🏈 Saban's "rant" not about "Ball Control stories," it's directed at new NCAA proposals on camps

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

What did I miss? New rules stemming from the whole satellite camp saga? Last camp I helped coach was in 2013, so I'm assuming something changed since then? What's Saban speaking of, here?

 

[OldPlayer]

What did I miss? New rules stemming from the whole satellite camp saga? Last camp I helped coach was in 2013, so I'm assuming something changed since then? What's Saban speaking of, here?

Does this mean that Tennessee's football camp will have to be cancelled?

 

[JoshB]

Coach Saban's in a good mood

 

[UAgrad93]

CNS is in midseason form with that little rant! I love it!!

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

CNS is in midseason form with that little rant! I love it!!

Same here.

Notice how he joked in his opening statements about being in a state of depression from missing those guys in the press room.

What he was really saying is that he missed seeing the look of fear in the faces of a group of 30-50 grown men when he goes nuclear....lol

 

[TerryP]

What did I miss? New rules stemming from the whole satellite camp saga? Last camp I helped coach was in 2013, so I'm assuming something changed since then? What's Saban speaking of, here?

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

That's just fucking stupid.

When Saban's camps clip 1,000 kids, who the hell is gonna coach all of them?

Hell, who's even going to chaperone them and do bed checks at lights out, etc?

20 Bama coaches (counting GAs) can't handle all that.

Just fucking idiotic. And HS coaches in Alabama don't make a whole lot anyway. Assistants get like a $5k extra stipend for all those hours put in, which averages out to about $3 an hour. So unless you're coaching at a big school with private booster supplemental stipends, you're basically pouring your guts out for peanuts. So you work as many camps as you can for the experience, but also for extra cash in the summer.

This is just complete and utter bullshit.

 

[TerryP]

This is just complete and utter bullshit.

No doubt. NO. Doubt.

There's a lot about this that doesn't make any sense, at all. I'd love to hear one person explain the thinking behind this and I'd really like to know who it was that proposed the rule in the first place.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

No doubt. NO. Doubt.

There's a lot about this that doesn't make any sense, at all. I'd love to hear one person explain the thinking behind this and I'd really like to know who it was that proposed the rule in the first place.

That's the million dollar question. Apparently somebody doesn't like all the exposure programs like ours get. I'd bet the farm that we get more kids in one week of camp than a lot of other SEC programs get all summer. So we hire out local area HS coaches to help with the mass influx.

I'd also bet the farm that this has about as much to do with the "HS promoter/handler/representative" of blue chip players as the shit I dropped a couple hours ago.

 

[TerryP]

I'd bet the farm that we get more kids in one week of camp than a lot of other SEC programs get all summer.

Several years ago I did quite a bit of research comparing camps around the SEC. At that time, the average was about four to one. That season, if I recall correctly, the biggest camp Auburn had was around 350 or so while Bama's eclipsed 1200.

I'd also bet the farm that this has about as much to do with the "HS promoter/handler/representative" of blue chip players

I've never really looked to see how the rules read about transportation to summer camps. I've always assumed it was within the NCAA's regulations that their coaches could take them to the camps. If I'm right, I really understand the point offered--now it's going to be a lot of "third party people" ushering these kids back and forth.

What really confuses me here is if these satellite camps are intended to give more kids the opportunity to attend camps and get more exposure, now they are eliminating these kids sources of transportation?

(This deserves a thread of its own ... going to prune part of it out in a few minutes.)

 

[JoshB]

You can tell that rule had been eating at him and he was just waiting for someone to ask him a dumb question so he could rant about it lol

 

[TerryP]

You can tell that rule had been eating at him and he was just waiting for someone to ask him a dumb question so he could rant about it lol

He wasn't available to attend the conference when this new proposal was introduced. You know he'd have something to say about it then.

While everyone is focusing on his "rant" while others are criticizing him "berating the reporter" his point hopefully got across. One thing for sure, it's got its airtime.