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Donor anxiety ramping up among coaches

In the wake of last week's show of fireworks between Jimbo Fisher and Nick Saban on the subject of NIL rules, the wild west environment college football currently finds itself in has become more magnified than ever. While much of the general controversy surrounding the legislation's implementation exists over specifically debating paying the players at all, some are cautioning that the greater issues in play will be ones that affect power dynamics at every level of a school's football operations.