re: Nick Saban pushes for players to 'unionize,' has 'no problem' with athletes being paid

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Let’s stop pretending that Saban is at the forefront of NIL or that he’s driving change. His comments always sound reactionary.

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He’s consistently adapted while bitching about having to do so. The man knows self-preservation. People misunderstand the bitching as not wanting to adapt instead of, more accurately, having to do so and not caring for the ramifications of everyone else doing the same.

If your program doesn’t already have a mature or rapidly maturing NIL solution like Alabama and others, your school is fricked. He’s just being grumpy about what that means for college football as a man who started out at a smaller school like Kent State.