Alabama head coach Nick Saban let one of his top recruits and a starter go for NIL money demands
You have to love Nick Saban. He said NIL would change the game and boy was he right.
According to a report, Saban had no problems letting a top recruit and one of his own players go recently after they asked for over $1 million combined from the school.
Saban attended a conference at ALFCA the Alabama Football Coaches Association and told coaches at the event he recently let two players go because they wanted close to a million dollars in NIL money.
“Someone with one of the best corners in the nation (in high school) came to me and asked if we’d pay them $800,000 for the player to sign here. I told him he can find another place to play,” Saban said, according to Baker High School coach Steve Normand. “I’m not paying a kid a bunch of NIL money before he earns it.”
Saban told coaches he has lost 10 players already to the portal, but Saban is not going to bend.
“One of them wanted $500,000 and for us to get his girlfriend into law school at Alabama and pay for it. I showed him the door,” Saban reportedly said.
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