He rubbin one out thinkin about the nix hire

Don’t shoot the messenger boys.

It's an unmitigated disaster.

BOOM!

Rough week for the bammers. I've got to be honest, I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Saban had a historically unprecedented run, but that is now the past. Welcome back to mortality.

So far Bama's only lost 4-5 real contributors... I think we have picked up a few already and the portal opens back up in April.
They'll probably lose more top guys when they see the money the guys are getting.

The '25 guys aren't a loss in reality. If Bama has a good year next year, those guys will be running back.

What happened at Auburn this week? That should be worth talking about, shouldnt it?

Kodiak, are these the same people that were yelling "the sky is falling" after Bama lost to Texas? Looks like theyd learn eventually

You think it’s over? That’s just the first wave.

Not a real loss….please.

This is something I've been told by some people that would know, but bammer is losing all these people because they just simply don't have the NIL funds available to use that some of these other schools do. FSU must be flush with NIL money.

This was not a trolling post. It is a serious post.

This may be true, but I wouldn't know. Hopefully the new "General Manager" guy that's coming with DeBoer can get a handle on the NIL, perhaps even better than Saban's staff did.

I do think this, we will see the "Wild West" of the NIL and Portal stabilized and players accepting some kind of contracts similar to what NFL has or it won't end well.

I think that College Football is changing too fast and the business model needs to be stabilized or it's going to get ugly and fan viewership is going suffer, and when ratings drop then the money dries up.

The NFL (Good. Bad and Ugly) is the highest rated sport in the US for a reason and the reason is that it is a pretty stable product.

I've never been a PAC-12 fan, but seeing the PAC-12 poached down to 2 teams is kind of a tragedy and an ugly side of where college football is headed.

It’s bad….. BUT I do expect Alabama pick up a few guys from Washington to fill some of these holes. If Harbaugh leaves for the NFL then Bama will pick up a bunch of those guys as well.

The buzzards have been perched in a tall oak outside Ttown for years waiting for this moment. They need to make the most of it.

I thought Updyke took care of those?

[FIFY quote=.308]The buzzards/ Losers have been perched in a tall oak outside Ttown for years waiting for this moment. They need to make the most of it.[/quote]

I believe this is true. I think Bama relied more on the “Saban will get you to the NFL” offer and less on NIL funds. Not that they weren’t paying players under Saban, because they were, but I don’t think the big bucks that some of these other schools are offering were being thrown around. And now that Saban is gone, the NIL funds still aren’t there and you don’t have the “NFL pipeline” to entice players.

We are witnessing the death of College Football like we used to know it. When the dust settles, the schools with the most $$$ will come out on top.