<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:rawvoice="http://www.rawvoice.com/rawvoiceRssModule/" > <channel><title>Comments on: Nick Saban Tries and Fails To Defend Oversigning at Alabama</title> <atom:link href="http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/</link> <description>Sports, Media, Entertainment</description> <lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:53:20 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1</generator> <item><title>By: alafan123</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-2/#comment-1205682</link> <dc:creator>alafan123</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:25:33 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1205682</guid> <description><![CDATA[First of all, you can get cut fot under performance. Players have to hold up their end. Saban announced on ESPN that scholarships are for 1 year at Alabama. So the players know this. If you don&#039;t develope you get cut that is the deal. You don&#039;t have to accept the scholarship. You have the option of spending the time in the gym. Saban at least medicals them or allows them to transfer if they can&#039;t cut it. He could just cut them. If Saban doen&#039;t win he gets cut. AS IT SHOULD BE. That is why girls play softball, because life in football isn&#039;t fair.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all, you can get cut fot under performance. Players have to hold up their end. Saban announced on ESPN that scholarships are for 1 year at Alabama. So the players know this. If you don&#8217;t develope you get cut that is the deal. You don&#8217;t have to accept the scholarship. You have the option of spending the time in the gym. Saban at least medicals them or allows them to transfer if they can&#8217;t cut it. He could just cut them. If Saban doen&#8217;t win he gets cut. AS IT SHOULD BE. That is why girls play softball, because life in football isn&#8217;t fair.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: hit700andtossedanono</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-2/#comment-1203238</link> <dc:creator>hit700andtossedanono</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:53:32 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203238</guid> <description><![CDATA[stark, there is a freedom to not pretending/covering up. i wish the ncaa would set itself free]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>stark, there is a freedom to not pretending/covering up. i wish the ncaa would set itself free</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: starkweather</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203235</link> <dc:creator>starkweather</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:45:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203235</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;em&gt;is there a blog that instead of being cynical about all this rule-stretching actually just says fuck it and glorifies it, celebrates ingenuity, congratulates evil creativity?&lt;/em&gt;Kind of like my idea that just getting rid of all these rules pertaining to boosters would be easier and help more kids than the way we have it now? Just let the boosters pay the players in the open. Who really cares?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>is there a blog that instead of being cynical about all this rule-stretching actually just says fuck it and glorifies it, celebrates ingenuity, congratulates evil creativity?</em></p><p>Kind of like my idea that just getting rid of all these rules pertaining to boosters would be easier and help more kids than the way we have it now? Just let the boosters pay the players in the open. Who really cares?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: rittyrich</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203234</link> <dc:creator>rittyrich</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:44:40 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203234</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Yeah, that was kind of the joke with the RTR comment. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. &lt;/blockquote&gt;I should clarify that... except defendants in any sort of trial.  Pick me for your jury.  I dare you.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Yeah, that was kind of the joke with the RTR comment. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.</p></blockquote><p>I should clarify that&#8230; except defendants in any sort of trial.  Pick me for your jury.  I dare you.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: starkweather</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203231</link> <dc:creator>starkweather</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:42:33 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203231</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;em&gt;somebody made an anonymous $500,000 donation to his high school a couple of weeks ago&lt;/em&gt;Damn. That OL is worth 2.5x Cam Newton?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>somebody made an anonymous $500,000 donation to his high school a couple of weeks ago</em></p><p>Damn. That OL is worth 2.5x Cam Newton?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Breesus</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203230</link> <dc:creator>Breesus</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:42:11 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203230</guid> <description><![CDATA[I think the Bootys or one of the other families split from Evangel and created another Jesus Football Academy to compete with them in Shreveport. It&#039;s called Calvary Baptist.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the Bootys or one of the other families split from Evangel and created another Jesus Football Academy to compete with them in Shreveport. It&#8217;s called Calvary Baptist.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: hit700andtossedanono</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203229</link> <dc:creator>hit700andtossedanono</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:38:35 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203229</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;em&gt;Booty Prep?Indeed. I’m not positive, but I think they used to not be accredited so those kids would have to take their GED when they “graduated.”