Why There Will Never Be Another Nick Saban
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- Опубліковано 17 січ 2024
- The Nick Saban Era of dominance with Alabama Football is nothing short of the greatest of all time, no coach did what he did for as long as he did it. It may be the greatest 16 year stretch of our time.
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You may not like Nick Saban or Alabama, but you can’t deny that they were the best football program in the nation for the better part of 2 decades. There will never be another team like Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide.
They’re not even my favorite team, but I know better than to try to argue with facts.
Kirby may be on his way
@@MonsterMeatMac Young grasshopper learned well.
John heismen is still the greatest college coach
@@nonot8232 John Heisman’s record as a head coach is only 186-70, and he coached in a time before the forward pass was commonplace or even used regularly. Nick Saban’s record as a head coach is 292-71, the numbers speak for themselves. I guarantee you they will name an award after him at some point, he put way too many players into the NFL for them not to. Alabama also shifted the college football landscape for basically his entire career there, and they’re the reason the SEC became such a dominant conference.
@@Rastafarianinjahe doesn’t have 71 loses lol. I’m pretty sure it’s like 20
Since 2010, Alabama lost only twice to teams ranked outside the top 15 (not top 25, TOP FIFTEEN). During that same period, no team, not Ohio State, not Clemson, not Georgia, no one, has lost FEWER than TEN times to teams ranked outside the top 15.
That’s unreal. Saban and Alabama were simply an amazing combination that will likely never be replicated.
It got to a point where ESPN analysts (plural) were having legitimate conversations about whether or not the team that Alabama was fielding could beat an NFL team. (I think this was 2017). It was wild.
Honestly considering how bad some nfl teams got, I wouldn’t be surprised he could have pulled that off.
@@c.j.3404 I think the Dolphins from that year were pretty bad. 😂
Just because the players in the NFL are generally better doesn’t mean the top 2-3 teams in college couldn’t beat them. I think 2019 LSU, 2020 Bama, and 2021 Georgia could beat a good chunk of NFL teams
Edit: I just realized how cool it was to have those absolutely untouchable SEC superpowers in a row
the best college team could definitely hold their own against the worst NFL team, and i think a sort of Pro-Am Bowl would be a great way to test that theory
It wouldn't even be close, even a historically bad NFL team would crush the best college team. Saban's teams had a lot of NFL prospects, but they would be playing guys who were good enough to actually start in the NFL. The gap in skill, speed, and strength is too significant even with a hypothetical college team where every single starter gets drafted.
Saban didnt just dominate
He carried a golden shovel. And buried any program who tasted just the slightest succsess. And sent them straight back to the cellar
Texas, A&M, Miss St., Florida. I could go on
Absolute GOAT
absolutely right. So many coaches lost their job due to Coach Saban.
Yeah but the flip side is he also took coaches that were left for dead and resurrected their careers like Kiffin, Sark, Butch, Steele just off the top of my head.
Even Georgia to an extent, everyone was sayin they were gonna curbstomp bama this year, and Saban came out and said “get in the hole, your times up”
As a Georgia fan, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: losing Saban is akin to Batman losing his Joker.
Even if we pull off another natty next season, it’ll be eerily anti-climatic once we realize the specter of Nick Saban’s genius isn’t looming over our shoulders anymore.
Even though I’m an Auburn die hard. I really hope Kirby stays at UGA a long time. We don’t have coaches anymore staying as long as Saban did like we used to.
Mad respect for that take.
I hate it but the baton has been passed. The Dawgs could go on a natty run without ever having to go out of state for a single recruit. And man Kirby has it rolling. Hell they were the best team in 2023. No question Georgia beats the crap out of Michigan or Washington or Texas and very likely bama in a rematch.
Just keep kicking the sh*t out of auburn!
Nahhh more like bane . Auburn is our joker.
@@zalitosway8419 that’s more like it lol
L take honestly. If the greatest dynasty in football history has come to an end, how long yall think you got on top? Missed the playoffs this year even, thanks to that "specter."
Theres always somebody badder coming up.
As an Auburn fan, beating Bama felt like a miracle from god every time. It was more important than winning championships. War eagle, RIP to a legend
I'll miss the Saban press conferences. I love how he just didn't have time for stupid questions.
