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Proof that NIL is working
RaceBannon
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https://si.com/college/2023/03/07/nick-saban-exclusive-interview-nil-rule-changes
Sports Illustrated: The NIL scene is evolving quickly. Collectives are popping up everywhere, distributing millions to athletes. What are your thoughts on this situation?
Nick Saban: The issue is, when you create those [collectives] for people, are you establishing a pay-for-play type of environment that can be used in recruiting? So now, all the sudden, guys are not going to school where they can create the most value for their future. Guys are going to school where they can make the most money. I don’t think that is even the best thing for the player.
You went to college. I went to college. Why were we going? We had goals and aspirations for how we wanted to create value for our future. Sometimes these things can be a distraction academically as well as athletically. But I’ll say it again: I think name, image and likeness is good for players. The whole concept of collectives is what has created this environment that we are in, and I’m not sure that anybody really had the insight or the vision to see that was going to happen. So therefore, we had no guidelines, and now we’re trying to develop some.
SI: So what is the solution to this in your mind?
NS: I don’t know that I completely have the answer to that. I think one of the things is everybody having a different state law. A lot of people blame the NCAA for a lot of this, but the NCAA sometimes gets caught. … Because of the changes we’ve had in what’s legal and not, they can’t enforce their own rules and they’re in a little bit of a dilemma, too.
Maybe it needs to be changed at the federal level so you don’t have different state laws and there are guidelines for what you can and can’t do. Players should create their opportunities, and what we’ve done now is some schools are creating opportunities for them. I don’t think that was the intent.
Bama and Ohio State and other BIGS are upset that now that paying is legal they have lost their edge in under the table pay for play against schools that weren't as good at it. Saban is also singing the development song now. Nick's concern about the student in student athlete is as real as mine. As in what is his 40 time
On a kind of tuggish note - Nick now wants the Feds to regulate. This is how giant corps operate. Use regulation to squeeze out smaller competitors.
Fuck off Nick
Sports Illustrated: The NIL scene is evolving quickly. Collectives are popping up everywhere, distributing millions to athletes. What are your thoughts on this situation?
Nick Saban: The issue is, when you create those [collectives] for people, are you establishing a pay-for-play type of environment that can be used in recruiting? So now, all the sudden, guys are not going to school where they can create the most value for their future. Guys are going to school where they can make the most money. I don’t think that is even the best thing for the player.
You went to college. I went to college. Why were we going? We had goals and aspirations for how we wanted to create value for our future. Sometimes these things can be a distraction academically as well as athletically. But I’ll say it again: I think name, image and likeness is good for players. The whole concept of collectives is what has created this environment that we are in, and I’m not sure that anybody really had the insight or the vision to see that was going to happen. So therefore, we had no guidelines, and now we’re trying to develop some.
SI: So what is the solution to this in your mind?
NS: I don’t know that I completely have the answer to that. I think one of the things is everybody having a different state law. A lot of people blame the NCAA for a lot of this, but the NCAA sometimes gets caught. … Because of the changes we’ve had in what’s legal and not, they can’t enforce their own rules and they’re in a little bit of a dilemma, too.
Maybe it needs to be changed at the federal level so you don’t have different state laws and there are guidelines for what you can and can’t do. Players should create their opportunities, and what we’ve done now is some schools are creating opportunities for them. I don’t think that was the intent.
Bama and Ohio State and other BIGS are upset that now that paying is legal they have lost their edge in under the table pay for play against schools that weren't as good at it. Saban is also singing the development song now. Nick's concern about the student in student athlete is as real as mine. As in what is his 40 time
On a kind of tuggish note - Nick now wants the Feds to regulate. This is how giant corps operate. Use regulation to squeeze out smaller competitors.
Fuck off Nick
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