Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Several prominent members of the football world have said that Nick Saban retired because of NIL running rampant - they might have been right.
Saban, 72, called it a career in January - an illustrious career that included seven national championships, making him arguably the greatest college football coach of all time.
However, with the recent skyrocketing of name, image and likeness (NIL) deals, college athletics has changed a lot, and they are not what Saban is used to. "What we have now is not college football -- not college football as we know it.
You hear somebody use the word 'student-athlete.' That doesn't exist," Saban said in an interview with ESPN, whom he recently joined as a "College GameDay" analyst. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Alabama head coach Nick Saban answers questions from the media at the Heisman Trophy press conference at the Marriott Marquis in New York on Dec.