Alabama's domination becomes even more frightening when you realize that even in the few times in which the Crimson Tide lost, it was more of them beating themselves due to mistakes than it was about their opponents actually defeating them. Only Clemson and Manziel could be said to have genuinely defeated Bama. Imagine the game against Michigan, how would have that game ended without Alabama's bad snaps?
Someone already did a great video on the history of college football. What I need is an explanation of the NFL decade by decade since the 70s.
Everybody look at it as a glorious day that his is gone. Everybody look at it as a miracle that Bama won't be dominant anymore. But im happy to say im bless to witness a dominant run in my lifetime. Things like this is great for football. To have a Thanos that you know you have to slay to become the champion is great. The way bama played was amazing to watch only something we see in video games.
I was a bama fan under saban and bryant.
Nice clickbait title. It worked, you got me. These are the times when I miss the # of dislikes being visible.
As a long lived and die hard bama fan I remember the days before Saban and then the shakeup, Saban reminded us what it meant to live breathe and love football to not be okay with just surviving to push ourselves every DAY to work towards excellence at everything he set the gold standard and taught us to break it at every opportunity, what Alabama does now that he’s gone is up in the air but Saban forever changed football in every way I can imagine
Same here remember the pre-Saban days and being excited if we had a winning record and upset Rich Rod not taking the HC position. That 1st year was rough ie losing to Cajuns but after was amazing. Reason I would get mad when folks would complain if we lost 2 games. Excellence in human form we probably won’t ever see again.
The most telling stat of how good Saban was as a coach is that he had double the number of first round draft picks as he did losses. As a Bama fan I am still in mourning but our future is bright with DeBoer
No, no it’s not. Our future is above average at best. But most likely it’s slightly above average, if Bama fans have patience. Which we know they don’t.
Next year we will lose a minimum of four games. Our ceiling under the new regime in the SEC is 2 losses a year.
Deboer will be fired after 4-5 seasons. And it will go on like that for a few decades. Go ahead and bookmark this comment. If I’m wrong, I’ll take the heat. But I’m 95% sure I’m right.
Great recruiter, not coach. He brought in 4-5 star guys like crazy. My dead grandmother could get 9 wins a year with those rosters. Doesn't take much talent to win 3 more games.
@@pa28cfi Saban revolutionized several aspects of the defense in his time. Did a lot of things with DBs and a lot of those concepts are common in all levels of football. Also in college, he and many other successful coaches were more of CEOs than Xs and Os guys only because he didn’t have the time to do that. He got some of the best coaches for each position who could focus only on coaching. This is a brain dead take
@@marioex497 It's funny how he was ho hum (actually had a worse record than his predecessor at Michigan State until his last season) until he got to the turn a blind eye schools of the SEC. If he was such a great coach, he wouldn't have struggled at MSU. If he was a great coach he would have been sending 1 star guys to the draft. When you get the good players it's easy. My dead grandmother could have gotten to 9 wins a year with those rosters. It's not like he was bringing in 1 star guys and turning them into NFL players. He was turning 5 star guys into NFL players. That's nothing to hang your hat on. The brain dead take is not on this side of the table.
@@pa28cfi you’d be surprised how many 5 stars either don’t make it to the NFL or are successful as Bama’s have been. Also how many all time great college coaches have been immediately successful and competed at the top of the sport? I can’t think of any
3:46 "When the committee paired them...." What committee are you talking about?? Bama played Florida because Bama was the SEC west champs and Florida was the SEC East champs b/c of their records. A committee had nothing to do with it.
Not to mention that those were the BCS years. I believe it was half human, half computers doing the voting.
Since 08, that Clemson loss is still the only time I’ve seen Alabama straight up lose a game. Every other loss has 15 penalties, 10dropped passes, a fumble, a INT, 2 Miss FGs and still lose by only 5pts. You can tell when Alabama will lose a game from the start, they just choke nonstop. Haha.
Michigan says differently they wooped alabama from start to finish if anything Michigan is the one who almost gifted alabama that game
@@daredevil5072 I would have stated it a bit differently but that is kind of the point. Michigan outplayed and outcoached Alabama in the game and needed a late drive to tie it and a stop in OT to win the game. There were other games where I think the other team dominated Alabama even more (2014 game against Ohio State) and it was still a competitive game. But the other game that I would add to the Clemson game wld the the title game of the 2021 season against Georgia. I don't think a healthy Alabama had a great chance to beat Georgia a better Georgia team a second time, but that chance was really low going into that game down 4 starters from the squad that beat them a month earlier in the SEC championship and any slim chance that was there was just gone once Williams tears his ACL in the game.
