Atlanta Daily World stands as the first Black daily publication in America. Started in 1927 by Morehouse College graduate W.A. Scott. Currently owned by Real Times Media, ADW is one of the most influential Black newspapers in the nation.
In 1906, the NCAA was founded to improve the safety of college football and to also monitor the effectiveness of equipment used during games. Wikipedia says that “public outrage over the brutality of the sport—and pressure from President Theodore Roosevelt—forced colleges to create a national governing body to reform the rules.”
Here’s a shocking piece of trivia for you to swallow. “The NCAA has never patented or designed any football safety equipment.”
All major innovations and designs to improve protective equipment for players have mostly originated from individual inventors and investors, not from the NCAA.
During the past 120 years, the NCAA has done next to nothing to increase the safety for student-athletes playing college football. Aside from sitting on their fat rich rusty dusties collecting dough, they have remained dormant and stagnant, seemingly indifferent to the important and ongoing safety issues faced by college football.
The NCAA’s role has been and continues to be focused on self-serving rules and regulations while mostly ignoring the mission and the principles that the organization was supposedly founded on. Since the organization was founded in 1906, their ongoing quest has been about not only stealing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but hijacking the rainbow itself. They are now shedding crocodile tears, faking that the NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) mandate to compensate players has caused the organization to experience irreparable financial harm.
The ultra-patriotic American “conservative” political system, or should I say the “preservative” political wing, wants to embalm and provide a “formaldehyde shower” for their dead economic and social policies, attempting to resurrect the wretched and inhumane policies of the Confederate past.
On March 6, 2026, former University of Alabama head coach Nick Saban attended a sports summit at the White House. He explained his goal during his active days and how things have changed since the NIL deals arrived. Saban said: “All athletics. I’m talking about football, basketball, Olympic sports, revenue, non-revenue, it doesn’t matter. My goal as a coach for my players, our players, was to help them be more successful in life; that we would create an atmosphere and environment that would help them through personal development, academic support – 668 degrees in 17 years at Alabama – and help them develop a career as a football player. That was our goal, so that they were creating value in life, and we were preparing them for their future past athletics. So, what happened?”
The article continues pointing out that: “After making $150 million during his coaching career in college, many didn’t think that Saban was the right person to send this type of message. Fans reacted on social media, with many criticizing him and claiming that Alabama used to pay players under the table for their commitment.
“I love Coach Saban. But to say that NIL is the reason college football is the Wild West is a hard listen. And don’t get me started on tampering. It happens all the way down thru high school,” one fan said.
There was a recent post on cbsnews.com: “At college sports roundtable, Trump says ‘whole educational system’ could go out of business unless fixed.”
“The whole educational system is going to go out of business because of this,” Trump explained, when asked why he was devoting time to college sports with the war in Iran and other issues dominating the headlines. He said the “horrible” court settlement that led to the current system — a settlement that virtually everyone in the room agreed to — “threw the sports world and … the college athletic world into ‘tithers.’”
If Nick Saban making $150 million over his career and Jimbo Fisher receiving a $77 million buyout is happening, then how in the he__ can the NIL paying collegiate players be killing the education system? The systemic and intentional defunding of the American education is the primary reason for the failure of educational system. Here are a few examples of the “welfare reform” multi-million deal buyouts that various men’s football coaches received mostly after abject failure. Brian Kelly, $52 million, James Franklin, $49 million, Gus Malzahn, $21.4 million, Billy Napier, $21.million, Charlie Weis, 18.9 million.
Remember now, the court settlement to compensate college athletes is supposedly “horrible,” according to Donald Trump. However, the corrupt NCAA has no cap on coaches’ salaries, while the fat cats simultaneously guzzle down Dom Perignon while gorging themselves full of Kobe Beef Filet Mignon, as the collegiate players risk life and limb on the field.
Don’t forget in the recent past that many of the NCAA member colleges and universities located below the Mason-Dixon were against integration. Well at least until September, 12, 1970, when Sam Cunningham and the USC Trojans ran past “Bear” Bryant and the University of Alabama football team as if they were standing still.
Alabama did not care about educating Black student-athletes or Black students because on June 1, 1963, the White supremacist governor of the state of Alabama, George Wallace, stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium to keep Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood from enrolling for classes. They welcomed Blacks on the football field, but not in the classroom. In 1956, the NCAA authorized schools to grant financial aid to student-athletes solely for athletic ability, regardless of academic performance or financial need.
What atmosphere and environment did Nick Saban personally provide to his players to assist them in their personal and academic development? How outstanding was helping to provide 668 degrees during his 17-year tenure at Alabama? He also coached approximately 1,394 players during that time, “coaxing” approximately 40 players annually toward undergraduate degrees. That cost the University of Alabama approximately $8,823,529 for his services. Those 40 degrees per year could possibly be the most expensive college diplomas awarded in history. If anything is destroying our educational system, it is the “rotten to the core ballroom White House” and its policies, not any of the recent NIL regulations designed to compensate players. There has been and continues to be in place a perverted overvalue of the collegiate coaching profession and it seems that many folks sanction the current system by remaining as quiet as a “flock of church mice.”