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They can roll ole Dabo in to pick up where Saban left off at with NIL.The important question here, is this what finally pushes Saban into retirement and away from CFB?!?! I freaking hope so.
They can roll ole Dabo in to pick up where Saban left off at with NIL.The important question here, is this what finally pushes Saban into retirement and away from CFB?!?! I freaking hope so.
And NIL and transfers turns college football into a year round experience. If these old men were smart they would understand how much buzz their sport is receiving at a time of year when it never did and see the benefit. Instead they all like to retreat to their corner and complain about how “it was different back in my day”.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.
good point. But their commissioner better get some control over this.No SEC teams are suing anyone and subjecting themselves to discovery.
I told a buddy today that I think this very well could be his last year. His protector Emmert is heading out and he knows the NCAA can’t stop this because it’s a SCOTUS ruling.The important question here, is this what finally pushes Saban into retirement and away from CFB?!?! I freaking hope so.
I may go home and burn my sofa and do a bunch of meth and fentanyl just to maintain this vibe.Gotta love two West Virginia country bumpkins going at it
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Remember though that NIL money is not about how much money the program produces but rather about how much money corporations are willing to pay players for the NIL. I‘m confident Bama has a ton of boosters but do their boosters own companies that can compete with the billionaires company owners that UM and USC and the Texas schools have. That is the problem.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.
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Remember though that NIL money is not about how much money the program produces but rather about how much money corporations are willing to pay players for the NIL. I‘m confident Bama has a ton of boosters but do their boosters own companies that can compete with the billionaires company owners that UM and USC and the Texas schools have. That is the problem.