In fact, three persons with a direct hand in developing NIL rights told me the figure was probably unlikely at this point.
"… that's because of our brand," Saban told the Texas High School Coaches Association at their convention.1 recruiting class in nine of the last 11 years, according to 247Sports.
So with an NIL free-for-all in full effect, it's up to coaches like Saban to respond.Few of us have ever seen Saban in a living room recruiting, but after Tuesday, it's easy to understand his success?
Players have always been able to work, he said, but couldn't earn much."That number just blew me away," Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said Tuesday when he heard the news."All we've done is create an opportunity for our players to work," Saban said.Again, it's America where a nut job can make a living out of stuffing hot dogs down his throat.
That's not surprising nor necessarily a recruiting advantage.It's not only what Saban said, it's who he said it to -- those 5,000 Texas coaches?Texas has become (more of) an SEC recruiting hotbed since Texas A&M joined the league in 2012.
With a couple of sentences, Saban wooed the overseers of Texas high school talent more than every Texas Longhorns coach since Mack Brown left in 2013.And if you have the Texas high school coaches in your hip pocket, you've got a chance to do some good things.
Not only did he haul in those prospects, Texas A&M and Texas did not
This is turning into one of Saban's biggest recruiting coups, and he didn't need to walk into a single living room to do it"There's no precedent for it," said SabanFor the moment, if that's the case, what hope is there for Kiffin, who returns the SEC's leading returning passer in Corral"I'm still blown away on this Bryce Young," Kiffin said