This has to be the best thread from the Bama boards

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madbamahater said:
Right. Saban is an embarrassment to college football. That punk quit and took his football home, because it's a more level playing field with NIL and with Tennessee FINALLY has a real football coach and doesn't have a coach that Saban endorsed for the Tennessee job.

Saban actually said of Dooley, Jones and Pruitt that they were good for UT. Sure, they were great for UT, because he knows he would stomp the asses of all three coaches forever.

He got mad and quit, because he can't just outright cheat by paying illegally and doesn't want a more level playing field. He thinks that's unfair to him.....
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SEC/Birmingham also doing whatever Saban wanted days are also over.. it’s a level playing field for everyone now.. and Bama fans hate it. 😂 😂
 
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It feels good waking up in the Heart of Alabama today. The sun is shining, the cows are moo’ing, and the bama tears are flowing. I may listen to Rocky Top all the way to the Falcons game today. Go Vols! My drive to Huntsville will be so much more enjoyable knowing I’ll be wearing orange all week but not saying a word 😆 act like we been here
 
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SonOfGodVolforlife said:
Alabamas reason for loosing is directly related to NIL ! Look at Milroe and Williams on the sidelines, they stand off to themselves bc they play for themselves and the whole team is undisciplined. TN plays for each other and that won us the game when we faced adversity.
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Yeah, because no Vol gets NIL money...right?
 
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Pride85 said:
Not really. I know a whole lot of people that work very physically challenging jobs, for a lot more hours in a lot worse working conditions, for a whole lot less money. I don't care how long the average career of a player is, that doesn't justify making vast multiples more than the people that actually pay those salaries. I am NOT talking donors. I am talking the fans that spend more than they should to try and support their team. That goes for coaches, ADs and anyone else associated with high contracts.
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Cool. What does any of that have to do with trying to act like college athletes only work 36 hours a year?
 
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Pride85 said:
Not really. I know a whole lot of people that work very physically challenging jobs, for a lot more hours in a lot worse working conditions, for a whole lot less money. I don't care how long the average career of a player is, that doesn't justify making vast multiples more than the people that actually pay those salaries. I am NOT talking donors. I am talking the fans that spend more than they should to try and support their team. That goes for coaches, ADs and anyone else associated with high contracts.
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Society values entertainment more than. It’s a billion dollar industry. The college players deserve their cut just like the pros.
 
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RockyTop140 said:
Their fans are spoiled, it’s pathetic. After discussing the game with my Bama in laws, who are actually pretty classy, my sister in law asked me to celebrate the game in another group chat. I told her to wipe her tears with the 6 natties she’s watched. Let’s just say it didn’t end well..
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I had a cousin (well technically son of an older cousin) that wrote an obituary last year on Facebook about Saban retiring and people responded like some one died.

The worse thing about them is that their dad went to UT but was Bama fan throughout because they won with Bear Bryant.
 
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KnoxRealtorVOL said:
Look, I'm no proponent of NIL, but this is kind of swaying me lol.

They are so mad that paying players no longer gives them the advantage it used to. Now that we can all do it, they're suddenly nothing special, and they can't handle it.

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Saban's winning strategy was attracting and hoarding talent to the point legends like Alvin Kamara were riding the bench. NIL and the Portal wiped that option off the map, and has created this wild parity to level the playing field. GBO!
 
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madbamahater said:
Right. Saban is an embarrassment to college football. That punk quit and took his football home, because it's a more level playing field with NIL and with Tennessee FINALLY has a real football coach and doesn't have a coach that Saban endorsed for the Tennessee job.

Saban actually said of Dooley, Jones and Pruitt that they were good for UT. Sure, they were great for UT, because he knows he would stomp the asses of all three coaches forever.

