Saban vs. Rapoport: The numbers game...

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The Roundup: Pirating, Saban and Erin Andrews
Published 4/16/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... profiles? … a reader wants everyone to know about this weather girl … we’re bringing the email mailbag back today, people! … it’s becoming popular and comical to take quotes from real estate cheerleaders, and chart them as the real estate market tanks … the Pope is here, clean up your act! … At the risk of overdoing it with Nick Saban (unpossible!), he went off in a TV press conference the other day. Story here. Video here. (Roll Tide!) Gotta give it up for Purdue University, which is ...

Saban's Fuzzy Math
Published 4/17/2008 by dawizofodds at The Wizard of Odds
... By Rapoport's account, Saban will be six scholarships over the limit when an expected 25 freshmen enroll for fall classes. Given the public interest in Saban's math skills — he can certainly add up all those numbers on a contract that pays him $3.75 million this year — this was a fair question. And it no doubt is a question several Crimson Tide players and their families would like answered because it appears a few kids are about to lose their scholarships. ...

Saban: Bama’s Roster Is ‘None Of Your Business’
Published 4/17/2008 by Matt Sussman at SPORTSbyBROOKS
It looks like Nick Saban’s love affair with the media continues akin to PETA’s romance with KFC. The Alabama football coach got into a little tiff with Ian Rapoport , a rapoporter reporter for THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS. The story was found ...

Soapbox: Recruiting Wounds, Reopened
Published 4/17/2008 by SMQ <info@sundaymorningqb.com> at Sunday Morning Quarterback: Front Page Posts
... That's more generous than Ian Rapoport, writer under fire in the above video, who calculated 66 players on scholarship as of Monday. For Saban's sake, let's take the low number. Still, 64 + 25 > 85. In addition to the six or seven players in the incoming class who'll have to be whittled out, four returning players are over the line (six by Rapoport's count). And they won't be fifth-year seniors: nine of the ten guys still around from the 2004 class are all starters or multiple letter-winners (Antoine Caldwell, Brandon Fanney, Ezekiel Knight, Travis McCall, Will Oakley, ...

Interview with Ian Rapoport
Published 6/8/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Under Review) at Play is Under Review
... Here we go again, time for another interview. This time we have Ian Rapoport from the Birmingham News. Ian covers the University of Alabama and has the pleasure of covering Nick Saban on a daily basis. As a side note, the national media tends to blow that out of proportion a little bit. His confrontation with Saban this spring was really much ado about nothing, but it got a lot of play on ESPN and other national sites. ...