This morning on ESPN's First Take, Nick Saban argued player and coach pay are "totally different markets." "That's like asking me 'Does a student's scholarship equal the professor's pay?' I mean, how much value does a coach create for a university?" 📺 💰️

And the answer is "none without the players," right?

Didn’t Alabama boosters also pay for his houses?

What a fucking loser. Made millions off the backs of players and even paid some off under the table but it’s fuck them now

Put a helmet on, coach.

WTF is he talking about. ALL of this money comes out of the schools operating budget. Whether it be student scholarships or staff payroll. That's SAS’s whole point, so Nick is lying. Secondly you can't play football without players so there's no “money generation” without them.

hahaha OF COURSE!! There's enough money for everyone but the players. Weird how it always works like that lol.

Zero value without players.

I wouldn’t be so sure of the college professor pay being equal to a scholarship that costs over $50k a year to attend either

Fuck that pos

Self absorbed grifter

Saban is a POS...got generational wealth from revenue generated by college athletes but he resents them getting a share Fuck him and everyone who supports this shit

better work on educating your staff on how to spell "enforce"

He's not wrong

Saban got millions from the state of Alabama to coach at the university. He made millions on sponsership money as well. All while his players were either scraping by or being helped out by boosters Saban knew. Saban controlled the flow of money. But NIL enters & Saban gets mad.

"That's like asking me 'Does a student's scholarship equal the professor's pay?" who watches lectures every Saturday on ESPN? what a dumb take.

Less than the "student athletes", Nick.