Saban Recruits 8th Grade RB

[HammerDown]

 

[starbigd]

Saban wasn't even the first to offer the kid. He'll be in the class of 2017.

What I find funny is that there's no guarantee the kid even continues to play FB, or is any good, by the time he starts playing with other kids his size. I also doubt both Miles and Saban are still coaching at LSU and Bama by then as well.

 

[HammerDown]

So then I wonder what Saban's motivation was, especially considering there'd be obvious negative PR?

 

[Red_Alert]

All the distracting attention will potentially lead this kid onto the wrong track.

 

[starbigd]

So then I wonder what Saban's motivation was, especially considering there'd be obvious negative PR?

I don't think Saban cares. Especially the way he dumps the kids that don't perform so he can make room for all the recruits he brings in.

 

[BadMotoWeazal]

My boss offered me a job & I took it. I didn't perform to the companies expectations. I got fired & they hired someone else to fill my position.


Real life sucks.

 

[sooner78wakeboard]

I heard a statement on the radio this morining about the deal, and I agreed with it. It may have been Colin Cowherd. Something like, "Do you ever look back at those kids who excelled when they were young only to fizzle out once everyone else catches up to them?" Yeah this kid may be good but he's playing with other kids, let's see what happens when the other kids growth spurt's catch up to him.

I remember a few guys who were cocky as hell in Jr.High. They had great stats and were bigger. But things changed in High School once everyone else caught up to them, and they dropped out of football because they were getting lit up to bad.

 

[rolltide14_0]

My boss offered me a job & I took it. I didn't perform to the companies expectations. I got fired & they hired someone else to fill my position.


Real life sucks.

Some people don't live in real life brah, nothing we can do but shake our heads.

The idea that you should continue to get a free college education when you aren't contributing anything at all is asinine.

How can you be a man and expect shit to be given to you? Go to a school that you can actually contribute to in return for your education. Because at this point, you probably ain't going to the NFL, so why not go somewhere that you can actually PLAY football, and EARN your education.

 

[7NationalChampionships]

All the distracting attention will potentially lead this kid onto the wrong track.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[rolltide14_0]

I heard a statement on the radio this morining about the deal, and I agreed with it. It may have been Colin Cowherd. Something like, "Do you ever look back at those kids who excelled when they were young only to fizzle out once everyone else catches up to them?" Yeah this kid may be good but he's playing with other kids, let's see what happens when the other kids growth spurt's catch up to him.

I remember a few guys who were cocky as hell in Jr.High. They had great stats and were bigger. But things changed in High School once everyone else caught up to them, and they dropped out of football because they were getting lit up to bad.

I was like that in elementary and middle school, nobody wanted to fight me then..lol. By high school everyone else grew bigger than me and I was the small one. I wasn't a douchbag when I was bigger than everyone, so it wasn't a big deal for me.

 

[7NationalChampionships]

I was like that in elementary and middle school, nobody wanted to fight me then..lol. By high school everyone else grew bigger than me and I was the small one. I wasn't a douchbag when I was bigger than everyone, so it wasn't a big deal for me.

Yeah...this kids head will be fucked.

 

[starbigd]

Some people don't live in real life brah, nothing we can do but shake our heads.

The idea that you should continue to get a free college education when you aren't contributing anything at all is asinine.

How can you be a man and expect shit to be given to you? Go to a school that you can actually contribute to in return for your education. Because at this point, you probably ain't going to the NFL, so why not go somewhere that you can actually PLAY football, and EARN your education.

Seriously, do you all believe this BS you spout? You give a kid a scholly to play football........then oversign and bring in more kids than you can actually take - so you are in essence committing FRAUD. THEN you kick the kids not at the top out of the program.

Don't act like they just weren't good enough. Saban and every other coach that oversigns PURPOSELY PLANS to screw kids over like this.

