I mean this in a totally non-snarky way: how many other programs do you know of that seem to go through this exercise on an annual basis?
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UPDATE: Jerry does some math.
I mean this in a totally non-snarky way: how many other programs do you know of that seem to go through this exercise on an annual basis?
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UPDATE: Jerry does some math.
Filed under Nick Saban Rules
“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
Do you mean the exercise of actually keeping track of scholarships or the exercise of having ignorant sports reporters and bloggers try to guess how many scholarship athletes the program has?
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The latter. I presume every competent head coach in America stays on top of this kind of stuff, but why do bloggers care so much – especially ‘Bama bloggers?
I probably could have said “scrutiny” instead of “exercise” to make my point clearer.
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Either works for me, but to keep it civil, let’s go with the first one. I also don’t know of any other fan base that keeps track of scholarships in the summer. No one else I know of bothers until it’s time to count up the number of open offers during winter’s recruiting season. And I too mean that without snark. I simply don’t know of another one that does.
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Hey, it’s a trend of two so far.
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Don’t back off, Senator. The reason only ‘Bama bloggers have to do this is because only one coach in the country has signed way more players than he has room for two seasons in a row. At least in Butch Davis he had company this year.
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“The reason only ‘Bama bloggers have to do this is because only one coach in the country has signed way more players than he has room for two seasons in a row”
You’re assuming Saban has woken up the day after Signing Day the last two years and said, “Oh, &$%#! We’ve got to get rid of some guys, aight.”
As detail-oriented as he is, I would venture to guess he knew who wasn’t coming back before he signed new recruits to take their place.
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As winning-obsessed as he is, I would venture to guess he knew who wasn’t coming back because he knew who he was going to ask to leave the team.
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tomato… to-mah-to
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If you’re fine with kids getting cut, sure.
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I guess I’ll deal with that when we get the first report of a kid saying he was cut by Saban.
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I guess Nick brought something with him from the Pros, cutting players to stay under the cap.
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I’m just glad he hasn’t issued a salary cap.
Beat you to it, JCCW.
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That’s a quality zinger, there, CD, no doubt.
I’d have left it alone, though–I only have enough self-righteous panties for one issue, and I decided to get them in a wad over the scholarship thing a while back.
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