From the ESPN article: Sorry if it's already been posted:
"In the meeting Wednesday, Saban thanked his players for the way they bought in and told them that he had thought out his decision carefully. But with the way college football has changed in terms of the transfer portal and tampering, NIL being used as a guise for bidding for high school players and transfers, and the recruiting calendar being extended, he told his players that the time was right for him to retire."
Greed, commercialism and activists are quickly ruining college football. The sport is now controlled by the TV networks, and colleges chase the TV money like greyhounds after a race-track rabbit. It's all gotten seedy. Giving huge money to high-school players--under the guise of NIL--to sign with your team--before you even know if they'll be a decent college player, much less a good one? NIL should be completely banned from recruiting--no discussion, no offers, nothing until a player is enrolled. Rampant tampering, rampant transferring. It's all out of control. And football players are treated better than all other student athletes except basketball players. So this notion that they are exploited is complete nonsense. But, yea, if would help if the colleges--starting with college presidents, who've made fools of themselves--would learn to say 'enough.' We don't need a 12-team playoff, and we don't need more and more games, and we don't need revenue sharing with players, which is stupid and could end up resulting in schools getting rid of some non-revenue programs. College athletics is NOT a conventional business, and anyone who pretends otherwise is wrong.
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