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Nick Saban (ex-HC Alabama Crimson Tide)

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matcar said:
We are encouraging departures as well.
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We're doing it after the class is signed, while we're already under the 85 limit. They're doing it before they're under the 85 limit because they realize the players they signed aren't good enough. That's the difference. Once we start doing it the same way Bama/the SEC is doing it, I'll have a problem with it. While we're doing it when it doesn't even benefit us....I don't see how anybody can make the comparison.

The first recruit I ever followed was Mike D'Andrea. He was a 5 star LB. He had injury problems and never panned out. As far as I know, he counted against Tressel's scholarship limit until he graduated, despite never factoring in "football-wise". If he had committed to current day Alabama, he would have been forced off the team to make way for the 5 star LB that did pan out. That is an advantage. They aren't playing by the same rules.

I understand that we're not playing by the same rules as Indiana or Purdue. I have come to terms that we cheat and pay for recruits the same way any major program does. But touting superior recruiting classes while straight up dismissing kids because you didn't evaluate them properly is just bullshit. They get the pub on ESPN and none of the negative press. That's unfair. Yes....I know how lame it is to complain about "unfair" while your school cheats to get kids. I don't care. They cheat too.....and they get to oversign and reap the benefits. Level the playing field and you don't have howevermany-in-a-row SEC championships.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
I understand that we're not playing by the same rules as Indiana or Purdue. I have come to terms that we cheat and pay for recruits the same way any major program does.
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My guess is that Indiana and Purdue are doing it too, just not nearly as well. It's probably like doping in cycling, they are all doing it. They feel they have to to "level the playing field".
 
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Signing 130 players vs 85 over a 4 year period is without a doubt a monsterous advantage. Woody used to sign a ton of players even if there weren't necessarily going to play here. He would do it just so they wouldnt be on other rosters and play against him. When the number was reduced, it was done to prevent OVER signing. They still allow the SEC to do it. So what the fuck?? Of course they will have the higher ranked recruiting classes and have a distinct advantage on the field when they can choose which guys they've signed will pan out the best and the ones that don't they just get rid of.

Far different than signing your allotted number of players and finding out who can make it and who cant and after they can't cut it, you recommend to them that they might fair better elsewhere. Ohio State recommends they might be better off elsewhere where Alabama strips your scholarship from you leaving you no choice. Completely different

Now, behind closed doors the conversation might actually be a little more pointed than that but thats the facts. Any job you work at you have a probationary period. If you put in the work and find you are valuable they keep you on. If you are found wanting they go in another direction. What they don't do every hiring period is bring in 30 more people for 20 jobs and move out people on the job that aren't as good as the others coming in. At least no company I've ever heard of does that.
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
Now, behind closed doors the conversation might actually be a little more pointed than that but thats the facts. Any job you work at you have a probationary period. If you put in the work and find you are valuable they keep you on. If you are found wanting they go in another direction. What they don't do every hiring period is bring in 30 more people for 20 jobs and move out people on the job that aren't as good as the others coming in. At least no company I've ever heard of does that.
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According to Northwestern's football team, Alabama would be considered a "company."
 
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Good ol' Nicky keeping it real at media days.

Signs a contract in the offseason that will pay him more than 7 million a year, but says no changes need to be made to the college football model b/c the players are amateurs.

And, incredibly, is still bitching about the pace of offenses and how it removes defensive coaching.
 
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Tanner said:
Good ol' Nicky keeping it real at media days.

Signs a contract in the offseason that will pay him more than 7 million a year, but says no changes need to be made to the college football model b/c the players are amateurs.

And, incredibly, is still bitching about the pace of offenses and how it removes defensive coaching.
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So now it's not about "player safety"? He should save whatever face is left and just say he does not like being disadvantaged and thinks it is not fair since Auburn beat him with it. Grow the fuck up and figure out how to defend it.
 
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