Interesting!
This was posted elsewhere on the forum, but very interesting.
Dimbo is an idiot...
We all know what happened.
It is buying recruits but it's also not something that can be stopped. Jimbo's reaction was silly and overblown but I suspect exactly what Saban hoped for. People are talking, people are looking at it and people are seeing the obvious. We all knew this would happen, A&M went out and bought the top recruiting class and we all know how they did it (with a booster collective).
Having said that, the California law was written in such an idiotic way, and the NCAA caved in such an idiotic way that I doubt there's much of a solution here. I said all along this was going about it the worst possible way, it will take something massive to fix this. May be that's why Saban was willing to go this far, because anything short of a huge national conversation and a lot of momentum wouldn't come close to what it takes.