Nick Saban eyes new way to recruit

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Recruiting via webcam
Published 4/25/2008 by jsholt969 <info@rollbamaroll.com> at Roll 'Bama Roll: Front Page Posts
[editor's note, by Todd] bumped from the diaries http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/kscarbinsky.ssf?/base/sports/120911138045020.xml&coll=2& amp;thispage=1 I love Saban.  They try to keep him from spring recruiting, so he gets around the rule by talking to the players and coaches through a webcam.  This was one of very few Scarbinsky articles I actually liked. Not only is he allowed to make one call to the recruits and I suppose unlimited to coaches and everything, but video conferencing is apparently considered a phone call, and recruits are allowed to call head coaches as much as they want. So all they have to do it appears is invite ...

So Much for the Saban Rule
Published 4/25/2008 by dawizofodds at The Wizard of Odds
He's back. It didn't take long for Nick Saban to find a way around the "Saban Rule," which prohibits head coaches from making off-campus visits during the spring evaluation period, running from April 15 to May 31. Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News details how Saban hooked up with William Ming, a hotshot defensive end recruit from Athens (Ala.) High. It started when Crimson Tide assistant Curt Cignetti visited Ming at his high school, which has a Distance Learning Lab that allows students to take online classes by using a live webcam. Writes Scarbinsky: "Cignetti left behind a web address that Ming used to log on later that day and spend 15-20 ...

THE LOST SPRING: A Casablanca Parody (Starring Nick Saban)
Published 4/27/2008 by Patton Smith at Gump For Heisman
... NOTE: After the recent slap-stick postings, here is a foray into fiction/parody. And it comes on the heels of the news of Nick Saban's masterful recruiting tactic - using video-conferencing to meet with recruits once the NCAA banned him from going on Spring recruiting visits. ...

Recruits know what Nick Saban is wearing
Published 5/6/2008 by Michael Rand at Randball
This story has been out there for a couple of weeks, but it caught our eye this morning as we logged six miles on the treadmill: Alabama head football coach Nick Saban, the king of recruiting loopholes, has found another one: video conferencing with athletes during what is otherwise a period in which coaches cannot visit high schools. As far as we can tell, the work of Saban — obviously pictured just a split-second before delivering the punchline to his favorite joke, “What has two index fingers and doesn’t care about ticking off other college coaches” — first was written about in the Birmingham News on April 25. Let’s have a look-see: ...