m********t
发帖数: 1591 | 1 华尔街日报上一个分析（就是那个ncaa football相关版面）回顾了塞班指教阿拉巴马
的过程，以及塞班的成功，最最紧要的问题是
谁来阻止塞班
我看michigan可以，如果一炮打响，hoke立马成为big的领军人物，um给人家提鞋也不
够，这样说是有道理的，这个赛季，osu根本没有和巴马见面的权利，恩
如果hoke惨败，那对于媒体来说应当是正常的不能再正常的事情，又要吧big衰落这个
话题来个沉渣泛起。无聊透顶
我支持michigan干掉巴马，go blue!!!!! | m********t
发帖数: 1591 | 2 这是原文：吹上天了，恩
How Saban Turned the Tide
The Alabama Coach's Meticulous Recruiting Process Has Spawned an All-
Powerful Program
By RACHEL BACHMAN and BEN COHEN
[image] Getty Images
The allure of Alabama isn't just Southern charm. It's that Nick Saban has
mastered the art of preparing players for the NFL.
With all due respect to the 123 other schools that play major-college
football, the sport's foreseeable future boils down to one question: Can
anyone stop Alabama?
The Alabama Crimson Tide, college football's defending national champion,
has become the game's "it" team, an all-powerful and impervious Death Star
of a program. Alabama has won two of the last three national titles. Its
coach, Nick Saban, won another one while he was at Louisiana State—meaning
he has won the title in three of the past seven college seasons he has
coached.
The Tide is a 14-point favorite Saturday over No. 8 Michigan—repeat: a two-
touchdown favorite against a top-10 team—in its season opener. The last
time Alabama was an underdog was 28 games ago, against Tim Tebow and Florida
in the 2009 Southeastern Conference championship game. Result: Bama 32,
Florida 13.
The stunning volume of victories and championships and NFL draft picks has
Alabama redefining college-football success as we know it. How, exactly,
does the Tide do it?
Recruiting is paramount. Saban sets aside time every day for assistant
coaches to make phone calls, write letters and discuss the country's best
blue-chippers. His system focuses on collecting reliable, exhaustive
information on players—not always easy to find when NCAA rules forbid
coaches from measuring players' vertical leaps or timing them in the 40-yard
dash.
To make up for those restrictions, Alabama's coaching staff is as strict as
any in the country about gathering information, recruiting experts say.
Crimson Tide coaches consult track times and encourage prospects to add the
sport in the football off-season. Coaches invite prospects to attend Alabama
's summer camp, since they tend to offer scholarships to high-schoolers they
have seen in person and not just on highlights.
The Sports Retort
And before Alabama recruits a player in earnest, coaches produce a
comprehensive report on everything from whether he fits their preferred
physical prototypes—a cornerback should be about 6 feet and 185-190 pounds
—to his ankle, knee and hip movement. If a lineman's heels are raised when
he is crouched in a stance, he is probably too inflexible for Alabama.
Finally, coaches talk to family, friends and others to go "seven-deep into a
guy's life" to gauge his mental strength, said former Alabama offensive
coordinator Jim McElwain, who is now the head coach at Colorado State.
Saban also embraces technology for his multipronged pitch. He started using
videoconferencing as a recruiting tool several years ago—early enough in
the software's life that some players spoke to him using equipment at their
local libraries. CoachSaban.net, Saban's website, plays a Crimson Tide-
themed hip-hop song called "4th Quarter" from the Tuscaloosa group 63 Boyz
that features the lyric, "Since we landed Saban in T-Town, it's hard to go
unnoticed."
Even Saban's current players are foot soldiers in college football's
recruiting war. Cooper Bateman, a top-ranked quarterback from Utah, took a
tour of SEC schools in the spring before he committed to Alabama. What stood
out to his family during his visit? All of Alabama's players made sure they
took off their hats when meeting his mother.
The allure of Alabama, of course, isn't just Southern charm. "In no way for
the players who may end up playing in the NFL do I want to limit their
exposure or opportunity to do that," Saban said in response to emailed
questions.
Since Saban's arrival in 2007, Alabama has produced 11 first-round NFL draft
picks, by far the most in the country. Since 2003, only four colleges have
churned out more first-rounders than Alabama has since 2009. Three of those
programs—Miami, Ohio State and Southern California—have had NCAA rules-
related scandals. The fourth school is LSU, which Saban coached from 2000 to
2004. He signed nine of the Tigers' 12 first-round draft picks.
While some programs limit access for NFL scouts, Saban rolls out the crimson
carpet for them. "I've always said you could call Alabama and say, 'The
only time I can come to Tuscaloosa is at 3 a.m.,' and they would let you in,
" said Phil Savage, an analyst for Alabama's radio network and the former
general manager of the Cleveland Browns.
