The two schools of thought in college football are very different. Texas A&M beat Alabama for the top recruiting class in the nation this year and one coach, Nicks, was not happy about it.
Fisher said that no rules were broken. There was nothing wrong with the things that were done. It's ridiculous when he's not on top. Go talk to the coaches who coached for him about the parity in college football. You will find out all the parity. Go to where he has been. Some people think they are God. Go look at how God did his deal.
These are some of the most offensive comments that college football coaches have made towards one another. It reads like they're divorced, and that Fisher is winning over the kids by giving them an XBOX for Christmas.
Fisher seems to be suggesting that there are some not so clean recruiting practices of his own, which I doubt would surprise many people, and he would surely know about it, as he was an assistant to Saban.
Fisher is one of the biggest faces of NIL deals right now because he adapted quickly and has reaped the benefits of the top recruiting class. The old guard, those who were too slow to act on NIL, and whose programs are losing power because of it, are represented by Saban. They are losing on that front because they are feigning outrage at those who have taken advantage of NIL.
It's not a big deal whether or not the Alabama coach says that Texas A&M bought players or not. Fisher insists that the school can't offer recruits money, but boosters and companies are allowed. That's how things are now, and it won't change back.
The truth is that college football programs have always bought players even if they couldn't give them money. The playing field has always been unfair. It doesn't work for them anymore.
Remember a couple of years ago when LSU's locker room, complete with sleeping Pods, was covered by Business Insider and others? Spending tens of millions on the room where the players get dressed doesn't count as trying to buy players.
Do you think that Bowling Green can compete with that? I apologize to any Bowling Green fans. I don't mean to single you out, but I need an example. Recruiting has always been unfair.
LSU was always able to buy players by offering nicer facilities, a bigger stadium, more nationally televised TV games, and promises of becoming high NFL draft picks, which leads to millions of dollars. The degree that LSU was and is was never offered by Bowling Green. The currency players can receive is actual currency. The playing field has been leveled by the fact that a wealthy Bowling Green booster can work out a deal with recruits.
That's just the stuff above board. Fisher is not the first to suggest that the Alabamas of the world have been doing shady things to recruit. College players waited until the Supreme Court ruling on NIL to accept payment, like most people wait until their 21st birthday to try beer. The basketball national championship was forfeited by Louisville after it was found that former players were paying for escort services. It's not known how many similar instances have happened at other schools.
The head coach of Jackson State was caught astray in the fight between the two teams. Jackson State paid a really good Division 1 player a million dollars to come to school, and that was in the paper, and that's why I apologized to my cringey Aflac commercial co-star.
The player he was referring to is the No. 1- or 2-ranked recruit in the country. I don't care if Hunter was paid a million dollars for his talent. Good for him if it is true.
Some college football coaches claim that the NIL deals are ruining the competitive balance. This is the first semblance of a competitive balance there in a long time. If it weren't for NIL, a player like Hunter would never go to an FCS school.
Big schools don't like the fact that they need the top players more than the top players need them. The eyeballs, TV deals, and money would follow if the top players decided to go to schools in the MAC, the conference of our dear friends Bowling Green. No one would care about Alabama's name recognition if they didn't have the best players.
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