What is a college football offseason press conference without some good old-fashioned coaches beefing? Alabama’s head coach, Nick Saban, set the college football world abuzz when he called out Texas A&M for buying every player of their top-ranked recruiting class with name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals. Saban also took a shot at Deion Sanders’ Jackson State football program stating, “Jackson State paid a guy $1 million last year that was a really good Division I player to come to the school. It was in the paper, and they bragged about it.”
This led Jimbo Fisher of Texas A&M to go on a scorched earth 10-minute rant against Saban. He called him a narcissist and even went on to say, "He's the greatest ever, huh? When you've got all the advantages, it's easy." Deion Sanders responded, “(He) wasn’t talking to me. (He) wasn’t talking to Jimbo Fisher. He was talking to his boosters.”
Nick Saban is an absolute college football legend. I’m sure Alabama will build him a statue (if they haven’t already done so), but for him to be crying poor about Alabama’s recruiting resources is ridiculous and I’m glad he is getting roasted online. Boosters have been paying college players under the table for decades and the only difference now is that NIL deals have somewhat evened the playing field for other rich football schools to compete. Since 2012, Alabama has had the top-ranked recruiting class every year except twice (where they were still top 5). If you believe they were able to accomplish this by clean and by the book recruiting practices then I have a bridge to sell you.
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Nolan Ryan was a true pitching workhorse. His career started way back in 1966 with the NY Mets and finished with the Texas Rangers in 1993. He was 19 when he made his debut and 46 when he hung up the cleats. His intimidating presence on the mound and flaming fastball made him one of the scariest pitchers of all time to face in the batters’ box. His documentary “Facing Nolan” will premiere for a limited time in movie theatres beginning on May 24th. The streaming service you can watch the documentary is still TBD, but you can watch the trailer below.
Will be interesting to see how NIL affects college football which has been so SEC dominat