# State Troopers guarding football coaches.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-troopers-guarding-football-coaches/781086>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 1, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-troopers-guarding-football-coaches/781086 "2017-03-01T05:10:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-troopers-guarding-football-coaches/781086/21 "2017-03-02T20:52:38Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> It’s a status symbol for the coach, plain and simple. SCOTUS justices don’t have bodyguards; college football coaches sure as hell don’t need them (they are entitled to a US Marshals security detail when traveling outside DC, but apparently most of them decline it).

College football coaches are entitled to a US Marshals security detail when traveling outside DC? How did the federal government get involved in this? Is there a backstory?

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-troopers-guarding-football-coaches/781086/22 "2017-03-03T10:51:07Z")

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> [@Alley\_Dweller](#):
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> College football coaches are entitled to a US Marshals security detail when traveling outside DC? How did the federal government get involved in this? Is there a backstory?

I thought he meant SCOTUS Justices, but it is rather confusingly written.

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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-troopers-guarding-football-coaches/781086/23 "2017-03-03T16:42:41Z")

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> [@chacoguy](#):
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> I think this may have started with Bear Bryant; I’m not sure.
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> My question is: Has there ever been a coach,\* IN THE US\*, physically attacked, requiring a bodyguard?

This is apparently a southern thing. No Pac-12 football team has state troopers standing next to a coach.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-troopers-guarding-football-coaches/781086/24 "2017-03-06T14:55:45Z")

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> [@Gyrate](#):
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> I thought he meant SCOTUS Justices, but it is rather confusingly written.

Yes, that. And I agree. :smack:

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