Last Call | Nick Saban Just Exposed The Biggest Problem In College Football

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🗓️ 6 June 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Nick Saban went to Capitol Hill to speak out about the future of college football, NIL, the transfer portal, and the growing concerns around the current state of college athletics. On this edition of Last Call, Mick Gillispie and former Alabama quarterback Jake Coker react to Saban’s testimony and discuss whether college sports has moved too far toward a pay-for-play model. Has NIL lost its original purpose? Has the transfer portal become unrestricted free agency? Should college football have salary caps, transfer limits, stronger regulations, and a return to more regional rivalries? Mick and Jake break down why Saban believes college athletics needs structure before the sport changes forever. The conversation also turns to the college baseball tournament, where Alabama, Auburn, and Troy are making noise in the postseason. The guys discuss the impact of St. John’s upsetting Florida State, what it means for Alabama Baseball’s path forward, and why the future of Olympic sports could be in danger if football’s revenue model continues to shift. Topics include: 🏈 Nick Saban’s testimony on Capitol Hill 🏈 NIL and pay-for-play concerns 🏈 The transfer portal and college football free agency 🏈 Salary caps, transfer limits, and regulation in college sports 🏈 Coaching contracts and massive buyouts 🏈 Alabama Baseball, Auburn Baseball, and Troy Baseball postseason success 🏈 College baseball tournament upsets 🏈 The future of Olympic sports and non-revenue programs Like this video, leave your thoughts in the comments, and subscribe to The Next Round for more college football, Alabama Crimson Tide, Auburn Tigers, SEC football, NIL, transfer portal, and college baseball coverage. #NickSaban #CollegeFootball #NIL #TransferPortal #SECFootball #AlabamaFootball #CollegeSports #CollegeBaseball #NCAABaseball #TheNextRound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is everybody. Welcome to Last Call. We're brought to you by Pearl River Resort.
0:04.6	We're going to talk about Coach Saban on Capitol Hill and college baseball. Three teams in our state that have a chance to go to the World Series, all that, but how crazy the baseball tournament turned out.
0:18.0	We're brought to you by Pearl River Resort, Philadelphia, Mississippi, the Azaleas, the Oaks, the Oaks, two amazing golf courses at Dancing Rabbit. That's right there on campus. And you don't have to have a membership. It's the Augusta you can play. And it's really close. Hour and a half from Tuscaloosa to and Change from Birmingham. So make sure to check that out. Let's get this show started.
0:53.6	All right, there he is. Jake Coker, Mick Gillespie.
0:56.3	Jake, good to see you, man.
0:58.7	I know you're having a great weekend.
1:01.2	And so am I.
1:02.0	It's good to see you.
1:05.3	Let me get right into Coach Saban on Capitol Hill.
1:07.5	You know, he testified.
1:10.5	I think politically he's a Democrat, but I would say that he's the perfect guy to go up there and talk about football because he doesn't really seem like he's a, you know, a partisan, right? He just wants to get things fixed. And he's talking about the system and basically how it's going to destroy college football. And he was talking about the system and basically how it's going to destroy college football.
1:30.6	And he was talking about the pay for all the stuff we've heard him talk about, pay for play
1:35.3	that was supposed to be named image of likeness.
1:38.5	Obviously schools have turned that into, you know, pay for play, right?
1:43.1	He said what it went from 2.7 million to 40 million in five
1:47.1	years. It's a lot. It's a threat to non-revenue sports. We know that. And that free agency is
1:55.5	a transfer portal, right? So they want salary caps, transfer limits, the Lane Kiffin rule, guy that you know,
2:02.9	where you can't just leave a team in the middle of the season and go coach somebody else.
2:09.6	And then they were talking about maybe having like geographical rivalries back, you know,
2:17.3	instead of these like conferences
2:18.9	that are all over the place.
2:20.5	Dig in on that, buddy.
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