The University of Alabama is accepting handwritten checks, piggy banks, Venmo, PayPal, CashApp, title loans and pawned jewelry to pay for athletics. Athletics director Greg Byrne needs money, so he went on a Fox News podcast to shake the trees.
Not those trees.
I’m talking about the family trees.
Auburn basketball is still dancing, but the mailbag this week shifts to football and financial aid.
Winston in Maylene, Ala., writes …
Bama is in REAL trouble and might be the unspoken reason Nick Saban retired. I guess I thought along with everyone else that Bama has alumni who have made it BIG financially. But what is actually big? If you are worth $10 million, that is a pile of money but not enough to write a check for $500,000 or so. Besides Paul Jr., is there anyone else with deep pockets to “buy players?”
Tim in Oxford, Ala., writes …
