THIS.
I don’t think Saban left because of NIL, he could have raised that money had he stayed. I think it is the free transfer and play.
Saban made a legacy off of getting the best players and having them sticking around and waiting their turn because they didn’t want to sit a year because it delayed the NFL money.
Once the free transfer was here, he could not stack 3 5* at every position anymore.
Saban was a very earlier adopter and
power user of the portal. He was known for tampering and also buying NFL talent that way. For example, instant-impact players like Jahmyr Gibbs, Jameson Williams, and Tyler Steen.
It seems you take your bearing from Saban’s (lying)
speeches rather than from his
deeds.
Saban left because of NIL — other teams could pay and he could no longer sic the NCAA on them. Saban had been buying players his entire Bama tenure.
Saban’s loud complaints and extensive
excuse making and blame-game about the portal happened when
other teams also used the portal. (Typical Saban BS.) He didn’t think
they should be allowed.
Remember, Saban had lied to a
huge number of recruits that he would be there during their years. They were gullible enough (like most fans) not to notice Saban’s long uninterrupted history of lies. Largely because the media never investigated the most corrupt team in history. And because the media (as corrupt) was constantly in coverup mode for dinky Nicky.
So, when Saban broke his word to the players he had bought in recent years in a surprise announcement, the players in turn bailed on Bama.
It was THEN that Saban started his hypocritical made-for-TV rants about the portal. Saban has since devoted huge efforts into getting the power of the NCAA that always cheated
for him reinstated. Prolly under a new name. Fans, he assumes, will be duped. Saban didn’t rant when he scooped up Gibbs, for example.
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