My guess is the A&M thing comes directly from players telling him upfront that they were choosing aTm for that reason.
Coach Saban goes off on programs buying players (A&M, Jackson State, and Miami mentioned)
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Jimbo stepped it up a level. He made it personal.
Yup.
I genuinely think Saban made a mistake here though. It'll be interesting to see how this ends
The problem is that there's a lot more money in Texas than in Alabama. Alabama is one of the handful of states without a single billionaire. TAMU and Texas have much deeper pockets and can afford to buy players. Alabama can't do it to that extent.
I had it copied and ready to post but you beat me to it. The article was written on Feb 16th so unless he took the first deal that came along it was negotiated before then and agreed upon.
Travis Hunter, nation's No. 1 college football prospect, signs NIL deal with Black-owned coffee company
Jackson State football player Travis Hunter has inked a new NIL deal with a Black-owned business J5 Caffe.www.clarionledger.com
I hope Saban said this to spur the NCAA into taking some actions to bring some structure to the whole NIL/Transfer portal wild west. Its a bold move to call it out but it needed to be said. Hopefully, other coaches will support Saban and maybe even some AD's with balls will too. Its not a sustainable model for CFB, so rapid changes need to be made to restore some semblance of order.
Not sure he did……. Maybe in delivery, but he pretty much said what everyone knows
Oh, he knows that. That's the exact reason he's speaking up...
Yep, that was a heck of a press conference there. Hope CNS runs up the score in the Fall on them if he can.
When you're someone as big as Nick Saban. Delivery is all that matters. Most people aren't going to care about your actual point if you give them sound bites to go off on. He was too specific in this case IMO
There are reports linking Prime’s player to a large NiL deal and I’m sure if you look you can see the A&M players deals as well. It should be fairly easy to link the players to booster owned businesses. He essentially acknowledged what everyone knows, now the accused may feel the need to vindicate themselves. The louder they protest with no substance the more guilty they sound.
As we've noted over the years, CNS is always speaking to someone when he makes comments in a PC.
While it sounds like he calling out Jimbo and Deon, he's really calling on the NCAA to step up and govern for once!
But he's not some random reporter. He's a coach in direct competition. And arguably the greatest to ever do it. This is something you see Kiffin do not something you expect Saban to do.
I personally think he should have stayed away from specifics.
If the greatest college coach of all time can’t call out this nonsense, then who can? Out of control NiL deals is a big deal. Saban obviously loves college football enough to take the point on this. People had to be named.
Notice Jimbo didn’t deny it.
