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Andy Staples on Alabama grayshirting a top-100 recruit: āThis is how badly people want to play for Nick Saban. He hasnāt signed , he doesnāt have to go there. Everybody called yesterday, and he said, ā Nah, Iām good.ā I would bet thereās a better than 50 percent chance he will be able to enroll when he planned to, because someone wonāt qualify or something wonāt happen. But thatās the power of where Alabamaās at right now. In any other situation, there would have been room or heād have gone somewhere else. He wants to go to Alabama.ā
Tom Luginbill on Alabama losing coaches: āThe players donāt go with the coaches. They stay in Tuscaloosa. Itās not about the Xās and Oās, itās abut the Jimmie and the Joes. Hereās what Nick Sabanās going to do: Heās going to hire grinders in player evaluation, and heās going to say, āThis is what weāre coaching, and this is how you coach it.ā Thatās what he does when he replaces people.ā
Glenn Guilbeau on LSUās class: āThis would have been a very good year for a normal recruiting coach, but Ed Orgeron got the job because heās a recruiter. He did well, but I donāt think he did great. When Les Miles got fired, the class was a consensus No. 7, and thatās what it still is. He also had 19 commitments already, and Ed signed four guys, lost a couple in the process and gained some. He held serve. ā¦ You canāt call it a great class when you lose six players to Alabama, and itās not like Ed just got the job.ā
- Stewart Mandel on QB attrition: āI looked at four full classes of the top 50 quarterbacks. One hundred of the 200 finished their career at a different school from where they started. Itās high among the four- and five-star guys. Blake Barnett is a good example. Went through the Elite 11 circuit, got the accolades, spent two years committed to Alabama, gets beat out by Jalen Hurts and heās gone. The days of Miami stockpiling quarterbacks, Florida State, waiting until their fourth or fifth year to get the job, it just doesnāt happen anymore. Guys expect to start within the first couple years. The numbers say thatās impossible, obviously. Only about 20 percent do. Even some of the ones that do, like Kyle Allen, end up transferring. Itās a constant churn out.ā
A few more here 10 interesting quotes from college football media this week (Feb. 3)
Tom Luginbill on Alabama losing coaches: āThe players donāt go with the coaches. They stay in Tuscaloosa. Itās not about the Xās and Oās, itās abut the Jimmie and the Joes. Hereās what Nick Sabanās going to do: Heās going to hire grinders in player evaluation, and heās going to say, āThis is what weāre coaching, and this is how you coach it.ā Thatās what he does when he replaces people.ā
Glenn Guilbeau on LSUās class: āThis would have been a very good year for a normal recruiting coach, but Ed Orgeron got the job because heās a recruiter. He did well, but I donāt think he did great. When Les Miles got fired, the class was a consensus No. 7, and thatās what it still is. He also had 19 commitments already, and Ed signed four guys, lost a couple in the process and gained some. He held serve. ā¦ You canāt call it a great class when you lose six players to Alabama, and itās not like Ed just got the job.ā
- Stewart Mandel on QB attrition: āI looked at four full classes of the top 50 quarterbacks. One hundred of the 200 finished their career at a different school from where they started. Itās high among the four- and five-star guys. Blake Barnett is a good example. Went through the Elite 11 circuit, got the accolades, spent two years committed to Alabama, gets beat out by Jalen Hurts and heās gone. The days of Miami stockpiling quarterbacks, Florida State, waiting until their fourth or fifth year to get the job, it just doesnāt happen anymore. Guys expect to start within the first couple years. The numbers say thatās impossible, obviously. Only about 20 percent do. Even some of the ones that do, like Kyle Allen, end up transferring. Itās a constant churn out.ā
A few more here 10 interesting quotes from college football media this week (Feb. 3)
