I think he does a very nice job. Ignore the specifics of the setting in which he makes this presentation. He’s got it right.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse with the NIL situation (to the point where I no longer follow college sports, even the Utes), I just read that an “executive order” is going to be written soon to “make it all better”. I now have no doubt that it can, indeed, get worse.
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This is something Congress and the Executive Branch can’t fix. The amount of crazy, stupid money involved won’t let them. At this point it really boils down to answering one question.
When do these universities spinoff the Athletic Departments into some independent entity that pays the school a facility rental fee and a naming rights fee? Saban is correct the current system in athletics is broken. Yes, it isn’t about graduating and being prepared for life after sports. It’s about the here and now, and how much a player can make. At this point the genie is out of the bottle, or the ■■■■ is out of the horse (your choice of what you consider more appropriate), and it’s not going back.
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Well, I have to agree. I’d rather see Congress take action on its own. Problem is, all the universities who benefit from NIL are themselves powerful forces in states that have…senators and members of Congress who are fans and who want donations from the same people who are college athletics donors. 'Murica!
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