OT - Nick Saban nabs 5 star by offering his gf a job
Title says it all.
Remember the 5 star at the UA AA Bowl who chose Alabama despite his mom sitting next to him, who wanted him to go to LSU? According to the mom, Saban closed the deal by offering the recruits girlfriend a job. Bama of course can't comment on any prospective student athlete until after a LOI comes in. But this, while dirty as all hell, isn't actually against NCAA rules. It only is for basketball recruiting. The NCAA makes zero sense. If we were worried about Saban finding new loopholes after the SEC "cracked" down on oversigning, here's one he found.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:23 PM ^
I for one don't even get angry at this-Saban is obviously one of the hardest workers to find these loopholes to help entice top recruits.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:35 PM ^
SEC: "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'."
January 30th, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^
Technically, Saban never actually cheats; he just finds every last loophole he can to squeeze through. He must have a great team of lawyers.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:53 PM ^
I'm obviously making a caricature of your statement, but you would have quite the ethical principle if you defaulted to:
I don't like it when people do unethical things - unless they worked hard to do them, in which case, meh, I respect that.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:23 PM ^
Was the job offer written on a cocktail napkin?
January 30th, 2012 at 4:19 PM ^
Nick wants her to be one of the "welcome to Alabama" co-eds we've been hearing about .. /s
Go Blue!
January 30th, 2012 at 1:24 PM ^
Sadly, this does not surprise me at all. Saban has no respect for the "spirit of the law" and can find any loophole in the "letter of the law." He has put winning above everything else.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:29 PM ^
Who at the NCAA had the bright idea to write this rule.... ONLY FOR BASKETBALL RECRUITS!!
"The NCAA passed a new bylaw in 2010 pertaining specifically to men's basketball that prohibits a university from employing an individual associated with a prospective student-athlete. This bylaw, however, does not apply to college football recruits. According to NCAA bylaw 13.8.3.2:
"In men's basketball, during a two-year period before a prospective student-athlete's anticipated enrollment and a two-year period after the student-athlete's actual enrollment, an institution shall not employ an individual associated with the prospective student-athlete in any athletics department non-coaching staff position."
January 30th, 2012 at 1:32 PM ^
No kidding. What a joke. Although we should probably stop getting surprised by the ineffectiveness of the NCAA
January 30th, 2012 at 1:30 PM ^
NO POLITICS ON TEH BOARDZ.
/s
January 30th, 2012 at 1:25 PM ^
They could sell beer in the parking lots for 10k an hour! Yessssss, SEC and ohio style.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:29 PM ^
He is clearly getting ready for a 2016 run at the USA presidency under the platform of being a job creator.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:34 PM ^
He'd get more % of the vote than Craig James is going to get in Texas.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:52 PM ^
The same CRAIG JAMES who KILLED FIVE HOOKERS allegedly?
January 30th, 2012 at 6:24 PM ^
"CRAIG JAMES KILLED FIVE HOOKERS" = Funny internet meme.
"Nick Saban killed five hookers" = You might want to have a couple of investigative reporters, from outside of Alabama, look into it.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:30 PM ^
Saban has hair plugs
January 30th, 2012 at 1:31 PM ^
While I don't like Saban, this lady needs to shut the hell up and support her son.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:34 PM ^
You should read the article. She clearly feels she raised her son better than to support this type of move that enticed here son to play at Alabama. I think she is right in feeling the way she does
January 30th, 2012 at 1:40 PM ^
Agree totally w/ Vader
January 30th, 2012 at 1:51 PM ^
Yeah but if you watched the actual video, it seemed pretty clear that she's just a hard-core GEAUX TIGERS homer whose loyalty to LSU seems to outweigh her familial bonds.
January 30th, 2012 at 2:11 PM ^
The ESPN article makes it seem like she is pissed that her son has grown up to be his own man/feeling left out because she raised him.
By all accounts he was mommy's boy growing up but after Katrina and his desire to play football at Ducktown instead of inner city NOLA she let him move in with his father and after that his father began to play a central figure in his college decisions and mom stayed home.
She really does need to STFU as the kid told her he was commiting to Alabama before he left for the UA game and he had to beg her to show up and she still pulled that "OMG I cant believe you just did that" stunt.
January 30th, 2012 at 2:31 PM ^
...when it comes to ethics. She's an LSU homer who needs to calm down and accept her son's decision as opposed to caring only about a game.
If I was Les, I wouldn't want her around my program anyway. Why put up with the threat of her going to the media if her kid wasn't getting enough playing time?
January 30th, 2012 at 2:51 PM ^
If all else is equal, then he's an idiot if he doesn't take the money. That's a fact.
We're not talking about the law, or even ethics, here. We're talking about mythical NCAA rules that don't even exist in this case.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:40 PM ^
Seems like his mom is either determined to justify her actions when he signed, but she has to realize that she's not going to be famous (if anything, her son will be) and has no reputation to protect. She'll always be remembered from that moment, even if she was right.
Then again, it also looks like she's determined to keep the spotlight and probably won't go away during his career.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:04 PM ^
I agree to a point, parents need to be as supportive of their children as they can be. But, being a parent means you need to lead your child in the right direction in life, before you support the decisions they make.