@@daredevil5072 That's literally exactly his point. Even in Bama's sloppiest/most overmatched games they still went down punching.
All you needed was a team of 6 year starters
@@daredevil5072we took you to overtime and would’ve won if our center didn’t throw the ball at the ground instead of Milroes hands 💀😭
This is why the 86 Giants might be underrated. Simms in particular gets it together in 86, and roasts the Broncos for the title. If they don't do well that year, Parcells might not have lasted much longer...which means the staff gets fired too and so no Belichik to the Browns after 1990...which means no staff with Saban and all those dudes...and then who knows how the history of football after that point is affected. The 86 Giants basically set up decades of college and pro ball.
Them giants defenses are so underrated, their ppg during that era is amazing, they almost had the least points allowed record twice
They were dominate from 1986-1992 that's never gonna be seen again
IDK, those two guys are excellent coaches regardless of timelines or circumstances that preceded
As a Bama fan I have to give a big shout out to the Dolphins team doctor and Drew Breese's arm! If Breese was cleared who knows what would have happened!
My favorite Giants team and I live in Bama…RollTide
@@brooksphillips2234IDK man, I really think Bama coulda had something special with Rich Rod…
Gotta be honest, you peaked my interest with the title. Thought it was gonna go another direction like I hear from basically everyone I know that cares about college football. Obviously I'm biased (if you haven't looked at my pfp, that explains it), but there's beauty in the dominance Saban had. I will always acknowledge and commend dominance no matter the team, or sport for that matter. I'm sad to see him go, but BOI was it a good run. I was in school there '15-'19. 1st, 2nd, 1st, 2nd. Possibly the greatest four years to be at any school for college football. Love the content, btw. Roll Tide!
I would think '09-'12 would've been pretty good too. 1st, 10th, 1st, and 1st. I went from '98-'02 (don't look those records up).
Saban said low key that's it's "piqued". It piqued your interest.
Nick Saban was mad that Deion Sanders stole a prospect from him, and then the NIL deal was made by the courts and suddenly lost his grasp on College football. Instead of convincing players to come into a winning program and an NFL farm, the players want the best NIL deals. (Somehow paying players under the table is easier than over.)
Yeah, it took the NIL to bring Saban down because now players go where they want
BS. Pure & simple BS. You have zero clue of what you're talking about. Every time something in college football changed over the past 17 years, Saban would bitch about it, then figure it out & beat you with it. If he was younger, he would have figured out the NIL BS & beat the rest of college football to death with it so much that they would have had to make rules for it.
@@lovebug6822 you do realize that he quit the NFL cause he couldn't relate to the players and their thirst for money, right? He literally said it made it harder to recruit and he knew it was time to get out cause he was more stressed out. The NIL deal to an extent reset the recruiting process, it's not just the program and journey to the NFL, it's about which school has better sponsors and marketing abilities. Don't get me wrong it's still a winning program and a good NFL farm. But Saban knew that money would make it harder to recruit.
@@ftwsam2246 Of course it was going to be harder. Saban has literally changed his entire coaching style & recruiting process numerous times to keep being dominant. My point is that he would have figured it out & gotten the NIL money for the players if he was younger. Getting to the NFL is the dream of All these young players. No better place to do that than Alabama. He just got tired of grinding 365 days per year and I can't blame the man. He's done EVERYTHING there is to do in CFB, multiple times. He just got tired, according to him. I don't think it was the NIL at all.
Couldn't have said it better myself I tip my hat enjoy retirement Nick Saban respect you for all you have done for college football 🏈🏈🤝🤝🤝..... University of Miami Hurricanes fan 🙌🙌🙌
At 3:56 there's no committee involved here. It's like 5 years before the playoff and this is the 2009 SECCG.
Destroyed college football? No. Saban single handily changed the way other programs have to win. Saban created the blueprint for dominance and it’ll never been duplicated again. Ever.
