Saban asks recruiting sites for integrity

[SouthernStyle]

http://blog.al.com/rapsheet/2009/06/nick_saban_asks_for_recruiting.html

Surely fansite bloggers wouldn't do something like this.

 

[HejiraHenry]

He's right, of course, but it's still worth a chuckle to hear Little Nicky talk about integrity.

 

[slappy4428]

He's right, of course, but it's still worth a chuckle to hear Little Nicky talk about integrity.

Just a chuckle?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I wish I could tell my Saban stories here without outing myself. The guy is a piece of work.

 

[lone star scribe]

It's hard to feel sorry for Saban -- OK, damn near impossible -- but he's right about the lack of ethics exhibited by some of these fan sites masquerading as journalists. We get tarred with the same brush, because non-blogging fans don't make the distinction between real journalists and these fanboy bloggers.

 

[HejiraHenry]

It's hard to feel sorry for Saban -- OK, damn near impossible -- but he's right about the lack of ethics exhibited by some of these fan sites masquerading as journalists. We get tarred with the same brush, because non-blogging fans don't make the distinction between real journalists and these fanboy bloggers.

Well, if so, that's not the fanbois fault, now is it?

 

[ColbertNation]

Saban? Integrity?

Well I'll be! Someone finally got the two into the same sentence.

 

[slappy4428]

Saban? Integrity?

Well I'll be! Someone finally got the two into the same sentence.

And without the blue font.

 

[Starman]

The mean nasty bloggers are telling the recruits lies, just like Saban does when he says "I'll still be coaching here three years from now." *

(Or three weeks, what's the difference.)




* Unless my agent Jimmy goes out and scares up an offer for 10 cents more than I'm getting paid now, that is.

 

[slappy4428]

Keep in mind, Satan wants everyone on the same page -- fans, players, coaches, administration, media... this is just an extension

 

[WaylonJennings]

The Rivals guys on my former beat were both exemplary professionals, and they beat our ass on real stories more than once. More than a dozen times probably.

 

[Shaggy]

Keep in mind, Satan wants everyone on the same page -- fans, players, coaches, administration, media... this is just an extension

Saban is just the most visible stereotype of 90 percent of Division IA football coaches-- a bully, an asshole, drenched in paranoia and unreasonable in so many ways.

To get to the top of their profession, they had to work their ass off and lose every decent personality trait they may have had at some point in their life.

 

[BillyT]

I wish I could tell my Saban stories here without outing myself. The guy is a piece of work.

Mizzou, you want my password" Hehehehehhe


I heard this from a guy who heard from a guy . . . .


He's ****ing hosed anyway.

The Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer folks are already writing him off.

 

[Armchair_QB]

The Rivals guys on my former beat were both exemplary professionals, and they beat our ass on real stories more than once. More than a dozen times probably.

Which makes them the exception rather than the rule. Saban does have a point.

 

[share24]

Feldman discusses this http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4279235&name=feldman_bruce&action=upsell&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fespn%2fblog%2findex%3fentryID%3d4279235%26name%3dfeldman_bruce.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Thanks for checking in, Feldman.

 

[John Kaltefleiter]

The real story is how the assistant coaches -- at least it was the case in the SEC -- use the recruiting sites to lure potential recruits, specifically during no-call periods. There was an instance two years ago at Georgia when a Rivals.com recruiting "expert" visited a recruit and posed as being affiliated with the university. The school had to report it as a secondary violation, but it goes to show you how in bed with the programs a lot of these "experts" are with their fanboy schools. We had a running joke that whenever an assistant was leaving a recruit's house the "expert" would pass him on the walkway leading to the residence.