r/CFB • u/mobilities Alabama Crimson Tide • 2d ago
News TJ Finley’s attorneys release statement following Tulane QB’s arrest
https://www.al.com/sports/2025/04/tj-finleys-attorneys-release-statement-following-tulane-qbs-arrest.html205
u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • Iron Bowl 2d ago
Pretty much what everyone expected. I hope he isnt stupid enough to knowingly by a hot car
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u/Showdenfroid_99 Michigan • Ferris State 2d ago
It was a beautiful car. A gorgeous car. A sexy car. Some might even say a hot car.
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u/wit_T_user_name Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats 2d ago
Stupid sexy car.
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u/OTribal_chief Clemson • Manchester (UK) 2d ago
Its just a sexy car (Sexy car) Its not your boy car (Boy car)
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u/_Football_Cream_ Texas Longhorns • SEC 2d ago
Everybody is saying it
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u/BiscuitDance Oregon • Mississippi State 2d ago
Can you even say that? They don’t want you to say that. They won’t let you say that…. But I’ll say it
cheers and applause
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u/hunterschuler SMU Mustangs • Texas State Bobcats 2d ago
The officer ran the truck's license plate number, which matched the plate number registered to a different vehicle belonging to Finley, according to court records.
Idk man. Putting plates from your other vehicle on a truck you just purchased a few days ago is pretty unusual, especially when it turns out the VIN is hot. Maybe there's an explanation but it doesn't look great.
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u/lightninhopkins Minnesota Golden Gophers 2d ago
Eh, when I was young I did that. Bought a car and put my old plates on it till I could get to the DMV.
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u/Strokethegoats Ohio State Buckeyes • Team Chaos 2d ago
I did that last month on a truck I bought. My local tax office appointments were booked for almost 3 weeks straight. I keep an old truck plate for this just in case.
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u/lightninhopkins Minnesota Golden Gophers 2d ago
Exactly. This is kinda common in my experience. I did spend a lot of time growing up poor in the city and then living rural as an adult. So maybe others are not aware of this practice.
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u/dinanm3atl Florida State • Georgia Tech 1d ago
I’m a big car guy and swap cars a lot. If you had an appointment and proof of this. Why run the known wrong plate? As then you are going to have to explain to officer you did it intentionally. Which means you knew you were committed an offense.
I just drive with no tag. Can it be a hassle but it’s quick and painless. Here is bill of sale. Title. Signed. And insurance. I’m driving to the tag office. Or I’m driving home just got it.
Also where do you live? 3 weeks you can’t get a registration? I live in metro Atlanta area and can just show up. Rarely even wait 10-15min. Out with a fresh tag and registration.
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u/Mr_MacGrubber LSU Tigers • Army West Point Black Knights 1d ago
Should’ve just done what 90% of people do in New Orleans and just have no plates or decorative plates.
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u/cantstopwontstopGME Texas Longhorns 2d ago
Why would you not just keep the paper tags on it? They are good for multiple months
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u/lightninhopkins Minnesota Golden Gophers 2d ago
Where do you get the paper tags.
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u/back_that_ Penn State Nittany Lions 1d ago
From a dealer who isn't breaking the law.
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u/lightninhopkins Minnesota Golden Gophers 1d ago
If you buy from another person man.
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u/back_that_ Penn State Nittany Lions 1d ago
If you want to transfer a tag, you follow your state's rules for doing so. If you want a new plate, you follow your state's rules for doing so.
If you don't know how to buy a car legally you probably shouldn't be buying a car.
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u/lightninhopkins Minnesota Golden Gophers 1d ago
Sure buddy.
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u/back_that_ Penn State Nittany Lions 1d ago
Yes, following the rules is how you avoid getting arrested.
Being sarcastic about that makes me think you might have been arrested once or twice.
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u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • Iron Bowl 2d ago
Oooof. I guess I should have read the whole article instead of the statement
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u/Expensive-Method8321 Georgetown Hoyas 2d ago
nah its perfectly normal especially if you dont have time to get to the dmv anytime soon
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u/cantstopwontstopGME Texas Longhorns 2d ago
It’s not perfectly normal haha.. It is just plain sketchy, especially when a cop can literally scan your plates and see it doesn’t match the vehicle you’re driving, and doubly so when it turns out the vehicle that you swapped the plates on is a stolen vehicle that you bought.
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u/Expensive-Method8321 Georgetown Hoyas 2d ago
It's perfectly normal to swap plates onto a new car that you just bought. Obviously it might end up problematic if unbeknownst to you the car you just bought was stolen. But if it wasn't, which I'd clearly what TJ believed, then he just did what a lot of people do when they get a new car.
