Saban: "There's no precedent for the consequences"
HOOVER, 式の. (AP) - Count Nick Saban の中で those unable to 予報する the 衝撃 of the many 最近の changes in college 運動競技のs, 含むing the ability for players to make money off their brand.
"I almost feel that anything that I say will probably be wrong because there´s no precedent for the consequences that some of the things that we are creating, even if they´re good 適切な時期s," the Alabama coach said Wednesday at Southeastern 会議／協議会 マスコミ days. "There´s no precedent for the consequences that some of these things are going to create, whether they´re good or bad."
Saban 人物／姿／数字s he will have better 扱う a year 今後 the 影響 of such changes on college football and the players.
Speaking to the Texas High School Coaches 協会 条約 a day earlier, he said new starting quarterback Bryce Young is approaching $1 million in 指名する, images and likeness money.
FISHER VS. SABAN
Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher has no 悔いるs about his comment about （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing Alabama while Saban is the coach.
Alabama 長，率いる coach Nick Saban speaks to reporters during the NCAA college football Southeastern 会議／協議会 マスコミ Days Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Hoover, 式の. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
Fisher, a former Saban assistant, was asked at the Houston Touchdown Club in May about the 重要な to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing the Crimson Tide "other than Saban retiring." Fisher's smiling 返答, によれば The Houston Chronicle: "We´re going to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 his ass even when he´s there."
"That´s what we´re here for, isn´t it? Isn´t that why everybody´s here?" Fisher said. "That´s what makes this league this league. That´s what we 推定する／予想する to do at Texas A&M. In 説 all that, Nick and I are friends.
"We´ve known each other a long time. We coached together. We´re from the same world, if that makes any sense."
Alabama was the only team to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the Aggies last season, winning 52-24 and 最終的に keeping them out of the プレーオフ. Saban is 23-0 against former assistants.
Saban has won six 国家の 肩書を与えるs at Alabama and a seventh at LSU. Fisher was his 不快な／攻撃 調整者／コーディネーター with the Tigers for that 2003 肩書を与える team.
"I have the 最大の 尊敬（する）・点 for what he´s done and what he´s 遂行するd," said Fisher, who later won a 国家の 肩書を与える at Florida 明言する／公表する in 2013. "He´s the 基準, and the 基準 is what you have to play to."
LEACH SPEAKS
Mississippi 明言する／公表する coach マイク Leach 好意s an NCAA Tournament-like 拡大 of the College Football プレーオフ.
The CFP is considering 拡大するing from four to 12 teams, with half the field from the highest-階級d 会議／協議会 支持する／優勝者s and the other half coming from at-large 選ぶs.
"I think 12 teams is a 抱擁する step in the 権利 direction," Leach said. "I 本人自身で would like to see 64, and you could 判型 it out pretty easily, but I think it´s a 抱擁する step the 権利 direction, and I look 今後 to it."
Leach also veered from the マスコミ days norm, skipping the 開始 声明 that most of his peers use to discuss their teams. Some coaches talk for 20 minutes before taking questions.
"I´m not a big 開始 声明 guy, and 加える you guys are going to ask whatever you want to know anyway, so let´s just go ahead and get started," Leach said. "Is there any questions?"
Leach also 拒絶する／低下するd to say whether he had been vaccinated for COVID-19.
LEA'S HELMET
New Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea brought along 証拠 of his 関係 to the university: The helmet from his playing days with the Commodores. It 残り／休憩（する）d on the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する beside the podium as he 演説（する）／住所d reporters.
"I´d always dreamed that my football helmet would one day 結局最後にはーなる in the Hall of Fame," Lea said. "Unfortunately, since it´s here, I didn´t やめる reach that level of 業績／成果, but I´m glad to have my old 長，率いる gear with me in my first マスコミ day experience."
A former Notre Dame 防御の 調整者／コーディネーター, Lea was a fullback for two seasons at Vanderbilt, where he earned both his undergraduate and 卒業生（する） degrees. He keeps the helmet in his office at Vandy.
"It´s just a 関係 to my time as a student-競技者 ... both the things that I celebrate in my time as a student-競技者, but also the things that I （機の）カム 支援する to change about what it means to play football at Vanderbilt," Lea said. "Keeping that 思い出の品 nearby just, again, is another way to keep my 焦点（を合わせる） on what´s really important."
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Vanderbilt 長，率いる coach Clark Lea speaks to reporters during the NCAA college football Southeastern 会議／協議会 マスコミ Days Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Hoover, 式の. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
Mississippi 明言する／公表する 長，率いる coach マイク Leach speaks to reporters during an NCAA college football news 会議／協議会 at the Southeastern 会議／協議会 マスコミ days, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Hoover, 式の. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
Texas A & M 長，率いる coach Jimbo Fisher speaks to reporters during an NCAA college football news 会議／協議会 at the Southeastern 会議／協議会 マスコミ days, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Hoover, 式の. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
