re: NIL Gonna Hasten Some Coaching Retirements

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.