Posted on 05/19/2022 10:30:34 AM PDT by C19fan
Alabama's Nick Saban blasted Texas A&M and Jackson State for allegedly 'buying' football recruits with improper name, image and likeness deals, prompting sharp rebukes from those programs' respective head coaches, Jimbo Fisher and Deion Sanders. A&M's Fisher, a former Saban assistant coach, called his former boss a 'narcissist' while JSU's Sanders, the legendary former NFL cornerback, dismissed the claims as 'lies.'
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“ Just when Saban had the system rigged so Bama would always make the playoff, someone is trying to rig it in a different direction? No wonder he’s outraged.”
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get used to many colleges dropping football and basketball altogether....
which means all of these "big time" programs will have fewer little colleges to pat their win columns with...
and get used to having the same 10 teams or so always playing in the championships....
but people are stupid...
these college presidents are supposed to be looking out for the nursing students, the education students, the engineers, the architects and the young drs as well as all the other kids they're trying to educate...
instead, they are allowing the buying and selling of players .....
Cam’s own dad said it was 100K!
I thought it was rich that Saban, Smart and Swinney are complaining about the NIL. At least the other cheating program OSU kept its mouth shut. Tua Tagovailoa has his whole family sell their house in 1 day and already had a paid-for home lined up in Sweaty Armpit Tuscaloosa. Of all the 5-star high school football players 10 of the 120+ FBS schools get 70% of them. Not even the semblance of parity. I blame the kids also, they put themselves up for sale to these programs. Ghetto rat parents and ghetto rat kids, up for sale for a few 100k. Most will never start and even less never get drafted. The kids could care less about the academic reputation of the school( Bama is a lower 1/4 of accredited universities)
A lot of schools will start dropping football, because they simply won’t be able to compete.
How much do they currently care, a little or a lot?
The real.answer is for Congress to pass legislation, but until it does, the antitrust laws will make it increasingly difficult for the NCAA to maintain any rules relating to compensating athletes.
Yikes. “Clege” = “College”
My high school baseball coach had a car that showed up at his house the day after he signed with the University of Texas back in the 1960s
What could go wrong? Oops, guilty of not reading the article again.
Neither will Gilbert Gottfried.
Jackson MS isn’t a huge media market. JSU hiring Deion Sanders to be their coach raised their visibility quite a bit though - they did get on regional or maybe it was national cable TV a couple of times this year (rare for a FCS or I-AA school).
The players have the right to sell their NIL. Now the school and the coach are not supposed to be involved. The booster can write the contract so that it essentially forces the player to attend one particular school (for instance, making personal appearances at a particular car dealership or other business).
Remember when the 'rats used to cry because the GOP out-$$$ them in campaign cash?
...now that it's totally reversed(and then some)both they and their MSM mouthpieces are(surprise)silent.
The richest 1% are evil...unless it's them.
The NFL had a great farm league - called NFL Europe. But they didn't want to pay for it.
A&M comes a close second.
In basketball, we were blessed that Chet Holmgren spent his year at Gonzaga. He would've made millions at USC or UCLA.
The two of them combined won't be able to outspend Texas. Foreign car lots in Austin are already out of Lamborghinis, and we haven't hit June.
Considering that Joe Scarborough is a notable alum, I can't disagree with you.
And OU is going to this sick conference
Not just being able to compete. Recruiting players will be a heckuva issue if they don’t figger out a way to keep it fair across a team. There’s no way I’m going to block for a pretty NIL who just drove in with a new convertible. And I’m going to make it risky for a big money guy to show up on offense. He’ll need most of his big bucks for medical repairs. Back in the day I sent them to the bench for a lot less than throwing new money around. Holding a grudge might get more common. As others have said this whole NIL thing will kill college sports unless they get a quick handle on how to keep it fair.
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