&lt;/em&gt;the lord works in mysterious ways....neither booty had much success after preps. josh i actuaally covered in minor league ball. he rolled into town with a mitsubishi something or other (hot for the mid90s) and the plate read 5THPCK. he set the franchise record for strikeouts and did the really smart trick of breaking the heart of the Marlins roving hitting instructor]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Booty Prep?</p><p>Indeed. I’m not positive, but I think they used to not be accredited so those kids would have to take their GED when they “graduated.”</em></p><p>the lord works in mysterious ways&#8230;.neither booty had much success after preps. josh i actuaally covered in minor league ball. he rolled into town with a mitsubishi something or other (hot for the mid90s) and the plate read 5THPCK. he set the franchise record for strikeouts and did the really smart trick of breaking the heart of the Marlins roving hitting instructor</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: rittyrich</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203228</link> <dc:creator>rittyrich</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:36:53 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203228</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;I couldn’t read this without laughing thinking about you defending $cam Newton as fiercely as you did. &lt;/blockquote&gt;Yeah, that was kind of the joke with the RTR comment. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I couldn’t read this without laughing thinking about you defending $cam Newton as fiercely as you did.</p></blockquote><p>Yeah, that was kind of the joke with the RTR comment. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: hit700andtossedanono</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203226</link> <dc:creator>hit700andtossedanono</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:35:11 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203226</guid> <description><![CDATA[is there a blog that instead of being cynical about all this rule-stretching actually just says fuck it and glorifies it, celebrates ingenuity, congratulates evil creativity?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>is there a blog that instead of being cynical about all this rule-stretching actually just says fuck it and glorifies it, celebrates ingenuity, congratulates evil creativity?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: HuskerDawg</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203223</link> <dc:creator>HuskerDawg</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:29:02 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203223</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Also, somebody made an anonymous $500,000 donation to his high school a couple of weeks ago. Seems fishy especially since it was made under the condition the $$$ went to athletic facilities at the school. Roll Tide Roll.&lt;/blockquote&gt;I couldn&#039;t read this without laughing thinking about you defending $cam Newton as fiercely as you did.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Also, somebody made an anonymous $500,000 donation to his high school a couple of weeks ago. Seems fishy especially since it was made under the condition the $$$ went to athletic facilities at the school. Roll Tide Roll.</p></blockquote><p>I couldn&#8217;t read this without laughing thinking about you defending $cam Newton as fiercely as you did.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: spencer096</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203222</link> <dc:creator>spencer096</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:28:24 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203222</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Also, somebody made an anonymous $500,000 donation to his high school a couple of weeks ago. Seems fishy especially since it was made under the condition the $$$ went to athletic facilities at the school. Roll Tide Roll.&lt;/blockquote&gt;kinda like what auburn did in order to get christan westerman from texas?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Also, somebody made an anonymous $500,000 donation to his high school a couple of weeks ago. Seems fishy especially since it was made under the condition the $$$ went to athletic facilities at the school. Roll Tide Roll.</p></blockquote><p>kinda like what auburn did in order to get christan westerman from texas?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: rittyrich</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203221</link> <dc:creator>rittyrich</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:27:53 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203221</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;bobby lowder had his aunt hostage after his older bro went to bama. cyrus just realized it was too late and she had lived a long life…saban assured him of this. &lt;/blockquote&gt;/ sportsbybrooks]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>bobby lowder had his aunt hostage after his older bro went to bama. cyrus just realized it was too late and she had lived a long life…saban assured him of this.</p></blockquote><p>/ sportsbybrooks</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: rittyrich</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203220</link> <dc:creator>rittyrich</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:27:03 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203220</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Booty Prep? &lt;/blockquote&gt;Indeed.  I&#039;m not positive, but I think they used to not be accredited so those kids would have to take their GED when they &quot;graduated.&quot;]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Booty Prep?</p></blockquote><p>Indeed.  I&#8217;m not positive, but I think they used to not be accredited so those kids would have to take their GED when they &#8220;graduated.&#8221;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: HuskerDawg</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203219</link> <dc:creator>HuskerDawg</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:26:56 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203219</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;If you’re the 3rd-best DT in your team’s signing class and you hear that Jadeveon Clowney’s signing that day too, you have time to reconsider.&lt;/blockquote&gt;It may cut back the oversigning to +7 instead of +9, but it won&#039;t stop the practice from happening.