College Football Fans Are Growing Annoyed With 'Disingenuous' Nick Saban

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Nick Saban believes that NIL and boosters are to blame for the growing number of college football head coaching firings.

During a recent appearance on This Past Weekend with Theo Von, Saban argued that the more than 30 college football head coaching firings last year can be tracked back to that.

“How do you evaluate the players? Who are you going to pay? What positions are most important? Because if you pay the wrong guys, and you’ve heard me say this before, you’re (expletive) out of luck,” Saban said. “So when you can’t evaluate the players, and don’t pay the right guys, you’re going to pay the consequences for that in the future because you’re going to spend all this money and not have a very good team. And you’re not going to get the outcome everybody expects.

“Then the cause and effect of paying players is we’re raising money from alumni who now think they should have a say in what happens, and that’s why 33 coaches got fired last year.”

College football fans, though, seem to be growing annoyed by Saban’s criticism of today’s age of the sport.

Longtime college football reporter Steven Godfrey wrote: “This man could not be more disingenuous about the presence of boosters in CFB.”

College football fans getting ‘annoyed’ by Saban

“ESPN is about air the documentary on him. Without mentioning a word about how Nick had an advantage over everyone else. Yet now Nick is lecturing about boosters. Shameless,” one fan wrote.

“Not one person has wanted to have their cake and eat it more than Nick Saban,” one fan added.

“I am reminded again how thankful I am today that Nick Saban is the voice of college football. I don’t know what we would do without his wise advice and critique, especially when no players were paid at all during his coaching tenure. NIL and boosters aren’t causing coaches to get fired, by the way. Results cause that. You either win or you don’t,” another fan said sarcastically.

Is Saban being disingenuous with his criticism of the game today?

This story was originally published by The Spun on Oct 6, 2026, where it first appeared in the College Football section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

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