{"id":116705,"date":"2026-06-10T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/10\/opinion-if-college-athletics-is-broken-nick-saban-helped-break-it-alabama-political-reporter\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:14:00","slug":"opinion-if-college-athletics-is-broken-nick-saban-helped-break-it-alabama-political-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/10\/opinion-if-college-athletics-is-broken-nick-saban-helped-break-it-alabama-political-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | If college athletics is broken, Nick Saban helped break it &#8211; Alabama Political Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxQNG42R19EOVRhU3VsVHVkLTZpX3JPalVQNjk1SThKd0lPWU1CeVZFUjFmbjRxbWNXSHVnNjQ4dVNhak1hemxIN1ZFMm13REgxMkRvU1UzemFCR2tONGJzVEUtWGVDVHRXMWltbmJieVNmcFFEMHBfN3NKUnRyVDVfYjRQYUk5eW9uMk9SbGVQUWZyMWNmeGFmUnZBWkVscGJ6aE5nUDg0bw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | If college athletics is broken, Nick Saban helped break it<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Alabama Political Reporter<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | If college athletics is broken, Nick Saban helped break it&nbsp;&nbsp;Alabama Political Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}