BOL Round Table

This is pretty awesome. I wonder if any other coaches are as detailed as Saban. I mean, a board of every player for 4 years, their GPA, where they're leaning, etc. Wow.

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From an article on the Wall Street Journal website

On Alabama’s recruiting prowess:

“I talked to an Alabama assistant coach Sunday morning fairly early. I said, ‘Where are you?’ He said, ‘Where do you think I am? I’m at work.’ We were talking about Coach (Nick) Saban, and he said, ‘He is the hardest-working recruiter I’ve ever been around and it’s no different today than it’s been over the years. And that’s coming after the obvious–the three national championships in four years. Saban never lets up in recruiting, and that’s why Alabama has been so successful.

“I know this sounds a little weird, but they have what’s tantamount to a Situation Room. I’ve been told it’s off Saban’s office. No one is allowed in there other than key personnel. There’s a board of every player for four years, their grade-point average, where they’re leaning–any nuggets of information. There’s not a day in the year, other than two weeks in the summer when coaches are off, when they don’t go into that room and look at that board and talk recruiting. At Alabama, it is literally the lifeblood. I’m not saying it isn’t important at Florida or Notre Dame or at Ohio State. It is. But I don’t think it’s as important. That was the first thing Saban talked about when he got there. He hired recruiters, and I think it continues to this day.”
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