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Recruiting via webcam

[editor's note, by Todd]
bumped from the diaries

http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/kscarbinsky.ssf?/base/sports/120911138045020.xml&coll=2& amp;thispage=1

I love Saban.  They try to keep him from spring recruiting, so he gets around the rule by talking to the players and coaches through a webcam.  This was one of very few Scarbinsky articles I actually liked.

Not only is he allowed to make one call to the recruits and I suppose unlimited to coaches and everything, but video conferencing is apparently considered a phone call, and recruits are allowed to call head coaches as much as they want. So all they have to do it appears is invite Saban to a video chat. Genius.

So how long until this gets banned?

[editor's note, by Todd]

The gist:

Like a lot of college coaches - including those from Auburn, Michigan, Oklahoma and Notre Dame - Saban is recruiting Athens High School defensive end William Ming. But Saban found a creative way to make contact the other day.

Alabama assistant coach Curt Cignetti visited Athens High, which has a Distance Learning Lab that allows Athens students to take online classes by using a live webcam.

Cignetti left behind a web address that Ming used to log on later that day and spend 15-20 minutes talking, through the webcam, with Saban, who was in his office in Tuscaloosa.

Athens High Coach Allen Creasy, who witnessed the conversation, called it "a first from a recruiting standpoint" for his school.

This is how Nick Saban outworks everyone else. According to the article this is a perfectly legit method to talk with recruits (it counts as a phone call, and recruits can call the coaches all they want), so since the rest of the lazy ass coaches in the league enacted "the Saban rule" to keep him from visiting schools, he still figures out a way to visit with recruits and look them in the eye without even having to leave his office! Like the man said, "genius."

"Suck it, rest of the SEC." - Nick Saban

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I couldn't help but laugh,
and have a grin on my face because that is just down right funny. It makes me happy to know our coach works that hard but stays within the rules.  IN YOUR EYE NCAA, and I'm sure the rest of the coaches lagging behind will cry, but soon follow (coach ears of the cow college). WAY TO GO COACH SABAN!!!

by jtCRIMSON on Apr 25, 2008 12:50 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Well...
how about that. I don't know if that is the first recruit to talk to him via webcam, but I feel a sense of pride it being my high school he was doing it at. I went to school with Ming's brother. Good family and good kid. There will be no issues with his grades if and when he signs.
"Stallings, some days I like you. Some days I don't. Get your head out of your butt." The Bear to Stallings during a game at A&M

by SDBama78 on Apr 25, 2008 1:01 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

FUCKING RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is why we pay him the BIG BUCKS.
The guy is relentless.
I have said it before and I will say it again,
WE ARE IN GOOD HANDS!!!!
THE PROCESS CONTINUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tubbs sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!

by BAMA PHREAK on Apr 25, 2008 1:47 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Wow!
Todd, that is digging way DEEP for an old school song.
Roll Tide!

by Nico2.0 on Apr 25, 2008 2:08 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

nery hot tunes...
I can see SABAN in his office doing the recruiting dance by himself.
He is a MANIAC and I love it.
tubbs sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!

by BAMA PHREAK on Apr 25, 2008 2:37 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

i think the keyboard guy w the stach
was one of the entertainers on the cruise ship i was just on a month ago. guy plays a mean "low rider"...

by tempebamafan on Apr 26, 2008 1:47 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Nick Saban: Obiwan KENobi
Coach is putting in a good twister as far as recruiting's concerned. So let's see?

Teamwork? - check!
Leadership? - check again!
Vision? - covered!!!
Ken? - you had to ask. you just had to ask?

Scandalous, is all. And I mean that in a very very good way. (his vision for putting the best players in 'Bama uniforms is peerless!)

Roll Tide Roll

by tapout on Apr 25, 2008 4:24 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Saban master recruiter!!
Give Nick Saban credit for sticking it to the other coaches in the SEC. Saban recruites like a
hooker liking for a john. Fat Phil will call the
SEC office and NCAA OFFICE monday morning raising
hell about Saban not following the rules!!
SCREW THE COACHES WHO ARE LAZY ABOUT RECRUITING!!
ROLL TIDE AND THANK GOD WE FINALLY HAVE A FOOTBALL
COACH!!

by tucker99 on Apr 25, 2008 9:13 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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