NIL Gonna Hasten Some Coaching Retirements

Yea, probably not though

Reason No. 14,621 Saban and Bama are going down. This is it. I just know it.

















You could not be more wrong. Lol.

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The days of Dabo and Saban having a roster crammed with 5 stars ends very soon.

The lure of money now is going to cause a much broader distribution of the stars.

Neither Saban now Dabo will be able to pay "star level" money to 10 - 15 players on their roster. Those guys are going to be spread out to other schools willing to up the ante for 1 or 2 key recruits.

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Just like the HUNH was the end of Alabama/Saban.

And the playoffs, that was the end of Alabama/Saban.

etc.

Nothing is going to change except the bottom teams will get weaker.

Saban was calling for players to get paid a decade ago. So he once again was ahead of everyone else.

Saban will do it better, turn it into an advantage and get copied by every college program, just like everything else he does.

I must be in the overwhelming minority. I don't see too much changing.

The one thing I am interested with regarding Saban is his recruiting pitch. There was a 20ish minute video, where Saban was on a zoom call with a recruit. One of his biggest parts of his pitch was basically "Coaches promising early playing time is dumb. No NFL scouts ask me what you did your freshman year. They care about your junior and senior year."

You can't really pitch kids that way with NIL, unless they have a massive social media following and are able to monetize it without their onfield performance earlier in their career. Being recognizable, on and off the field, at the earliest possible date, is now the most important thing I feel.