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

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Alabama, Georgia, LSU, etc., will all have 85+ players next year, and millions of people are still going to watch all the games. And the new playoff system will be a huge draw.

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Yeah, that's the EXACT same kind of shite Nascar said when they added the playoffs and started doing everything for money rather than preserving what made the sport great and drew in all the existing fans to being with.

All the new fans were going to make up for the loss of the "few" that would quit watching. The "show" itself was going to be a major draw and it was going to be bigger than the NFL.

They sold out for cookie cutter tracks in "bigger markets". Cars with hard tires that pretty boy rookies could compete and make commercials for the brands. They added the "playoffs" to create more drama. They made it a "team sport" by pretending the people who change the tires are like the lineman of the sport.

And now they struggle to get people to the tracks. They keep adding more and more gimmicks to make it better, but they drove the fans away because they destroyed the very things that drew them in.