Alabama football will eye their 17th straight double-digit winning season when they face the Michigan Wolverines in the ReliaQuest Bowl on New Year’s Eve. In their first year under head coach Kalen DeBoer, the Alabama Crimson Tide missed out on their second straight College Football Playoff berth but still posted a respectable 9-3 record with wins over South Carolina, Georgia, Missouri, and Wisconsin. However, like many non-CFP competing teams, Alabama has dealt extensively with the transfer portal’s twenty-day window.
On Tuesday, Alabama football experienced a rollercoaster of emotions regarding the portal. Star cornerback Jaylen Mbakwe reiterated his commitment to the SEC power despite rumors of him accepting a multi-million dollar NIL deal at a competing program. On Wednesday, athletic director Greg Byrne sent a call to action to the Crimson Tide fanbase, asking for more name, image, and likeness (NIL) donations. Nevertheless, college football fans put him in their sights following his big ask.
Alabama Football AD Makes Fans Irate With NIL Post
According to On3 via Twitter:
NEW: Alabama AD Greg Byrne called out schools for ‘using promises of million-dollar paydays to lure away our players’
“It is time for the Bama Nation to fight back.”
Alabama football AD Greg Byrne did not mince words when discussing the current state of the team’s name, image, and likeness collective. “You have heard examples of other teams using promises of million-dollar paydays to lure away our players or convince them not to come to Alabama. It is time for the Bama Nation to fight back,” Byrne said on Twitter, pushing for fans to join the Yea Alabama, the official NIL entity for Alabama.
With the Alabama Crimson Tide winning at least ten games every season from 2008 to 2023, with six national titles during that span, fans were quick to bash Byrne for his demand. Many college football fans flooded Twitter, calling out Byrne and Alabama for asking their loyalists to pour money into their name, image, and likeness collective in an attempt to keep their top-end talent:
Says the school who been paying players before it became legal 😂
— 818calicane (@818CALICANE) December 18, 2024
Remember that time Bama came to Dalton Kincaid at Utah and offered him $1,000,000 to transfer. Good times
— Utah Football Fans Podcast (@UtahFBFans) December 18, 2024
Cry me a river!! Chargers not working anymore and now the playing field is even with the rest of the sec? No body cares GrEg…..
— VolinBirmingham (@Vol4Life03) December 18, 2024
He's acting like Bama hasn't been gifting players' cars, cash, and houses since the BCS era 😂
— B (@GoBucks5240) December 18, 2024
You mean Bama is recruiting these players and developing them just to have someone else swoop in and pay them to leave…
Sounds like what the Blue Bloods have been doing for years.
— 🔙THE🅰️ (@BackTheA_Ray) December 18, 2024
The downfall of Bama is hysterical
— BiasedVol7 (@TheBiasedVol07) December 18, 2024
Alabama wants to go back to the days when Alabama boosters could quietly pay athletes millions and give them new cars without getting into trouble by the NCAA or SEC.
— Michael (@michael_esq1) December 18, 2024
Yall were doing this before NIL son
— Robert McVol (@vol_equalizer) December 18, 2024
This is not the Bama I remember
— Samford Scoop (@SamfordScoop) December 18, 2024
Gonna have to do better than Dodge Chargers now Greg
— JARL 🅅 🄾 🄻GRUUF THE GREATER (@423VOL) December 18, 2024
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