re: Nick Saban Wants To See More Parity In College Football

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What about this statement do people not understand or believe?

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I don't believe this:
"college football has always had parity"

If that's the case, why did Saban leave MSU?

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I don't believe this:
"college football has always had parity"

If that's the case, why did Saban leave MSU?

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"The Los Angeles Times reported Saban made $697,330 while with the Spartans before making $1.2 million per year with LSU."
Is that a good enough reason?

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NIL is a real game changer for some programs - Texas, Oregon, TAMU, USC, and Miami. Bama should always be competitive but they don’t have the resources and NIL$ to compete with TOTUM long-term…

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Alabama will be fine, can you say the same for Auburn?

I'd hate like hell to be a middle of the pack program with the wide open portal + NIL + Texas/Oklahoma joining the SEC.

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So he came to Alabama

He didn't leave MSU to go to Alabama.That's not the point. The fact that he signed with Alabama is indicative of how little concern he had for "in-state rivals.
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Academic standards for all Big-10 schools are nearly the same

There's no question that in 2000 when Saban left MSU to go to LSU, LSU's academic standards were lower than MSU's. The question was and remains that there's little difference in the difficulty of getting athletes into the schools.
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Parity means that everyone gets the same chance

MSU didn't get the same chance to compete with LSU.Yes they did.

As a matter of fact, Notre Dame doesn't get the same chance to compete with LSU, that's why Kelly came to LSU. Notre Dame is a private school (like Vandy), and voluntarily increases enrollment qualifications. It's their prerogative!
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BUT what they do under those rules is determined by...THEM!

That's an oversimplification. You can't expect a university to give up membership in the AAU just to recruit football players. Remember, to the rest of the country, these are institutions of higher learning we're talking about, not just an NFL farm league.BINGO! and we've arrived at the true meaning of parity! THEY DO,BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TO!

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I rest my case.

Nick Saban left MSU because he didn't have the same advantages he had at LSU. There was not parity then.

I'm sorry you agree with Nick Saban that there's always been parity, but there just hasn't. Nick is just making shite up in his head.

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"One of the things I'd like to see us be able to work back to is everything in college football has always had parity," Saban said. "Same scholarships, same academic support, healthcare, whatever it is. I don't think we have that balance right now, which can affect the parity of college football and college athletics as a whole."

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Talk about lack of self awareness. It has been almost a decade since I really bothered to keep up, but at least around early 2010s he was oversigning every year by huge amounts, utilizing Bryant scholarships and gray shirts and anything else he could think of, kicking to the curb players who had done nothing wrong other than be less talented at football than he and his recruiters has thought they would be or had the audacity to be badly injured. Now let's talk about how he circumvented the NCAA coach rules- how many analysts did he employ, how many of those just happened to be around in offseason when players were doing "voluntary" workouts or drills and the NCAA severely limited hours named coaches could be around players? And he was able to do this because his administration and boosters were ALL IN.

People talk about Kirby changing UGA, but he knew better than anyone that what needed to change at Georgia was an administration and donor base who would be ALL IN for football, and he got his wish.

One does have to laugh a bit. Saban and all coaches like him, in their complete lack of regard for the NCAA and its attempts to maintain parity via regulation, opened the door for the student athletes to win unprecedented benefits limiting a lot of control coaches consider essential to maintaining long lasting elite performance. Not to mention they are going to burn everyone out with non-stop recruiting, even after a player has signed and matriculated at a school.

While there will still be haves and have-nots, I think rather than true dynasties, there will be a period of boom-bust cycles for the schools that want to play in the deep end. Ironically, I do wonder if this will eventually affect upper end coach salaries because even the best coaches will find it hard to maintain excellence when their best players have financial independence and can leave without spending a year in Purgatory.