OT: Saban Still Doesn't Like Satellite Camps - Today's Rant
He has very serious concerns about compliance, yet is sending his staff to satellite camps. 'aight?
http://michigan.247sports.com/Bolt/Saban-strongly-rips-satellite-camps-…
I mean, I guess if I squint I can see the argument for trying to keep third person handlers out of football recruiting, but in that case regulate it, don't ban it. The argument is still stupid and just about protecting turf.
There already were third-party handlers rising in the existing system. Because the cost to travel to university camps is prohibitive, many prospects relied on a third party to bus them to different schools on a summer camp tour or travel with 7-on-7 teams. How do those third parties decide which schools make the tour? Sometimes by an envelope of cash under the hotel room door.
Do satellite camps need compliance oversight? Yes. But I don't see how they make the current system any worse. I think the ideal system would be regional combines that were open to any coach to come scout prospects.
I tried to read this twice and it comes off as word salad. When you're Nick Saban, I guess you can string together all of the non sequiturs you want and everyone thinnks it's "profound."
Yeah, I got the same thing. Incoherant man is incoherant. My guess is that he really doesn't have a reason to oppose the camps that doesn't sound selfish if he actually lays it out.
Maybe Alabama's Complinace should be more worried about "rogue" coaches on Saban's staff.
Michigan has someone from compliance with them to make sure they don't do anything wrong. Alabama can't stay out of trouble in Alabama.
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Yeah Saban didn't get to where he is without being an ultra-competive, self-serving douche bag, so to hear that he's leafed through every possible argument against camps to find the one or two he can hang his hat on for his own gain is not only unsurprising, but fully expected. Yawn... drive through.
Yeah, too bad Nick. You lost this one.
Time to move on to something else, like defending oversigning.
The guy is a complete hypocrite, and runs a dirty program, but he does make some cogent arguments that should be considered. If the SEC had taken this stance from day one, the ban may never have been recinded.
They absolutely did take this stance from day one, Sankey was practically screaming it to the rafters to any reporter who asked him about it. The point got acknowledged but then got buried under the fact that it was still a stupid argument for a complete ban and they needed to explore the issue and come up with a smart regulation vs. pressing with a ban that had a crapload of unintended consequences.
I believe you, but I don't remember seeing any of that at the time. All that I recall was Sankey talking about the sanctity of spring break for students, and the increasing time demands.
Stewart Mandel talked about it on an The Audible Podcast about a month back.
Blah, blah, blah...
Anything Saban doesn't like must be good for college football
"There needs to be somebody who looks out for what's best for the game, not the SEC or the Big Ten or Jim Harbaugh. But what's best for the game of college football. The integrity of the game."
Wait... what? Integrity of the game? The bastion of morals and virtue that is the SEC? Cumong Nick. Now you've lost all credibility with that one.
You mean he had credibility before that comment?
Only to the extent that he kept his part in the whole sattelite camp discussion to a really minor role. I suppose with everyone else getting put in their place, they all turned to look to the alpha dog in the conference to do what they couldn't. Not sure he delivered.
Id be willing to bet my kids his role was not minor in the discussion. Maybe it was behnd the scenes but he was the driving force in the SEC proposed legislation to ban them.
I like that he doesn't like them.
....it literally has brought him to tears.
/f-u nick.
Priceless. Nick Saban just wants what's best for the game and is all about integrity.
A lot easier to kill time ranting about satellite camps than talk about real issues facing your team like assistant Bo Davis getting caught & fired for recruiting violations and your star LT being charged with a felony for possessing a stolen firearm. Right out of the Hugh Freeze playbook.
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He really gets into it in the last minute and pounding the podium.
I pretty much phased out when I heard him say "make no mistakes about it......this is all about recruiting"
Then 45 seconds later he said "It's about more than just recruiting"
Saban / Freeze ticket coming for 2020? Sure sounds like it!!
He just wasted 5 minutes and 39 seconds reacting to something that Jim Harbaugh did instead of watching an extra 5 minutes of film or spending an extra 5 minutes on the LSU game plan.
Nick Saban is a baby back bitch.
Nick Saban talking about "compliance" when he just had to fire an assistant for recruiting violations is hypocrisy at its finest.
The last time Saban was ranting at SEC media day he was crying about HUNH offenses.
Call the whambulance Nick. Or just shut the fuck up.
The fucker is shameless, isn't he?
There is nobody who has less credibility on the issue of "integrity of the game" than Nick Saban.
My God, I wish one of those "reporters" would have piped up and said: "When it comes to lecturing people on the integrity of the game, do you get why there are some people who think you have absolutely no credibility on this issue and would like you to shut the fuck up?" Then drop the mic and walk out into internet immortality.
More indignation, aight?
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A lot of these coaches speaking out the loudest are the ones that are currently under investigation or scrutiny by the media. Alabama just fired an assistant for recruiting violations, and their star LT is being charged with a felony. Ole Miss is under the cloud of a major NCAA investigation. Tennessee is dealing with a Title IX lawsuit involving their football program.
But they are the only ones looking out for the best interests and integrity of the game.
Because the camps help level the field, legally. That's the last thing they want.
He's been trying to avoid high school coaches since he offered Dylan Moses when he was still in junior high.
tough titties
Lol speaking of titties, dude could use a man bra.
Let's see how you hold up when you're in your sixties champ.
I didn't watch the video, but read the recap that was linked and...
What is he even talking about? These satellite camps are not run by some random 3rd parties. They're run by high schools and colleges. I'd be willing to bet every college would bring at least 1 compliance person to the party to make sure it's all on the up-and-up.
And is he talking about third parties putting on the camps (in which case, it probably wouldn't pass compliance muster and you won't have college coaching staffs participating) or third parties "representing" kids and, I don't know, driving them to the camps and having conversations with coaches?
I'm glad he has a strong position, although I'm not entirely sure what that position is.