LSU responds to viral video of Odell Beckham Jr. handing out cash to Tiger players
It was one of those videos where several people in the crowd took a double take. Was Odell Beckham Jr. really handing out wads of cash to players on the field after the national championship game?
Well, according to a report from The Advocate, that wasn’t the case. The money was clear in videos, but it was fake, apparently. An LSU athletic official told The Advocate the money was not real.
Junior wide receivers Justin Jefferson and Jontre Kirklin were seen accepting cash from Beckham on the field. Beckham in a separate video said from the LSU locker room that he would sell Jefferson’s cleats for $200,000.
Beckham, who plays for the Cleveland Browns, played for LSU from 2011-13.
OBJ handing out cash to LSU players pic.twitter.com/xKjyot8boh
— 🥥 Bennie Jennings (@volblood) January 14, 2020
Ed Orgeron asked about OBJ passing out cash to #LSU players after the game. Said it was first he heard about it. Patrick Queen said he didn’t get any.
Developing story, to be sure. But I figure any players who got money will give it back and that will be it.— Scott Rabalais (@RabalaisAdv) January 14, 2020
Odell says he’s gonna sell Justin Jefferson’s cleats for $200K 🤣 @brkicks pic.twitter.com/hsOpQbNWOl
— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) January 14, 2020
Man I hope so. It would be a real shame if his actions jeopardized what those men achieved last night.
Since it was after the game, it wouldn’t affect last night’s game. It would only have an effect going forward if it wasn’t corrected before they play in another game.
Who thinks Jefferson is going to be around next year? Might as well have handed him real cash.
If he handed out cash to players, LSU is ineligible for post-season competition in 2020/21. They should lose a significant number or scholarships, and lose visits …. just like Missouri who was also attacked by a person, not on the staff and not on the team. Needless to say any player that keeps the cash has to move to California and give away all their photos, shoes, and t-shirts.
As usual, you are clueless. Even if it was real money, all the players have to do is give it back and LSU would report this as a secondary violation. Returning players could find themselves missing a game or two, but even that would be in question. That being said, OBJ should be banned from the program. He’s still all about him.
I get it…it’s OBJ but c’mon man…stop trying to steal their spotlight by acting like an idiot…
^^This^^
Fake money?!?! maybe OBJ was the banker in a game of Monopoly and he forgot to pay up the night before.
Yeah, it’s fake money, but it’s still an idiotic thing to do, particularly in the current college football climate.
Agree
That is some very realistic looking money… Either way LSU needs to stick to its guns with this story..
Yeah, millionaires often walk around with wads of fake money. Classic LSU response.
And the Aggies enjoyed another 8 win season. Now that’s a typical LSU response.
True. I had to laugh. I have been reading other reports saying it was prop money and he was trying to make a point about players should be paid. Nothing will come of it anyway, just a bit of a blemish on a great season IMO.
Players are paid. Anyone that says/believes otherwise is a fool or a liar.
Of course they’re being paid. That free education they’re getting isn’t actually free.
It’s a pretty good example, among so many, of why LSU and it’s culture can’t represent the SEC conference. If Greg Sankey doesn’t have steam shooting out of both ears about this, If the NCAA isn’t already planning their next sting. Then we should all be giving up on amateur college football and just skipping it to watch NFL on Sundays. By the way the NFL loved this Beckham incident because for them it certifies, that all college football can be summed up in the phrase “pro football wanna-bes”. What a sad statement because college football is so much more than the NFL could EVER hope to be IF WE HANG ON TO AMATEURISM AND GUARD IT WITH EVERY GAME WE CHOOSE TO ATTEND. Clean it up, get the bad boys out of spotlight before they can permanently stink up the neighborhood. Always has been the fight for college fans, probably always will be. And by the way, as much as i hated the sabotage job by the tutor at Missouri, that is what will keep me buying tickets, because i continue to know, they are willing to sacrifice a lot to protect their culture, institution, conference, and “amateur college game”. Heaven save us from the stink-hole found all over the world in screwed-up sports where they just can’t keep the dividing line of amateur competition clean and the lazy idea that somebody else will do it if we don’t, is the excuse for being low class.
