‘Nick is a liar’: NFL ‘quarterback whisperer’ calls out Nick Saban
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The senate has officially passed the Protect College Sports Act, legislation that is aimed at eliminating some of the “chaos” that has affected college sports, and in particular, football in recent seasons.
The Act, which still has to pass the House of Representatives and is expected to face an uphill battle, puts limits on player compensation and their ability to transfer freely mulitple times, but has raised concerns from some for not being nearly as restrictive toward coaches or programs.
Nonetheless, former Alabama Crimson Tide head coach turned ESPN analyst Nick Saban appeared on Tuesday’s episode of Get Up to voice his support for the legislation.
“It would give the NCAA ability to enforce a spending cap, which would prevent lawsuits and allow schools to pay $50 million to players, nearly doubling their current cap,” show host Mike Greenberg said of the legislation. “It would limit athletes to one transfer without penalty and establish a 5-year window of competition. It would prevent FBS coaches from coaching at a new school before the end of team or coach’s prior team season, something that I guess could forever now be known as the ‘Lane Kiffin Rule.'”
Greenberg then asked Saban directly, “Why do you believe this is the right thing for college sports?”
Nick Saban weighs in on the Protect College Sports Act and how it would “enhance players’ opportunities to be more successful.”
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“Well, I think things got out of control based on name, image, and likeness. And look, I want players to make money. I want players to have their own name, image, and likeness,” Saban responded. “There’s not any business in the world that can function without a budget and some guidelines. If you ask an NFL owner, what would you do if all your players were free agents every year? Oh, we couldn’t operate.
“What would you do if you didn’t have a salary cap? Oh, we couldn’t operate. We’d go broke. Well, what’s going to happen in college sports is you’re going to either take money from the academic side to support athletics because we’re in a runaway, you know, financial situation, or you’re going to drop other Olympic sports and non-revenue sports that are very important to creating opportunities for young people.
“So this is going to put some parameters on that so that we don’t have to take money from academics. We can still provide opportunities for Olympic and women’s sports, which I think is one of the most important things this does. And we still pay players and they still have authentic name, image, and likeness. So I just think this gives us some guidelines so that we can have some rules and regulations that will actually enhance players’ opportunities to be more successful.”
However, not everyone is happy with Saban’s outspoken support for the act. Quincy Avery, a quarterback coach who has been dubbed the NFL’s “quarterback whisperer” for his work with Jalen Hurts, C.J. Stroud, Jordan Love, and other players around the league, is not mincing his words on Saban’s take.
“Nick’s is a liar,” Avery wrote in a post on X. “Many major international sports leagues operate without a hard salary cap. MLB doesn’t have one either. The market is the market. That doesn’t mean teams have to go broke, it means spending adjusts to what the market can support. And there’s no cap on what coaches can make.”
Avery can take solace in knowing that one House of Representatives source is saying there is a “0.0 percent chance” the PCSA gets voted on before the November midterm elections.
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