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>If you’re the 3rd-best DT in your team’s signing class and you hear that Jadeveon Clowney’s signing that day too, you have time to reconsider.</p></blockquote><p>It may cut back the oversigning to +7 instead of +9, but it won&#8217;t stop the practice from happening.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: rittyrich</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203218</link> <dc:creator>rittyrich</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:26:07 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203218</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;That Cyrus K. shit was hilarious and sad. Why did he give Aub a verbal and then back out? What made him say Auburn in the first place? &lt;/blockquote&gt;The AU side (rumors) were that Cyrus really wanted to go to Auburn but the rest of the family wanted him at Bama.  Nobody knew he was going to say Auburn on ESPNU because he figured that was the only way he&#039;d actually get to go to Auburn.  Didn&#039;t work out.  They talked him out of it.  Who knows if there is any weight to that.  Seems at least plausible.Also, somebody made an anonymous $500,000 donation to his high school a couple of weeks ago.  Seems fishy especially since it was made under the condition the $$$ went to athletic facilities at the school.  Roll Tide Roll.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>That Cyrus K. shit was hilarious and sad. Why did he give Aub a verbal and then back out? What made him say Auburn in the first place?</p></blockquote><p>The AU side (rumors) were that Cyrus really wanted to go to Auburn but the rest of the family wanted him at Bama.  Nobody knew he was going to say Auburn on ESPNU because he figured that was the only way he&#8217;d actually get to go to Auburn.  Didn&#8217;t work out.  They talked him out of it.  Who knows if there is any weight to that.  Seems at least plausible.</p><p>Also, somebody made an anonymous $500,000 donation to his high school a couple of weeks ago.  Seems fishy especially since it was made under the condition the $$$ went to athletic facilities at the school.  Roll Tide Roll.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: hit700andtossedanono</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203217</link> <dc:creator>hit700andtossedanono</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:25:23 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203217</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;em&gt;Evangel High School in Shreveport, La.&lt;/em&gt;Booty Prep?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Evangel High School in Shreveport, La.</em></p><p>Booty Prep?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Breesus</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203216</link> <dc:creator>Breesus</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:24:14 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203216</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;That wouldn’t stop them from oversigning.&lt;/blockquote&gt;I disagree.If you&#039;re the 3rd-best DT in your team&#039;s signing class and you hear that Jadeveon Clowney&#039;s signing that day too, you have time to reconsider.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>That wouldn’t stop them from oversigning.</p></blockquote><p>I disagree.</p><p>If you&#8217;re the 3rd-best DT in your team&#8217;s signing class and you hear that Jadeveon Clowney&#8217;s signing that day too, you have time to reconsider.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: spencer096</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203215</link> <dc:creator>spencer096</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:23:45 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203215</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;That Cyrus K. shit was hilarious and sad. Why did he give Aub a verbal and then back out? What made him say Auburn in the first place?&lt;/blockquote&gt;bobby lowder had his aunt hostage after his older bro went to bama.  cyrus just realized it was too late and she had lived a long life...saban assured him of this.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>That Cyrus K. shit was hilarious and sad. Why did he give Aub a verbal and then back out? What made him say Auburn in the first place?</p></blockquote><p>bobby lowder had his aunt hostage after his older bro went to bama.  cyrus just realized it was too late and she had lived a long life&#8230;saban assured him of this.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: HuskerDawg</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203214</link> <dc:creator>HuskerDawg</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:23:38 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203214</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;How about limiting the number of scholarships handed out each year? Say that only 25 players can earn a scholarship and be on the football team.&lt;/blockquote&gt;What if you have 7 juniors leave to go along with 22 seniors? Why should you get punished for having badasses on the team?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>How about limiting the number of scholarships handed out each year? Say that only 25 players can earn a scholarship and be on the football team.</p></blockquote><p>What if you have 7 juniors leave to go along with 22 seniors? Why should you get punished for having badasses on the team?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: rittyrich</title><link>http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/02/07/nick-saban-tries-and-fails-to-defend-oversigning-at-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-1203213</link> <dc:creator>rittyrich</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:23:27 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=79811#comment-1203213</guid> <description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Ritty Rich Sports Academy &lt;/blockquote&gt;Yes.  Reminds me of Evangel High School in Shreveport, La.  But the notion of it seems laughable.  Rightfully so.  And yet we don&#039;t mock a music major?  Spencer knows what I&#039;m talking about.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Ritty Rich Sports Academy</p></blockquote><p>Yes.  Reminds me of Evangel High School in Shreveport, La.  But the notion of it seems laughable.  Rightfully so.  And yet we don&#8217;t mock a music major?  Spencer knows what I&#8217;m talking about.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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