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Going to guess the numbers weren't right when the coaching staff learned Coker was serious about coming to Tuscaloosa.In a Friday interview with The Oregonian, Del Rio, whom Alabama coach Nick Saban often said was Alabama's third option behind AJ McCarron and Blake Sims, said he was told he would have played if McCarron got hurt.
Del Rio also said Alabama coaches told him he would be put on scholarship after his first season, but ultimately wasn't.
"(Saban) said, 'We’re not ready to make that commitment yet from a business perspective,'" Del Rio told The Oregonian. "He said if he had the numbers, then he would have done it. And I respected that.
"But I sort of saw the writing on the wall, and I left. I didn’t know who would still be interested."