Reporter: What is your response?
Saban: Tough shit! It showed when we just mauled them, didn't it?
Reporter: Coach, how many of the top 100 players can you recruit?
Saban: Every damn one of them! Ya gotta problem with that?
Reporter: Yeah, but what about the academic side?
Saban: What about the academic side? What about my back side? Did you hear me speak to that recruit in that damned leaked video?
Reporter: Yeah, there was no mention of academics, just talk about national championships and the road to the NFL.
Saban: Bingo! That's what it's all about, pal.
Reporter: Isn't that a narrow-minded view of the college experience?
Saban: Hey, douchebag, they pay me $11 Mil a year to win national championships. I've got a car dealership, AFLAC commercials, a fabulous lakefront house in Tennessee, my own statue already on the Bama campus. Think of that: everyone else gets statues when they're dead or gone, but I've got one already and I'm still here. What do you have?
Reporter: My integrity!
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There is a repetitive focus on academics and the role the coach should be involved in that regards which is just not true. FB coaches are paid millions to... coach football... which means win football games. NOT make sure every kid graduates. That is the job of the professors.
0% interest in graduating his players?
0% interest in making sure they remain eligible year to year?
Just asking for a friend?
are paid primarily to do just that, coach and win. There are other aspects to being a coach but these are the primary reasons they are hired and fired. It's that simple. No need to make it more complex than that.
If academics were a primary driver of coaches, then you would not see schools firing guys left and right in 3 seasons or less for not winning even though GSRs were acceptable or high (I have not looked into this). But, have never heard of a coach being maintained because of their outstanding team academic accolades over their football performance.
For example, when Willingham was fired ND said something to the effect of what he did Monday to Friday was exemplary but what he did on Saturdays was not enough. Schools hire and fire football coaches to win football games. Alabama takes it a step further and uses its program as a pipeline for those players who put football as their primary life aspiration and desire to go to the NFL.
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