re: The Nick Saban qoute i keyed in on

I get where he’s coming from. NIL and the transfer portal have it where coaches have to re-recruit their own players and get them NIL money to keep them out of the portal. At least in the NFL, you have a GM to handle roster moves and contract negotiations. And most key players get signed to multi-year contracts, so they can’t threaten to jump to a new team every offseason if they don’t get their way.

The NCAA is going to need to do something to go limit the wide open free transfer rule to curb the free agency taking over college football. Make transfers have to sit out a year again except situations where their head coach left or got fired. Or maybe a free transfer after their 3rd year. Courts will probably slap that idea down though unless schools were paying players directly and had them under contract that way though