re: Effect of the portal that Alabama may benefit from

That’s what has been stewing in my mind for a while. 20 years from now, some goober(s) from Alabama are gonna be so stupid rich just because it was their destiny and the university was just a stepping stone on the way there.

You don’t have a run like Nick Saban does and not reap some kind of long term reward from the national branding it brought. Whether some bros out west just wanted to be along for the ride or what, I find it hard to believe that out of all of Nick’s pro football players and all the out of state tuition in the last 15 years that no hedge fund manager boosters or multi billion dollar net worth company exec doesn’t pop up.

That’s 15 years of on average 8 prime time games with just under 8 million people watching every time.

Thats 3x the US population watching Alabama football over the course of Nick Saban’s prime tenure at Alabama.