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Link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CU_8Mu33YIY
1) had a contract guaranteeing that he would be the highest paid coach in college football and never once complained that “all coaches want to know from programs is how much they are going to pay them”.
2) Got the whole ball of exploitation in college football rolling at a new level by exploiting a loophole in “over signing”to build his dynasty.
3) Recruits the type of kid whose “only care” is money.
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College football in now at best Semi-Pro
I personally believe that any school that provides a legitimate degree with the chance to compete while taking legitimate majors is already paying the student athlete. But many schools - especially Saban's school was not offering anything meaningful wrt a degree. They were merely using the players, and they had complete and utter control over them. As a result, Saban comes off as a hypocrite to me. He was never selling the academic side to his recruits as Notre Dame, Stanford, Navy , Wake Forest, Northwestern, etc. were. He was selling the football factory "I'll get you to the NFL if you're good enough, and I've arranged fake majors that don't mean the same work and thus doesn't mean the same degree as other actual students get" to his recruits like Tennessee, Alabama, Michigan, Oregon, etc do. And for the kids who tried to pursue the actual degree, they were handicapped compared to their teammates with whom they were competing for a position, and they were penalized for it. I know of a specific instance where the recruit was told by one of these school that if he pursued engineering, he could kiss his scholarship good bye. Heck, they try to avoid the real student recruits unless they are super good, and then they simply dissuade them from it when they get there.
but in my view it will lose passion and support over time as people realize they are rooting for minor league teams that have no affiliation with the schools that are "sponsoring" them...or whatever you want to call it.
ND will have to form a league that values education eventually and get out of this cesspool entirely...
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FB and BBall players are already celebs on campus. Once they all are getting paid, ordinary dorm life is out the window.
Won't get the 4-5 star athletes but the competiiton will still be valid and fans will root on their teams.
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