re: Kirby gets it It's what scares me too

Seriously your beloved team has been "professional" since at least Saban arrived- Bama has been hiring far more "coaches" than allowed and calling them analysts until the NCAA just gave up trying to regulate them, it has certainly been paying players in one way or another for decades, and these players weren't allowed to have a college experience- if they didn't pan out like they were projected to, they were kicked out unceremoniously with scholarships yanked. Actually, Bama's (among other schools) culture of not caring about anyone that couldn't help them on the field is a big reason why the pendulum has swung so sharply the other way, so you have no one to blame except for your own program.