I do concede that he might end up doing that.

Look, these guys all see the writing on the wall; I'm sure Saban joins most of his SEC coaching brethren in preferring that the players just got paid directly out of the pie, there was no such thing as NIL, and the portal was the way it was before. But the schools are going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into such an agreement. It's not enough to lose a few court cases, they need to be soundly defeated in all of them before they'll give up.