009 - Saban and others speak on Capitol Hill 060426

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🗓️ 4 June 2026

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Saban and others speak on Capitol Hill

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0:00.0	And we are back, folks, here on the Michigan Insider or the Big 1050WTKA online at big 1050.com.
0:04.8	So, Ira, you wanted to see or hear what was going to come out of this hearing, if anything.
0:13.3	Nothing.
0:14.1	Right.
0:14.5	Nothing.
0:14.9	The big takeaway.
0:16.0	So Nick Saban, former Alabama, LSU, he's a SEC guy, right? SEC guy. SEC guy. Yeah Alabama LSU.
0:22.0	He's a SEC guy, right?
0:22.7	SEC guy.
0:23.5	SEC.
0:24.3	Yeah.
0:27.3	He's not speaking up for the SEC on this one.
0:29.7	He's not locked step.
0:31.9	He's not towing the company line on this one. He said, hey, Congress, this bill will bring order.
0:37.8	We need to do this because it'll eliminate the chaos that has, that college athletics
0:44.8	is overwrought with now in the advent of NIL.
0:48.9	I'm paraphrasing, of course.
0:50.6	Sam, I'm pretty sure outside of maybe the football player from Utah, and even that
0:55.3	it is in the best interest of athletes to have a voice.
0:58.8	But I don't think there was one person that spoke yesterday on Capitol Hill that actually
1:02.6	had the best interests of college sports at heart.
1:05.9	They were very, every single one of them was self-serving.
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