BOL Round Table

Saban explained the Grey shirt thing pretty well yesterday and I am in total agreement. With the restrictions on scholarships thing like this happen and you have a kid who wanted to go to Bama, which he still could have anyway, heading to Ark instead. If there was not the 25 limit then DP would be at bama with no grey shirt. Also after listening to Saban's pressure i am 100% certain he does what they feel is best for the kid with the limitations they have. This situation looks like we took the scholarship away from him, but that simply in NOT true. The scholarship reductions are there to kinda level the playing field instead of looking at where kids want to go. Why should a kid who is a good player and wants to attend Bama, and loves everything about Bama be forced to look else where because the NCAA says we can only sign 25. How does that have the best interest of the student athlete?

Once again they still had offers on the table it is not like we said oh well. I kind of think of it like this. Say you told your son you would get them an Xbox for Xmas and you went to the store and they were out but ordered you one that would be in after Xmas so he would have to wait. So on Xmas day you put the receipt in a box. Sure he might be disappointed but certain circumstances kept you from getting him one to open on Xmas. He is still getting one just not that day.

Not saying that I disagree with you one bit on this.. but more playing devil's advocate. In that scenario, although you as the father know it is okay... how does your son feel. I realized you said he would be disappointed, but that is how we think he should feel, but we also think he should get over it. Most of the times kids don't just feel disappointed and get over it and realize "oh I'm not getting it today but I will get it eventually." As I am sure you are more than aware, no sarcasm at all, kids want everything right now these days. So I figure JT, and especially DP did feel crushed and honestly mislead.... But just as what I have just said is a sign of the times, so is the actual happening itself. We have pushed back to the forefront of college football and these things will happen from time to time.. and as long as we keep winning a national championship every other year, I am fine with it happening.

So much for posting in the official thread on this subject.

Look, it is tough. It happened. It's over. These young men wanted to attend next fall. They had other good options where they could attend next fall, and they took those options. Maybe to an 18 year old, six months seems like a long time. From a 62 year old, believe me, it is not long at all. They could have enrolled on their own for a semester. They could have taken some junior college coaches in preparation for entering six months later, worked and saved some money while rehabbing their injury. I have waited on many things in my life that I could not have as soon as I wanted. It worked out. They did not want to wait, and they accepted other nice offers.

Something tells me Coach Saban will still be able to recruit well in the future. This situation is not perfect, but it is being blown up out of proportion by some of our fans.

It's over. Time for people to get over it and move on.

Entirely too much is bieng made out of this. On 105.5 radio this morning, they were encouraging callers to go to AOL.com, and look at some video. It seems to me that some are trying to make it appear that we lied to these players.

I don't think there is any backlash, we are Alabama. The epic center of college football right now. For example....if you had a chance at Jessica Beil...but you heard she had the crabs....it is STILL Jessica Beil.