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It’s May, but the biggest story of Thursday was Nick Saban stirring up the pot by accusing Texas A&M of using Name, Image and Likeness payments to “[buy] every player on their team” and Deion Sanders’ Jackson State paying Travis Hunter $1 million to play for Coach Prime.
That led to A&M coach Jimbo Fisher to go hard back at Saban with gems like, “I don’t cheat and I don’t lie. I learned that as a kid … old man would slap you upside the head. Maybe somebody should have slapped him.” The memes that emerged were gold.
