And it is a fact that his TRUTH that he says was PRECISELY why Julio said he came to UA. Everyone else thought it was a slam dunk on where he was going but he said it absolutely wasn’t! He has said many many times that Coach Saban was the ONLY one that didn’t promise him anything. I think that is why he wins the living room with so many of the parents.
Come on...he is supposed to be a young man, and he is responsible for his actions and decisions. He should be man enough to admit when he made a mistake and take the consequences of his actions and try to improve his future decision making. Treating him like a child does him no favors in life. The only way his parents might be at fault are for not teaching him that academics are more important than atheletics.
Correct: 5 star Barnett was beaten out by 5 star Hurts, who was replaced by 5 star Tua. CNS offers a background of being in the league for a time with the best NFL coach we’ve ever seen. I think he’s pretty straight forward with the kid and his family.
I agree. This lady, (the one with Tua on the cart on Saturday btw), has insight into what goes on with these young athletes. I know there are some bad seeds, but most times the issues are a good kid is just struggling.
How is this responsive to my post that his parents may have wanted him at Bama? Are you aware that in the Tagovailoa family, the father has determined where each son has attended school? They make no secret about it...
When I taught at Alabama, the best students I had were student-athletes (both young women). One ran track and the other was a basketball player.
Sorry, this is not true. Until very recently, a decision to leave your school meant going down a level or missing a year. Kids who considered changing stuck it out because the price for that change was high. But things began to change about 10 years ago as our society changed. Even before the transfer portal was created we had kids like BB leaving and getting waivers to play the next year at a D1 school - even though there was zero hardship involved. Our culture would never have allowed that 20 years ago. No school would have taken him under those conditions, and he wouldn't have even attempted to get that waiver approved because it would have been ridiculed. He would have been labeled a quitter, and rightfully so. He quit when he didn't get to start.
Actually at this point, society makes no difference between hardship and hurt feelings. It doesn't matter if it's legit or not -- all changes are treated the same way. It used to not matter why a kid was quitting....he was branded a "quitter". Now, it still doesn't matter why a kid is quitting....but now he's branded as "misunderstood"....
That right there is the Bryant sales pitch of the 1970s.
As long as more of his players go to the NFL and/or finish their degrees and get decent jobs, there will continue to be room for programs which do it the right way, IMO. After all, there many programs now where kids can go now which don't demand much academically, as you've pointed out. Saban has no problem attracting the best of the best. I don't think that'll change but I hear and understand your concerns...
Definitely! However, it seems that we usually get high-quality transfers because of that. And, of course, Saban is as selective as he is with recruiting...
