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When the so-called “Nick Saban Rule” went into effect — and put severe restrictions on the amount of time coaches could visit high school prospects during the offseason — the head man at Alabama called the change “ridiculous.”
Now, Saban’s making a different sort of call by keeping ahead of the NCAA on the technology curve. Read more…
Last Sunday was the 38th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, when National Guardsmen fired on Vietnam protesters, killing four students at the Ohio college. And one person who will never forget is Nick Saban.
Bill Reiter of the KANSAS CITY STAR talked to the Alabama coach about the events that happened on that day in 1970. Saban was a defensive back on the Golden Flashes football team - and was at school when the infamous shots were fired. Read more…
The NCAA recently passed a rule prohibiting coaches from contacting high school players during the spring evaluation period. So how’s a guy like Nick Saban going to occupy his time from mid-April to the end of May?
By hitting the links & hitting the track!
WIAT-TV in Birmingham chronicles the ‘Bama coach’s busy Tuesday. First, Saban shot a few holes with fellow coaches Steve Spurrier, Tommy Tuberville & Rich Rodriguez at the Chick-Fil-A Bowl Alma Mater tourney outside Atlanta. And what was Nick’s favorite part of the golf outing?
Would you believe dining with Billy Packer? Read more…
If you’re an Alabama student who can’t wait to roll with the Crimson Tide at Bryant-Denny Stadium next season, better take a number.
The university’s CRIMSON WHITE newspaper (via EDSBS) reports that only 16% of the stadium’s seats are allotted to the Tuscaloosa enrollment, the 3rd smallest allotment in the football-fanatical SEC.
But school officials argue that while a small percentage is set aside, UA students are given more opportunities to buy seats: Read more…
It looks like Nick Saban’s love affair with the media continues akin to PETA’s romance with KFC. The Alabama football coach got into a little tiff with Ian Rapoport, a rapoporter reporter for THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS. The story was found via THE WIZARD OF ODDS, who raised the stakes with the video goodness:
• YOU BEEN BLINDED tunes in to see the gang at “South Park” taking a run at Bill Belichick.
• THREE STRIKES AND OUT wants to invoke the Patriot Act, as an American basketball player will suit up for the Russian women’s Olympic team.
• EVERY DAY SHOULD BE SATURDAY has found the perfect halftime entertainment for next year’s gridiron games in Tuscaloosa.
Keith McCants was a star linebacker at Alabama, whose dominance in the late ’80s resulted in his selection as a top 5 NFL Draft pick.
Now his own life is now dominated by drug abuse and constant trouble with the law. The MOBILE PRESS-REGISTER has the sad update of the former Crimson Tide terror who’s been arrested yet again - for the third time in just over a month.
With the presidential race in full swing, THE WIZARD OF ODDS digs up this little political gem from Woody Hayes, as the ex-Ohio State coach endorses one of his former Buckeyes running for Columbus City Council:
