Hall of Fame coach and ESPN commentator, Nick Saban traveled to Washington, D.C on Tuesday to discuss the landscape of NIL in college football, per the Washington Post College Sports reporter Jesse Dougherty.
The former Alabama football head coach participated in a closed round-table with lawmakers in front of the House’s Energy and Commerce Committee’s Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade subcommittee to testify his stance on the current state of name, image and likeness and collegiate athletics.
Saban has previously let his opinions on NIL be heard publicly.
“Well, all the things that I believed in for all these years, 50 years of coaching, no longer exist in college athletics,” Saban said. “So it always was about developing players. It was always about helping people when you’re successful in life. My wife even said to me, we have all the recruits over on Sunday with their parents for breakfast. And she would always meet with the mothers and talk about how she was going to help and impact their sons and how they would be well taken care of. And she came to me, like right before our retirement and said, ‘Why are we doing this?’ And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ She said, ‘All they care about is how much you’re going to pay them”
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