Nick Saban accuses Jackson State of buying players, Deion Sanders fires back
After taking a direct shot at Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M by claiming they "bought every player on their team," Nick Saban then turned his focus to Deion Sanders.
The 7-time national champion claimed that Jackson State — coached by Deion Sanders — "paid a guy a million dollars" to play for their team and went unpunished.
“Jackson State paid a guy a million dollars last year that was a really good Division I player to come to school. It was in the paper. They bragged about it! Nobody did anything about it,” Saban said, via AL.com.
Saban didn't mention the player by name, but he may have been alluding to cornerback Travis Hunter, the No. 1 player in the 2022 recruiting class.
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Hunter originally pledged to Florida State, but shocked the world by flipping to Jackson State, with his commitment seen as an historic addition to an HBCU program.
Deion Sanders heard what Saban said about him, and let's just say we may not be seeing any more Aflac commercials with the two coaches in the future.
Hunter then took to Twitter to respond, joking, "I got a mil?"
Saban, whose seven national championships are an all-time college football record, has been strongly critical of how new NIL rules have changed recruiting.
The head coach approves of players making money off themselves, but fears that the new system has colleges essentially using money, or the promise of money, as a recruiting tool, a practice the NCAA has banned.
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