Remember Saban's rant from the first press conference of the spring? He started ranting and end up talking about a NCAA rule. This is why...
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If one of the rules the NCAA is likely to approve this week had been in effect 10 years ago, Jeremy Pruitt might never have broken into college coaching.
One of the best defensive coordinators in the country and a rising star in the profession, Pruitt most likely would’ve never been afforded the opportunity to jump from Hoover High School, where he was the defensive coordinator, to Alabama, where he became the director of player development.
The bylaw, 11.4.3, has the potential to change how Alabama builds its support staff.
The rule reads, “In football, during a two-year period before a prospective student-athlete’s anticipated enrollment and a two-year period after the prospective student-athlete’s actual enrollment, an institution shall not employ (or enter into a contract for future employment with) an individual associated with the prospective student-athlete in any athletics department noncoaching staff position or in a strength and conditioning staff position.”