Nick Saban went on College GameDay in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday and carried water for Ole Miss Rebels football coach (for now) Lane Kiffin and his agent, Jimmy Sexton, amidst a very public and ugly ongoing bidding war for the 50-year-old coach. Of note, Sexton is Saban and Kalen DeBoer's agent as well.
Hence, the reframing of the problem as a "college football problem," which is vague enough to shift the blame off of Sexton, who happens to be the agent most frequently involved with squeezing schools for his and his client's sake.
"None of this is fair to the players.