Derrick Henry asked how much he got paid to go to Alabama
Alabama often gets accused of paying recruits to join Nick Saban’s program but the way Derrick Henry tells it, the Crimson Tide can guarantee something very few schools even have a hope of attaining.
A championship.
You’ve probably heard this stat before but it holds true to this day, every recruiting class Saban has signed at Alabama has won at least one national championship during the coach’s 14-year run at the school.
That’s the currency Henry was “paid” to come to Alabama, he said recently during an appearance on the Barstool podcast Bussin’ With The Boys.
What a great answer.
Check it out below.
Derrick Henry when asked how much he got paid to go to Bama: “They paid me nothing, they paid me in rings.” pic.twitter.com/gKY1p3lY4A
— Matthew Travis (@Mjtrav627) February 18, 2021
Does getting a new car from Nick Saban Mercedes count as getting paid?
LOL, My team doesn’t cheat but your team does. I believe all teams have a bag man.
Of course bama would never pay a player….oh wait, they did and got caught, remember Albert Means from Memphis? Of course those coaches just learned from Bear Bryant how it was done. It goes on everywhere, and if you deny it, you are just naive or lying.
I’ll tell you this though…after years of following Tennessee football I still have more respect for Bryant than I do Saban. And it’s not the fact that Tennessee has never beaten Saban while at Alabama…Bryant beat Tenn many times while being the head coach and player.
Wow…you’ve got selective memory. How many in a row is it now?
Didn’t someone get caught trying to hand over a McDonald bag full of money from the Tennessee football program?
How did Tua’s whole family, pack up and move the entire family to Tuscaloosa? Nah y’all don’t cheat.
jealous much?
Nope not at all. Been a Tennessee fan all my life, always have always will. Born and raised in Knoxville. Not one of these people that dont live anywhere near the south jumping on bandwagons and dont even know the schools history.
If you actually know the Vols history you wouldn’t be talking about other programs cheating…
One of these day the Vols may move back above Vandy but right now you’re just as irrelevant….
What does a family moving to Alabama have to do with how the player plays on the field?
And if he were to ever honestly answer that question they just might take his rings away. No way he’d risk that.
Maybe if your team had a history of winning championships, you could get better players.
You would think if there were something to find it would be found by now. Bama has 5* players that transfer out for various reasons. Why haven’t one of them spoken up about being paid? Losers complain and look for conspiracy theories to justify their losing. Winners just win.
Wasting your time, Cody. Same tired narrative. These people don’t actually believe Bama is paying players, they just feel bad because the teams they support aren’t successful at the game of football. Of course, success is subjective and relative…
Actually, one of them did speak up, and he got death threats. They probably figure it’s better to keep quiet.
Is that why LSU decided to cover up sexual assault?
Bamatim you are extremely sensitive about this topic….what happened? Sorry you’re so mad about whatever it is.
Hey dumba&’ you’re not supposed to be replacing to me remember? For once be honest and just stop replying to me….
Replying *
@Cody………DOES THE MOTHER OF AN ALABAMA LEGEND, WHO OPENLY SAID. NICK SABAN CHEATED TO RECRUIT MY SON, MATTER TO YOU?
HER SON WAS STILL PLAYING ON THE TEAM WHEN SHE SAID IT TO THE MEDIA!
The NCAA claimed that since she reported it to the media. They couldn’t do anything about it. RIGHT!!!!!
HENRY IS TALKING OUT HIS A$$!!!! NO WAY SABAN CAN GUARANTEE A CHAMPIONSHIP!!! I can’t wait until UGA ENDS SABAN! We beat y’all in 2017 only to get ROBBED!!!!!
PS. I believe Henry as much as I do his former coach. MR ” I’M NOT GONNA BE THE ALABAMA COACH! ”
Negan
Because not every player is paid by no means and if you speak up it hurts you too not just the university. No one would “win” if they speak up
Dear God, those Boston douche bags just would not let it go.
Very fun that Alabama’s 2 most recent Heisman winners were once UGA commits… very fun. I’m not depressed about it at all.
You can’t blame players for wanting to actually develop during college. Kirby’s sales pitch falls short when the collection of talent he’s gathered continuously comes up short. I mean Ed freaking O won a NC.
