re: Sayin entering the portal - commits to Ohio State

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Saban could’ve left in February to keep the portal closed but instead he’s let everyone feast on alabamas talent and recruits. It’s a feeding frenzy.

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That’s not how it works. If the head coach leaves a team, a special portal for that team opens for 30 days. This is a major reason for the feeding frenzy. Alabama has a loaded roster, and they’re the only team east of the Pacific time zone that can be raided atm. The combination of these idiotic portal rules which punish a program for a head coach waiting to retire until after the season ends, the phenomenon of infectious impulsiveness, and young men possessing still-maturing prefrontal cortices is to blame. Some of the portal guys haven’t even attempted to get to know the new coach.

I remember how every single member of Alabama’s team stayed after the NCAA gutted our program in 2002. That would be absolutely impossible today.