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Respect for Saban as a coach, but he's a hypocrite when it comes to pay for play!

Posted on 3/14/24 at 3:48 pm
Posted by SwampyWaters
Member since Apr 2023
1392 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 3:48 pm
I just listened to Saban speak before congress and I just find it comical that he would now find a problem with pay for play, when Alabama has been paying players to come play for them for years. Yes, NIL is out of control, and yes, all the big time programs have been paying players for years, but I just find it humorous that Saban would be the poster child to speak against NIL when he had no problem paying for players all those years at Alabama, as long as they signed with his program.

I have tremendous respect for him as a coach, but to go before Congress and rail against NIL, I find very amusing. It's like inviting Bill Clinton to speak before Congress on the sanctity of marriage.
Posted by Tuscaloosa
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Posted on 3/14/24 at 3:49 pm to
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he had no problem paying for players all those years at Alabama


Prove it.
Posted by Clark14
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Member since Dec 2014
19712 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 3:50 pm to
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It's like inviting Bill Clinton to speak before Congress on the sanctity of marriage.


Or inviting trump to talk about honesty.
Posted by LouisvilleKat
Member since Oct 2016
18257 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 3:52 pm to
I mean I highly doubt Saban paid anyone directly. Might have happened but he didn't have to know about it.
Posted by ghoast
Member since Jul 2020
894 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 3:53 pm to
Jesus Christ… all you frickers wanted was for Big Bad Saban to go away for years, you just couldn’t wait for the day he was gone…now that he has left the game, y’all can’t keep him off your tiny little battered wives minds and follow his every move on the internet.
This post was edited on 3/14/24 at 3:54 pm
Posted by BIGJLAW
Member since Mar 2013
8439 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 3:55 pm to
Quit whining.
Posted by Tideroller
Lower Alabama
Member since Jan 2022
2366 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 3:55 pm to
I know this is a troll and I understand a lot of folks don't like Alabama or Saban because of how much he won, but he's not the coach at Alabama anymore and appears to be trying to get something done about what's happening in college football right now, and affects ALL teams, not just Alabama. Get over the hate and listen to him, this stuff is hurting everybody.
Posted by au7342
Member since May 2020
193 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 3:57 pm to


Prove they didn't. Here's a couple of articles for you to peruse. Warning, They will leave a mark:

Yahoo Sports Charles Robinson

CBS Sports - Staring down the barrel of a gun

Then, there is my personal experience back in the mid 70's with some high school players. Cars and cash.

(Edited for link names)
This post was edited on 3/14/24 at 4:00 pm
Posted by Auburn80
Backwater, TN
Member since Nov 2017
7566 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 3:59 pm to
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Prove it.


Prove Cam got paid or shut up.
Posted by labamafan
Prairieville
Member since Jan 2007
24266 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:00 pm to
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Prove they didn't



Not how that works you fricking democrat
Posted by lsusteve1
Member since Dec 2004
42008 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:01 pm to
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Prove it.


No need, why else would they go to Tuscaloosa and deal with the inbreds?
Posted by REV-S
near tuscaloosa
Member since Feb 2012
1791 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:03 pm to
Unhinged bammers thinking they never cheated, pure gold. Lol
Posted by SwampyWaters
Member since Apr 2023
1392 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:03 pm to
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I mean I highly doubt Saban paid anyone directly. Might have happened but he didn't have to know about it.


Saban didn't know? He was the mastermind behind everything having to do with Alabama football. He micro managed everything!

I do agree that he never paid them directly, but I refer you back to what Rush Propst said a couple of years ago about Saban. He recanted it because of all the heat that he took, but he was 100% correct about everything he said!
Posted by llfshoals
Member since Nov 2010
15525 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:05 pm to
Doesn’t sound like you actually listened to it.

The problem is unlimited transfers, which one of the things he pointed out was how the likelihood of them graduating goes down about 20% each time they do
Posted by RT1941
Member since May 2007
30267 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:09 pm to
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I just find it comical that he would now find a problem with pay for play, when Alabama has been paying players to come play for them for years.
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I just find it humorous that Saban would be the poster child to speak against NIL when he had no problem paying for players all those years at Alabama, as long as they signed with his program.

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I have tremendous respect for him as a coach,
How could you possibly have "tremendous respect for him as a coach" when he paid players all those years?
Posted by REV-S
near tuscaloosa
Member since Feb 2012
1791 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:14 pm to
I don’t have any respect for him at all, the hypocrite.
Posted by Lateralus1
Member since Mar 2024
304 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:19 pm to
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I don’t have any respect for him at all, the hypocrite.


Well that's certainly a special take considering your whore monger of a coach.
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
43003 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:19 pm to
Saban just mad he lost all his advantages
The hypocrite is the amount of money he made out of college football
Posted by saturday
Pronoun (Baw)
Member since Feb 2007
7114 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:23 pm to
Shut up, dude. The GOAT finally retired; I love NIL bc it caused him to have enough with the BS.


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The hypocrite is the amount of money he made out of college football


very true
This post was edited on 3/14/24 at 4:24 pm
Posted by Tuscaloosa
11x Award Winning SECRant user
Member since Dec 2011
46668 posts
Posted on 3/14/24 at 4:24 pm to
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Yahoo Sports Charles Robinson


Getting bribed by agents to sign with them after college ain’t got shite to do with Nick Saban. Sorry.

quote:

CBS Sports - Staring down the barrel of a gun


Neither do infractions from 1999. Sorry.

Suck it, loser.
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