College football coaches spew out so much hot air, they could fly a balloon around the world in 78 days if given the chance. The hypocrisy and pushing of agendas is more alive and well in CFB than anywhere else in major American sports.
Thankfully, Nick Saban–head coach at Alabama, in case you live under a rock–provided the media with another example of this on Wednesday when he talked to AL.com about the satellite camps that Big 10 schools like Michigan and Ohio State have been involved with:
“If we’re all going to travel all over the country to have satellite camps, you know, how ridiculous is that?”
Yes, for those keeping score at home, a head coach in the SEC is crying foul over recruiting practices. Insert your preferred pot/kettle joke here.
For just a moment, we’ll pretend that every story regarding improprieties in SEC recruiting is overblown. We’ll just act like the idea of huge college football programs competing for hundreds of millions of dollars leaving a $10k paper bag for a recruit is “ridiculous”, alright?
What we won’t ignore, is the common practice of nearly every single SEC, Alabama included, over signing high school and junior college prospects every year on National Signing Day. We’ll ignore the hundreds of kids that get assigned to be a gray-shirt, where the prospect delays his enrollment for a semester, generally waiting for an open scholarship the next spring and keeping his five-year eligibility clock from starting.
It’s a trick, not a cheat.
Just like the SEC’s insistence on gray-shirts, certain Big 10 schools have finally figured out a way to gain a recruiting advantage. Now we have a head coach from one of the biggest, most powerful football programs in the country crying foul?
Give me a break.
