re: Saban in Congressional roundtable speaking about NIL today

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Gus, you talk about college football like it is some amateur sport that got tainted by NIL in the last few years.

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Again, you keep making things up. Please provide my quotes where I ever stated that NIL has tainted college football. Again, you won't be able to. The issue anyone with any sense about the subject has is that this system is unsustainable. MILLIONS of future student-athletes will end up losing opportunities that are currently available now (through scholarships for non-revenue sports) if schools have to start paying players (which is exactly what you are supporting, because you wrongly believe that the players currently are being mistreated).

Another major equation in this issue is the current unrestricted free agency. Once again, people who are clueless on how the entire system of college athletics works are in favor of the current rules (or lack thereof) for transfers.

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Now that NIL has started providing a path for players to get what the market says they are worth all the people that are part of the old system (most especially Saban) are fighting against it.

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Why do you insist on being obtuse? Seriously, why?

You keep saying that Saban and I want to fight NIL. Do you have a problem with reading comprehension?

I stated the following:

"NIL can be regulated to where it is truly used as intended (name, image, likeness of player with NO input from schools) rather than the current Wild West with unlimited transfers. I do not know exactly how, but it can be done. No professional league has unlimited free agency, why should college?

Again, I have no problem with a student athlete cashing on themselves (NIL), but not at the expense of eliminating ALL non-revenue sports (and subsequent opportunities) for millions of future student-athletes."

How you can interpret that as me wanting to get rid of NIL or blaming NIL for "tainting college sports" ?

I blame the complete lack of enforcement of the rules that were in place for both transfers and NIL. I never said both of those should go away, regardless of how often you want to say so. I just think those issues should be tightly regulated by a governing body put together by the member schools (totally gutting the NCAA would be a great start).

Do you honestly know the true intentions for NIL? If not, it is supposed to be a rule that allows student-athletes to be compensated for using their name, image and/or likeness to endorse products, services, etc. It was ONLY supposed to be between the student and the entity paying them for their "services". Schools were not supposed to be involved in any way (which was laughable from the very beginning).

My point (as is Saban's) is that there needs to be some kind of rules in place with an enforcement agency to enforce them.

Every single major school (and many smaller schools) now have collectives which are used to entice recruits to sign with their schools. That absolutely has recruits signing with the highest bidder, which is even worse than pro sports because the pro sports are not "lawless". Why can't you see this?

Also, the unlimited transfers allowed currently will absolutely destroy college sports. If you can't see that now, you never will until it is too late.