The Farmers have ALWAYS done WAY LESS with WAY MORE and have done it as long as I remember.
oo oo oo I want to be a know nothing.
How many National Championships would Saban have had if his entire career was spent at University Alabama Birmingham instead of the University of Alabama? I am guessing zero.
Yes a school needs great coaching, but if you can’t buy the players you cannot win. That includes pay for play now in effect or the under the table the SEC was so good at prior to the NIL era.
BOTH are important, and that is not including hte ability to even get in the playoffs. For any years great teams got left out of even having a chance to with a title due to media influence and push.
No one thing is a deciding factor, a school needs them all to have a shot,…
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That’s so true. You could put Saban at someplace like Rice without NIL support and he would struggle…just as would Cignetti.
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Off course both are important but without a great HC to an exceptional HC you got nothing.
Ask uta and atm how they did with arguably the best recruiting classes for years?
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You know this is a good point, and we don’t even need to guess because we have evidence.
Before becoming a legend at LSU, saban was HC at:
- Toledo (9-2 in one season)
- Michigan State (34-24-1 in 5 seasons)
- LSU (48-16, 1 natty)
We know what he did at Bama, but we sometimes forget what he did with the Dolphins. No bueno. Now, just because he wasn’t as successful with the Dolphins doesn’t mean he is a bad coach; the Dolphins are such a bad organization that it’s hard for an HC to turn the ship around. It should be pointed out though, that he did go 9-7 in his first year with the Dolphins and barely missed the playoffs. He was playing Gus Ferotte and Cleo Lemon at QB. If he can win 9 games with those guys, including beating the Patriots, he can coach.
As Bum Philips said about Don Shula:
“He can take his and beat yours, and take yours and beat his.”
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If the Drew Brees move to Miami went through, Saban would have bought himself a few more years in the NFL.
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Facts. However, Saban pushed for Culpepper over Brees, remember that.
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Thank you for posting. The ncaa has created this. The ncaa looked the other way when the blue bloids cheated while others like us almost got the death penalty. In actuality as long as a player is tied to a university he technically can stay as long as he wants as a player. Why should a student athlete be any different? I don’t agree with my last statement but you can be sure lawyers are throwing in that argument.
Yes what will be interesting is when the time will come that a student athlete will be offered more than playing in the nfl. It is…already happening.
Are we going to see USFL 2.0.?
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I don’t think that is an NIL problem. The problem is that the NCAA doesn’t have clear defined eligibility rules. So you get guys challenging the gray area. This would be a lot easier if they just put a hard age limit at 23 or 24. That should hold up to a court challenge. High schools have a limit and there is no issue.
No, the federal courts have created this.
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How?
The USSC decision that basically made NIL untouchable. And according to Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence, possibly unlimited.
Which one? From 1984?
Bro, you are REALLY out of it.
It was a 2021 case that held that restrictions on NIL violated anti-trust laws and it essentially ushered in today’s unfettered NIL era.
The decision was unanimous, but in a concurring opinion by Justice Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh articulated that there could possibly be NO limitations on NIL.
And as I’ve pointed out, it mostly benefits the richest programs (especially full shares B1G members) to the detriment of less wealthy programs, and especially hurts the G6.
“REALLY out of it” you wrote.
Cignetti now going to make over 13 million a year.
If Lane Kiffin does not succeed at LSU, it will not be for a lack of spending. On3’s Pete Nakos reported that LSU has already topped $40 million in NIL money to build their roster for 2026. The Tigers were mentioned as the top spenders in college football this offseason as Nakos spoke with 14 general managers
…but the limit is supposed to be $25M’s.
Didn’t law wrote that LSU was in a poor area and had little money…
Who’s gonna stop him?