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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Close your eyes and imagine the scene:

The 17-year-old recruit walks into Nick Saban's corner office on the second floor of the Mal M. Moore Athletic Facility just off Bryant Drive in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. At the sight of the 5-star high school player and his family, Saban rises from behind his massive cherry desk and presses a button on a remote control, which shuts the door.

The coach loves this trick and smiles devilishly. There's a liquid glimmer of mischief in his eyes, revealing a side to Saban the recruit has never seen on television.

The recruit notices that, even in the dim light of Saban's inner sanctum—where the shades are usually drawn, as if to conceal secrets—the three national championship rings on a coffee table gleam brilliantly, like sunshine bouncing off the ocean. Saban guides the player and his family onto an overstuffed sofa. The coach takes a seat across from them in an easy chair. Between them are the rings. Then Nicholas Lou Saban Jr., age 63, lays on his singular brand of the hard sell.


We will win championships here. You see these rings? We'll get more of those. And I will prepare you for the NFL. We've had more NFL draft picks in the last five years than anyone. Anyone. The best come here. You'll have to earn your way onto the field as well as your right to stay on it. We have a process here. It's an everyday thing. We focus on what is directly in front of us, not end results. We want you, but know that we will win with or without

My point wasn’t about last night...these stats are for the entire year. Same with last year

With their abundance of talented running backs, isn’t it odd that Hurts leads the team with 85 rushing attempts. Harris averages 8.5 ypc but averages less than 10 carries per game. Any theories on this? I know RPO has changed college football, but this seems odd. Is Bama trying to prepare Hurts to possibly become an NFL qb or are they doing what Meyer did to Tebow...using his athleticism and not giving a crap about his development as a qb

Assuming only 1 SEC team makes the playoff, UGA (if still undefeated) should play the backups against Auburn. The game would literally be meaningless...except it’s fun to kick Auburn’s arse. But the backups, with Eason, could pull off a W

His South Carolina teams were a juggernaut...on defense.

I prefer Sarah Spain because she is openly sexual on air and won’t apologize for it...

It wasn’t my opinion. Just relaying the info cause his Big 10 bias is an FS1 agenda.

You may be right. When Tree blocked the fg and went for 6 I was convinced it was our year. That was the most talented roster in America.

If Saban was on the sideline for UGA that day, who wins?

We still have to prove it on the field. We had the better roster in 2012, but when the game went off script in the SECCG, Saban was the x-factor. If he coached UGA that year, we would have won the championship. Hopefully Kirby is up to the task. He can recruit like Saban, but to dethrone Bama you have to outcoach him. Time will tell.