Re: "Alabama's having money problems."

Chuckston T-Man® · 2025-11-07T20:33:06.046Z

Colin Cowherd today says "I just talked to somebody yesterday very tied into college football and he said "Alabama's having money problems. It's just hard. It's just who are your richest four boosters It's changing it. Changing the dynamic."

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Re: I wouldn't be surprised, if true, that Alabama won't be the last.

Nov 7, 2025, 11:13 PM

I am not asking for praise or TU’s but I posted in 2017 and each year after that about the impact of NIL.

I started posting in 2017 that if Clemson Football were to decline from Elite Status, it would come from outside forces. That’s exactly what has been happening for the last 4 or 5 years. Some may disagree but with all of the chaos, greed and influx of large amounts of money to immature kids who many like Arch Manning will blow it on a $100,000 to $200,000 car. It opens the door for drug use, gambling and other things unrelated to education, investments and use the money responsibly.

IMO, Dabo has done a great job keeping Clemson in the CFP mix until this year. From 2020 through 2024 Clemson has won 10 or more games a season with the exception of the one year we won 9 games. That’s with all of these outside forces, dirty recruiting and schools like OSU, UGA, Bama and Indiana put more money into football too stay at the top.

A few posted that kids deserved to be paid since they were bring in the money for their school. Some said it was long overdue. I wonder how those people that criticized my post feel about NIL now ???

Ok if they are getting paid eliminate scholarships. Let them pay their own way to. At least some money will go back into Clemson, Bama and all of the other programs.

I really hope Dabo can get us back on top. But will we have enough money to buy the talent necessary to get there. ??? Even if Dabo were to leave, the next Head Coach will have the same problems overcoming money issues and the TP. If it’s true that Alabama is having money problems then things are worse than I thought.

What can save college football or can it be saved ??? It’s a sad sad time we live in 😞🙁☹️😡🤬

Go Tigers !

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We need to move to a franchise model, much like the NFL.

Have a league that is a franchisor.

And then university is a franchisee.

Then we have the legal structure for collective bargaining, revenue sharing and a business model that translates into 10 times the current TV revenue.

A couple things can prompt this, and one of those things is for Georgia and Alabama to realize they will never have the money to compete with Texas, Texas A&M and maybe even Texas Tech and Ohio State.

Bama and Georgia got burned with some top recruits this past spring and this past summer. These recruits were locks and then Texas, Texas Tech and others came in at the last minute with BIG bags of cash. If that happens more and more, Bama and Georgia are going to be perennial number 10 instead of perennial number one or number two.

At some point Bama and Georgia are going to realize the current model is not working out for them.

There are some other schools that might find themselves in the same situation feeling like they can’t compete with Texas oil money …… Auburn, Tennessee, Clemson, FSU and more …….. ??????

"Alabama's having money problems."