Nick Saban: Current NIL setup 'creates a situation where you can basically buy players'

[Nitt1300]

“The concept of name, image and likeness was for players to be able to use their name, image and likeness to create opportunities for themselves. That’s what it was,” Saban said. “So last year on our team, our guys probably made as much or more than anybody in the country.”

“But that creates a situation where you can basically buy players,” Saban said. “You can do it in recruiting. I mean, if that’s what we want college football to be, I don’t know. And you can also get players to get in the transfer portal to see if they can get more someplace else than they can get at your place.”

 

[PhillyBillyReprise]

Yep

 

[Auxgym]

I think what I hear Nick saying is that everyone can now use the Bama system......

 

[BobPSU92]

nick forgot the part where kids evaluate the academic opportunities at various schools.

 

[MacNit]

Eureka!

 

[Alphalion75]

nick forgot the part where kids evaluate the academic opportunities at various schools.

What?? Academics?!?

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

I think what I hear Nick saying is that everyone can now use the Bama system......

nick forgot the part where kids evaluate the academic opportunities at various schools.

Nick laughs at academic opportunities!

 

[Nittany1865Farmer]

Nick forgot to say... "We are glad for this new development in college football because now our bagmen can operate out in the open and have business cards instead of pretending to be Joe the Plumber who carries tons of cash in his tool box everywhere"....

 

[JoeBatters1]

NIL and the transfer portal have basically allowed the inmates to run the asylum. These inmates generally don’t care about education and they largely don’t have any allegiance or sense of fealty to a school in a similar manner that most alumni do. Everything that made college football popular - the tradition and passion that was part of a fan’s connection to a school and which separated the sport from the seemingly more sterile nature of pro football - has been laid threadbare by NIL and the transfer portal. However, I realize that this may have been inevitable. I have also accepted that college football is not immune from Stein’s law and is very likely in the last evolutionary phases of actually coming to an end.

 

[Georgia Peach]

NIL and the transfer portal have basically allowed the inmates to run the asylum. These inmates generally don’t care about education and they largely don’t have any allegiance or sense of fealty to a school in a similar manner that most alumni do. Everything that made college football popular - the tradition and passion that was part of a fan’s connection to a school and which separated the sport from the seemingly more sterile nature of pro football - has been laid threadbare by NIL and the transfer portal. However, I realize that this may have been inevitable. I have also accepted that college football is not immune from Stein’s law and is very likely in the last evolutionary phases of actually coming to an end.

Did you see what the ticket prices were for the Natty with Georgia and Alabama? Take a look at the TV contracts coming up. College football is not going anywhere. Those who care will adapt to a new age of compensated players and places like Arkansas and T A&M will suddenly be major players. That said, I would not want to be a college football coach having to recruit new AND existing players every year and also having to recruit NIL donors, who in turn will be making demands to influence who plays and who stays. It will be an 80 hour a week job 52 week per year.

 

[Got GSPs]

Didn't he mean to say that its now LEGAL to buy players???

 

[Meat Lab]

We can at least take solace knowing there are no “football culture” programs today.

 

[Midnighter]

Notre Dame gets their NIL effort going with Brady Quinn and others ($).

 

[91Joe95]

Buy players? What is this, slavery? Let them earn what they're worth without belittling the process that resulted from the reaction to rampant and unfettered exploitation.