Cody, I doubt what Saban has done at Bama will ever be surpassed by any Coach. To continue to lose coordinators and other staff every year and still remain among the top 3 in recruiting every year and be in the hunt for National Championships every year is legendary! It’s just not accurate to say Kirby’s sales pitch falls short with the collection of talent he’s gathered unless he’s pitching National Championships. He’s done exceptionally well in developing players for the NFL. Developing for the NFL is more important to these kids than winning national championships but they have to say that so they will be deemed as “team players”. I doubt Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, Jalen Hurts and Spencer Rattler went to Oklahoma to win national championships. Lincoln Riley’s QB development is what drew them. I hope my Dawgs win another Natty soon but if they don’t, kids are still going to go to Georgia and still go to the NFL. Much respect to Bama!!! Go DAWGS!!!!!
It’s all about the coaching staff. It’s not like Saban himself coached Henry every day. A head coach is more like a CEO theses days. For better or worse. I think the latter, but I digress, having the right coordinators is key. And Bama, Ga, Fla, and A&M have made the right hires. That’s why TN is where it is. After Fulmer there has been nothing but strikeouts. Pruitt fired an on field coach in the middle of a game. I knew then it wouldn’t be good. With Heupel we will probably lose most of our “big” games 48 to 42 or something. So who knows when we will climb back up where we do belong. Regardless of the past 15 years. Look at All-time records and etc, TN is a sleeping giant. I just have no idea when we will wake up.
Burrow transferred to LSU so he could to win a natty.
Shonuff VFL apparently you don’t have a clue what Saban does at practices.
I saw Herschel on TV the other day. It’s insane how jacked the guy was! I believe if Kirby could get the NCAAto give him another year of eligibility, he’d be a threat to win the Heisman again. He’s a genetic freak!
Great journalistic work right there…. Sports journalist or on the bottom rung of the professional ladder right below whoring and lawyers!!!!
What scumbags. Should had called them worthless scumbags and walked off.
Loose lips sinks ships… he won’t say a thing.
Saban gave Mark Emmerit really good bjs when he was at LSU. Mark wouldn’t dare sick his ncaa on his dwarf lover.
Idiot
I have never been that fan that said my team is the only one that doesn’t cheat. I have seen players being paid in high school sports. It starts young.
It happens everywhere, not just “enhancements”, but grade help, etc. I was in a class (long time ago) and didn’t realize one of the premier athletes was in the class too. Maybe because he showed up the last day, answered one question and got an A.
This is a perfect example of a troll question.
I BELIEVE DERRICK!
I ALSO BELIEVE WILL WADE!
NOBODY PAYS PLAYERS! THIS IS A MYTH!
I used to question the journalism here on SDS at times…then I watched that clip. I’ll stop complaining about SDS. Lord.
Would have been nice for him to say “tell you what, I’ll meet you in the parking lot later and we’ll discuss it”! Or counter with one of our childhood insults “your Daddy still beating your Momma? NO!! Oh so when did he quit”! Or “you still sucking guys for free” NO! Oh, so now you’re charging”! We fought with insults, today kids just shoot you or stab you!
What do you call a girl from Alabama who can run faster than her brother?
A virgin.
I’m surprised he would even acknowledge those idiots!
When you literally have a 50% chance of winning a national championship EVERY YEAR, have more players drafted by the NFL by a LONG shot, have the highest graduation rate only second to Vandy, and you can almost guarantee these kids that ALL their dreams will come true that’s the thing… you don’t have to pay them to come to your school. You don’t have to make empty promises to these kids like Georgia and lsWHO and Florida where they promise you things and there is a small chance it MAY come true. They don’t have the facts and proof. At BAMA, you can look at their track record and the PROOF is their to back up the promises BAMA makes. It’s that simple. If you are a recruit do you want to gamble your dreams on a empty promise?! Or go with the program that can show you the proof in the pudding. Exactly. Haters keep hating. Barstool Sports is lame for this line of questioning reaching for straws to find the next big story. Pathetic. “Barstool Sports” is right.
How many players did Alabama have in the Super Bowl? Lol I’ll help you out….it starts with a Z and ends with a ERO
Technically we had one as OJ Howard was on injured reserve for TB.
And we did have the Offensive Player of the Year and the two-time NFL rushing leading in Derrick Henry.