And the award for “didn’t watch the video before commenting” goes to…
@@garrettcotter194 I watched the video, the thumbnail needs to be changed. I’m not wrong the poster is. Get a clue son.
@@crimsonkings205Destroyed can be interpreted different ways. That's literally the psychological play for the video 😂😂
@@grammysworld5449 Interpretation is just another term for speculation. Just because a person interprets something doesn’t make it correct.
Bobby Bowden's 90's FSU Team and Saban's Alabama.
I don't think we'll ever see teams like this again.
ROLL TIDE!! Hail Saban forever! College football is everything here in Alabama, and Nick Saban took us to heights we couldn't even imagine back in the time of Bear Bryant! We are forever grateful to coach Saban!
Crazy how Bill parcels created 2 of the most dominant coaches. Bill and Nick
It says a lot when as an Arkansas fan if you could only lose by less than 2 touchdowns against Bama it was basically a win. It is also crazy to think that there are people about to enter college that have never not known Bama as a dominant football school.
I Was born in 1997, so by the time I was really able to digest what I was watching, bama was already a dominant football team, meaning they were arguably the best team for my entire football watching life, it's going to be weird with them potentially wavering
@@IsaacPunts We ain't gonna waver much. Saban is still there & he's going to help DeBoer with recruiting & giving him pointers on coaching. We'll be fine.
As a Georgia fan everybody is saying the SEC is free now, and it probably is ngl, but there is just something sad about not being able to dominate our greatest rival on the way to the top.
Pour one out to the goat man
Lol dominate? Didn't yall just lose in the sec championship? Yalls only win against bama during the saban era was for the natty. Congrats, don't break your hand patting yourself on the back 🥱
@@filthystripestv5089 “ not being able to domiate” bro you can’t read your hate got your two brain cells fighting for third place 😭. I’ll pray for you 🙏🏿
Just found the channel man love the vids keep it up
I am not a Bama fan, but growing up I always felt like if they weren’t ranked #1 the teams above them were imposters.
3:38 2009 against Auburn was also a one score game
It isn't a surprise that Nick wanted to retire after the rise of the Transfer portal and NIL deals.
He is 72! No matter when he retired ppl would have something to say!
The transfer portal that his overrated ass helped cause by way of constant oversigning
@@aaronrider4051 Overrated? Tell me you don't know college ball without telling me you don't know college ball....
Yeah, ok, lets ignore the SEC homer voting fake national titles in 2011 and 2017, or the fact that he didn't have to play Colt McCoy in 09, or the fact that Ohio State took its bowl ban for 2012 so he didn't have to play them, or the fact that 2020 was nonsense, or the fact that USC was WAY better than LSU in 03, or the fact that he only had one undefeated season compared to five for Joe Paterno, 5+ for Woody Hayes, 3 for Tom Osborne, or the 5 Bear Bryant had.
@@lovebug6822
Give Saban the situation Bill Snyder inherited TWICE at Kansas State and he wouldn't have accomplished half of what Snyder did @@lovebug6822
Excellent video! You earned my subscription. RTR!
Saban has a “sub-resume,” an Alabama fan’s list of Herculean tasks completed and vendettas settled that will endear him to the fanbase forever: (1) Put an end to the smirking Tommy Tuberville’s practice of holding up fingers to signify the count of Auburn’s consecutive wins over Alabama; (2) Ran Phillip Fulmer out of his Tennessee job, and out of coaching altogether; (3) Ran Urban Myer out of the SEC; (4) Beat Texas for the first time in program history.
Nick Saban
Greatest College Football Coach of All Time 🐐🐐
This is the best video about Alabama football of all time!!
Nick Saban surpassed Bear Bryant’s teams and is definitely the Greatest Coach of all time. Which makes Michigans win against them this year so monumental…because they clearly beat the best team on the field over the last 17 years…
Nobody will ever beat Bear Bryant. Bryant had more conference titles, more SEC COTY awards, and had almost the same number of natties. Saban and Bama should have never been in the 2017 playoff, and it's only the ratings obsessed committee that gave him an extra title over Bryant
Bama will still be a powerhouse unfortunately
21 hours in 1k likes and I was the 1000 I need the football history lesson for fun
As a Tide fan this was great video. I’m hoping Coach DeBoer can keep us relevant. Long Live Saban.
Great tribute!
