http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nca.../27980501/

... Saban said "If we're going to compete for the championship and everybody is going to play in the playoff system and everybody's going to compete for that, we need to get our rules in alignment so we're all on a level playing field....

...Take so-called satellite camps, for instance. The SEC doesn't like them because it allows schools from the Midwest — Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State, specifically — to have a bigger recruiting presence in the South. The Big Ten, which doesn't have as many talented players in its geographic footprint, wants the ability to keep doing them. (SEC incoming commissioner Greg Sankey said the league will propose a national rule to mimic the SEC's.)...

...And then there's the entire cost of attendance issue, which has coaches up in arms because players at Tennessee and Auburn will be getting stipends of more than $5,500 while Georgia's players get around $3,200 based on how each school's financial aid office calculates estimated costs above tuition, room and board.

"Big-picture wise, I mean even in the NFL they have a salary cap," Saban said. "You can't create a system that, really, can almost promote fraud. But when we don't have a cap that makes it equal for everyone, it's really going to go against all the things we've tried to do in the NCAA in terms of having parity for players in what you're allowed to give them....

He's right.

Right, ironic and amusing simultaneously.

See, I told you. He's feeling threatened by our summer camp in Alabama.

(05-27-2015 10:39 AM)80sTiger Wrote:  Right, ironic and amusing simultaneously.

I couldn't possibly put it better.

I read, "I'm fine with everything the way it is/was until I see something that might negatively impact me."

Saban talking about fairness is hilarious on many different levels.

(05-27-2015 10:47 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Saban talking about fairness is hilarious on many different levels.

The SEC lobbying for a national rule barring satellite camps is obviously self serving. The COA "argument" is now labeled "unfair" (without actually showing specifically where it's unfair). Really, it's just not turning out the way the P5 expected. Note --- this is originally a P5 rule hoping to answer some of the player concerns raised in litigation --

(05-27-2015 10:54 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(05-27-2015 10:47 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Saban talking about fairness is hilarious on many different levels.

The SEC lobbying for a national rule barring satellite camps is obviously self serving. The COA "argument" is now labeled "unfair" (without actually showing specifically where it's unfair). Really, it's just not turning out the way the P5 expected. Note --- this is originally a P5 rule hoping to answer some of the player concerns raised in litigation --

BTW - nice Slive quote when things looked ---well, different >>

"We all have to adjust to a new foundation or basis for legislation, and when it's no longer (about) level playing field and it's about kids, it's about students, you're going to end up with differentials we're all going to have to learn to live with," outgoing SEC commissioner Mike Slive said.

He'll get what he wants.

What could Saban ever know about a "level" playing field. His reality is much like that of Marie Antoinette.

The northern schools should be allowed to petition the NCAA to get the same weather as the southern schools between November and May.

(05-27-2015 11:58 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  He'll get what he wants.

Bama will never play in Jordan Hare....

Bama doesn't always get its way

Poor Nicky

(05-27-2015 10:44 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(05-27-2015 10:39 AM)80sTiger Wrote:  Right, ironic and amusing simultaneously.

I couldn't possibly put it better.

Agreed

If he really wants a level playing field then how we take all TV and bowl money and put it all into one big pool. Then divide equally between ALL the schools across the US. Cannot get a more level playing field than that.

(05-27-2015 03:04 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-27-2015 11:58 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  He'll get what he wants.

Bama will never play in Jordan Hare....

Bama doesn't always get its way

Poor Nicky

Are there any Southern teams that you don't despise?

(05-27-2015 02:00 PM)Stammers Wrote:  The northern schools should be allowed to petition the NCAA to get the same weather as the southern schools between November and May.

That's awesome.

(05-27-2015 08:13 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  If he really wants a level playing field then how we take all TV and bowl money and put it all into one big pool. Then divide equally between ALL the schools across the US. Cannot get a more level playing field than that.

When asked about this, Nick Saban's answer to spontaneously combust.

That's our current national economic policy

(05-27-2015 08:48 PM)holyterror Wrote:  That's our current national economic policy

True but you are looking for two different things when talking college sports and the US economy.

One you want the best of the best to succeed because in the end it helps everyone.

In the other you want everyone to be as equal as possible.

Watched Knute Rockne All American today. Back then sports played their proper role in the academic process and didn't over shadow it.