But I guess when you’re a Dawgs fan that saw his team collapse in the second half against ‘Bama (for the third time in a row!) you gotta hang your hat on something.
Just bury your head in the sand and act like everyone else is doing it but Bama. Did you see what happened in CBB when they started peeling back the onion? When it was obvious it was being done by everyone including the blue bloods (Duke etc.) the story went away. The NCAA does not investigate until someone seriously slips up and it hits the media but everyone is paying.
Good post engine
I hate Alabama… well, because they are Alabama… same reason people hated UF when Meyer was crushing it here…
I have nothing but respect for Saban and his program. Tired of hearing about Alabama.supposedly cheating. They don’t need to, its a machine.
The programs mired in mediocricy like Ole Miss was when Freeze showed up is where the cheating happens when they try to break out… Tennessee was another example, they righted their ship this year hopefully with Huepel.
Go Gators
I’ll say this, I was born and raised in Yulee Florida, I went to school with Derrick, he will even tell you hisself he didn’t come from a wealthy family. But when he went off to Alabama, he came back home to visit in a brand new crimson red Dodge Challenger…. take that however you want and I’m sure all big time schools do it but just seems funny how that works ♂️
Who could possibly incentive a high school player to attend a college? Lot’s of people… parents, girl-friends, paid girl-friends, personal tutors, employers, future employers, professors, friends, alumni, distinguished alumni, NFL scouts, shoe salesmen, technology salesmen, landlords, restaurant owners,… get the idea yet? and cash doesn’t have to have a return address on it, all it has to do is show up at an associated time. Few athletes would report that or try to find it’s source/owner/whatever, unless there were a bigger incentive to do so and there could be in the next paragraph.
Fair competition has never been a serious goal at any college level. In my opinion the way to address it is through promotion. When a program wins at any level make them move up to the next division the next year. The NCAA Division 1 can easily have a league winners division where 4 to 13 winners and or runners up go for a one year period, or stay if they win that, but everyone else has to move back down. Some colleges would like being up there for a year and others would become really good self-investigating enforcers. But the big winners would be the established leagues. Division and League champions would take on a much more natural rotation of winners, in my opinion.
Love how all of these butthurt fans like to hate on Alabama! Keep hoping Jawga, the law of averages will eventually let you win one! Just ask LSWho!
That was a great answer — IF ‘Bama is paying players, gotta give them credit in whatever way they do it (and I don’t believe they are paying). They haven’t gotten caught handing McDonalds bags of cash to anyone! Clearly Pruitt did not learn that at ‘Bama!
There is cheating, and then there is cheating. An example, funny how suddenly a family member gets a nice job in the area and the family gets great terms on a house in the area when that elite athlete signs for the football program. It’s usually well hidden and it’s at every major program.
He brags about winning a Heisman when McCaffrey should have been the clear cut winner lmao.
Lmao? Aubie, you are salty. The Heisman voting in the six geographical regions of the U.S., Derrick Henry won 5 of them. McCaffrey only won the West.
I’m not being serious lol.
I guess the actual people who vote didn’t agree?
If little nikki is cheating then he cheats like he coaches, he would be the GOAT grifter.
If Bama is cheating then getting all the scores and scores of players who have gone through the program to not talk, all of them, is right up there with creating the Universe.
Everyone cheats at every level of sports. If you think any different about your own school your in denial. Pruitt just did it in the wrong way. Or he decided to change it up. Ga, Bama and Fla all cheat as well. They’re just better at it. I’m not saying that’s why they win, just in that aspect of recruiting they do it better.
Joe Namath made thousands playing golf on Sundays with boosters willing to conceed every hole. Was he that good a golfer ?
Anyone go drive to any SEC campus and go to the football players parking and look at the vehicles parked there. Now how can a college student with no job afford a new challenger with huge rims and wheels on it? Yeah y’all don’t cheat but your boosters do. SMH
Reading the comments below it is amazing to me how hateful the Bama fans act. Its like they are kinda sensitive to this subject. LOL Lil Nick has won a lot of games for them but he won’t be around a whole lot longer. Then it will be the Ray Perkins era all over.
You know Bama still had more wins, more championships and was leading the head to head over Auburn prior to Saban ever coaching a day at Bama?
I’m also the only Bama fan that has a comment below yours… Dumba$$