Sure. We should let Missouri be the face of the conference.
Hmm…Mizzou isn’t looking good on the field OR the hardwood…sour grapes.
F’in stupid. OBJ is a classless moron. Way to bring thuggery into what should have been a stoic and special moment for the players and coaches. Can’t fix stupid.
Definitely was not fake money, but I hope nothing happens to the players over this.
I doubt anything comes of this and it probably shouldn’t.. Would be hard to prove anything really… That being said, LSU’s biggest concern should be the charity scandal as it’s federal I believe.
Remind me but was not some cash recently paid off to basketball players by fans. All this was in the news about investigation. Maybe ncaa needs to take a closer look , Very intersting throwing cash around the football team after winning . Needs to be resolved.
I don’t know the ins and outs. Something came about with some money being took from a charity or funneled through a charity and some of that money ended up in the hands of a players father…
Sure looked like a Benjamin on the top of that stack to me.
Granted, it’s video and impossible to prove with absolute certainty, but this is really bad optics.
OBJ is not to swift to be doing this in the open with all the news cameras around. At least he could have waited till he was in the locker room.
I wouldn’t believe the excuse, except it is par for the course for a certain subset of NFL players.
Adam “Pacman” Jones once started a massive brawl at a strip club because he “made it rain”, but then got angry when the girls tried to, you know, actually pick up the money.
He said the act of “making it rain” was symbolic and he never intended to give the money away.
You can’t fix stupid.
Fake money? Sure! He was just making another big ?!#%^@ LSU offer…or payment! Unbelievably stupid.
They really do need to do a better job taking care of their chicken.
and their “mentals” LOL
Silly drama! OBJ is proud of the team and that’s all… He gave them cleats and Beats…all within NCAA guidelines. He’s not going to walk out on the field in front of God and everyone to hand out real cash for players to keep. Ya’ll stop this nonsense!
Whether it fake or not, it is dumb to draw attention to themselves like this.
Surely u aren’t as stupid as u sound !
enjoy your last birthday before you have to start attending kindergarten
Buuuuuuutttttttt…….that’s exactly what he did.
Of course it was fake money. The real stuff will be handed out behind closed doors as usual.
I can’t believe this crap. That wasn’t Monopoly money. OBJ is such a egotistical diva self-absorbed narcissist moron that he’s going to get his college team put on probation for his own self glorification on a night when it was about everything but him. If I was the LSU AD he would be banned from any LSU activities.
Can’t punish Missouri for firing the tutor and kicking every cheater out of school, while letting this bull-hockey happen on TV.
Sure they can.
Did he really have to pull a clown act like that? Just keep the well-deserved focus on the players.
let me help you, IF Clemson showed up this year with a clean program, and that is a big “If” after the got away with no punishment last year, then one team gets an unfair black eye by association with this in-our-face assault on football for college men. 99% of these players in 5 divisions, will make an honest ethical living doing something other than playing football after they graduate. Those men deserve better than to be represented by this manure.
Starting the year off with your traditional negative self I see.
@pine….Most of us just laugh at his posts and move on…
Good advice and thanks. I’ll note that for any future wasted space he takes up.
GEAUX Tiger!!!
What is up with the Mizzou folks and so much negativity. I keep forgetting that Mizzou is even in the SEC. I guess we had to balance out the East with somebody when they added aTm to the West. As far as I’m concerned Mizzou and aTm still sit at the ‘kid’s table’ at SEC dinner.
Perception is reality; Coach O would be well within his authority to ban Beckham from the sidelines and/or locker room permanently
LSU should ask Beckham to stay FAR AWAY from LSU and it’s players! It’s clear the man is an idiot (see dog pee) and has no respect for much of anything! His actions and STUPIDITY will lead LSU players into NCAA sanctions – just remember, LSU is NOT UNC or Clempson!
“But I figure any players who got money will give it back and that will be it.”
If it was real money and they took it, that’s a big problem even if you give it back.
So now Joe Burrow is saying the money was real? If he’s serious, that a real problem. If he’s joking, that’s a terrible joke.