This is one of the reason Saban retired... college football is essentially dead, replaced by a pro league, complete with multi-million dollar player contracts and free agency for players. You may as well tax colleges with football teams as the businesses they are.

davyjones•26 months

Didn’t A&M just recently gather the best recruiting class money can buy? By a pretty healthy margin at that I believe was the consensus among the people who actually know what they’re talking about on that topic. It’s not like they had a complete know-nothing as their HC at the time. Still though, opposing coaching overcame that NIL advantage. College may be more about the jimmys and joes than x’s and o’s, but the coaches themselves are jimmys and joes as well…..some are “men amongst boys” in the same sense that concept applies to the players. Saban, amongst a few others, is the coaching version of that premise. And I’m no Alabama fan.

CDawson•26 months

NIL finally did what no program could do. Take Saban's advantage away and retire him.

TerryDawg03•26 months

Come to the Simp.

Nado Jenkins83•26 months

Come to the landmass would have been cooler. The sip sounds like you invited someone to epstien island

momentoftruth87•26 months

Feel bad for this social media intern when Lane bolts and the portal shows up at OM

Nix to Twillie•26 months

Could this be considered tampering?

SeeeeK•26 months

there aren't any rules no more

caleb07•26 months

Does Candy know?

TIGRLEE•26 months

So pathetic … can’t wait to see this ship sink. It’ll happen soon. It’s ole miss

ZULU•26 months

Classy

RockoRou•26 months

Kiffen doesn't have enough class to go Bama plus he has a big mouth

ColoradoElkHerd•26 months

Too bad they already blew their money :)

tygerphan•26 months

Ghey

LSUvet72•26 months

Can one of you Reb sharks define what SIP is ?

xenon16•26 months

Mis'SIP(pi)

PhilipMarlowe•26 months

That’s worse than I thought.

AtlantaLSUfan•26 months

Tacky.

DrDenim•26 months

Can I get a basket of wings at this ...Sip?

Sevensblue•26 months

How many kids can they take? Wtf?

panzer•26 months

What is SIP? Sorry if I live under a rock, but Ole Miss bragging about anything is new to me.

SeeeeK•26 months

SIP makes MJ plumbing fittings and connectors

TheWalrus•26 months

missisSIPpi

Imforlsu644•26 months

It’s short or slang for Mississippi.

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DoubleDown•26 months

Gonna be super awkward if Lane accepts the Bama job though. I actually think it'll be Kaleb Debour (sp?) from Washington though.

SOL2•26 months

Kiffen is probably going to bama. Then it's open season on OM and bama

LStU•26 months

Lanning to BAMA, Kiffin to Oregon?

TommyDaTiger•26 months

Lanning told em no. In fact he said HELL NO, I ain’t following Nick are you crazy?

tigerterrace•26 months

Saban is an average on field coach who won games by having superior talent. When the field started getting leveled with transfers and NIL he was losing his advantage.

POTUS2024•26 months

Sensitive people are downvoting this.

babyray•26 months

Yeah you’re right. I guess that’s why they won the SEC championship again this year. Idiot. He retired because he’s old and his wife is having health issues.

tide06•26 months

And signed top two classes the last few seasons while lining up 1st rd guys like Jahmyr Gibbs and Jamo Williams in the portal.

NIL/transfer portal hasn’t hurt Bama, it helped fill critical gaps the last three years.