- December 11th, 2022, 4:53 pm
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But fear not, the curmudgeon Saban cried for awhile because all this meant he couldn’t cheat and win like he knew how. But give the man credit: he’ll always seek to win above all and at any cost. So Alabama may have been behind for a moment, but they’re finding their competitive footing once again.
Purple Haize wrote: ↑December 11th, 2022, 4:44 pm The NIL is ‘The Shiny New Thing’. Eventually the novelty will wear off and players will find out that Promises made aren’t always promises kept. Things will stabilize and it will no longer be an issue. It’s not going to destroy anything. It will shift the landscape certainly. Teams like Alabama who had cheating down to a science will no longer have that advantage.I disagree to a point. The teams that had the cheating down to a science - Alabama, Kentucky, the whole SEC outside Vanderbilt come to think of it, Michigan State, Arizona, USC - will take slightly longer to adapt because they were so engrained in their systems. There will be - and have already been - some upstarts who, unmarried to their ways, were adaptable enough to jump on this faster. Texas A&M, Miami, Baylor, etc.
But fear not, the curmudgeon Saban cried for awhile because all this meant he couldn’t cheat and win like he knew how. But give the man credit: he’ll always seek to win above all and at any cost. So Alabama may have been behind for a moment, but they’re finding their competitive footing once again.