Saban: Satellite camps like U-M's are 'ridiculous'
We knew they would be crying foul. Now Saban joins in.
"If we're all going to travel all over the country to have satellite camps, you know, how ridiculous is that?" Saban said Tuesday evening, before the Crimson Caravan stop in Huntsville, Ala., as reported by al.com. "I mean, we're not allowed to go to all-star games, but now we're going to have satellite camps all over the country. So it doesn't really make sense."
http://www.freep.com/story/sports/c.../04/22/michigan-football-nick-saban/26169641/
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:14 AM ^
up tempo offenses. He opposes anything that will upset the roll tide applecart. He tops recruiting services year after year and its safe to say his team's are the most talented. Now some new guys in the bgtn of all places are upsetting things. New sheriff in town!
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:17 AM ^
I think Harbaugh should HOST a camp (not just be a "guest speaker") both in East Lansing and just inside Ohio. Both are within the 50 mile radius of campus, and would give a big fuck you to Dantonio and Meyer
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^
Are you mad, brother?
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:21 AM ^
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:24 AM ^
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:24 AM ^
on medical scholarships than the rest of the BIG combined.
I realize he does it at an uncanny clip but does he literally do that or were you just using it to make a point?
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:29 AM ^
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
I don't know how it doesn't make sense, Nick.
1) Set up camp basically next door to schools that - by their conference rules - cannot do the same in your backyard.
2) Invite kids who might normally only consider those schools whose backyard you now are inhabiting
3) Evaluate kids and make offers / recruit as you see fit
4) ????
5) Profit.
I suppose I don't see what Nick Saban sees, or perhaps I do and am indifferent to the idea that it irritates him. Hmmmmm.
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:35 AM ^
College recruiting just got "ridiculous" now?
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:36 AM ^
What he meant:
1. "Darn, I wish we had thought of this." Tells his aides in the athletic department to start gearing up for this next year.
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:51 AM ^
Thats half of it. The other half is, crap, i will have to start doing something again and get off my a$$? I cant just say, We are Bama! Roll Tide! Look what we did the last decade!
He is still going to recruit well off past merrits, but this is something he sees more people doing in the future, cutting into his recruits - unless he gets off his a$$ and does the same, or counters it with another method.
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:28 AM ^
Just fucking type "ass". Why the hell do you keep using dollar signs? You're allowed to use swear words here.
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:31 AM ^
Saban is a dirty, dried up, scabby cunt
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April 22nd, 2015 at 10:36 AM ^
Without even coaching a game yet at your new dig is the new killin' it.
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:36 AM ^
are they for recruits only? Or can a 12 year old kid meet an incredibly successful football coach and learn something from him? Where he otherwise wouldn't be able to because his family isn't going to send him a thousand miles to go to camp in Ann Arbor?
Ostensibly we know what this is all about, but there are kids who will benefit. It's not like oversigning and obscure grey shirts where a coach screws up a kids life.
Saban's bitching is to remove the unfair advantage. I'm sure there will be some meeting in a few weeks in Atlanta to remove the restriction. Because these multi million dollar brats (SEC coaches) can't be one upped by some Yankee
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:47 AM ^
Nick Saban thinks all things that are a threat to his hegemony over college football (satellite camps, restrictions on cutting players, spread offenses, up-tempo offenses) are ridiculous.
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
Boy, my Saban Sympathy Jar is just plain dry.
"Why you in my campz... steelin all my peeps?"
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:48 AM ^
If i were a coach that could recruit lazily off past merrits and still land top 2 classes every year, i would complain about this too. I would have to work as hard now as i did 10 years earlier when i was next to irrelevant.
Now he will have to pick up his game just to stay the course. Cant just say "Roll Tide" and land a 5 star. Aggressive, ambitioius competition is what he sees in the future. Time for Saban to put in the work he once did?
April 22nd, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
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April 22nd, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
Part of the reason it doesn't make sense to Saban? He's not allowed do it.
Is Snyder taking Zoloft now?
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:06 AM ^
My feeling on this is fuck Nick Saban.
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:06 AM ^
great user name too
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:07 AM ^
Suck it Saban! At least we are not over signing kids and kicking them to the curb like trash.
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:18 AM ^
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^
Jim pissing off Saban and Urban Meyer crying about it Fist Bump Activated
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:33 AM ^
I drink your milkshake ... I drink it all up!
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:43 AM ^
Satelite camps = Merrr Herrbaurrr!!
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:45 AM ^
eipic HARBAUGH saban battles. I think we can get there in due time.
April 22nd, 2015 at 11:53 AM ^
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April 22nd, 2015 at 12:13 PM ^
If Saban is mad at us, we're doing something right.
April 22nd, 2015 at 12:24 PM ^
Saban: "It doesn't make sense because I didn't think I had the time to do it!"
April 22nd, 2015 at 12:32 PM ^
Saban is such a baby, he finds no problem with "Roster mangement" but those darn hurry up offenses and satellite camps are not fair.
I'd rather my coaches travel and see more kids in person and get a good evaluation of them, than sign 130 kids and slowly cut them until you hit 85.
April 22nd, 2015 at 12:38 PM ^
do not worry nick you will have the ok soon. meanwhile we are going for some of your players. welcome to the new big ten. not sec
April 22nd, 2015 at 12:43 PM ^
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As oversigning.
No wait, less ridiculous. Less ridiculous than oversigning.
Sucks to have rules that pit you at a disadvantage relative to other conferences, eh Saban?
I'm surprised the SEC has rules against camps like this. Is that their only rule?