While Nick Saban issues warnings about the direction of the sport and positions himself as the arbiter of what college football should be, it's worth remembering that he's spent a career saying whatever benefited him in the moment.
He's one of the greatest coaches ever. He's also one of the biggest hypocrites the game has produced.
NEW: Nick Saban issues a warning to college sports about the current NIL landscape during his testimony for "The Protect College Sports Act":
“It’s become an arms race, who spends the most has got the best chance to win. But I think it’s a race to the bottom because if you don’t spend to win, you lose your fan base and you don’t have any revenue.”
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Is there anyone out there that thinks this is sustainable? Like at all.
REGARDLESS of what this dude USED TO make coaching, or what you think he did in recruiting…
Do we REALLY think that Teams spending $40 million every year, and that number will keep going up, is sustainable for the ENTIRE sport?
This is not that hard
Whatever. The last person with credibility on this issue is Nick Saban. Holy crap. This is the coach who built Bama into the unchallenged apex predator of the arms race he is now warning Congress about, who collected $11 million a year while Olympic sports got cut at Bama, who recruited every blue-chip prospect into a system that made the "spend to win" dynamic he now decries. Saban created the conditions for the race to the bottom and rode it to seven national championships, then retired the moment the players got a meaningful piece of the revenue. Now he is testifying before Congress as the moral authority on what went wrong. This clown is the arsonist trying to put out the fire.
Nick Saban brings up the current Clemson-Ole Miss tampering situation.
“We have nothing to control tampering. You know, Clemson had a player that was on campus for a whole week, and they (Ole Miss) come and got him off the campus and took him someplace else”
So much damage done to the offense by taking Furniss’ bat out of the heart of the lineup in exchange for a guy that’s 2-17 hitting for the season. You can’t rationalize that; not in regionals. This isn’t an early March midweek game.
What a coincidence: Stetson Bennett played a total of six years of college football. His career spanned from 2017 to 2022, which included one season at the junior college level and five seasons of NCAA eligibility. But Go Dawgs and what-not.
When your head coach admits publicly that cheating is OK because everyone else does it; really shows you the state of CFB right now. Also his QB is playing a 6th year for $6M dollars. Or Golding is a POS. Maybe both.
@BobbyWilson1004 Stetson Bennett played a total of six years of college football. His career spanned from 2017 to 2022, which included one season at the junior college level and five seasons of NCAA eligibility.
Ole Miss not allowing Lane Kiffin to coach through the playoff despite how much he wanted to is so diabolical and self-inflicted to me.
Lane’s a good guy. Framing him as anything else is wrong and motivated out of the wrong place.