One question. If coaches can negotiate salaries, schools can negotiate TV contracts, conferences can negotiate media rights, and administrators can negotiate compensation, why should athletes be the only participants barred from negotiating the value of their labor?
@RTRWLT@RebelEconProf Ole Miss paused a $300 million stadium improvement project with the stated reason of NIL. Very few schools are doing facility upgrades anymore.
And the money to fund those was already coming from smaller sports.
Acting like saban cares at all about those sports it’s comical
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.