During an event with local business leaders on Wednesday night, Alabama coach Nick Saban spoke about the effect of name, image and likeness rights on recruiting during an event with local business leaders.
A&M was first in recruiting. A&M bought every player on their team. We did not buy one player. All right? I don't know if we will be able to sustain that in the future because more and more people are doing it. It is difficult.
The first coach to call out the Aggies by name was Nick Saban. In February, Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin joked that Texas A&M was going to incur a luxury tax in how much they paid for their signing class.
Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher sternly responded to the rumors of deals promised to recruits during his signing day news conference, saying that they wereclown acts and irresponsible.
The problem with NIL is that coaches are trying to create an advantage for themselves.
The coach knows how much money is available from the school's collective and how much he can promise every player.
He said that it was not what it was supposed to be. That is the problem in colleagues athletics right now. Every player is asking what they will get.
In defense of the NCAA, we are where we are because of the litigation.
A lower court ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court last summer. The NCAA allowed athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness in the wake of that decision.
The NCAA does not allow a school or its employees to pay athletes directly for their NIL rights.
If the NCAA doesn't get some protection from litigation, it won't change because they can't enforce their rules. You should read about it in the paper. Jackson State paid a really good Division I player $1 million dollars to come to the school. They bragged about it in the paper. Nobody did anything about it. The guys at Miami that are going to play basketball for $400,000 are in the newspaper. The guy tells you how to do it.
The Jackson State player is a five-star prospect who signed with the HBCU program during the early signing period in December. The biggest lie I have ever heard is that Hunter had been offered more than $1 million.
Nijel Pack was a basketball player at Kansas State who transferred to the Hurricanes in April. He signed a two-year $400,000 NIL deal with a Florida-based health tech company.
The players will all get the same opportunities from Alabama, but the distinction is made that you can go earn as much as you want.
He told the recruits that their job is not to come to school here. I don't know if this is a sustainable model.
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