"The narcissist in him doesn't allow those things to happen-it's ridiculous-when he's not on top. "It's despicable that a reputable head coach can come out and say this when he doesn't get his way or things don't go his way," shot back Jimbo Fisher, who used to work for Nick Saban during their LSU days. Made a deal for name, image and likeness. He told a confab in Birmingham last week that some schools are spending "tons of money to get players." But he told the barkeep that he wasn't averse to having some spilled in his lemonade, "as long as it's unbeknownst to me.")Ĭoach Saban has a point, and you know how that hurts to say. (Abraham Lincoln once told the story of an Irishman who had forsworn liquor. Or maybe just line up sponsors who are fans of the team so they can pay the kids "without the colleges being necessarily involved," which must be put in scare quotes.
He mentioned that this NIL deal in college sports-paying players for use of their names, images and likenesses-allows colleges to pay players. The other day Nick Saban, the coach of the Alabama football team-the New York Yankees of college football-apparently said something that other people outside Alabama didn't necessarily dislike. It was enough to make you drop your big orange drink. About recruitin' players and signin' players and maybe even payin' players. Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher got into a spat. We ain't lyin' when we say it made national news.
But there's hardly ever any big talk like this in late May. And training camp news, and recruitin' news, and salary news keep the radio shows a-goin' all year, bless them all to pieces.
And we're just gettin' over the NFL draft and tryin' to see who all's going to make it on our favorite club. Now, we know that football is a year-round thing. There's a lot of folks needin' endorsin', some more than others.īut then, friend, right cheer in the middle of all this heat and spring allergies and before Memorial Day doncha know, we had another football story land slap on our lap like nobody's business. Or maybe we'd have another go at the up-comin' next week, and endorse somebody else. What with the president's poll numbers breaking records, and not in a good way, no sir. We was just a-fixin' to get into another ramblin' about politics and such.
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