re: Mr. Saban goes to Washington

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If someone wants to pay a player through the guise of NIL, more power to them. Money has made the difference in winning for a long time now. It won’t change with NIL regardless of the rules. The same teams will continue to win. Not everyone can afford to build 100,000 seat stadiums. Not everyone can fly coaches around on private jets. Not everyone can pay head coaches $10,000,000. Not everyone can build a new locker room or weight room every other year pretty much for the sole purpose of wowing recruits. None of those things were “fair” five years ago either.

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The problem with your reasoning is that the money spent was done while still maintaining the core integrity of the sport. If there was NIL the way we have it now in the past, CFB would have never built nice things for the players and CFB would have never been so popular.

The current players are also not being compensated off of THEIR NIL. There is no market for a 17 year old whose only skill is being able to run fast, tackle and throw footballs. If there was an alternate league where all the best HS players started their own league and CFB was played by frat boys, NOBODY would watch the alternate league and CFB stadiums would still sell out.

The moneymaker is the school brand, not the player