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u/cantstopwontstopGME Texas Longhorns 1d ago
I have never heard of, or met anyone who has done this before I opened this thread. So I just don’t think it’s as common as you’re making it out to be.
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u/dinanm3atl Florida State • Georgia Tech 1d ago
Not really. You are knowingly committing a crime that instantly jumps out as “this is sketchy”. IE putting on the wrong tag.
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u/cougfan12345 Washington State Cougars 2d ago
Sounds like several guys called it in the previous thread announcing his arrest. Really sucks that there are people out there scamming everyone any chance they can get.
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u/EvangelionOG Iowa Hawkeyes • Navy Midshipmen 2d ago
People are shitty and will do everything to scam someone these days
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u/BeatNavyAgain Beat Navy! 2d ago
People have always been shitty and have always been willing to do everything to scam anyone any time
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u/Insane92 Verified Coach 2d ago
Literally a tale as old as time. Not sure how anyone’s is surprised by that nowadays.
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u/Nickyjha Team Chaos 2d ago
Literally a tale as old as time.
there's a 5000 year old cuneiform tablet about a merchant named Ea-Nasir trying to sell substandard copper at full price
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u/LSNoyce 2d ago
And even more people are stupid and fall for the scams. PT Barnum would be a Billionaire today.
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u/asmallercat Michigan • Central Michigan 2d ago
This ain't it dude. Yeah, I wish people had more common sense, but the vast majority of people who fall for scams are the elderly. Imagine being 70 today - you were born in 1955 when color TV's weren't common, the internet didn't exist in a meaningful way until you were 40+, and now there are scammers that can convincingly pretend to be your children or grandchildren claiming to need money for an emergency, even down to copying their voice if they have a somewhat big online presence. It's insane to expect everyone to be able to filter through all that without ever failing.
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u/Lovestick Alabama • 华东理工大学 (ECUST) 2d ago
No, it happens to everyone. You're not wrong with the elderly.
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u/GiraffesAndGin Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Paper Bag 2d ago edited 2d ago
But who tf buys a used car from someone without signing the title over?
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u/cougfan12345 Washington State Cougars 2d ago edited 2d ago
Per the article: "Spillway presented TJ with both a bill of sale and registration, giving TJ every reason to believe the purchase was legitimate"
Probably looked okay to a young college student. I just bought a used truck in full (after trading in another vehicle) and never saw the title until a new one was finally mailed to me. But this was at a legitimate Toyota dealership, not one of those sketchy buy here pay here lots.
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u/LSNoyce 2d ago
A registration is not a title. And a bill of sale (receipt) means nothing if the product was fraudulent to begin with.
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u/cougfan12345 Washington State Cougars 2d ago
Yes but young college student probably doesnt know that.
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u/LSNoyce 2d ago
Good point. May have even been his first car purchase.
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u/cougfan12345 Washington State Cougars 2d ago
Kinda crazy that these kids are just dumped a boat load of cash and need some help to not be taken advantage. I understand that going to a dealership can be scary and they try to rip you off with add ons, markups, warranties, etc but at least less likely to end with a stolen vehicle and if you somehow due the dealership will have to fix it, versus some dude he just disappears with your money.
When I was in college i scrapped together 2k to buy a used truck. Even I took a buddy along to help me look things over and make sure it was legit.
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u/GloriaToo Oregon Ducks 2d ago
Honestly at that age I wouldn't have had a clue but that was over 30 years ago so information wasn't as accessible and I was a dumbass.
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u/mayomayeaux Oklahoma State • Maryland 2d ago
This exact thing happened to a close friend of mine like a decade ago. It's so fucked up. It was his first car. Fortunately, cops understood the situation and he didn't get in any actual trouble himself. But he never ever got any of the money back. Lost around $4k. Awful stuff
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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns 2d ago
Yeah there's usually no actual recompense for the victims - often even when they find the real perp.
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u/Catullus13 Tulane Green Wave 2d ago
Ugh. Dude. Attorneys breh. Expensive and sometimes worth it
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u/wit_T_user_name Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats 2d ago
Trust me, it’s much cheaper in the long run to involve your attorney sooner rather than later.
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u/Catullus13 Tulane Green Wave 2d ago
I hear ya. It's a tough lesson to learn in your early 20s for TJ Finley
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u/Bigbadbrindledog Auburn Tigers • SIAA 2d ago
He screwed up, everyone knows you are supposed to "buy the stolen item" BEFORE you transfer to Auburn.
I hope his story is true and this is just an unfortunate blip on the radar for him.