He got mad and quit, because he can't just outright cheat by paying illegally and doesn't want a more level playing field. He thinks that's unfair to him.....
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Man you done went and done it now all the Saban Vols fans gonna come for ya. Lol
 
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allstar34bd said:
It feels good waking up in the Heart of Alabama today. The sun is shining, the cows are moo’ing, and the bama tears are flowing. I may listen to Rocky Top all the way to the Falcons game today. Go Vols! My drive to Huntsville will be so much more enjoyable knowing I’ll be wearing orange all week but not saying a word 😆 act like we been here
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Yup. Came to work here in the steel mills of Birmingham this morning with my UT hat on and it was dead silence. Apart of the occasional fire the coaches talk from these bammers. Just salty lol
 
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SonOfGodVolforlife said:
Alabamas reason for loosing is directly related to NIL ! Look at Milroe and Williams on the sidelines, they stand off to themselves bc they play for themselves and the whole team is undisciplined. TN plays for each other and that won us the game when we faced adversity.
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That's a stretch
 
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Cartervol said:
The Gumps had the old system perfected. NIL erased that advantage and ole slickster Saban took the cash and got out while the getting was good. He saw the writing on the wall.
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I think the loss to Heupel in 2022 had a bigger impact that most people realize. He knew then that his competitors were catching up with him and he wanted out with a GOAT record.
I will give him this much; the wisest competitors are those who know when to hang it up with their reputations intact.
 
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JBD_Vol said:
Why do so many hate paying players.? It happened for years everywhere.

Why should a player like Chuck Webb have not been paid legally. He lost a great career playing for "free" while helping UT make a lot of money.

And don't start on room, board, and an education take care of all of that because UT made tons more than Chuck and others made with room, board, etc. People who go with that either did not go to college and / or were too stupid to go out in the world and make money. That is unless listening to an Ethiopean prof who graduated from one of the SUNYs spending a whole semester blaming so-called white man's hegemony for screwing up the world is the problem which all should know about (kinda like certain politicians who support everyone except those who go out and try to do it right (i.e the radical racists). (Why professor oppressed came over and probably did not go back if he was indeed teaching students correctly is unknown).
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I'm not a fan of the current system.

Players should absolutely have the right to monetize their name, image and likeness, but that's not what this is. If it were truly "NIL", the money would flow between the player, his agent and the brand sponsoring him.

This is pay-for-play.... essentially a free agent system without the protections and contracts required to make it work.

It's the worst of both worlds.
 
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JBD_Vol said:
Why do so many hate paying players.? It happened for years everywhere.

Why should a player like Chuck Webb have not been paid legally. He lost a great career playing for "free" while helping UT make a lot of money.

And don't start on room, board, and an education take care of all of that because UT made tons more than Chuck and others made with room, board, etc. People who go with that either did not go to college and / or were too stupid to go out in the world and make money. That is unless listening to an Ethiopean prof who graduated from one of the SUNYs spending a whole semester blaming so-called white man's hegemony for screwing up the world is the problem which all should know about (kinda like certain politicians who support everyone except those who go out and try to do it right (i.e the radical racists). (Why professor oppressed came over and probably did not go back if he was indeed teaching students correctly is unknown).
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i agree JBD. And what's the rub? Players in Chuck Webb's time, before and after, had to operate in a socialist system run by totalitarian lords, pretending to be capitalists. Bless the NIL, which is real capitalism, and well, long live capitalism!!
 
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KnoxRealtorVOL said:
Look, I'm no proponent of NIL, but this is kind of swaying me lol.

They are so mad that paying players no longer gives them the advantage it used to. Now that we can all do it, they're suddenly nothing special, and they can't handle it.

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I’m stunned because it’s not like the Raleigh era Vols Baseball team that made watching the Vols baseball games depressing and frustrating because we knew Coach Raleigh was unfit to get the Vols Baseball Team to greatness despite having high passion for his occupation.

While it’s disappointing that Alabama has 2 losses in the regular season before November, except it was bound to happen again even though the Alabama football team is mostly the Yankees of College Football.
 
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Pride85 said:
Not really. I know a whole lot of people that work very physically challenging jobs, for a lot more hours in a lot worse working conditions, for a whole lot less money. I don't care how long the average career of a player is, that doesn't justify making vast multiples more than the people that actually pay those salaries. I am NOT talking donors. I am talking the fans that spend more than they should to try and support their team. That goes for coaches, ADs and anyone else associated with high contracts.
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It absolutely justifies it.

In a capitalist society, you get paid what the market thinks you are worth. If regular Joe's could get the same money playing a sport, don't you think they would?..

Not to mention, most of these players aren't getting paid that much money. Certainly not more than your average factory worker.
 
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