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The spread of money with names, images and similarities is causing chaos in college football. Which caused chaos between Alabama coach Nick Saban and a couple of his colleagues.
A day after Saban pointed out Texas A&M and Jackson State, provoking strong reactions from Jimbo Fisher and Deion Sanders, respectively, Saban said he did not do so by separating them, assuming they had bought players with NIL money.
“I had to be more specific when I said ‘bought’, saying that you can now buy players by name, image and likeness, and I never mentioned any particular school and just said ‘in the whole sport’,” Saban said. “It’s up to me. But other than that, I do not regret what I said on Wednesday.
Saban says he speaks openly because he doesn’t want to take the approach if you can’t beat them.
“I don’t want to go this way of bidding for high school players,” Saban said. “I don’t. But if we go through this recruitment class this year and lose all the players because they make a hundred thousand dollars going somewhere else, then what can you do?”
But if he could do it, wouldn’t he? This notion that Saban complains about the rules before exploiting them still seems naive. He would just exploit them if he could. He complains because he can’t.
“It’s not a professional sport,” Saban said. “I want to say that we have a free agency and we do not have a salary cap. We have that in principle, don’t we? There is no professional league that has this circumstance, because none of them is stupid enough to have it, and we have it. “
You have this, Nick, because you deserve it. Decades of exploitation of players have led to chaos. Now you and every other coach have to deal with that.
If you don’t like it, go out. You can do it, thanks to all the money you have made over the years that players have not received anything from them.
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