Saban is the greatest of all time, but he missed the mark on Capitol Hill

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When the lightbulb was invented, candlemakers said the world was changing. When Henry Ford rolled out his first car, horse-and-buggy makers complained.

Same with the cell phone, the personal computer and so much else in our lives. And now a new age has come to college football and coaches set in their ways, happy to make millions upon millions of dollars while preaching about tenuous terms like “personal development” and “support” and “being prepared for life” cannot wrap their minds around the changing landscape.

Or they just don’t want to.

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Former Alabama coach Nick Saban sat for a roundtable with other leaders in college athletics and some members of Congress Tuesday and talked about the NIL era in college football, collectives, a so-called pay-for-play model and more.

I believe Saban is genuine in his concerns about the sport (and there are definitely issues that need to be hammered out and solved) but he’s just missing the larger point of the entire issue.

Maybe it’s because Saban is already a millionaire many times over. Maybe it’s because he has multiple homes and beautiful cars and every perk he could possibly desire.

He loved having all the control running his program the way he wanted it done and now because that set-up has changed, retirement seemed more appealing. Good for him.

But don’t hold it against others trying to chase success in how they want to define it, either, or where they seek…

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Publish date : 2024-03-12 22:36:29

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