re: Why don't people listen to Saban?

Bear and the CFA probably would have evolved into a 61 team playoff format, if he had lived and had a role in it. He did an interview with ABC in 81, and said he felt that college ball would have a playoff and many of the lower teir Div 1 conferences would take a back seat to the big conferences. He also said once, when the NCAA makes rules, the big conferences lose.. or something to that effect.