Alabama Players said to have made $3 Million from NIL Last Year

Coach Nick Saban has claimed that players have greatly benefited from the NIL program.

Saban declared that players have made $3 million (AUD) from last year.

The benefits come from NCAA’s new policies that allow student athletes to profit off of their own NIL.

University of Alabama football coach, Nick Saban, said: “I’m all for the players. I want the players to do well. Our players did extremely well last year.”

“They made over $3 million in name, image and likeness, so I’m all for the players doing as well as they can and using their name, image and likeness to create value for themselves.

“We have a great brand at Alabama so our players, their value is going to be enhanced because of the value that our brand can help them create,” he said.

Saban also spoke about his uncertainties on the shifting landscape, as he voiced certain concerns.

“We have a great brand at Alabama so our players, their value is going to be enhanced because of the value that our brand can help them create,” he said.

“But you know, the thing that I’ve sort of expressed, not concerns about, but there’s gotta be some uniformity in protocol of how NIL is implemented.

“I think there’s probably a couple of factors that are important: how does this impact competitive balance in college athletics? Is there transparency to maintain fairness across the board in terms of college athletics? And how do we protect the players because there’s more and more people that are trying to get between money and the player?

“The biggest concern is how does this impact and affect recruiting because on the recruiting trail there’s a lot of people using this as inducements to go to their school by making promises that they may or may not be able to keep.

“That is what can create a competitive balance issue between the haves and have nots,” he said.