last year and then
was first and then bought every player on their team. Made
a deal for name image and likeness.
We didn't buy one player,
but I don't know if we're going to be able to sustain that in
the future because more and more people are doing it. It's
despicable
that a reputable head coach
could come out and say this,
when he doesn't get his way
or things, don't go his way.
And narcissist, any
doesn't allow those things to happen.
His ridiculous. But when,
when he's not on,
And the parity in college football. He's been talking about,
go talk to coaches. Who coach for him.
You'll find out all the parody go dig into wherever he's been.
You can find out anything.
Some people think they're God.
Go dig into how God did his deal.
You may find out about some about a guy that
a lot of things. You don't want to know,
we build him up to be. There's our of football,
go dig into his past. Yes. My dad always told me this,
when people show you who they are,
believe them.
He's showing you who he is. You can call me anything. You want
to call me. You can call me cheap. I don't cheat. I don't
lie.
So, I learned that when I was a kid, if you did,
don't man, slap your side of the head. Maybe somebody should
have slapped him.
It just gets better than what he called them a cheater. A
liar though. That's where is it? Jimbo Fisher, went
personal, and Nick Saban did not go personal on him. He just
explained that that they paid players. He didn't say it was
against the law or call him a cheater, a liar or anything.
Here's where it becomes
complicated and nuanced. She still can't pay the players,
your boosters and others connected to the program, can
set up the name image and likeness deals. That attract
the players to come. Are the programs technically aren't
allowed to be part of that and that's where
saving blurred the lines by saying, Texas A & M. Bought their
players that implies they affirmatively went out and
found a way to gather the cash necessary
to pay for the player to come. Join the program. He said, what
he said, it was very Broad and then he got specific with Texas
A & M and also
got Jackson State
and Deion Sanders involved in
some of the things that were said.
So that really Action by fish are really was over the top and
I mean, he threw some Haymakers and he really did raise some
questions. Go see how God did his deal. I love that saying
and and you know implying
maybe even more than implying just flat-out claiming that
there was cheating throughout Nick Saban's career when there
was parody of resources and everything was equal that
that God was doing his deal in a different way that was
allowing him to get all these great players. And of course,
as I said, at the time with Jimbo Fisher would
No, he coached with him. Why do we need to go to talk to
anybody else? Jimbo?
Just keep talking.
Tell us what, you know,
nobody needs to go. Dig anything up. You apparently know.
Why are you holding it back? That's the one thing that
disappointed me a couple of weeks ago because he,
apparently does know if there is something to say yesterday,
Nick Saban had something to say at the SEC meetings, as he was
pressed
a little bit a little bit. It was
It was kind of unusual to see Nick Saban backpedal. Let's
have a look and a listen at what he had to say yesterday on
the topic of
Both Fisher and Texas, A & M buying players.
What have you did? You have that?
Texas A & M bought it some time recruiting class. You know,
I didn't really say that anybody did anything wrong. You said
they bought their recruiting class.
I didn't say anybody did anything wrong? Okay, and I've
said, everything I want to say about this, but you know,
I think that
You know, I guess the point and I should have never mentioned
any individual institutions. I said that before
it didn't align when you sit when he says that
that they didn't do
anything. I have no problem Jimbo.
I have no problem with Jimbo at all.
Hey, I hear you didn't the body language is great.
The body language is great. He says, I have no problem with
Jimbo at all. And he digs his fingers into his armpits, like
the old character from SNL, remember that
what was her name?
I can't remember the name of the actress and I can't
remember name of the character, something Mary Catherine, who's
Molly Shannon
playing that Superstar character, she would get
nervous and do that and then smell her finger. Tim.
I don't remember that.
Mary Katherine Gallagher, that's Nick. Saban doing his
unintentional.
Mary Katherine Gallagher
Superstar
imitation. So
yeah, you better. I just, I love having the video to go
along with the ideal. Clearly has a problem with Jimbo Fisher
me, Jimbo Fisher called the guy, a chronic,
and pathological cheer. He went personal on them. That's where
I don't. How do you not have a problem with Jimbo Fisher? How
do you take the The high road on that unless you're concerned
that if we are going to roll around here in the mud.
We are both going to end up being pretty damn dirty. Well,
I'm sure everybody's got a little bit of mud in
the college football. How could they not? It's an environment.
That's got manova it cries for that.
If you don't get a little mud on you, you can't win in
the college football. I mean, it seems that way again. But
again, I think Nick Saban to where
I again will be on his side as I just don't feel like he was
trying to bring up a broader point of college football.
And I don't think he was trying to accuse them as cheating.
I don't think he was and he probably should have been
a little bit more forthcoming or transparent there. I think he
was just trying to say, listen
through the ni L deals. They've gotten and paid all their
players and he was trying to raise an issue of that that but
I don't know to me. Yes, I think Jimbo Fisher kind of
crossed a line where
I mean Nick since
Nick Saban never
said Jimbo Fisher's name, never made a personal check and
Jimbo Fisher went scorched Earth.
And I don't know, I Come Away still being on team Saban. Let
alone Saban's minute Alabama forever and like, we talked
about with, you know, Tony Busby earlier and all that.
Like it's been there. It's been LSU and we've had very little
to nothing over the
years about Shady stuff that's gone on,
you know, when Nick Saban programs and
I think there's probably more out there about Jimbo Fisher
and those programs and maybe some of the things he did at
Florida State, you know, where we can look back and go.
There's more there than any time, a Nick Saban stuff. So
that's where I won't agree with Jimbo Fisher. Totally on this
one.
It really is amazing that it blew up the way it did and it's
not going to go away anytime soon. And Sabin is going to be
dealing with this
forever. Let me just end and fish are two it binds them
together for as long as they're still coaching.
It is getting a little ridiculous. I'm not going to
identify the person who tweeted this yesterday.
Who are passing this around along the PFT writers among
the PFT writers as the case. May be just one letter off, Nick Saban
just crosses paths with Jimbo Fisher in the Hilton Lobby here
at the SEC meetings.
Nick was walking by
Jimbo was in the cafe on the phone and never saw him as his
back was to him.
Okay.
Breaking news Jimbo Fisher does not have eyes growing out of
the back of his head. I mean, but that that's that's kind of
where we are. Because everybody's watching now Jimbo
and Nick what's going to happen next? Who they crossed paths?
No, they didn't. Because Jimbo didn't see him.
But that's the kind of granular specific coverage that this
fight is going to
elicit because it is so damn, compelling, whatever happens
next. I don't care. I just want something to happen next.