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Everybody in the SEC should have to pay a Saban surcharge | Commentary

And you, too, Ed Orgeron and Greg Sankey and Paul Finebaum and everybody else who makes a handsome living from SEC football.

“Nick Saban has been a one-man stimulus package,” said former Birmingham News sports columnist Kevin Scarbinsky before Saban took the stage at SEC Media Days on Wednesday.

There’s no question that Saban, an Alabama living legend of a football coach, is the SEC’s cash cow — and the milk just keeps flowing from his gushing udder. The SEC’s prominence as a national TV entity began with the charismatic, controversial Steve Spurrier and his Fun ‘N’ Gun Florida offense of the 1990s, but Saban’s dynamic dominance has taken it to another level.