This goes under the heading “give me a break!”

[the storm]

Yea, the SEC “advantage” was called the bag man.

 

[Brains]

It's even worse if you look at the full quote:

"There wasn’t professional football in the South for a long time… Kids grew up wanting to go to LSU, Alabama and Georgia. [But] now… they don’t mind going to Ohio State," he said, adding that NIL and “the money involved in decision-making” have altered the landscape.


There has been professional football in the South since the mid-60's with the Falcons, Saints, and Dolphins. Htf does that have an effect on where kids want to go to college in 2025???

Exactly.

Ant then add in all the NFL teams since then. What the **** is he even talking about?

And Saban, of all people, should be readily aware that recruiting has been truly national for years now, probably a decade. He helped make it so.