CURIOUS INDEX, 2/14/08
EDSBS —
... Nick Saban can’t count. Or worse yet, he can: Brian is shocked, shocked! in finding out that again, an SEC school has signed more recruits than they can possibly put on scholarship. Even more shocked, shocking! is the fact that it’s Nick Saban, an old hand at juggling massive signing classes: greyshirts, JUCO guys, and the old reliable: forcing people off the team because you want to put another player in his place. It’s not quite as bad as Brian paints it…but it’s cold, opportunistic roster manipulation more often seen at the NFL level. ...
Garbage Time
Roll 'Bama Roll —
In the blogosphere, you tend to get a bit accustomed to running across drivel masqueraded as legitimate commentary, but occasionally something comes up that simply takes the cake. Today I ran across one of those pieces. It seems Brian Cook, a Michigan blogger -- and no I'm not sure how in the hell he feels qualified to discuss Alabama football on that basis -- isn't too big of a fan of our latest recruiting class. In this piece of analytical garbage, if it even deserves that high of acclaim, he labels Saban a "Snake Oil Salesman," essentially states that our class ...
Alabama Fans Cannot Think Logically, But You Knew That Already
mgoblog —
... Wednesday: at the Fanhouse I pick up an article from Tim Gayle and expound, once again, on the dodgy practice of oversigning, using Alabama's class as an exemplar of shady behavior. The past two days: everyone in the state who can write and has an internet connection responds. ...
One more time, with gusto
Third Saturday in Blogtober —
... you are already aware of the clanging cymbals regarding the righteousness of the Big 10 and the depravation of Alabama football thanks to the eminent moral dissolution that allows Saban to operate as only he does. Chances are good that you got here because you were already reading arguments about it on a different blog. I’ll spare you the rehash of those arguments. And honestly, once you get past the personal attacks, there really isn’t that much to appreciate about Brian Cook’s argument. It’s mostly wild speculation that–much ...
Take a deep breath, count to ten...
Roll 'Bama Roll —
... Alabama vs Michigan thing. This is strictly a Roll Bama Roll vs Brian Cook thing. Since this will be the last time we comment on this issue until the "checkbook is balanced," so to speak, at which point we will certainly keep you all up to speed on how the coaching staff managed to juggle the roster to see if any of the sinister accusations thrown our way had any merit, I would like to take the time to spell out, once and for all, our position in this matter. 1. Cook's initial post was nothing more than an ill informed shot taken for no reason at Nick Saban. ...
BLOG FIGHT!
The Big Eleventh —
... It all started at AOL Fanhouse, the all-star team of once independent blogers. Brian Cook of MGoBlog wrote this little story/rant on the practice of oversigning: ...
CYBERTYDE: THERE WILL BE CAKE
EDSBS —
Scene: The Alabama Crimson Tide offices. Some of the coaches’ names have been anonymized to protect the innocent. And yes, it’s weeeeeeeeeird.
Coach1: I, just don’t see how we’re gonna get all of our players on scholarship, Nick.
Coach Nick Saban: I have a way of doing this. It’s all part of the system.
Coach2: But, coach, I mean, we still have to get six scholarships from somewhere, I mean…
CNS: SILENCE!!!
A deathly quiet falls over the room.
Coach2: Hey, coach? Is that…an ...
Soapbox: Recruiting Wounds, Reopened
Sunday Morning Quarterback —
Way on back when (like, February, ages in blog years), typically erudite Brian Cook put up a post under his AOL mugshot in which, drawing on Joe Tiller's ...
A Message from Don King
Black Heart Gold Pants —
... (Background here, here, here, here, and here)
Folks, this is Don King, boxing promoter extraordinaire. I've been in retirement now for a couple of years, enjoying my home in Boca and my condo in Vegas, all PURCHASED with the PROCEEDS of the PUGILISTIC POWER of IRON MIKE TYSON. ONLY IN AMERICA, BABY!
But recent events have led me to RECONSIDER my RATIONALE for RETIRING from the ROCK-'EM SOCK-'EM, ROCK-A-TILL-YOU-A-DROP-A world of fight promotion. When I left, there wasn't a heavyweight fight on ...
Saban's Still Evil
mgoblog —
... I wonder how 'Bama is doing with the ol' recruiting class? Earlier this summer MGoBlog got in a poo-flinging contest with every Alabama fan with internet access about Nick Saban's massive oversigning. It ranged ...
Brian Cook is, Among Other Things, a Coward and a Liar
Roll 'Bama Roll —
... The latest in the escalating campaign of obfuscation concerning Nick Saban and the 2008 signing class, begun months ago by Michigan partisan ...
Coaches, don't leave signing day without your recruiting insurance policy
Dr. Saturday —
If you follow this sort of thing, you're probably aware Houston Nutt's mission to help stock the abundant junior colleges of Mississippi with Division I talent led Ole Miss to sign 37 players last week, prompting a round of sarcastic choruses, tut-tutting, minor hand-wringing and, mainly, shrugs. This number is every bit as high as it looks: Teams regularly go over the 25-scholarship limit for a single class, but prior to the Rebels' latest frenzy, the largest one-year haul in Rivals' database, dating back to 2002, was Oregon State's 35-man parade in 2007; only one other team in that span, Texas Tech in 2006, inked as many as 34 in ...