Seriously, get outta here with that BS

 

[rolltide14_0]

Seriously, do you all believe this BS you spout? You give a kid a scholly to play football........then oversign and bring in more kids than you can actually take - so you are in essence committing FRAUD. THEN you kick the kids not at the top out of the program.

Don't act like they just weren't good enough. Saban and every other coach that oversigns PURPOSELY PLANS to screw kids over like this.

Seriously, get outta here with that BS

They see who fucking sucks and who doesn't, that's why they know who they can sign and you don't.

It's a 1 goddamn year scholly, if you suck ass you deserve to get the boot. And if you or anyone else thinks that a kid should be able to sit his fat ass on the bench at #9 on the depth chart, and play with his dick for 4 years, then you can fuck off because your opinion is shit.

If Saban guaranteed every recruit that they'd come in and be a star, then I'd have a problem with it, but he doesn't. He lets every recruit know the possibilities, and what they have a chance at if they work hard and EARN it. Many recruits praise him for this.

 

[starbigd]

They see who fucking sucks and who doesn't, that's why they know who they can sign and you don't.

It's a 1 goddamn year scholly, if you suck ass you deserve to get the boot. And if you or anyone else thinks that a kid should be able to sit his fat ass on the bench at #9 on the depth chart, and play with his dick for 4 years, then you can fuck off because your opinion is shit.

If Saban guaranteed every recruit that they'd come in and be a star, then I'd have a problem with it, but he doesn't. He lets every recruit know the possibilities, and what they have a chance at if they work hard and EARN it. Many recruits praise him for this.

That's utter BULLSHIT sir

It's one thing if you have natural attrition on your team. It's quite another when you have 85 spots available, but offer 100 kids. One kid gets injured, and you kick him off to make room for the new kids you offered that you didn't have room for. We're not talking about open tryouts here. We're talking about kids already on the team, and in some cases, kids get their scholly revoked before they even get on campus. THATS BS AND YOU KNOW IT.

Your entire position is flat out horseshit

 

[rmilia1]

To be fair this kid probably is already smart enough to get into Alabama....

 

[UTVolCountry]

How many stars is this kid? Stars is all that matters.

 

[Brasky]

Saban wasn't even the first to offer the kid. He'll be in the class of 2017.

What I find funny is that there's no guarantee the kid even continues to play FB, or is any good,.

Thank you, captain obvious.

 

[Brasky]

They see who fucking sucks and who doesn't, that's why they know who they can sign and you don't.

It's a 1 goddamn year scholly, if you suck ass you deserve to get the boot. And if you or anyone else thinks that a kid should be able to sit his fat ass on the bench at #9 on the depth chart, and play with his dick for 4 years, then you can fuck off because your opinion is shit.

If Saban guaranteed every recruit that they'd come in and be a star, then I'd have a problem with it, but he doesn't. He lets every recruit know the possibilities, and what they have a chance at if they work hard and EARN it. Many recruits praise him for this.

Methinks thou doth protest too much.

You know in your gut it's wrong.

But you go right on thinking Alabama should get to play by a different set of rules than everyone else.

Everyone else can just take their "ethics" and "morals" and shove it, right?

 

[Shanemansj13]

This is ridiculous. There should be an age limit.

 

[Camfantasy]

This is ridiculous. There should be an age limit.

There is...it's just nobody pays attention to it. I believe you can't get a formal written scholarship offer to a college until the beginning of your senior year. That led to recruiters offering "verbal" scholarships to kids. There was then a rule denying that....so then recruiters started offering verbal scholarships to a kids high school coaches.

It's gotten to be total bullshit. College football has become a a contest to figure out which program can bend the rules and to find different loopholes in rules that they can manipulate to their advantage. It's simple to see too. Look at every top 5ish program over the last 5-10 years and it will be evidenced in every single one of them to some degree. Ethics and moral have gone to shit because a majority of chest beating elitist fans do not give 2 shits about a university or how they treat these 18 year old kids. They just want to go to work tomorrow and throw up in their coworkers face how much they beat their team by.