Clay Travis reacts to Nick Saban forecasting 'serious problems' ahead for college sports

OutKick founder Clay Travis reacts to former Alabama coach Nick Saban's comments on the NIL system in college sports.

OutKick founder Clay Travis weighed in Friday on "Fox & Friends" after former Alabama coach Nick Saban sounded the alarm about the state of college sports. Saban said on "Special Report" he's concerned about the "pay-for-play" system that's developing in college football through NIL collectives.

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CLAY TRAVIS: I think what needs to happen ultimately is football players and men's basketball players – that is, revenue-producing sports athletes – need to become employees. And I think that is the end result of where we are going to go. Once they are employees, they can then engage in a collective bargaining agreement, which gets them out of antitrust. That allows all of the top programs, whether it's SEC, Big Ten in particular, to compete on an even playing field, as opposed to one school having $100 million to spend and another school having 5 million to spend. Look, what's really crazy here is all it's going to take is one billionaire saying, I love college football. I want my school to buy the best 25 players every year in the college football recruiting class, and competition goes out the window. So for people like me who love college football, for a lot of y'all out there watching right now, they need to keep what's great about college football, which is the competition, the traditions, the pomp, the circumstance, the pageantry without losing that ability to have incredible weekends. With the playoff expanding and everything else, we've got a major paradigm shift. It's time to get things fixed for the future. 

Former college football