Oh he’s sharp nowNotice Jimbo says no "state laws were broken". He stays way away from any reference to NCAA
I actually believe Saban when he says they don't pay their players. They don't have to .....ANYMORE. When he first got there, Im 100% sure they were paying kids. But he did how it was supposed to be done, flipped it into national championships to where you don't have to advertise it. The boosters took over after that and he and the staff most likely had more plausible deniability.
Now, do Bama bagmen exsist? Yup. Does coach know it? Maybe, maybe not. Those first 5 years or so is all your really need. Thats why Im all in on Mr. Ruiz going ham up front. Build the foundation and let the coaching staff finish the rest on the field.
Schools that Nick Saban called out:
1. Historically black school (Jackson State)
2. School with a billionaire Hispanic booster (Miami)
3. School that is "SEC-In-Name-Only" (aTm)
Schools that Nick Saban did not call out:
1. Auburn
2. UGa
3. Tennessee
4. Florida
5. Clemson
6. South Carolina
7. Ole Miss
8. Mississippi State
9. Arkansas
10. Kentucky
11. Vanderbilt
12. LSU
You are NOT allowed to cheat like an SEC school if your university falls within the state borders of Missouri, Oklahoma, or Texas. Those are not REAL Conferederate States, no real Civil War battles took place in those states.
I was waiting to see if u hit the pause buttonJimbob going in hard on Sabag. (PAUSE)
He said that “people should dig up Little Nicky’s past when it comes to buying recruits.”
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I couldn’t agree moreSo much to digest here.
I saw this last night and it struck me that this seems to be something he was telling boosters.
I feel like he got a lot of heat for not beating uga. And it probably bothered the sht out of him that it was Kirby.
The boosters were probably upset they spent all that money and didn’t win.
This is the second time he’s said something that was previously out of character for him. The first was calling out his receivers in public.
Now he’s out there warning his boosters that they will lose recruits to other teams because the other teams are cheating. El O Fckng El!!.
He said that they will be mad that they paid nil money to some freshman. And if he doesn’t start him he’ll transfer and the boosters will call him all upset cause they spent all this money for a player that transferred. Really bro? So in other words Bamas boosters and Nicky don’t have the same power to get or keep recruits like they did before.
Then he calls out schools!!!!!!
As a person who grew up around criminals he broke the golden rule of doing dirty sht..
No snitching!!! And not only did he snitch but he snitched on himself!!!!!
And he snitched in public!!!
Do you know what happens when you snitch??!!
It sets off a domino line of snitching that might end up coming back at you. I waited and waited before posting cause I knew former players were gonna come out on social media. Because social media is the king of all snitches.
I’ve posted on here that the truth about nick Saban will eventually come out. The truth is that he just buys all the talent on and off the field. He scares everyone that works for him and they hate working for him. It’s a known fact and jimbo just blasted it.
The reason no one ever said anything about Saban was cause his record was clean, his image was legendary. Coming after him sets off a chain of events calling you a hater who’s envious of greatness
He’s not the greatest coach ever. He’s the greatest at amassing talent and holding on to it. For years he had a 3 string full of blue chippers killing each other in practice. Easy formula. An entire establishment created to cover all tracks of any illicit activity. The sht was so perfect and his image so spotless that no one in the sports works ever questioned how the Fck he moved an entire family from Hawaii to tuskkaloosa. We’re not talking about 4 people either.
And he did it with big money behind them. And now he’s calling people out for doing it legally while that school and the rest of the sec did it like they were untouchable because they were.
If I was the other sec schools I would tell him to stfu!! But his ego and the pressure he’s about to feel by the dudes that have bankrolled those players and TUas entire family are ****ed and they want their little darling Nicky to go after everyone else that’s not letting them get the players they want.
Nicky is going after people that know where the bodies are buried. Bad idea.
I know for a FACT that Amari Cooper got paid & A LOT.Alabama pays for players. I’ve spoken to people on all three sides of the transaction (team, booster, recruit). They pay and they have always paid.
like fücking Donkey Kong!
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Jimbo Fisher: Saban's comments 'despicable'
Texas A&M finished No. 1 in recruiting with 30 commits, including eight five-star players and 19 four-star players, per 247Sports.theathletic.com
I'm not playing so I'm not scared. I'm just saying if i had to predict that score they should beat us pretty easily. Just based on the talent gap but that's my opinion I know u guys get mad at that.Sounds like you're scared as well.
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Ivan Maisel whose brother is part of the Bama equivalence of the Golden Canes (Bryant Society)? That's rich.Some highlights:
Nick Saban spoke the truth in public Wednesday night. The Alabama coach said in public what he has been saying in private for several months. He said in public what Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said in February and reiterated Thursday.
Of course Texas A&M bought its way to the top of the recruiting rankings. Texas crude is selling for $107 per barrel. That’s the game right now. It will be the game until the NCAA or Congress or Pope Francis or anyone with the requisite juice finds a way to replace the guardrails that the judicial system and state legislatures have taken down in college athletics.
Guardrails, it turns out, are stuck in the supply chain along with everything else these days.
Saban committed the gaffe (the Michael Kinsley definition: you say in public an obvious truth you aren’t supposed to say in public) of naming Texas A&M and Jackson State. He is already paying a price for that. A&M coach Jimbo Fisher called it “despicable” Thursday morning and suggested that Saban’s former assistants be asked about his practices. We could have started with Fisher, Saban’s offensive coordinator at LSU for five seasons, but he went no further on that topic.
Its almost like a certain poster said this over a year ago. @PIPONIL is bad for all of these small town programs (FSPOOOO, Bama, UiF, UGA, Clemson, LSU, etc), although schools that dominate the state should still be competitive like LSU. Harder in places like Bama where they also have to compete with Auburn, Clemson with South Carolina, etc.
Wherever you have corporations that can throw big numbers out to multiple players for NIL, those programs should rise or remain strong players (UM, USC, Texas, Tennessee, Ohio State, Etc).
Weird to see us as a big NIL.....is that just based off Ruiz? If Ruiz wasn't around would our NIL be as big as it is optics wise?I figured Bama had the boosters to funnel 10M+ immediately just based on their decades old bag system. I assumed they could get to the 20-30M range because of how much money the football operation produces for the school. But maybe they really do top out below that.
A&M has both the crazy fans and the big oil & gas money. I think they can't go punch for punch with any media-based program as long as they run their NIL companies legally. Georgia and LSU are lesser dogs, but they're still in the hunt.
I don't see Ole Miss, Auburn, South Carolina, Florida types having sustainable NIL funding at the levels we're talking about. I think the SEC as a whole really suffers now that bags are no longer relevant. Clemson and FSU as well, obviously.
Nick Saban is without question, the textbook definition of a megalomaniac.This is just like when saban wanted the NCAA to slow down the game for "player safety". Everybody knew he just didn't like how his team matched up against teams that played fast, but that didn't stop him. Dude has zero shame, he'll promote whatever's best for him without a care for what he's done in the past.
Do you know what happens when you snitch??!!
Im waiting for Deion to step in an get the HBCU conglomerate involved...Saban aint think this through lol..This is some of the best sports dramedy that I can ever recall. I love this. Lane Kiffin doing his best Don King hypeman, Jimbo looking worse for wear just spilling all of the family secrets, media showing their ***, Saban looking like he is about to have a stroke in the new NIL climate, Emmert running for the hills. This is absolute gold.