Saban is the rare college head coach who returned to the NCAA from the NFL
of his own volition. Previously the coach at Michigan State and LSU, he
worked as the Browns' defensive coordinator with New England Patriots coach
Bill Belichick in the 1990s, and he was the Miami Dolphins' coach in 2005
and 2006. Alabama's playing style reflects Saban's experience: The Crimson
Tide's pro-style offense and defense contrast with more gimmicky college
schemes. "So once they get there, it's not like a shock," McElwain said.
The son of a service station and Dairy Queen franchise owner—the coach
likes banana milkshakes—Saban, 60, once aspired to own a car dealership. "I
can hear the jokes right now," he wrote in "How Good Do You Want to Be?",
his 2004 book. But recruiting specialists and Saban's former stars say he is
less of a used-car salesman in a recruit's living room than his peers.
"He's incredibly honest in the recruiting process," said former Alabama
quarterback Greg McElroy, the starter on the 2009 national-title team who
now plays for the New York Jets. "He tells kids, 'Hey, you're going to come
in and redshirt. Look, you're going to do this. You're going to do that.' He
tells them exactly what he thinks. I think a lot of people respect that
because so much of the recruiting process is an unknown."
Alabama is what Scott Kennedy, director of scouting for the recruiting site
Scout.com, calls "a team of exceptions." As a high-school senior in 2007,
for example, Mark Barron was a 6-foot-2, roughly 210-pound running back and
linebacker. Not at Alabama. Baron played safety, where he became a first-
team All-American and the No. 7 overall pick in April.
It all adds up to the most basic reason Alabama boasts two of the last three
titles: Saban has the pick of the recruiting litter. In short, he gets
freaks and makes them even scarier.
In recent years, college football's rule-makers have targeted recruiting
strategies employed by Alabama. In 2008, the NCAA banned head coaches from
making off-campus recruiting visits during the six-week-long spring
evaluation period. The concept was to prevent coaches from "bumping into"
recruits while observing them, and some dubbed it the Saban rule because of
his frequent recruiting travel.
Last year, the SEC capped the number of players a program can sign at 25 per
year. That curbed the practice known as "oversigning"—signing more than
the annual NCAA maximum of 25 players that programs can admit, giving them a
larger pool from which to build a team.
Nevertheless, Alabama keeps winning. Its momentum has turned it into college
football's premier program, a title once held by Southern California under
Pete Carroll, and then Florida under Urban Meyer. As long as Saban sticks
around, he shows no signs of relinquishing it. He said after his two-year
stint with the Dolphins that the field-leveling nature of the NFL made it
difficult to gain a competitive advantage.
And with an annual compensation of $5.3 million, the highest in the sport,
Saban shows no signs of leaving. "I am very happy with the position that I
am in right now," he said.
—Mike Sielski contributed to this article.
Write to Rachel Bachman at r************[email protected] and Ben Cohen at ben.cohen
@wsj.com
【在 m********t 的大作中提到】
: 华尔街日报上一个分析（就是那个ncaa football相关版面）回顾了塞班指教阿拉巴马
: 的过程，以及塞班的成功，最最紧要的问题是
: 谁来阻止塞班
: 我看michigan可以，如果一炮打响，hoke立马成为big的领军人物，um给人家提鞋也不
: 够，这样说是有道理的，这个赛季，osu根本没有和巴马见面的权利，恩
: 如果hoke惨败，那对于媒体来说应当是正常的不能再正常的事情，又要吧big衰落这个
: 话题来个沉渣泛起。无聊透顶
: 我支持michigan干掉巴马，go blue!!!!!
| x*******1
发帖数: 28835 | | m********t
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【在 x*******1 的大作中提到】
: lao chen?
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发帖数: 1246 | 5 媒体赛前从来都是hype弱的。这样收视率才高。
其实是，第一节UM就被blow out了。 | x*******1
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母牛问" 为啥要跑?"
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【在 m********t 的大作中提到】
: 华尔街日报上一个分析（就是那个ncaa football相关版面）回顾了塞班指教阿拉巴马
: 的过程，以及塞班的成功，最最紧要的问题是
: 谁来阻止塞班
: 我看michigan可以，如果一炮打响，hoke立马成为big的领军人物，um给人家提鞋也不
: 够，这样说是有道理的，这个赛季，osu根本没有和巴马见面的权利，恩
: 如果hoke惨败，那对于媒体来说应当是正常的不能再正常的事情，又要吧big衰落这个
: 话题来个沉渣泛起。无聊透顶
: 我支持michigan干掉巴马，go blue!!!!!
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