College football betting fans know that the 3 day extravaganza every year in mid July known as the SEC’s early season media days are usually no short of trash-talking, hype, and a bunch of words that will get us excited for the start of the season that is coming up at the end of August. While there was no shortage of the usual at the media days, Nick Saban provided the big bang for the buck, as he stole the show by comparing the agents in question for many recent NCAA allegations to pimps.
What Saban knows about pimping exactly, I am not too sure. However, betting fans found his remarks were candid, and, in a way, very true. “I don’t think it’s anything but greed that’s creating it on behalf of the agents, the agents that do this, and I hate to say this, but how are they better than a pimp? I have no respect for people who do that to young people. None. How would you feel if they did it to your child?” Saban stated. Very candid remarks indeed from the Alabama head coach, remarks that are coming on the heels of numerous claims of tampering in the world of college football.
The most recent allegation surrounded Maurkice Pouncey of Florida who was alleged to accept 100 thousand dollars from an agent while playing for Florida. The story broke yesterday, and Pouncey today went on the record flatly denying no truth to the claim, stating that an Escalade he purchased was with a line of credit opened after the NFL draft, as well as cooperating with other bank statements and financial information that showed no other signs of any form of large payment. It could very well be just another case of a disgruntled agent who was not able to get a pay day from signing the player.
Or it couldn’t be. Looking at the bans that USC received on Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo, it is easy to see why Saban, and I am sure other coaches, are beginning to show true anger towards these agents. Lane Kiffin took over a USC program, a program who’s players and himself have nothing to do with Bush personally. It is them, however, who suffer the punishment of bowl game bans and lost scholarships. I am assuming Saban does not want the same to happen to him, and the high profile schools, like Alabama, have the high profile players, making them more susceptible to one mistake that would cost them a whole lot. Saban’s remarks were candid and unexpected, but online betting cappers know that it would be a lie to call them untrue.
