re: Stewart Mandel AGAIN badmouthing Les on oversigning

Not that the facts will change anything but this is what SI had to contribute:

"On face value it's a simple assumption to make, that the practice of oversigning in college football is wrong and a clear attempt to get around the rules mandating that 25 players can be added to the roster each year and only 85 may be on scholarship at a given time.

That's the latest rallying cry against University of Alabama coach Nick Saban, who has become the prominent face of the issue because he may be better at jam-packing his roster than anyone.

Only Saban hasn't violated any rules and no one's been able to prove that he's even been callous except when asked about it during press conferences.


Andy Staples of SI.com recently added up the numbers and found that over the past five years Alabama has signed an average of 26.6 players per class. Those with a higher average over the same time period were Troy (32.8), Ole Miss (29), Auburn (28.8), Mississippi State (27.6), Kansas State (27.4), Temple (27.2), Southern Miss (27), Arkansas (26.8) and Kentucky (26.8).

All but three of those schools are within easy driving distance with five in the Southeastern Conference. If you're wondering about LSU, the Tigers averaged 26.2, and UAB was at 25.8 - so every program in the state has oversigned.
Ah, but Saban forces players out, critics claim, or rather assume."

So in the (5) years Saban has been at Alabama - he has signed [b].4 more players that Lsu and less players than Troy, Ole miss, Auburn, Miss st. Kansas St. Temple, Southern Miss, Arkansas, and Kentucky and yet he is the the problem.