re: Nick Saban at Plaquemine today......

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I was told that their EE's are already practicing.

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Here's my problem with that, if true: practicing now versus waiting till spring ball starts doesn't give those EE players a huge leg up next fall (nobody's gonna be a true freshman all-american because they started drills a couple weeks early). What it does is acclimatize those players before they join the full team. The only thing that makes this alleged violation objectionable would be that it's a giant "go frick yourselves" to the NCAA rules that other teams presumably follow.

Were another team discovered to be doing this, they'd lose something—whether probation, the loss of how many could EE in a future year, whatever.

But bama's got ESPN by the balls, who has the SEC and NCAA by the balls, so ain't shite ever gonna get done about it.

Bama ain't the best team, they're just caught up in the feedback loop of tv contract money and ratings, so they're immune to punishment in ways that others are not.

To tie this back into recruiting—if Louisiana players want to play for nick saban's market value, frick 'em and good riddence. I want the guys who want to come to LSU and be giant-killers. If Harris, Allen, et al. want to be part of that, I'm all for it. Otherwise, I hope they enjoy languishing on the bench with all the other "five star" players that got the exact same "I don't need you, but I want you" pitch from saban.