WATCH: Former Texas QB Chris Simms admits to receiving ‘$100 handshakes’ from boosters

Every college football fan of a major power has probably heard of the $100 handshake. Just as it sounds, when a booster introduces himself to a certain player, they have a $100 bill in their hand.

Former Texas QB Chris Simms, son of NFL legend Phil Simms and brother of former Tennessee QB Matt Simms, was on “The Dan Patrick Show” to discuss the prevalence of $100 handshakes. His message to fans was to get over and it accept that it happens everywhere, even schools like Harvard.

Simms explains it’s not the big boosters with a common presence around the program, but the kind of boosters he might only see once. He also pushes back against the common argument that a scholarship is fair compensation for players. In his opinion, a school like Texas makes much more off of jersey sales than the cost of in-state tuition.

The entertaining exchange can be viewed below:

Boosters used to give Chris Simms $100 handshakes to sign jerseys. Will paying college athletes stop these shadow payments?#AUDIENCEsports pic.twitter.com/HqTbJBzi60

— AUDIENCE Sports (@AudienceSports) August 17, 2017

Andrew Olson

Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.