Nick Baumgardner drops a nuke on Nick Saban
Saban -- who has, of course, won four national titles at Alabama -- is literally in the middle of a situation where recruiting violations within his program were found. An assistant coach has been forced to resign and the school currently is awaiting the result of that NCAA investigation.
And if that were the only thing going here, it'd probably be enough. But it's not.
Like in 2009 when a businessman paid for stars Mark Ingram and Julio Jones to go on a fishing trip. Or in 2013 when a former Alabama player was caught giving Tide offensive lineman D.J. Fluker impermissible benefits. Or later that same yearwhen Saban had to fire a staffer after he paid safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix.
Anyone remember that whole deal about the disassociated Alabama booster who continued to sell signed Crimson Tide merchandise -- from players who still were on the team -- back in 2014?
Yeah.
But there was Saban -- who has an NCAA rule honorarily named after him -- on Tuesday, demanding answers on whether or not a few summer camps would be on the up and up. So there was Harbaugh, who correctly decided to give the old "are you seriously going to sit there and say this with a straight face?" reply.
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2016/06/column_jim_harbaugh_nick_saban.html
Is because he can't control all those southern hippy green giver sec staff members at alabama. He knows that they aren't that smart to know how to keep it under wraps. I'm not concerned about our program, never will be. Go Blue!!
Funny how the media never connects the dots on any of this. Could it be that Alabama's status as the flagship program in the SEC has something to do with it?
Landon Collins' girlfriend to work in his office before he committed?
Anyone else read that blockquote with the HTTV ad featuring Spring Game Grin Harbaugh running down the right side? Pretty awesome.
Good job Nick, hopefully some of the national guys pick up on this. Of course we know they won't be from the mothership, but maybe Mandel, or Forde (unlikely he will), or Wenzel will write something similar.
Meet forehead.
All those quotes in that 2008 piece on the Sabin rule could have been copy-pasted with new attributions to all the articles written last spring.
to CHEAT the NCAA continues to do NOTHING, but a occasional slap on the wrist and they wonder most of us feel the whole system is CORRUPT like so many other instituions.....
Saban lecturing ANYBODY on morals and ethics is a complete joke and utter Hypocricy...
I wrote back in April that Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany's refusal to take a public stance against the SEC on the whole camp debate was worse than the original ban itself. I stand by that. Saban's league continues to play the game by its own rules, without apology. Hypocrisy seems to be served for breakfast daily.
That Delany did not take a stand on this initially and seemed to more or less defer to the original decision was absolutely infuriating to me. I have no problem with conference leaders demurring to policies and proposed legislation which is itself objectionable as the SEC's transparently selfish disdain for satellite camps was. The refusal to stand up for student-athletes and stand against blatant hypocritical posturing was very telling, and not in a good way.
I guess I'm just not easily moved by this most common kind of politics whereby Group A screams across a chasm at Group B who is screaming across that chasm at Group A.
From now on can we use this photo of him whenever mentioned?
I don't see any difference.
The SEC didnt give a fuck one way or another about satellite camps until they felt threatened. If it was James Franklin in Harbaughs place there would be no issue.
The SEC and Saban are disingenuous hypocrits. They talk about the kids yet they grayshirt, medical, oversign and give improper benefits with impunity. They care about wins, the kids are merely the tools from which they achieve wins. Otherwise they are expendable.
Their anti-camp arguments are based entirely on that which they accuse Harbaugh, thier own self-interest. They can all burn in hell.
August 18th, 2016 at 4:12 AM ^
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