Alabama AD tells Tide fans to ‘fight back,’ help fund NIL

Believe me, no one is crying for Alabama except for Alabama. They’re just p**sed that the stasis has changed and they no longer hold all of the cards. If the name of the game now is money, and it is, the only advantage that schools in poor states like Alabama have is the money they receive from the networks. For example, the Boulevard Collective (SMU), is second only to Division Street (Oregon) in the number of well-heeled members that can write check after check. The next phase of college football might signal the emergence of a number of odd bedfellows who rise to the top purely due to revenue streams not associated with network money and the demise of Bluebloods who can’t keep up in the spending arms race. Kind of like the Cold War where the US outspent the Soviet Union to death.