Recruiting Football Talk VII

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MarcoVol said:
But many here said the spring portal wouldn’t have talent?
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I’ll believe it when I see it. There hasn’t been the past few years and when you consider you can’t transfer interconference (or is that only a sec rule) then it eliminates a lot of the potential market.
 
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CAVPUT said:
I'm fine with no pics. Just reminds me of what I no longer have to look forward to. Already sick of palm trees.
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I will gladly trade with you...I hate this frozen hell, and I love seeing the palm trees softly sway on a warm beautiful day...while 90% of everybody in the country north of Ocala is freezing their assets off 😒

Snow is pretty to look at...for a few hours..and then you just wish it would go away.
 
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MarcoVol said:
But many here said the spring portal wouldn’t have talent?
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It'll have less talent. Until it actually happens, everything is just an opinion. I'm sticking by my opinion. Most of the talent enters during the Winter window, which is longer, and allows them to go through Spring practice with their new team. Less talent will enter in the Spring, mostly guys who failed to win starting jobs.
 
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Orange. said:
Didn't the player say Saban made a call from the car and the police backed off? But allegedly it's not Saban's doing that the popo, Birmingham, and the NCAA are in his pocket. Saban is just lucky. They all hopped in his pocket all by themselves.
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That is exactly what has happened down there...it is an insane world when a college football coach has so much real world power invested in him...just to win football games.
 
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BigSteve09 said:
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Saban will try to use that to place rules and caps on Bama's rivals that Bama and the like can violate with impunity.

Saban spring '22:
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Then he misses the playoffs. Then he only makes the playoffs by means of corrupt Birmingham officiating, and loses in the first round. Then he quits.

And dedicates himself to lobbying for new rules to re-establish "parity." 😂 That is buying recruiting classes under the table with impunity.
 
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Orange. said:
Eh. You just bought into "the Saban is a model for managers in business" propaganda, and don't want to admit that he bought his first class at Bama in broad daylight and the NCAA deliberately turned a blind eye. "Julio Jones is going to have to take a pay cut to go to the NFL" was a national punchline. He kept buying classes with impunity and that remains forever the necessary precondition of everything he cheated his way to.

What Saban said about Jimbo was 100% projection and 100% true of Saban. TAMU let all of college football down by not responding publicly with a catalog of allegations concerning Saban's rule breaking, including paying players at Bama his entire tenure there and the rigged officiating. But TAMU backed down. Birmingham didn't cite Saban for his violation, either. They let it go, forcing TAMU to respond then "warned both teams."

And look at the obvious way we were targeted for crooked officiating from our second game on -- for the entire regular season. Can you even imagine how demoralizing that kind of corruption was for our players. They knew what was happening. Maybe it was "bad luck" or something they just had to "man up" and ignore for a little while, but it became so completely clear and obvious they couldn't not know what was being done to them.

Your alternating ideas that Saban was just "smart" (because he had boosters handle all the cheating) or "lucky" (that everyone cheated for him behind his back) is naive imo. NCAA rules state every such action by boosters is an infraction. Moreover one that is by rule charged to the university for enforcement purposes. Moreover, by rule, in the category of "lack of institutional control."

As far as Birmingham goes, it depends on what lurks behind the phrase "hitched their star to." It sounds like a polite way to say cheated and manipulated for.

As far as corruption in Alabama, the recent case where the popo and the DA literally acted as defense attorneys for the Bama basketball player who was a manifest accessory to murder was so extreme and obvious that I don't see how anyone could excuse it. People citing the popo statement that "they didn't have anyway to charge him" was American politics level heinous. They said he never touched the gun because he passed it in a hat.

Saban couldn't win in the NFL when other teams could also pay players and now he has run away when NIL has allowed his college rivals to join him in paying -- even though he still has the unearned and illicit advantage of having bought all the most NFL-likely players he paid at Bama, and using that as a recruiting advantage forever after. His new role at Bama will be to have bags thrown behind his back in Washington and elsewhere and to propagandize on TV to naive fans of other teams to support and applaud reinstituting Bama's cheating-with-impunity edge as best he can.

Would you be surprised if the UT coed was intimidated into silence when she was assaulted after the '22 game and that Saban made excuses for?

Above all, I don't see how you slough off the crooked officiating that affects us. That perplexes me. It was an organized hit. It cheated us, harmed our players and set our recruiting back. And it played a decisive role in Saban being corruptly advanced to the playoffs.

I'm just glad the other (lesser) cheater beat Saban. And like Saban, he is walking out as a hero and without consequences for himself. The '22 playoff was corrupted by Michigan too. That was and still remains the fact too big for the media to document, which would not be difficult to do.

I suspect you'll never stop defending Saban. But I'll never not object to Saban's stolen valor and fraud status.
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This is the post of the year.
 
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Weezer said:
It'll have less talent. Until it actually happens, everything is just an opinion. I'm sticking by my opinion. Most of the talent enters during the Winter window, which is longer, and allows them to go through Spring practice with their new team. Less talent will enter in the Spring, mostly guys who failed to win starting jobs.
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You mean like Zalance Heard?
 
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MarcoVol said:
You mean like Zalance Heard?
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No, because Heard entered during the Winter window, and he'll have a chance to win a starting job in Spring practice. Not to mention he was a true freshman.

Like I said before, we'll see when the Spring window comes.
 
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