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and then there's this

Jan 18, 2024, 9:59 AM

Alabama Has Full Class Worth of Players in Transfer Portal in Wake of Saban Retirement
DAN LYONS21 HOURS AGO

This is the latest news in a troubling, if unsurprising, trend for Alabama. According to 247Sports, Downs would be the 27th Crimson Tide player to hit the portal. In total, Alabama is losing a large recruiting class worth of players.

Nineteen of those players are already committed to or enrolled at other programs, with a slew of players heading to peer programs like Florida State, Ohio State and Texas:

QB Tyler Buchner - committed to Notre Dame (lacrosse)
QB Eli Holstein - committed to Pitt
RB Roydell Williams - enrolled at Florida State
WR Malik Benson - enrolled at Florida State
WR Isaiah Bond - committed to Texas
WR Ja’Corey Brooks- committed to Louisville
WR Shazz Preston - committed to Tulane
TE Miles Kitselman - committed to Tennessee
OL Terrence Ferguson - enrolled at Florida State
OL Seth McLaughlin - committed to Ohio State
DL Anquin Barnes - committed to Colorado
DL Monkell Goodwine - committed to South Carolina
DL Isaiah Hastings - committed to Syracuse
LB Kendrick Blackshire - committed to Texas
LB Shawn Murphy - committed to Florida State
CB Earl Little II - enrolled at Florida State
CB Dezz Ricks - committed to Texas A&M
S Jake Pope - committed to Georgia
S Kristian Story - enrolled at Kentucky
Seven more players remain available:

WR Thaiu Jones-Bell
WR Hayden Neighbors
TE Amari Niblack
TE Jax Porter
LB Ian Jackson
CB Trey Amos
CB Antonio Kite
The list includes some significant contributors to the 2023 SEC champions.

Williams was the team’s second-leading rusher, with 560 yards and five touchdowns. Bond led the team with 48 receptions, and was second on the roster with 668 receiving yards and four touchdowns. Niblack had 20 receptions for 327 yards and was tied with Bond with four touchdowns.

https://www.si.com/college/2024/01/17/alabama-players-transfer-portal-caleb-downs-nick-saban-retirement-kalen-deboer

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The NIL crap sucks. It's all about money these days and it's ruining our chances at greatness. All we need to do is get our own rich boosters, and rake in more money and THEN we too could be successful.

Whoever wrote this is part of the problem. Clemson is sending me letters asking I join the 110 Society or whatever it's called. NIL slush fund is a better term. This way Clemson can rake in more cash to buy the best players from the portal and out of HS.

What is going to happen here is a large percentage of fans will turn their backs and walk away. Some will buy into this whole heartedly, but many who were raised on Clemson football decades ago will walk away as they don't recognize the campus, the students, the players, or the university.

At this point I approach NIL in college football like this:

Thanks for sharing. That's a good read.

and then there's this

That seems like a lot***

they were wondering on the radio how Bama was going to have a Spring Game

I know it wont matter to the most rabid fans but

The top few tiers of rabid are going to

This is where there has to be a natural market rebalance in the mix.

That is how I see it. In the past, we had secretive pissing contest

^^^this. And I'd bet it's already happening.***

So, if you are a top 10 team, if you lose your coach, right now

if the d-a-m can break like this at freakin' Bama.......

I read that like this.......

I don't believe those numbers.

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