re: Is Saban correct about NIL ruining college athletics as we know it?

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1. Players have never been as invested in the schools as the fans are. Folks need to understand that.

2. The money is going to keep happening. People need to get over that.

3. The key is to rein in the Wild West transfer portal so that coaches don’t have to recruit their rosters every frickin’ year and fans can have some sense of continuity. That will have to be done contractually which doesn’t necessarily mean making the players employees.

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100%. What needs to happen is the legal protections to contract athletes but in some status that does not make them employees of the university. Essentially recreate the old scholarship limitations but within contract law so it is all hunky dory with our august liberal institutions.