The Nick Saban recruiting pitch is perfect. pic.twitter.com/hVYhYJCaVX
— Unnecessary Roughness (@UnnecRoughness) January 30, 2021
In a sense, he’s putting pressure on his position coaches, not to mention himself, with those words. That’s a good thing. That’s the way it should be in a big-boy program. That’s certainly the way it is at Alabama. I’ve talked to enough coaches over the years to know nobody gets coddled at ‘Bama. Not coaches, not players.
If you get a chance, watch the video of Saban talking to a recruit. He tells the player that at Alabama, you’ll play against better competition in practice than you often will on Saturdays. That once was the case at Nebraska. In fact, Frost played quarterback for the Huskers when that was the case. But he knows as well as anyone that he now guides a program that lags far behind Saban’s machine, sort of like the pack of horses that trailed Secretariat in the 1973 Belmont.
That said, there’s still a race to run. For now, however, Frost concentrates on trying to pass horses in a large pack of also-rans, as the Alabama machine surges forward in the distance, seemingly a world away.
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