A cigar smoke-filled locker room. One hundred dollar bill handshakes. Spanking a cop on the butt.
The postgame scene of LSU’s national championship win over Clemson had so much drama that it produced an arrest warrant (see: Odell Beckham). There was more to come, too. Joe Brady, the team’s pass game coordinator who was partially responsible for the Tigers’ high-flying offense, left for a job with the Carolina Panthers, and Dave Aranda, the highest paid defensive coordinator in the nation, took the head coaching job at Baylor. And then came the real doozy: Nine underclassmen left early for the NFL draft, a development that became official Monday when the NFL announced its list of non-seniors who were granted special eligibility.