Nick Saban reloads every year at Alabama, so I’m not sure what he’s concerned about, but he has legitimate beef — if say the coach at Vanderbilt was complaining.
Saban believes that college football could be on a downward spiral if the Power Five conferences—the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC—don’t get on the same page regarding key legislative issues.
Speaking at the SEC spring meetings — Saban voiced his opinion on several issues, including the difference in money generated by each school regarding the full-cost-of-attendance stipend, satellite camps that are allowed in the Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big 12 and graduate transfer rules that prohibit players who have been disciplined by their previous institutions from coming to the SEC unless they receive a waiver.
Saban believes you’ll have the wild west in college football soon.
“We need to have the same rules in the big five in all leagues,” Saban said. “If we’re going to compete for the championship and everybody is going to play in the playoff system, then we need to get our rules in alignment so that we are all on a level playing field.
“These things need to be global; otherwise we are going to become a farm system for all of the other leagues.”
Saban has been irked about satellite camps that have allowed the Jim Harbaugh’s of the world, to snag his top players in state.
We have a lot of crazy rules,” Saban said. “Head coaches aren’t allowed to go out during an evaluation period in the spring, but you can go have a satellite camp anywhere in the country and bring your staff in and bring players to it? Does that make any sense to anybody?
“I think we should have recruiting periods and evaluation periods, and the only time you should be able to have a camp is on your campus.”
Saban can recruit the best in his sleep, so once again, he has nothing to worry about.