Vol fan here. Know the terror yearly
I would really like to see Saban replace Lee Corso on game day. He has always been spot on with his analysis of the college football landscape, and now that he can be more unbiased I would really like to hear his thoughts weekly. He’s probably just going to stick to going on McAfee once a week which I’m fine with.
Great video…leaves me speechless, Roll Tide
Sometimes you need a damn good villain and Saban's Alabama certainly was that. Gonna miss that guy.
10+ minute Isaac punts video? Sign me up
Gotta remember how he struggled to recruit at Michigan State, once he had a monopoly on recruiting in Bama his domination was inevitable.
Let's get this to 10k likes so we can get that full history of college football video
Isaac, you missed the loss to the University of Louisiana Monroe in his first year at Alabama. ULM was also an un-ranked school when that loss occurred.
He addressed that by saying "except for his first year"
That 2014 game against A&M was the only game I saw Alabama play in person. I have never seen a team absolutely beat the shit out of another since.
I’m an Auburn fan and can say that even though Saban is gone, we will still figure out a way to go 8-4.
I love that hes going in depth about alabama and the changing of college football, while the USSR anthem is playing in the background 🤣
It might be better said that NIL and the current transfer portal destroyed college football. Saban had nothing to do with either of those things.
The title had me concerned 😂 cause not even a Bama fan but I could do nothing but respect and appreciate how Saban ran that program, and I don’t know if it’s something that can or will be duplicated again, cause you either watched to watch them lose or watched to just watch them be good as hell he will be missed.
4:17 Nice editing there bud
Well said! Gonna miss the goat.
I’m a life long fan of Michigan along with my father and this year he was in disbelief and just not able to talk when we beat them. He was way happier about beating Alabama then even winning the national championship.
Saban is the absolute GOAT because he never had to cheat to be so dominant. Others who did it the right way could only compete for short spans in comparison
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Saban's Alabama and Geno Auriemma's UConn are the greatest streaks of dominance in college sports history.
yessir
Massive respect for Bama and the Tide. I'm not a fan, but I've never been a hater. Best wishes for Coach Saban in his retirement.
Love all these videos. Like Bamas done. Just wait yall ain't seen nothing yet.
the alabama/forida game wasn't chosen by committee. it was the conference championship chosen by round robin in each division.
I still find it pretty wild that during the 2023-24 season, Alabama was NEVER ranked Number 1 at ANY POINT.
They lost a non-conference game by double digits, in what, week 3? U must be putting all ur eggs in those first three polls, as it’d be MUCH “wilder”, if they were ranked 1 after week 3, considering there were 3 undefeated conference champs + other power-5 conference champ was another 1-loss team that beat them.
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He broke college football.
Twice.
Roll Tide Roll
@9:22 😂 had so many players and fans looking like this
For the last 17 years, if you won the National Championship, you had to beat Saban.
Saban/Alabama deserves much of the credit, or blame depending on your point of view, for what the SEC is today.
It always took your best game ever or a miracle to beat bama..and most times just to keep it close
Kirby’s been there ten years clown.
5:19 saban never did this lolol
I'm not an Alabama fan, but they've dominated during my entire adult life so far
Great video. ROLL TIDE
Old men used to say “I saw the bear with my own eyes.” Now I get to bounce my grandchildren on my knee and talk about seeing Nick Saban.
The committee didn't pair them against Florida that was the conference title game.... both teams had to win their division to play in that game
He retired, now its Sherone
moore's turn. Go Blue!
Will Jo Schmo to pro coming back after the Big Game?
I forgot...Bama is where legends are born!
From the end of WW2 to the BCS, the only change was scholarship limitations. Contrast that to all the changes in the past 17 years. That's not a coincidence....
Editing glitch at 4:20 ??
Yes, Someone tried to copyright claim part of the video so I had to cut that part out post upload
Fact check: 2009 they placed Texas in the BCS title, not Florida (SEC championship)
It’s easy to be dominant when you’re an academics-optional ‘school’ like alabama
Actually 2 one-score games in 2009 vs Auburn 26-21
I am an lsu fan. My god I am so happy.
