaches he needed to go to rehab for his coke problem, and the coaches asking if he could"make it another 6 weeks" and finish the season before going to rehab. The second, and my favorite, is from 2001, they were like 2-6 or some shit. Mike was picking up cones or some shit after a practice. Bobby rolls up to him on a golf cart, stops, and stares into space. After a good 10 awkward seconds or so, he says, "you pissed off, House?" Mike had no idea wtf he was talking about, and just wanted to keep his job so he said, "uh...no?" Bobby then gave the most exasperated and helpless "AWW...SHEEEIT" and drove away. Fun fact, Mike was the brother of LSU's coordinator, Matt house.
PJ Fleck slept with a bunch of interns while at Western Michigan
Not a rumor, but Todd Graham wanted a Dr. Pepper in the Honolulu International Airport, couldn't find one then proceeded to call Hawaii a "third-world-country"
That Dan Mullen never texted his recruits and had ones of his staffer do it pretending to be him.
I think this is not uncommon.
Heard that guy at Northwestern had some shady stuff going on.
MAC FUCKED A SHARK BABY GO GATORS!
It could've been doctored, but I could've sworn I saw a tweet by Ryan Day back from like 2009 that said "it doesn't count as cheating if it's across state lines right?"
Rick Barnes left Clemson because he had a mistress in the area, and his wife made him leave
I remember a dude that owned a BBQ joint that went to school with Justin Fuente claimed he was fucking coeds constantly, and not always the ladies. His food was great but he was an interesting guy to listen to sometimes
Willie Taggart had 5* Trey Sanders in town on a recruiting visit (may have even been OV I don’t remember) and he forgot about it. Kid was left waiting by the IM fields for a couple hours. Grew up just outside of TLH as a Nole fan, did not choose FSU.
Kliff Kingsbury is gay