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Nick Saban details how much Alabama's collective has spent on the football roster
Posted on 6/3/26 at 10:58 am
Posted on 6/3/26 at 10:58 am
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Former Alabama coach Nick Saban detailed how much the Crimson Tide’s collective spent every year for the past five years in a Senate committee hearing Wednesday morning about the Protect College Sports Act.
Saban, who voiced his support for the bill introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell, said during his testimony that “my first year we had a collective at Alabama,” it spent $2.7 million. It spent $7 million the next year, he said, then had $10 million for the roster during Saban’s final season in 2023.
Saban said the collective spent $17 million a year later and $24 million in what would have been the 2025 season.
“Now you have schools that have close to $40 million rosters,” Saban said. “If we continue to do that, we’re going to lose Olympic sports, we’re going to lose non-revenue sports, we’re going to lose scholarships, and basically what’s going to happen is you’re going to have football and basketball succeed, and we’ll have club sports for everything else with no scholarships.
“That’s horrible. We can’t let that happen, and I think we have to continue to figure out ways that we can raise revenue so that we can keep all sports and all opportunities for young people intact.”
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Posted on 6/3/26 at 11:03 am to TideSaint
From what I’ve heard about the bill as it’s currently written the worry is that unless they make it federal law then schools will work around with state laws that subvert the intent
Posted on 6/3/26 at 11:24 am to Sandkhan
Regardless of what the language in the bill says, it'll be challenged in court immediately by some agent representing an athlete.
Posted on 6/3/26 at 11:28 am to TideSaint
No doubt about that.
Posted on 6/3/26 at 11:45 am to Sandkhan
I dont understand why athletic departments are so insistent on sacrificing the other sports, that they will go to the state legislatures to help destroy college sports. I understand the difference in the popularity of football, and let's say rowing. But the job is manage all university sports, not solely to increase the bottom line via FB and MBB. Athletic Director is the title, not CEO.
Posted on 6/3/26 at 12:28 pm to VaBamaMan
Every school has a couple of non-revenue sports that the fans would revolt over being threatened, much less cut entirely, but football and men's basketball are what most of the boosters care about, and while the AD doesn't officially work for the boosters their job security is largely determined by the boosters.
Posted on 6/3/26 at 4:28 pm to VaBamaMan
The only thing that should affect non-revenue sports is the loss from the budget of Rev share, NIL shouldn't matter
Posted on 6/3/26 at 4:54 pm to TideSaint
Weird how those figures are significantly different from what our trusted board insiders were saying.
Posted on 6/3/26 at 6:38 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
Posted on 6/4/26 at 1:37 am to phaz
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The only thing that should affect non-revenue sports is the loss from the budget of Rev share, NIL shouldn't matter
The problem with that is a big chunk of the operating budget for non rev sports came from boosters and now instead of just making an across the board contribution to athletics they are making contributions exclusively to the collective because that’s the only way to keep up.
And the university gets all those out of state tuition applications because of football and basketball
Posted on 6/5/26 at 4:34 pm to TideSaint
I don't know what the answer is but if nothing is done, I guarantee you that some school (probably won't be Bama) will eventually have a roster where they spent literally $100 million.
Maybe spending caps are the way to go? Honestly, I don't know what the answer is. People much smarter than me will have to figure it out.
Maybe spending caps are the way to go? Honestly, I don't know what the answer is. People much smarter than me will have to figure it out.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 5:22 pm to Amarillo Tide
i'm thinking that there proly wont be any major changes until the women start filing lawsuits demanding equal pay from nil money men. then some brain damaged judge will say yes and the money men will start backing off the big money. just a crazy thought that floated thru my brain
Posted on 6/5/26 at 5:44 pm to crimsontater
Cynical libbing to own da texan billionaires
Posted on 6/6/26 at 8:59 am to PuertoRicanBlaze
What did they say? I’m curious.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:12 am to TideSaint
Crazy how quickly things escalated. I remember Saban saying in 2022 that Bryce Young made about $1M. That was back when NIL was actually NIL. Then the three Texas schools and Tennessee realized they could just get away with blatant pay for play and now QBs I have never heard of and that have accomplished nothing are getting 5-6M.
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