Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher
At the end of May, Alabama football team head coach decided to open up about the business of other schools. Doesn’t sound like the right thing to do because it’s not. Saban’s filial attitude targeted two people, primarily former Texas A&M’s former assistant and head coach Jimbo Fisher, and Jackson State head coach Deion Sanders, because of the situation that Travis Hunter was in. this list: “I mean, we were second in hiring last year. A&M is the first. A&M bought every player on their team – deal in name, image, likeness. We didn’t buy a player, okay,” Saban said at a fundraising event May 19, later adding JSU paid Hunter $1 million to play under Sanders.
Primetime and Fisher clap their hands vigorously, the Aggies head coach articulating his and everyone’s friendship in the book Saban’s way. (“Best ever? You have all the advantages, easy.”) Coaches face public reprimand by the SEC in favor of Greg Sankey, but the damage to college football has already been done. The seal was broken when publicly criticizing the way other programs recruited under the NIL.
