He confessed to stealing the 1998 national championship trophy.
Padgett said that, because he sat out in ’96 and they fell short in ’97, he wanted more time with the trophy once the ’98 locker room celebration was ending; so he wrapped it in a towel and threw it in his bag and took it back to his hotel room.
“It slept in the bed with me,” Padgett told KSR. “(The next morning) I come down and I look around, and I see people panicking over this thing and it’s still in my bag. And people are looking all over and I was like, ‘What’s going on?