Nick Saban made a surprise appearance on Get Up this week, nominally to promote his forthcoming ESPN documentary.<\/p>\n
During the segment, though, Saban conveniently had the opportunity to react to the U.S. Senate passing the Protect College Sports Act, which the former Alabama head coach helped craft and has heavily promoted<\/a>. On\u00a0Get Up\u00a0and later on\u00a0First Take, Saban pushed several arguments that are strongly contended by the bill\u2019s opponents<\/a>.<\/p>\n Saban claimed athletic departments could \u201cgo broke\u201d without the PCSA, and argued that coaches\u2019 salaries did not need to be capped as part of the new slate of rules because they are a \u201ctotally different\u201d market than player pay. Asked why players were not involved in crafting the bill, Saban said, \u201cI really can\u2019t answer that,\u201d before later expressing that collective bargaining still might not \u201cfit\u201d in the college sports ecosystem.<\/p>\n Standing off set during Saban\u2019s\u00a0Get Up interview was ESPN analyst Domonique Foxworth, likely sports media\u2019s foremost authority on labor dynamics. Foxworth is a former president of the NFLPA and staffer at the NBPA, and recently interviewed to be the executive director of the NFLPA.<\/p>\n