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Oversigning and Booting Players
Topic Started: Feb 20 2013, 08:38 AM (74 Views)
*TennesseeTuxedo
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http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/21733077/

An athletic grant-in-aid isa one year agreement that is renewable every year. There is nothing that says that a team or school has to renew a kid's scholarship. However, most schools do.

Not Alabama. Look! Not even Vanderbilt or Kentucky.
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LonzoVol


TennesseeTuxedo
Feb 20 2013, 08:38 AM
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/21733077/

An athletic grant-in-aid isa one year agreement that is renewable every year. There is nothing that says that a team or school has to renew a kid's scholarship. However, most schools do.

Not Alabama. Look! Not even Vanderbilt or Kentucky.
That piece should be copied and mailed to every recruit that Tennessee is fighting the Crimson Turd for in this next class. Included with the copy should be a short message to said recruit, "Take a look at this. The simple message here is that Nick Saban will throw you away like yesterday's leftover meat loaf if he finds someone else he had rather have than you. It's certainly your call, but I might just suggest that you think long and hard about signing with the Alabama meat market and instead go somewhere that they really want you and where you will have an opportunity for very early playing time.."
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If a kid can't cut it...is lazy...won't put in the work or effort to get better on and off the field and it's plain he will be a bench warmer for 4 years...IMO he needs to get the boot.

I have zero problem with getting rid of dead weight...This is big boy ball, not Little League where everyone makes the team and gets a trophy.

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Feb 20 2013, 11:03 AM
If a kid can't cut it...is lazy...won't put in the work or effort to get better on and off the field and it's plain he will be a bench warmer for 4 years...IMO he needs to get the boot.

I have zero problem with getting rid of dead weight...This is big boy ball, not Little League where everyone makes the team and gets a trophy.

That's all well and good Phil, but we are talking about intentionally over signing and then intentionally getting rid of players in order to make room for others. Nick Saban is a cold blooded SOB and obviously his techniques have worked at Alabama but sooner or later this stuff is going to catch up with him and the piece on CBS is a good start.
Dead weight players will usually sort themselves out. See recent Tennessee signees Bourque, Watson and Phillips. They didn't need a man like Saban to run them off.
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"That should come as no surprise, given that Bama has consistently (and legally) operated on the edge of NCAA scholarship caps throughout Nick Saban's tenure."

Key word: legally

I have zero problem with it. You do things that successful folks do or you continue to suck hind tit. JMO
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An Alabama signee is not stupid ... they know that they will be taken care of.
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