🏈 Alabama coach Nick Saban says Big Ten is a 'really good conference' in rare trip back to Ohio

[TerryP]

One of the questions Saban fielded centered on how and when the Big Ten would "get up to SEC standards." He jokingly said, "I’m going to be politically correct on this one," before he launched into his assessment.

“I think you have great high school football here in Ohio, but there’s a lot of really good players in the Southeast and I think there’s a lot of passion for those players, and as that league has accomplished a lot of success through the years, more and more people on a national basis want to come there,” Saban said. "So it’s created a real competitive conference. But I think the Big Ten has great institutions and are certainly capable of all those things and I think you almost have to nationally recruit in this day and age.

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[alabama mike]

He is correct when he said, "I think you have great high school football here in Ohio..." Of course, some parts of the state have traditionally better programs than others.