Fisher just went Nuclear on Saban
These are all quotes from his press conference today...
-- “Some people think they’re God,” Fisher says. “We build him up to be the czar of football.
-- “Go dig into his past,” Fisher says of Saban.
-- Jimbo Fisher said he ignored Saban’s call today. “We’re done,” Fisher said.
-- Fisher said there is a reason he has not worked with Saban since LSU. “I don’t want to be associated with him,” he said.
-- Fisher said Saban was “soliciting funds from the crowd” in Birmingham before talking about Texas A&M. “When you walk on water, I guess, it don’t matter.”
-- Fisher said he does not know what collectives are doing. “You can call me anything you want to call me. You can’t call me a cheat. I don’t cheat. I don’t lie.” Fisher said his “old man” would have slapped him and “maybe someone should have slapped [Saban].”
-- “It’s despicable for what it does for the sport, and the operations and the way things were done the other way, when the parity was there. ... There never has been parity. Certain people never followed the rules anyway.”
Let them fight!
I have never had much desire to visit Alabama on holiday but I suddenly would love to be in Tuscaloosa on October 8th.
Wow - he went over the top.
What Jimbo says maybe true, but it's also true Texas A&M is de-facto buying players, like everyone is doing or starting to do.
I doubt this story will end with Saban and Fisher walking off to the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I love his very nuanced answer. "We didn't break any state laws. The 17 year old kids and their families didn't break any state laws." Therefore in Fisher's mind, they didn't cheat.
From that lens, SMU didn't cheat.
I feel this thing is getting very close to getting blowed up.
The clip was deliciously delicious.
This is comical and ugly at the same time. I know one non-B1G game I'll absolutely watch this year is the A&M - Alabama game in Tuscaloosa. To say that game should be entertaining is probably a massive understatement
Two men enter…one man leaves.
Wanna see em knock each other out Step Brothers style.
Mr. Pot meet Mr. Kettle; Mr. Kettle, Mr. Pot......
Fuck Satan. I mean Saban.
Fuck Jimbo as well
You were right the first time.....
No, you had it right. Interchangeable. You'd think with his record, he would stay a looooooooong way away from pointing fingers. Guess it's been so long he actually believes his opwn press.
When you feel good, you coach good. Right, Coach Prime?
Must be the money. AFLAC!
Couldn't this all be solved with a European soccer style transfer market?
How does that work, please?
Sure. But it looks like A&M just became Manchester City - oil oligarchs and everything. Would it shock anyone if the Aggs next *NIL* goes to Erling Haaland?
Aside from the fact that European soccer is on pretty shaky financial grounds, and probably isn't a model for us to follow, think about what transfers are: teams literally buy/sell players to other teams.
I don't think U.S. universities would be super comfortable with that idea.
They buy and sell the rights to contract with the players. If they can't reach an agreement as to personal terms, then the player doesn't play. Most of the time, this all gets sorted out at the same time, so it looks like it's all one and the same.
Let me spell this out more explicitly:
In a country in which slavery was once legal, and in which a large proportion of athletes are descended from slaves, you are suggesting that universities adopt a system in which the athletes could effectively be bought and sold from one to the other.
Do you not see how dodgy that sounds?
Sure it sounds dodgy when you leave out the part where they have agreed, as part of their contract, to allow their athletic abilities to be bought and sold in exchange for millions of dollars
You can't be serious
His comparison is stupid. Texas a&m is more like United. Spend as much as City yet the results don’t speak for the spending. City have an expensive squad but are coached by the best, and they have spent wisely, they are like Alabama. A&M will win nothing and all that money will amount to Jack shit, like united
If you say so. But the 2022 A&M recruiting class hasn't played a game, so it is premature to say that all that money will amount to "Jack shit." Meanwhile, City's oligarch $$ is buying the top transfer every year. Pep (yep-class mgr fo sho) will win the table this season without a true 9. Doesn't look like like he'll have that problem next year.
City have an expensive squad but are coached by the best...
When the hell did City hire Jürgen Klopp?!?!?
Ugh? You know nothing about the owners of united or city.
City is owned by a petro state. That screams some a &m if anything ever does.
United is owned by people who got their money from trailer parks and strip malls. That's Alabama if anything ever has been.
Congrats though, you're probably 20, just started watching the EPL when you were 15 and chose city bc they were good at the time! Keep on sportswashing. I look forward to your Newcastle takes in 2027.
Congrats though, you're probably 20, just started watching the EPL when you were 15 and chose city bc they were good at the time!
Damn, dude. A tad harsh don't you think?
No, that's the only kind of city fan that is not smart enough to realize that they're the toy of a petro state.
Had he said Liverpool, I would given him/her some credit.. but city fans are all 15 to 25 and Chelsea fans are all 23 to 30..
Lmao. Want to know a rare species?
Find me a City fan before 2011
Douchiest post I've seen here in awhile
Another 16 yo city fan says "hi"
It's absolutely incredible that these are the two dudes that are fighting. They're the same dude. They're doing and have been doing the same shit. The second to last bullet point is the most hilarious. Sure Jimbo, you have no idea.
Opposites attract, sames repel.
I firmly believe Jimbo is and has always been dirtier than Saban. Your point stands nonetheless.
This is getting good.
SEC will consume itself. This is like Mexican cartels fighting to be the last one standing.
Cartel Nuevo Texas v Cartel satan rifa.
Wait, whatever happened to the esss eeee seee unity and mutual love....
One can always hope
This, I hope, is the real benefit of NIL. Bringing to light things that have been going on all along in the shadows. I do think Jimbo is justified in what A&M did this past cycle; I doubt they broke any rules. Everyone pretends to be shocked at the dollar amounts, but that's just because they see actual numbers now.
I REALLY hope this turns into a situation of Saban throwing rocks in a glass house. He must feel very confident in the methods he's used to keep himself clean from the payments Bama has made to their players.
I just hope this puts to bed the whole "NIL ruined CFB" narrative that so many believe. This shit's always been like this, but now everybody is free to talk about it and show off what they're offering. I went to a D1 school that was horribly uncompetitive in football, but even those guys had fancy cars and tons of free shit.
Put it all out there in public and let people see what's really been going on for decades. I can't fathom why Saban thought he should blow the lid when everybody knows Bama was one of the biggest offenders for so long
Doubt they broke any rules? The rules are you can’t entice recruits to come to your school for money. They’re literally breaking them in broad daylight.
