Nick Saban's comments on the state of college football...

[How_did_this_happen?]

I respect this guy. He makes some very good points.

Nick Saban doesn’t hold back when asked about paying players

From taxation to unionization, Saban had something to say Tuesday morning in Destin.

www.al.com

 

[Loyal Coug1]

I respect this guy. He makes some very good points.

Nick Saban doesn’t hold back when asked about paying players

From taxation to unionization, Saban had something to say Tuesday morning in Destin.

www.al.com

Just watched the whole video clip. I've never actually seen him speak before, just figured he was an arrogant prick. I was pleasantly surprised to see otherwise.

 

[Observer11]

Saban is right on the money so to speak.

The NCAA fubar'd this up by not setting up standard scholarship contracts that obligated the recipient to revenue sharing, whereby x% of the athletes NIL income is due to a pool which is distributed to all scholarship athletes.

Pay to play so to speak. If the school is providing the vehicle whereby an athlete's NIL is enhanced, the school should be properly compensated. Without the school/team, the athlete is worth zip.

Everything is negotiable. The NCAA caved.

 

[M-I-Coug]

Just watched the whole video clip. I've never actually seen him speak before, just figured he was an arrogant prick. I was pleasantly surprised to see otherwise.

Uhh you gotta remember...they don't pay people $11,000,000 a year salary if you're an arrogant prick. Just saying. You're essential the best of the best of head coaches, (not necessarily the best at winning National Championships).

Do you remember the movie Blinds Side with Sandra Bullock? I think he was the head coach at LSU when they filmed the movie. He was awesome back then.

 

[wsudefense]

Take way the scholarship and just pay athletes and they can pay their own way thru college and see how that go’s. They can Pay for their own books, all food and pay rent just like regular students. The entitlement ends

 

[cr8zyncalif]

Saban is right on the money so to speak.

The NCAA fubar'd this up by not setting up standard scholarship contracts that obligated the recipient to revenue sharing, whereby x% of the athletes NIL income is due to a pool which is distributed to all scholarship athletes.

Pay to play so to speak. If the school is providing the vehicle whereby an athlete's NIL is enhanced, the school should be properly compensated. Without the school/team, the athlete is worth zip.

Everything is negotiable. The NCAA caved.

They may have caved...but I don't give them that much credit. I don't think they fully thought through what the changes would mean. "caved" implies that there was a negotiation. I don't think the NCAA really negotiated. I'd maybe use the word "abdicated", instead. Clearly there is no such thing as a brain trust at the NCAA.

 

[Coug1990]

Saban is right on the money so to speak.

The NCAA fubar'd this up by not setting up standard scholarship contracts that obligated the recipient to revenue sharing, whereby x% of the athletes NIL income is due to a pool which is distributed to all scholarship athletes.

Pay to play so to speak. If the school is providing the vehicle whereby an athlete's NIL is enhanced, the school should be properly compensated. Without the school/team, the athlete is worth zip.

Everything is negotiable. The NCAA caved.

It all comes down to leadership. Mark Emmert was asleep at the wheel. There are a few stories I have read in the past just how incompetent he was. The train was coming, everyone knew it, and he basically did nothing.

 

[How_did_this_happen?]

It all comes down to leadership. Mark Emmert was asleep at the wheel. There are a few stories I have read in the past just how incompetent he was. The train was coming, everyone knew it, and he basically did nothing.

Yep...and what was his annual salary again?

What a grifter. One of the best I've seen.

 

[Coug1990]

Yep...and what was his annual salary again?

What a grifter. One of the best I've seen.

It is the same answer regarding Larry Scott. He was a con man, a great con man. He had enough P12 school Presidents believe his bullsh....t to have kept his job for way too long.

 

[How_did_this_happen?]

It is the same answer regarding Larry Scott. He was a con man, a great con man. He had enough P12 school Presidents believe his bullsh....t to have kept his job for way too long.

Yeah, the clueless Pac12 presidents were complicit in Larry Scott's grift. They were responsible for allowing that corruption to occur. They could have stopped it.

 

[dgibbons]

Yep...and what was his annual salary again?

What a grifter. One of the best I've seen.

He's made billions of dollars for other coaches (on their buyouts), and millions of dollars for their agents.

 

[Coug1990]

Yeah, the clueless Pac12 presidents were complicit in Larry Scott's grift. They were responsible for allowing that corruption to occur. They could have stopped it.

I don't think the school Presidents were complicit at all. A great con is when the marks have no idea they are being conned. Scott used the promise of a big payday with the Pac12 Network and the Presidents own arrogance of always being the smartest people in the room against them. Scott had them believing that they were smarter than the other conferences and if they waited a little longer, the Pac12 Network would be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

 

[cr8zyncalif]

Agree with 1990 that the pres group was more inept than they were complicit. The PAC network was not a bad idea; but like any idea, its progress needed to be monitored and if a course correction was needed, action was required. You might be able to justify the word "con", though that suggests more competence on the part of Limo Larry than I think is justified. The "smartest people in the room" attitude analogy has some merit. All in all, the word 1990 did not use that I think applies is "lazy". That fits with pretty much all of the participants in the soap opera.

 

[How_did_this_happen?]

I don't think the school Presidents were complicit at all. A great con is when the marks have no idea they are being conned. Scott used the promise of a big payday with the Pac12 Network and the Presidents own arrogance of always being the smartest people in the room against them. Scott had them believing that they were smarter than the other conferences and if they waited a little longer, the Pac12 Network would be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Oh I don't let them off the hook.

Agree with 1990 that the pres group was more inept than they were complicit. The PAC network was not a bad idea; but like any idea, its progress needed to be monitored and if a course correction was needed, action was required. You might be able to justify the word "con", though that suggests more competence on the part of Limo Larry than I think is justified. The "smartest people in the room" attitude analogy has some merit. All in all, the word 1990 did not use that I think applies is "lazy". That fits with pretty much all of the participants in the soap opera.

You're both right. Complicit is too strong of a word.

The presidents have no excuse for not having oversight and checks and balances in place to keep tabs on what Larry was doing and how he was spending money.