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re: Why is it so hard to accept that both Alabama and Oklahoma fans can be proud of Jalen?
Posted on 1/22/23 at 10:34 am to _Hurricane_
Posted on 1/22/23 at 10:34 am to _Hurricane_
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Posted on 1/22/23 at 12:54 pm to Globetrotter747
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Man, who gives a frick about this? Jalen Hurts did not play for either school because he loved them. He played because he felt they gave him the best opportunity to be successful. And he probably played for Saban and Riley more than UA and OU. This is the reason fans hate NIL and the transfer portal. They desperately want players to love the program like they do instead of playing for money or opportunity. But the reality is fan love for players and player love for fans is all extremely superficial and conditional. Even more so for coaches. The players and coaches are all mercenaries looking out for their own self-interests, and you’re all spectators in the Colosseum with your thumbs down for a death blow when one of them doesn’t live up to expectations.
One of the most true and profound posts I’ve seen at this place.
The reality IMO of why fans despise NIL is that college football fans in a way not seen in other sports fandoms think they have an ownership stake in the deal and think they should take precedence and be predominant in the equation, not the players, because “they are the ones who pay the bills.”
That ain’t happening, at least not to the extent they desire/demand, moving forward, if it ever really happened before.
Flame away …
Posted on 1/22/23 at 1:37 pm to _Hurricane_
boom it is the boat of dem
Posted on 1/22/23 at 1:40 pm to _Hurricane_
Be proud, just don’t claim him 
Posted on 1/22/23 at 2:12 pm to crimsonblazer
the boat of dem..Bama and sooners
Posted on 1/22/23 at 2:23 pm to MackDaddyBrown
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and Saban never loved you
Salty salts saltier.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 2:26 pm to koreandawg
How about CW? Didn’t he just win a Heisman playing for no one but LiaR? I can’t stand LR, but he knows QBs.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 2:42 pm to _Hurricane_
I don't thinks it's wrong for Bama fans to be proud of Hurts, it's just weird to "claim" him.
I don't think Ohio State fans pretend Burrow is an alum.
I don't think UGA fans count Eason or Fields as alums.
It's just weird. Bama is historically the best team in the conference, but that doesn't mean everything that is successful is because they touched it.
Trying to claim a player that left the team is just a weird sort of desperation more worthy of a lower-tier program.
Alabama has so many great players to point too, it's just hard to see why they are so insistent on this one.
I don't think Ohio State fans pretend Burrow is an alum.
I don't think UGA fans count Eason or Fields as alums.
It's just weird. Bama is historically the best team in the conference, but that doesn't mean everything that is successful is because they touched it.
Trying to claim a player that left the team is just a weird sort of desperation more worthy of a lower-tier program.
Alabama has so many great players to point too, it's just hard to see why they are so insistent on this one.
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