{"id":3973,"date":"2022-08-24T07:12:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:12:06","slug":"nick-saban-got-a-massive-new-deal-and-nil-haters-went-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/nick-saban-got-a-massive-new-deal-and-nil-haters-went-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Saban Got A Massive New Deal And NIL Haters Went Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nick Saban is, undisputably, the most powerful coach in college football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As such, you would expect his paycheck to match his status, which it has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously, he was the sport&#8217;s highest-paid coach, raking in $9.5 million annually through a contract that ran through 2028. The contract, ladened with incentives, also included a $400,000 kicker for each year that he remained at Alabama through the term of the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then in August, SEC rival Georgia gave Kirby Smart a massive $112.5 million extension that put Smart under contract with the Bulldogs through 2031. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/2022\/08\/04\/kirby-smart-uga-bulldogs-contract-guaranteed-money#:~:text=The%20%24112.5%20million%20deal%20is,is%20a%20firing%20for%20cause.\">That contract<\/a>, which pays him a base salary of $10.25 million this season, made him the highest-paid college football coach in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That lasted for a hot minute as Saban and the Crimson Tide refused to allow Georgia to beat them again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So on Tuesday, Alabama gave Saban a one-year extension that blew away the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The massive new deal increases his 2022 base salary to $10.7 million and will pay him a whopping $12.395 million in 2029, the final year of the new deal when Saban will be 79 years old.<\/p><div id=\"first-296967471\" class=\"first-content first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream2 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700413625220-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700413625220-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That increases his average annual salary to $11.7 million and puts him back on top of Smart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are mind-numbing numbers in a sport that continues to reap big paydays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just ask <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/big-ten-s-kevin-warren-now-wields-all-the-college-sports-infinity-stones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kevin Warren and the Big Ten<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the news of Saban&#8217;s jaw-dropping new contract &#8220;shockingly&#8221; brought no blowback from college football traditionalists.<\/p><div id=\"first-3793496138\" class=\"first-content_2 first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream3 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700413989195-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700413989195-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that adds another layer of hypocrisy to the growing pile surrounding Nick Saban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember, this is the coach who, despite defending the right of student-athletes to be compensated through NIL deals, <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/nick-saban-criticizing-nil-as-a-way-to-buy-players-is-hilariously-hypocritical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">simultaneously blasted the NIL system<\/a> for doing what he and other coaches have done for decades during the recruiting process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe concept of name, image and likeness was for players to be able to use their name, image and likeness to create opportunities for themselves. That\u2019s what it was,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nick-saban-current-nil-rules-creates-a-situation-where-you-can-basically-buy-players-203200737.html\">said Saban in April<\/a>. \u201cSo last year on our team, our guys probably made as much or more than anybody in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut that creates a situation where you can basically buy players,\u201d Saban continued. \u201cYou can do it in recruiting. I mean, if that\u2019s what we want college football to be, I don\u2019t know. And you can also get players to get in the transfer portal to see if they can get more someplace else than they can get at your place.\u201d<\/p><div id=\"first-410534509\" class=\"first-content_3 first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream4 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700414036595-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700414036595-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is also the same Saban who <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/nick-saban-going-full-nino-brown-was-petty-and-hypocritical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s Jimbo Fisher and Jackson St.&#8217;s Deion Sanders of paying players<\/a> simply because he was salty that the Aggies out-recruited the Tide and the Tigers signed four and five-star recruits to the HBCU institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, and let&#8217;s also not forget that this is the same Saban who will be receiving a significant increase in the Tide&#8217;s $55 million SEC media deal check starting in 2024 when Texas and Oklahoma join the conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet Saban&#8217;s new deal received crickets from those who denigrate NIL and general player compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now does Saban deserve to be paid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Absolutely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2019, the football program generated $95.2 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamafootball\/2020\/01\/alabama-athletics-lost-money-in-2019-but-it-comes-with-a-catch.html\">in pre-pandemic revenues<\/a>. That was almost 60% of the $164 million earned by Alabama athletics. Without football, Alabama&#8217;s athletic department would have posted a $22 million loss that year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And do the players deserve to be paid devoid of criticism like Saban?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Absolutely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saban has built an NFL-ready feeder system, and his players are the dominant reason why the athletic department netted a $25.5 million profit instead of a $22 million loss in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For all that they do for the program, school and industry, Saban&#8217;s players, like him, deserve compensation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it should be unfettered for they deserve a piece of the pie without critique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So now that Nick Saban got his payday and moved back into the top earner&#8217;s position in college sports, it&#8217;s time for him to fallback from the NIL criticism, recognize who helped him get to where he is and fully support, rather than disparage, a system that enhances the lives of his players. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if that happens, I&#8217;m sure the crickets from player compensation haters will quickly cease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Saban is, undisputably, the most powerful coach in college football. 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