I think it's being slightly misreported. b/c he referred to

Posted on: March 13, 2024 at 16:03:23 CT

one of his star players and said he got 3 legitimate NIL deals. What they are doing now, a lot of the time, is just paying players outright. Nothing to do with actual NIL. Which is fine I guess but it seems like the Universities are playing a big part of that when it was presented as a system in which a private company or entity hired a player.

so he's not actually against NIL. he's against whatever it is that it's quickly morphed into.

and I think he has a point about players just there for the money and transferring for the money. that's fine but it would have to be difficult to coach under those parameters when you have spent your entire life under a different system. And he is old anyway so maybe he didn't want to have to learn new tricks.

as far as saying the rich get richer that still might be true But I don't think he excluded Alabama from that. I think he was saying whatever advantages AL had before will not just be magnified. whether he's right on that remains to be seen.