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Saban happy to offer four-year scholarships
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08:10 AM ET 02.29 | As the process played out, Nick Saban held his tongue. On Feb. 18, the member institutions that comprise NCAA Division I voted narrowly not to rescind legislation that allows schools to offer multiyear scholarships instead of strictly offering renewable one-year scholarships. It was by the slimmest of margins, but multiyear scholarships survived. That, in turn, led to dire predictions of a Tower of Babel situation, with every school making different offers to recruits in an impossible-to-decipher jumble of various terms and limits. Nick Saban doesn't see that happening. "We're going to offer four-year scholarships," Saban said. "Our whole conference is going to do it, all the schools, I think. And we're happy to do it."
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Just doesn't like being limited on the number of them that can be offered.
Deep Creek
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drum roll please........
crimson_colored_glas…
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"We're going to offer four-year scholarships," Saban said. "Kids will just have to pay their first two years before they'll kick in."
Pathfinder
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translation - we can afford four-year medical scholarships for those that don't pan out
Zeeker
Santa Fe , NM
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All scholarships should be for four years. OR, they should be treated like any contract and the player can move on and play without penalty if that contract is not renewed.
What the NCAA does now would be illegal anywhere else.
50yearfan
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Kudos for Saban, it will be a big change considering he's signed 114 in the last 4 years.
SL Guido
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It doesn't say everything he said. He said they have to make grades and they have to adhere to the rules.... which basically is the same guideline every other team uses.
But that mean ol' Sabenz has somethin' up his sleeve, he does.
Joe Kidd #1
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The "intent" is to find gray area, and not just Satan, but all of them!!!
crimson_colored_glas…
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West Tx math tells me 25+25+25+25 = 100, given no redshirts.
SL Guido
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Hey, I resemble that remark.
Deep Creek
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My memory is not what it used to be, but I could have sworn I got a 4 year scholarship way back in 78.
neb4life
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True dat. Bo was saying it is all just different wording, it was funny because you could see him getting pizzed when they kept asking about it.
neb4life
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Nuh uh! Only the mean ol Sabenz does anything like finding gray areas.
Joe Kidd #1
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No, no, somehow that mean ol' Sabenz will beat the system in the gray areas. :)
Some of the comments locally bordered on the ridiculous about the so-called 4 year scholarship.
Joe Kidd #1
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agreed.
puttin on the foil
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Well, LUS, you know as well as I know, that players are rarely just "cut" which is what this is "supposed" to stop.
Your team and my team have several guys that would have been cut if the only criteria was "they're not producing on the field". I can name about 4-5 guys right now that would be gone tomorrow, if that were the case.
I do know locally this very thing was said "It shows that we care about the player unlike that mean ol' Sabenz who doesn't care about his players." Now, I was the one who used mean ol Sabenz, but the rest is exactly what was said. Which is ridiculous. If anyone thinks their coach "cares" for their players any more than the average next coach, they are living in lala land.
Joe Kidd #1
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