Nick Saban, the hypocrite. It's gotten completely out of hand, but the fact that Nicky has so much to say about it is laughable.

Gnome Sayin said:

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"They're cheating better than me!"

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And on that set, everyone quietly says nothing after GIllis throws out the obvious "Nobody in the SEC paid players. Ever"

Too funny!

Maybe next time I'm smack talking my 'Bama friends, I'll defend Elko by pointing out how many Aggies he has gotten drafted into the NFL. I don't think this argument will sway them somehow.....

He wants competitive balance? When he was coach it was the most unbalanced it had ever been lol

The college football world improved many times over when self-serving hypocrite Nick Satan retired. He can next go to the great beyond and tell the good Lord how he can improve Heaven. A $ $ whole.

The real reason Nick Saban retired is one that he won't admit to himself. It was his age. I'm convinced if he were still coaching today-even with the old rules-he would have never won another national championship no matter how long he continued to coach. Bobby Bowden, Bill Snyder, Joe Paterno, Steve Spurrier, Bill Belichick, Mack Brown all dropped off in production as they aged past their late 60s.

His display of telling Congress how NIL ruined the game is sad because it's his own way of trying to convince himself that NIL was what made him retire, not that he was losing games he used to win. In 2021-he lost to a terrible A&M team, 2022-losses to Tennessee and LSU, 2023 lost at home to Texas and then to Michigan..Don't get me wrong, those were all seasons ANY program would define as successful but for Saban, those losses kept him from what he would define as success AND those were the types of games he used to win. It wasn't going to get any better for Saban-with or without NIL.

Bama is ****ed in the NIL era. The dynasty is over for good. Good.

Saban cheated at Mich St and LSU loved it and brought him down. He cheated and paid so many players at LSU it was ridiculous (Fisher knows and has receipts and why to this day don't get why the media didn't follow up on that, but just chased Fisher). It's why Kiffin went so hard at Fisher as if truth of all the cheating done by Saban got out, the whole coaching tree of Saban is tainted publicly.

I'm not sure what NIL "leveling the playing field" means. Over the last 50 years, schools like Pitt, Clemson, Georgia, Colorado, Auburn, Georgia Tech, BYU, Washington, Florida St and Tennessee won national championships. Heck, In the last 50 years little Clemson alone won almost as many national championships as Texas/USC/Notre Dame COMBINED. Are we to believe Clemson had built in advantages pre NIL that Texas, USC and Notre Dame didn't have?

It means the teams that don't cheat can pay for talent now, too.

BostonAg74 said:

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There was a time when street agents dominated the money exchanges in college football, with Ohio State and Tennessee having the most effective network of street agents. When I was at A&M, the athletes at Texas lived in Jester Hall. A friend of mine was a jock at Texas at the time, and he said the cash payments came in the form of cash in unmarked envelopes in Jester Hall P.O. boxes. Baylor had a work around for overpaying football players as compensation for living off campus. If you ever get a chance, look up the compensation package that Warren McVea got for going to Houston (cars, luxury apartment, personal valet, etc.). The bottom line is that this kind of cheating has been going on forever, with a small number of high profile schools being able to do it with impunity because of their value to TV contracts. When NIL leveled the playing field, those sacred cows (yeah, I said that) no longer had the advantage, so now the old school cheaters like Saban have found religion and they want to bring the riff-raff back under control. When you mix politics and college football, the only thing that you can be sure of is that no one has pure motives when it comes to working out a solution. Everyone is just looking out for themselves.

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Man……you don't post enough on here anymore

"When I called out unnamed school for buying their entire class, I got really criticized for that. Waaah waaah waaah."

Listen a**hole………the reason you got criticized was that everyone with even half a functional brain saw right through your sanctimonious BS. Your pious little "we didn't buy one single player"…….you think there's one person out there that believed that for a second? You got "really criticized" for insulting the public's intelligence. You got butthurt because for the first time, one of your underlings kicked your ass on the field and made it pay off on the recruiting trail. I may not be the biggest "Jimbo the coach" fan in the world but I 100% had his back on that one and always will. A little honesty goes a long way, Lil Nicky