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Geoff Collins has seen Alabama’s recruiting machine up close. He was a part of building it, after all. He recently sent some Temple staffers to Tuscaloosa to get a crash course. Collins spent 2007 as Alabama’s director of player personnel. He later moved to on-field coaching jobs at UCF, FIU, Mississippi State, Florida and now Temple as head coach. As he continues to build the recruiting operation at Temple, he wanted to take lessons from Nick Saban.
“I was able to be on the ground floor on day one, helping the transition to the social media age with Coach Saban, set the groundwork for the great recruiting class we had that year with Julio Jones, Mark Ingram and on and on, and the run that has happened,” Collins said on Smashmouth Radio 99.1 in Birmingham.
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IYAM, teaching other programs Alabama’s recruiting strategy is like Coca Cola opening the vault to donkey pee manufacturers Pepsi. Perhaps Saban wants to do an old pupil a solid; maybe it’s the sharing nature of a profession which is simultaneously secretive; maybe it’s all of those and the fact Rutgers isn’t going to ever outrecruit Alabama...or all of these.



So many flavors, and he chose salty...
“There are only so many schools in America that will give you whatever it takes to win,” Bowden said. “You put Nick Saban spending the rest of his life at Michigan State, he might just be another coach. But you put Nick Saban, who knows how to get things done at an LSU that says, ‘Whatever you need, we’ll give you,’ or at Alabama, that says ‘Whatever you want, we’ll give you.’
“They have the ability to get that ‘whatever you want’ and turn it into national championships. Some guys don’t have that.”
Bowden did say that one of Saban’s key traits is that he is very smart, mentally disciplined, and organized. So, despite the fact he seems to say that a lot/most of Saban’s success can be attributed to being given all the resources one could want, he also suggests that it is something hard-wired in Saban too. The first part will generate the clicks, but there’s probably alittle something to it — though not as much as Bowden makes it out to be: Saban did go 11-2 at Toledo and turn around a Spartan program that was in the gutter, on top of making moribund LSU and Alabama programs national powers. That’s not simply resources there, buddy.
 

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Stallings back in hospitalbol/rbr
Former Alabama head coach Gene Stallings has reportedly been re-hospitalized.
After suffering a mild stroke and being hospitalized in Montgomery on Thursday, Stallings was taken to an emergency room near his home in Paris, Texas, on Monday, according to WBRC’s Rick Karle. Stallings and his wife, Ruth Ann, were concerned with a spike in the coach’s blood pressure, but the 82-year-old Stallings is now “resting comfortably.”
We send our thoughts to Coach Stallings and his family as we wish for his speedy recovery and continued good health.
 

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