Kiffin speaks on NIL

Does that one quote mean he is okay with boosters manipulating coaching decisions?

He’s not supporting what Jimbo and A&M are doing at all. Just that players should be paid. Saban doesn’t necessarily believe they shouldn’t get paid but not to the extent A&M is doing it.

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“We’re a professional sport,” he says, “and they are professional players.”

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but that's the prblome. It's not a professional sport and these aren't professional players. They're amateur college students that are also playing a sport. Are the equestrian people pros? How about womens' tennis or golf? Just because you throw millions at these kids doens't automatically transform them into something they aren't.

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I’ve said from the beginning, players should get paid. They do the work

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So why stop there? How is what they're doing any differne than what some of the top national HS programs are doing, other than the money difference? Why not pay HS kids next?

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Why that should be limited to a scholarship check,

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it's not limited ot that. They get free tuition, free books, free housing, free food, free clothes, free medical care, free tutoring, and a stipend on top of that in exchange for playing. They are getting into the 6 figures per year of compensation. This whole "woe is them" crap is just baloney.

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And they shouldn’t be [paid] all equal. That’s not what happens in the real world. Why does their best player get paid the same as their worst player? That’s not real life

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this is just waiting to be a can of worms. And this isn't "real life" yet, you're right. It's college. It's the last stop before you actually DO enter "real life".

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Grad students can end up doing most of the teaching. They get a pittance.

Other grad students can end up working in labs and helping the school get grants. They earn practically nothing.

If a student helps invent a cutting age biodegradable plastic that's perfect for medical applications, the school could earn millions and the student gets their name on a paper.

I can ASSURE you that no one is going to bat for those kids.

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agreed. And the retort is alwasy "well look how much money the players bring into the school!"

ok? So what? Have they been tricked or decieved in any way? The system has always been "you come to our school and paly football and we'll give you [however much in compensation and perks, often a lot] in return" and if the palyers deem that acceptable that's where they go. Simple, end of transaction. There was no need to compliacate it any more than that but now we have and it's like we're watching an entirely different sport. In less than 5 years we now have 18/19 year olds signign million dollar deals out of HS wihtout playing a snap, while also giving them unrestricted ability to transfer wherever they want for any reason they want with no strings attached. It's lunacy.

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He’s not supporting what Jimbo and A&M are doing at all.

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So why did all those transfer portal kids pick Ole Miss? Your coach says kids are choosing schools based on money deals.

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I thought he hated NIL

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Doesn't sound like that at all. It sounds like he hates what unstructured NIL process could lead to. The "unintended consequences" of letting it all unfold without boundaries.

Yes, Kiffin said he has always supported players getting paid.

You are Ignoring all other schools in the country - doing whatever recruiting and NIL they are doing. There are publicly advertised pay for play schemes that are not at A&M.

So everyone else is holding their nose and just going along with NIL because they have to.

Kiffin doesn’t want to exploit the transfer portal the way he has, but he must.

Except that the devil Jimbo loves NIL and is making everyone else do what they don’t want to do. It’s all his fault.

Real sympathetic character and victim this Lane Kiffin has turned out to be.

You are cherry picking excerpt from what he has said, and even in that article.

That aside, I think anybody would agree that you can't blame the kids and parents for liking the current situation, but still recognize it for what it is, and what Kiffin says it is...

“We’re a professional sport,” he says, “and they are professional players.

These collectives, you basically made what was cheating before legal. You had no rules behind it. You’ve created something that was going to have a ton of issues.

The thing that seems simple is there’s a cap. How are we not a professional sport? What is the difference? [Players] are making money. They can opt into free agency. We’re a professional sport, and they are professional players. Contracted employees without contracts. They can get out whenever they want. And how is it not being seen that, unless there are changes of rules around caps and contracts, how is every elite college player not at the end of their season [entering the portal]? … Let’s be realistic, in professional sports, if you are the agent of a player, and the player can opt into free agency and come back to where they want after testing the waters, who says, ‘No, I’m not going to do that,’ unless there’s a penalty?

There are all kinds of issues that are coming. Let’s say reports are true, and some high school quarterback is making $6 to $8 million. How is that going to work? How is he coming into the locker room? Are the coaches going to need to play him, or are donors going to be mad when he’s not playing—the first-round pick that the donor drafts. I’ve been in that situation.

The people paying that are going to want that guy to play. If he’s not playing, how is the backup quarterback who is earning just a scholarship check going to play over him?

You’ve got all kinds of issues to come. Professional sports has done it for a long time. They’ve figured it out. Ideally, there should be some type of cap. Different people are making different money, but there’s a reason for it.

When they really figure it out, incoming guys get less. [The NFL] figured out the cap better in the rookie contracts years ago. The rookies were making more than the 10-year vets. They’ve fixed that. That’s a major problem [in college]. Right now, you’ve got good players who are returning starters not making anything because people are paying the ones coming in, trying to get them [in NIL bidding wars].

People are going to criticize me for saying that “people are paying them to come in” by saying that’s not what is happening. That is exactly what’s happening."
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So it's disengenious to pick a sentence here and a paragraph there and say that Kiffin supports NIL the way it is now. He's still recruiting, though he knows the odds right now are stacked way against his own program, so he is going to temper the "we need changes" with "I don't blame them", and honestly, a noted, who can blame the kid and the parents? Nobody can. That's clear.

“Historically, Ole Miss has resided toward the bottom of the SEC in athletic budget. In 2019, before the pandemic arrived, the Rebels had a budget of $108 million, 12th in the 14-team SEC. That year, the school’s athletic department received $28 million in donor contributions—23rd nationally and roughly a fraction of donations to league rivals like Texas A&M ($85M), Georgia ($52M), Florida ($45M) and LSU ($42M).” LINK

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He’s not supporting what Jimbo and A&M are doing at all. Just that players should be paid. Saban doesn’t necessarily believe they shouldn’t get paid but not to the extent A&M is doing it.

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Saban is a socialist piece of shite person

Saban made millions but cries when players get paid thousands