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Crain & Cone

Nick Saban's Candid Thoughts on Alabama Players (Chris Marler)

Crain & Cone

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Sports

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Nick Saban shares some candid thoughts on his former players; Lane Kiffin makes a power move by hiring Zach Arnett; and Tennessee basketball takes care of South Carolina on the road.   Ep.485   - - -    Today’s Sponsors:   Bet Online - Use code "Booster" to receive a 50% instant deposit bonus of up to $1,000 at http://www.betonline.ag   DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan with promo code CRAIN at http://www.JoinDeleteMe.com/Crain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nick Saban shares some candid reasons for retiring. Lane Kiffin makes the ultimate power move by hiring former Mississippi State coach

0:06.9

that Garnett and Tennessee basketball clenches the SEC regular season after beating South Carolina on the road last night.

0:13.6

Check out on more on a Thursday edition.

0:16.0

Cranic Company. Oh, Everybody out there listening as usual. We appreciate you guys. Hope you're having a great end of the week.

0:47.0

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0:55.0

Now with an interview with Chris Lowe, Nick Sabin, basically said the quiet part out loud in a way.

1:01.0

And the truth is, the way college football is

1:04.2

structured right now after all these monumental changes.

1:06.9

Coaches have lost a lot of leverage. And when you lose leverage,

1:10.7

you lose a lot of control over being able to know who's coming back consistently,

1:16.6

control over being able to construct a debt chart due strictly to who practices better and

1:21.3

who has earned it.

1:22.8

You lose a lot of your ability to cultivate long lasting program culture,

1:27.0

which takes the result even further out of your hands.

1:30.6

Now to quote Nick Sabin exactly, he said, so I'm saying to myself, maybe this doesn't work anymore,

1:37.0

that the goals and aspirations are just different, and that it's all about how much money I can make as a college player. Now I'm not

1:44.4

saying that's bad and I'm not saying that's wrong. I'm just saying that's never

1:48.0

been what we're all about and that's not why we had success throughout the

1:51.8

years. Now I agree that players should be paid for

1:54.8

NIL, but with no guardrails and no balance it goes from a part of the

1:59.6

motivation to the main motivation. Now that isn't a brand new concept. Guys have been

2:06.1

motivated by making money in the NFL for a long time, but you didn't get that

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