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re: Nick Saban (D-AL) to travel to DC to lobby lawmakers for NIL regulation
Posted on 6/6/23 at 8:15 pm to Diamondawg
Posted on 6/6/23 at 8:15 pm to Diamondawg
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So you really don't care that it separates the haves from the have nots.
Absolutely not. No more than I care that Alabama isn't as good in football - or Kentucky isn't as good in Basketball.
And it'll be a cold day in Hell before I form my view of politics or culture over how it impacts my free view of kids playing elite club sports on the weekend. Because elite club sports is all college ball is.
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Posted on 6/6/23 at 8:20 pm to ScoggDog
quote:Sad!
So you really don't care that it separates the haves from the have nots.
Absolutely not.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 8:28 pm to tigerbait2010
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I don’t understand how someone can’t distinguish the mission and intent behind the student athlete experience and running every aspect of life like a business.
As soon as you can tell me what the "mission and intent" is, while you pay the coach $10 million a year is somehow something other than money, I might listen.
No, I won't. Because you're telling me bullshite. Nobody waxes eloquently about "mission and intent" - while arguing for not paying somebody while somebody else collects $150 million or so a year ... other than bullshitters or fools.
You're just arguing that the wrong kids are playing for somebody else's brand, and you don't like it. Pure and simple.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 8:49 pm to ScoggDog
Every coach agrees with Nick and they have all pretty much said so. He was asked to go up there by Sankey because he knows that Saban will be listened to more than anyone else.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 8:51 pm to amders44
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Every coach agrees with Nick and they have all pretty much said so.
I'm sure they all do. Just like every CEO agrees that the cost of labor is too high.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 9:18 pm to paperwasp
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I think he simply knows things aren't heading in the right direction with NIL, and he knows who to talk to about fixing it before it's too late. People here give Nick Saban constant grief for obvious reasons, but I think he legitimately does use his position to try and improve the state of college football. He may not always be right, and you may sometimes disagree with his opinions, but I honestly believe he tries to do what he feels is best for the sport and by extension, the players. He also probably knows a whole lot more about the real problems (behind the scenes) than we ever will. I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up on an NCAA committee or as a conference liaison once he hangs up his headset.
Was he doing what was “best” for college football when he marched with a BLM flag? If so please explain.
Nick Saban (D-AL) gives a shite about his ego and his ego only.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 9:20 pm to Lsuhoohoo
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among a contingent of coaches and administrators from the Southeastern Conference scheduled to meet with lawmakers in Washington next week
Isn’t Brian Kelly part of this group too?
Posted on 6/6/23 at 9:24 pm to Lsuhoohoo
We have so much shite already breaking. They don't need to waste time on NIL
Posted on 6/6/23 at 9:26 pm to paperwasp
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He may not always be right, and you may sometimes disagree with his opinions, but I honestly believe he tries to do what he feels is best for the sport and by extension, the players. He also probably knows a whole lot more about the real problems (behind the scenes) than we ever will.
His arse should have been this vocal and gone to DC before this ever started. You could see it on the horizon
Posted on 6/6/23 at 9:29 pm to lsurulz1515
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I laughed. What a lost, old man
Bama fans (well maybe the few with a brain) have to see the irony in all of this
This is just stupid.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 10:08 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Nicks trying to put the genie back in the bottle and get back to Dodge Challengers to get recruits…
This post was edited on 6/6/23 at 10:10 pm
Posted on 6/6/23 at 10:23 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Nick Saban, a giant pussy.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:13 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Why does the Fed have anything to do with this? Shouldn’t their be a Commissions Council structured within the NCAA to handle this and not include government? They’re literally growing legs they shouldn’t be.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:14 pm to UGADawg1988
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but why exactly can't a person sign an NIL contract for any amount of money, by anybody, and at any time? Why can't a booster do this? And what's to stop somebody using NIL as a recruiting tool?
If you truly don't know why NIL is bad for college sports and don't know the answer to your questions, then you never will.
I, for one, am glad that Saban will try to use his influence to hopefully get control of this NIL bullshite.
Why can't an NFL team offer a player $100,000,000 to play for their team? Because there are RULES in place (salary cap) to prevent this.
There is no reason college football (specifically certain conferences) can't agree on a set of rules to control this.
It is crazy to think that you probably agree that NFL teams cannot spend limitless money for a player because of salary cap rules, while also thinking college football players should be able to make as much as they want because there are no rules to prevent this.
And before you state that the money is being made "outside of football", people are being ridiculously naive if they do not realize that it will primarily be used to "pay for play".
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I hate it, but the genie is out of the bottle.
What a weak excuse to just let things continue as they currently are.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:16 pm to ScoggDog
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And I don't care what that does to college athletics.
And losers such as yourself are EXACTLY why college sports are eventually going to end up in the dumpster.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 7:12 am to Lsuhoohoo
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Nick Saban (D-AL)
Posted on 6/7/23 at 7:38 am to Trumansfangs
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Wow, a Nick Saban thread overrun with LSU posters. Go figure !
The coonasses leave their swamp shacks to find the parish public library and log on to voice their hatred of everything Nick Saban/Alabama.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 7:43 am to gmac8604
quote:The SCOTUS ruling was handed down over 2 years ago. The NCAA has done little to form the ground rules for NIL. My thought is that the NCAA is trying to avoid other lawsuits by making rules governing what can and can't happen with NIL. It's almost as though, welp, SCOTUS won, we lost. Let the chips fall where they may.
Why does the Fed have anything to do with this? Shouldn’t their be a Commissions Council structured within the NCAA to handle this and not include government? They’re literally growing legs they shouldn’t be.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 7:47 am to paperwasp
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but I think he legitimately does use his position to try and improve the state of Alabama football.
fixed it for you. nick hates an even playing field.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 7:51 am to Lsuhoohoo
Saban has a 100% track record of advocating for what's best for football.
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