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u/J4ckiebrown Penn State Nittany Lions • Rose Bowl 2d ago
Figured as much. I hope the guys figures it out and gets this cleaned up.
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u/sportstrap NC State Wolfpack • VMI Keydets 2d ago
This makes a lot of sense, no matter how stupid college kids are it made no sense for a decently high profile Quarterback for an FBS team with lots of NIL money to actually steal a car himself, especially when he doesn’t have a prior criminal history to begin with
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u/Lee-HarveyTeabag Idaho State Bengals • Oklahoma Sooners 2d ago
He still has eligibility?
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u/Krandor1 Auburn Tigers 2d ago
this is his last year
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u/billspit Clemson Tigers 2d ago
It would be, until this unforeseen hardship gets him a waiver, so he can transfer somewhere else and then make their other QBs transfer, too.
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u/weirdbutinagoodway West Virginia Mountaineers • Big 12 2d ago
Every player that has transfered 3 or more times should get an NIL deal from U-Haul.
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u/agent-bagent Illinois Fighting Illini 2d ago
You're all handwaving this but totally ignoring that he put swapped the plate out on the car that was registered to another one of his cars.
You think he doesn't know about plate registrations, but he did due dilligence to get the bill of sale/collateral from the seller?
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u/dts-five Georgia Tech • Clemson 1d ago
In my state when you register your car one of the options is a plate transfer, if you’re selling the car you already owned. You put the tag on the new car and have 30 days to submit the paperwork.
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u/ModsEmbezzleMoney Alabama Crimson Tide 2d ago
My dad bought a car one time and left his current car to pickup later because they were gonna do some minor maintenance (in prep to sell it) at this non affiliated dealership.
The owner of the dealership sold my Dad's car to someone later that day. When my dad came back for the car the next day the owner tried to buy him off being like "here's your cut". Police tried to say it was a civil matter at first because the guy was lying saying my dad gave him the ok.
He apparently forged a bill of sale and all that jazz. The poor dude who bought the car from him got stopped by police weeks later once the legal ball started rolling. We got the car back and the guy had tricked it out. It had spinners, new interior, a fresh paint job, and new speakers. Shit was so funny in hindsight.
We ended up selling the car back to the guy who bought it, but we had to wait until all the legal stuff was wrapped up and he got some of his money back too.
The sketchy dealership owner had apparently done it with a few other vehicles too so it was a big whole mess, and everyone was trying to get their money back so this took forever.
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u/LeonGwinnett Georgia • Summertime Lover 2d ago
I'll take this opportunity to say Squarepusher - Red Hot Car
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u/calmer-than-you-dude Ohio State • Youngstown State 2d ago
No...it wasn’t me, it was the one-armed man.
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u/Intelligent_Fig_4852 Auburn Tigers • Faulkner Eagles 2d ago
Same thing happened with Cam and computer but everyone likes to act like he stole it
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u/NoPlankton81 2d ago
A truck on FB marketplace? Jesus. There is dumb, then there is THIS kind of dumb.
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u/cougfan12345 Washington State Cougars 2d ago edited 2d ago
I've bought and sold several used cars on facebook marketplace. He didn't wire the guy money. It was just an ad to go look at it. Craigslist is dead for used cars.
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u/NoPlankton81 2d ago
Today I learned...
I haven't been on FB since 2016 when FB Marketplace was first getting started (or maybe it had been around for a while, I forget) and it was basically trinkets and furniture.
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u/cougfan12345 Washington State Cougars 2d ago
You pretty much have to be on FB if you want to sell used things locally. Craigslist and Offer up are mostly dead. At least in my area.
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u/nosotros_road_sodium San José State • Michigan 2d ago
Craigslist is still alive in my area. I've twice gotten rental rooms in the last 5 years through it.
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u/Luka-Step-Back 2d ago
I only use FB for marketplace.
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u/NoPlankton81 2d ago
Yeah - I didn't realize it had blown up into like a legit retail space where cars of these prices were being put up. I'll keep my original comment up for the people to downvote but clearly I have no idea what I'm talking about lol
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u/PutinsLostBlackBelt Alabama Crimson Tide • Hateful 8 2d ago
What? Ive purchased a truck on marketplace and sone on craigslist of all things in the last 3 years. Both were great deals. Had no issues.
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u/Kan169 /r/CFB 2d ago
One of my co-workers had this happen to her at a seemingly legitimate car lot. Okay, it was seedy fly by night one on a desolate corner of Parkersburg (yes, most corners in Parkersburg are desolate but this one was particularly so) so no one else was surprised it was stolen.