I tell my son he needs more extra curriculars, and he tells me he wants to join a gang. It's not that I wouldn't support him if he chose the crips, when we're clearly bloods in our family.
It's that I wouldn't support .any shicester activity, like that of Nick Saban. Nick Saban is a shicester.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:32 PM ^
Is this really even news anymore? I've heard so much dirty dealings from Saban that it all blurs into one thing now
January 30th, 2012 at 1:37 PM ^
That's the danger. We all get numb to it and just accept it as the way things are.
Don't.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:10 PM ^
I feel the same way about a lot of things. U of M is a no smoking campus?! I can't smoke on public ground outside?! That wasn't in the rulebook when I applied to Michigan.
You can't smoke in bars anymore?! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?! Unamerican is what that is.
I can't buy a pack of Camel Signature blends anymore?! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!
I mean, I quit smoking....
BUT I WOULD STILL LIKE THE AMERICAN FREEDOM TO CHOOSE
January 30th, 2012 at 1:33 PM ^
how does the ncaa not feel at least a moral obligation to do something about this? i mean saban will be a great coach whether he continues these practices or not, but don't they notice that something fundamentally wrong is going on here?
January 30th, 2012 at 1:34 PM ^
At this point with Saban, I'd expect the title to be "Nick Saban nabs 5 star by offering HJ, BJ, and ZJ on top of Camaro with 54" rims, threat to kill a rabbit."
January 30th, 2012 at 1:35 PM ^
OK sorry, I had to ask.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:40 PM ^
Ya can't afford it
January 30th, 2012 at 1:44 PM ^
well played sir
January 30th, 2012 at 3:54 PM ^
I'm glad someone else watches Beerfest every time it is on Comedy Central.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:52 PM ^
Pretty sure it was even on sunday... or maybe it was saturday
January 30th, 2012 at 7:10 PM ^
Just yesterday, I was goin through some of my original Xbox games and found in a game case. I had been looking for that shit for years. Still waiting on that sequel though.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:34 PM ^
what's to stop any program from offering every 5* recruits "girlfriend" a job as an "executive assistant" or "aide to the coach" for 80k a year?... Cecil Newton ad infinium?
January 30th, 2012 at 1:47 PM ^
According to the sheep, that would be "integrity" that stops them. With each lost recruit, the definition for "integrity" gets narrower and begins to sound like a loser's lament rather than a something they actually believe in.
January 30th, 2012 at 2:04 PM ^
So if Brady Hoke doesn't offer jobs to the friends and family members of recruits, that means he's one of the "sheep" who's really just a loser?
Are Ohio State's opponents "sanctimonius turds" for believing that OSU obtained unfair recruiting advantages by turning a blind eye to cars, tats, and god knows what else?
Do you believe that people "get little undeserving token jobs based on who they know every single day" from UM's athletic dept., and therefore we shouldn't criticize Saban?
January 30th, 2012 at 3:58 PM ^
You can't tie the cars and tats back the recruiting process. Not even the more flimsy rumors in the last year carried tales of promised hook-ups to unsigned players. So yeah, you're sanctimonious there and pretty biased as well.
Michigan's athletic department probably does give jobs to people based on who they know just like pretty much any large organization in the United States. Not everyone who deserves certain jobs gets them. Just a fact of life and everyone here knows it, making the GASPING more than a little disingenious.
The ONLY reason we even know about this story right now is because the kid's mom is such a loose cannon.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:36 PM ^
Good idea Satan!
January 30th, 2012 at 1:38 PM ^
I love people acting all indignant about a recruit's girlfriend getting a job. WHO CARES?!?! WHO REALLY GETS HURT?!?!
Some of you sanctimonious turds hold this up as some great assault on integrity when in the real world - something the NCAA rarely mimmicks - people get little undeserving token jobs based on who they know every single day.
Deal.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:37 PM ^
Nick Saban, Job Creator.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:45 PM ^
Nick Saban is good for the economy. Gentlemen, we found our 2012 GOP candidate
January 30th, 2012 at 6:53 PM ^
I thought it was funny
January 30th, 2012 at 1:46 PM ^
I hope he's cool with his girlfriend gettin' banged by future recruits, because that's likely her new "job."
January 30th, 2012 at 1:48 PM ^
earns gets split with the recruit.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:55 PM ^
Some of you sanctimonious turds hold this up as some great assault on integrity when in the real world - something the NCAA rarely mimmicks - people get little undeserving token jobs based on who they know every single day.Except there aren't rules at my work place against enticing a potential employee with a job for his girlfriend.
January 30th, 2012 at 2:04 PM ^
The NCAA doesn't have rules against it as well. Unless he's a basketball player. Then it's a violation. For a football player it's totally fine.
January 30th, 2012 at 2:18 PM ^
...supposed to govern what's permissable in the realm of hiring HS/AAU coaches/mentors. We've seen instances where HS FB coaches have been hired as coaches/administrators by college programs to entice recruits. Whether that's kosher is debatable, but it seems clear that the wording of the bylaw has created a loophole wide enough to drive a semi through.