📡 Uncommonly frank conversation with Nick Saban. “I know I’m crazy.

[RTB X Bot]

Nick Saban: Alabama lacked ownership in CFP, new recruiting rules make him 'crazy'

 

[TerryP]

CBS: I've seen your comments on the legislative package that got passed in April . Is early signing going to work? I get the impression from people that oversee this is they're not going to stop with a December signing period . There may be an earlier one.



Saban: "I'm at a loss with the direction that we're moving in relative to the rules that we're making. I hate to speak in a negative way about colleagues or people that are responsible for passing some of this stuff.

"I don't see how it helps anything or anybody. Football is a developmental game. To keep trying to push a recruiting calendar, it's for the benefit of teams in the North because they want guys to visit in the summertime and all that …

"If character and intelligence and things we're responsible for … how do we evaluate that stuff if we're offering guys when they're sophomores, so they can visit in their junior year, so they can decide before their senior year?"

"That means a high school coach is going to be in the same position we are now with [Leonard] Fournette and [Christian] McCaffrey. They don't play in their bowl games. What's to say some high school kid says, 'We're out of the playoffs, I'm not going to play anymore this year. I'm going to Alabama.'

"To me, it's bad to the high heaven for everybody. Who's self interest it's serving, I don't know … To me, all this grows out of paranoia in recruiting to think that somebody's doing something that somebody else is not doing.

"They make this rule that has all these unintended consequences for the game. I don't get it …

"We even have a little kids camp, 7-11 years old, 1,200 kids. That's winning games for Alabama? That's 1,200 kids that are growing up loving up Alabama. It's a legacy investment.

"I know I'm crazy. You can tell everybody I'm crazy."

CBS: Ten years in, is it any easier to recruit at Alabama?

Saban: "I don't think it's any easier to recruit. I think the expectations are greater. It's like climbing a mountain. Very few people get to the top. Those who get to the top don't stay at the top very long. So what's the reality of all that? Keep climbing."

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Finebaum is going to run right at Michigan with that I'd bet.

How long do you think that'll be a talking point?

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

I get both sides. But one thing that cannot be left out is the fact that CNS is still going to outwork most everyone. So as they may rule changes to help the college recruiting, they'll think that is the level playing field magic wand, & CNS will just keep hustling more than most, thus still winning games & recruiting the best players.