You're right about one thing. He "destroyed" the HATERS! No one, nobody will ever do what Bama under Sabam did. Bama fans feel entitled. Anything less than a National Championship every year, we feel let down. No other team will ever come close to the number of titles we lay claim to. When Stallings crushed Miami ut was a rude awakening for college ball. We've gad Bear Bryant, Gene Stallings and now Nick Saban. We gave y'all Bart Srarr, Kenny "The Snake" Stabler and Joe Namath. Broadway Joe told the world "We're gonna Beat Baltimore" and lord behold. we did. You've obviously never been to Bama. Religion comes in 2nd to Bama football. WE'RE THE GOLD STANDARD THAT EVERYONE ELSE WOULD SELL THIER SOULS TO BE. All I can say is "Roll Tide" and that says it all.
As much as i cant stand bama ill say that at least hes probably a big part in way Kirby Smart is so good and now Georgia is the team to beat it seems like
Are you being fucked by stupid?
Nick Saban literally created his Defensive Scheme. He started it with Bill Belichick and continued to perfect it. By time he got to Alabama it was an Official Defensive Scheme.
I’m sure Kirby probably influenced some things through the Years with Saban, but Kirby would not be the Coach he is today.
He literally copy and pasted Saban’s “Process”. You constantly see new shit that Georgia does that Alabama already done.
Kirby stole everything except being a Decent Person. When he was on his way out of Alabama he was caught taking pictures of the Recruiting Board, particularly the one that rated what players they wanted the most to the least.
There is literally evidence of Georgia tampering with Caleb Downs even though it don’t matter.
As a bama fan this is buitiful
The Committees that chose national championships under the bowl alliance, the BCS and the CFP were all different organizations. So its a little misleading to say the same committee.
Erroneous! 1999 Seminoles went wire to wire #1
Nick Saban didn’t destroy CFB, it’s the lack of parity, with rules that only tend to reinforce the top end dominance that results in many fans just losing interest. The NFL understands this and has measures in place that tend to counter having a few teams w persistent dominance. Solutions? No clue, but something needs to be done.
Like! 9-1 in SEC appearances, only the first time loss to FL. It was a holistic approach, find talented players and make them better. Run run run in practice so that games were easier. Adjust as often as needed. Have excellent Defense, notice that DC and OC of the last few years did not help AL cause. In 17 years appear in the playoffs/championships 11 times and win 6, lose a couple barely, lose the ability to go to the playoffs barely a couple of times. It was beautiful to watch. We all thought Nick would get seven at AL, so that he eclipsed Bear. He made a different decision ad best wishes! Don't believe AL teams will not be effective in the coming years even with all the transfers. Oh and on Clemson they were doped up until they beat AL badly in that one championship. After that look at Clemson, no more fast twitch supplements in "team" vitamins and they are average or worse since.
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@@robertgrimes7401 good point, 2 at LSU as well
Ooof at 4:25 I think you cut a bit on accident. The cut goes to you mid sentence.
I'm so happy it all ended after this past season when Saban retired. Now, Bama fans will face reality.
Nah. Saban is gonna stick around & help this new coach. Teach him to be a better recruiter & coach. Bama ain't going anywhere except in the playoffs every year now that it's 12 teams.
@lovebug6822 No, Saban and his family will move to their $17 million home in Florida and live the good life.
@@tonytemple4351 Did you not know that he has a permanent office in Bryant Denny stadium? Look it up, brother. He's staying at Alabama.
They lost by two scores to Georgia in the Natl Title in 2021.
LSU was the legit champ in 2003. A group of sportswriters gave a consolation trophy to USC
Dude took all his bama gear down right before he hit record 🙄
Its different when everybody is paying substantially to play
"The committee paired Alabama with who they thought was number one. A Tebow led Florida." That was rhe SEC title game 😂 there was no committee that paired them.
Not quite right. Pre BCS was not chosen by a committee; a champion was voted on by the Associated Press and a couple other newspaper associations with no championship game. During the BCS, the Associated Press along with computer rankings chose the 2 best teams to play for a championship. CFP was the only one chosen by a committee.
Imagine they put a recruiting limit on them like when notre dame ran college football😂 yeah I’m a ND fan but fr that what stopped us back in the day to have more history today, literally put a recruiting limit on Notre Dame
Not a member of the Tide nation BUT Saban is the 🐐of college football...no question. Alabama will be ok but it will never be this good ever again...there will never be another DARTH SABAN.