State Troopers guarding football coaches.

[Alley_Dweller]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

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?

[Gyrate]

@Alley_Dweller

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.

[jsc1953]

@chacoguy

I think this may have started with Bear Bryant; I’m not sure.

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.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Gyrate

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

Yes, that. And I agree. :smack: