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Ex-Bama DB Ronnie Harrison Responds To Nick Saban's Comments About Players Leaving Early

by Larry Leo

April 8, 201957 Comments

Ex-Bama DB Ronnie Harrison Responds To Nick Saban's Comments About Players Leaving Early

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Crimsons Tide head coach Nick Saban recently made some comments about players leaving college early for NFL, referencing a third-round NFL draft pick, not by name, who left Alabama a year early...

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“If you’re a third-round draft pick, and we had one here last year — I’m not going to say any names — goes and starts for his team, so he’s making third-round money, which is not that great,” Saban said Saturday, clearly referencing Harrison. “He’d be the first guy taken at his position this year, probably, and make $15-18 million more. So, the agent makes out, the club makes out, and now they’ve got a guy that’s going to play for that kind of money for three more years.”

That player was former Bama DB Ronnie Harrison, who had this response...

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Harrison left after his junior year was taken 93rd overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2018 draft.

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Sweet daddy•61 months

Shows you how selfish the midget is he is making millions Saban is an Alabama slave master. Most kids don’t have a mansion a half million is better than nothing or a blown knee in your senior year.

ByUselves•61 months

Punctuation is your friend, let it into your life. But, your thought process is good.

UsingUpAllTheLetters•61 months

ByUselves, watch out. Those misplaced commas will get ya.

jeff70121•61 months

This kid gets it!

Cousin•61 months

I love the comment from Harrison!

km•61 months

Wait!!! Are you insinuating that Lil' Nickie is pandering to the media??? What's new.

TigerB8•61 months

Saban has really good success at keeping kids around longer than most schools...he needs to quit bitching.

jrowla2•61 months

Also players leaving early is the price of success, esp when you sign 10 five stars every year, they’re going to leave early.

NamariTiger•61 months

We care about the kids here at LSU :)

theunknownknight•61 months

Novel idea...wait for it...they’re both right

diat150•61 months

Saban is right. The player is really the only one that loses. It's the players decision so he has to live with it.

GOON•61 months

Or the player gets hurt that following year and hurts his draft stock. There are risks either way and pros and cons for both. That's why it's the players decision.

LSUAlum2001•61 months

Harrison is a year closer to the 2nd contract, which is where players make their biggest jump in $$. Is there a guarantee that he would have elevated himself to the 1st round if he had stayed?

Black n Gold•61 months

Doesn't appear Ronnie Harrison is a big Dodge Charger fan.

MindRiot•61 months

Sabans right of course, but have you seen Ronnie Harrison do an interview? I mean...

jimbeam•61 months

You sell yourself at your peak value. If you come out early, you acknowledge that there’s the potential you’re not at your peak. Business decision that has to be made one way or the other.

LSUAlum2001•61 months

Saban’s goal: Keep players who contribute to the program so he can weed the players out who he knows, after 2-3 years, aren’t part of his process. Easier for him to maintain his dominance when he controls all of the decisions that affects personnel.

Placebeaux•61 months

If we are making "business decisions" then dont get mad when someone points out what a bad "business decision" is compared to a good "business decision" and supports their argument with knowledge and math.

StupidBinder•61 months

Saban’s analysis here is oversimplified. Yes, Harrison will make 3rd round money for a few years, but if he’s that good (and Savanna thinks he is), then he’s a year closer to his big money contract. Yes, it is a gamble, but so is staying in school for more rookie contract money. But of course, Sagan won’t tell that side of the story.

ScaryClown•61 months

nah the money is still more if he stayed in school to get drafted in first round and plays on that bigger rookie deal. The one year difference between getting the big contract is less money than the money he would make over a bigger rookie deal and then get the same big contract. The time/injury ratio is also less if he stayed in school one more year to get the bigger rookie contract, compared to playing on a lower rookie deal for 3 years before being eligible for a big contract.

StupidBinder•61 months

That’s assuming he goes first round. What if he stays and is still a 3rd round pick, or even a second. Again, there is risk in staying that Saban isn’t acknowledging. And the risk of catastrophic injury is the about the same whether he plays at Bama next year or in the NFL. Being one year closer to his 2nd contract (and the guaranteed money that goes with it) means he has to shoulder that risk one less year.

litenin•61 months

Agree. Also curious how often a projected 3rd round pick after his junior year plays so much better as a Senior to move into the 1st round. I'm assuming it's very rare although honestly do not know.

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atxfan•61 months

Some kids don't have the luxury of being able to wait and play their hand out. Saban has a point but that's only considering best case scenario and not acknowledging the risk. One thing is for sure, the motivation for his comments come from his own interests/depth chart concerns and not for the player's. "You should have to win your conference to be in the CFB playoff" -Nick Saban "I think this team deserves the opportunity to get in the playoff by what they've been able to accomplish" -Nick Saban

idlewatcher•61 months

Some kids don't have the luxury of being able to wait and play their hand out. lol wut?

Cobb Dawg•61 months

Bama’s just going to have to start matching NFL money. What they’re currently paying players is just not attractive enough to make them want to stay.

MrKnowItAll•61 months

Perhaps Saban and Alabama need to make the Alabama compensation package more attractive to the young man than what a 3rd round draft pick can get from the NFL. Come on Nick, if they gonna stay...you got to pay.

225Tyga•61 months

Sabans right on this one. The pandemic that is college athletes leaving early to go pro needs to stop. Its frustrating to keep losing talent year in, year out to the pros. Wonder what we can do to stop this? I would like athletes to have the option to either 1) go pro out of high school or 2) be required once in college to stay a minimum of 4 years or graduation, what ever comes first. (would help entice athletes to get a degree)

StupidBinder•61 months

That’s a terrible idea. Guys develop at different rates. Why make a guy stay to get a degree he will almost certainly never use when he’s as ready as he’ll every be to play pro now? It’s also unenforceable. What are you going to do to a guy who skips his senior year? How do you make him stay?

Alltheway Tigers!•61 months

Have to weigh that vs earning $15 million dollars more.

denvertiger•61 months

So you're proposing a rule change that would force a guy like D White to stay in college one more year so we can all watch him play in the P&G? Sounds reasonable.

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Freon•61 months

Ask Marcus Lattimore how staying worked out

tenderfoot tigah•61 months

He made millions off of his insurance package.

AndrewD•61 months

Not everybody likes Dodge Chargers

Philippines4LSU•61 months

Cheap MF owns a Mercedes dealership and has his players driving around in Dodges

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