Respect for Saban as a coach, but he's a hypocrite when it comes to pay for play!

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he had no problem paying for players all those years at Alabama

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Prove it.

I mean I highly doubt Saban paid anyone directly. Might have happened but he didn't have to know about it.

Quit whining.

Doesn’t sound like you actually listened to it.

The problem is unlimited transfers, which one of the things he pointed out was how the likelihood of them graduating goes down about 20% each time they do

Shut up, dude. The GOAT finally retired; I love NIL bc it caused him to have enough with the BS.

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The hypocrite is the amount of money he made out of college football

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very true

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I just listened to Saban speak before congress and I just find it comical that he would now find a problem with pay for play, when Alabama has been paying players to come play for them for years. Yes, NIL is out of control, and yes, all the big time programs have been paying players for years, but I just find it humorous that Saban would be the poster child to speak against NIL when he had no problem paying for players all those years at Alabama, as long as they signed with his program.

I have tremendous respect for him as a coach, but to go before Congress and rail against NIL, I find very amusing. It's like inviting Bill Clinton to speak before Congress on the sanctity of marriage.

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Stop whining, its all good. Now if you really believe, which you don't, that Bama was the only school (yes Bama buys players) that did that, well, good luck in life but chill out. The public has spoken, NIL is fine, collectives are fine, the transfer portal is fine, Saban wasted his time (and our governments) and let's move on.

Reading between the lines, Saban is saying something like this:

Previously, whatever the combo of handshakes, bagmen, access to cars, blah blah, it did not create an environment in which the majority of players said "pay me X dollars and guarantee me playing time or I'm gone."

But now that it's like that, it sucks in 2 ways: harder for the coaches to develop the team they want, and harder FOR THE PLAYER TO DEVELOP INTO WHAT WILL SERVE HIM BEST IN THE LONG RUN.

These players are going to grab top instant dollar, lose motivation, piss their money away, and end up tragic stories of excess. Like any of us would who made these choices at that age.

If you think Saban doesn't actually care about that side of it, and made up this whole sequence of feelings including that conversation with his wife, I don't know what to tell you.

Time will prove him right as these money grab players become broke and down and out by age 22.

Gumps are still in denial. :lol:

That sound bite is one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen in sports. They’ve ruined amateur athletics

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he had no problem paying for players all those years at Alabama

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If you think Saban ever personally paid a player then you are stupid and have no idea how things work.

It would do nothing but undermine all of his authority and put his entire career in the hands of 85 different college kids year after year. Any of them could at any time spill the beans and end his career and the success of the football program.

How is a coach in that position going to put any authority on them? Much less the kind of authority and control Saban demanded from them? How is it possible that in all the years he was a coach, not a single recruit ever did such a thing?

Because that's not how it fricking works, that's why.