[For Alabama fans, Indignation]

Even though this topic has wasted more energy than Al Gore on a bender, I’m once again alternatively surprised/frustrated/amazed/sadforourfuture that legions of people are incapable of understanding the central issue here.  This isn’t about how 70 + 25 > 85.  Or how Nick Saban “plans for attrition and that’s why he oversigned”.  I mean, I’m totally incapable of matching deprevity wits with someone that believes Nick Saban plans for players to commit assault or sling blow.  Maybe he does, in which case I’m sure the NCAA would like to have a word with USC him.  Hell, even the SIX medical scholarships given out are at least keeping the player in school.  All in all, it’s totally common to have 15% attrition right? Right?  Just admit it Alabama fans, you want to win and you don’t care how.  It’s fine, we’ll accept this.  We don’t agree, but we also don’t live in Alabama, so call it a draw.

Let’s look at this brief quote for 2 seconds and see if it’s worthy of any outrage, or at all comparable to Saban’s policies:

Rich Rodriguez said, “Stay tuned. There’s a couple guys I’m going to sit with here. Just guys that maybe if they’re not doing all their responsibilities and doing what they need to do to be part of our football program may not be back. I hope that’s not too many.”

So, excluding Grady (violating probation for DUI), what does this quote mean?  I read this as “A couple players aren’t going to class and/or following team rules.  I’m going to discuss options with them and see if they really want to play football for Michigan.”  Simple right?  RichRod is under the scholarship limit, has no incentive to remove players, and thinks players should go to class and follow the rules.  Foreign concepts to the SEC schools no doubt, but hey, the Big 10 sucks and is just jealous.  Besides, when you sign 32 players fully expecting 7 NOT to academically qualify, well, alrighty then.

I’m not going to bother to link to the terrible Capstone Report article, but let’s just enjoy this quote for a second to get a feel for the average Alabama fan: “I would have no problem agreeing with you excpet that Rod’s quote indicated[not a definitive] (in no uncertain [is a definitive]  terms) that other players could [not a definitive] most definitely [is a definitive] get the boot.”  For those following at home, that kind of ABAB belongs in Konami codes, but not in logical reasoning.  Roll Tide?  Here’s my take on that: