Re: Four Bama football players arrested - was progress of Eddie Williams & B. Callowa
he is the general and these were four of his "soldiers". and it was a very violent attack. I would expect CNS to address this in a press conference. I would certainly expect this as a parent of one of these students and I would expect it as the President of the University.
I'd have to be the last person to attack someone for lacking eloquence, or tact. So, I'm trying to give you the benefit of a doubt.
I simply think there's no way Nick Saban saw this coming and didn't do his best to stop it. So, to me it is either A: He had no idea or B: He did his best to stop it and failed. In either case, there is no pattern of this going on and I certainly hope we never see a pattern. While I feel for the victims, we have every reason to believe this was an aberration.
The problem is that the way you said things, placed doubt on Nick Saban's actions and there's no evidence to back that up. Are you familiar with Duron Carter? There is no evidence that Duron was a troublemaker, but he never met his obligations and as such was suspended indefinitely and never did play for Alabama. He was reputed to be (by a noticeable margin) the best receiver Alabama had on their roster. Think about the level of talent he had, think about what he could do as a player. If Nick Saban was the type to bend the rules, if he was the type to cut corners, he would have found a way to keep Duron on the team. Duron was dismissed, and unlike some other coaches there's no proof of Saban giving any players favorable treatment.
Without evidence the burden of proof falls on you. If you can't point out a pattern of Nick Saban recruiting "bad apples", if you can't find a history of Nick Saban covering up misdeeds of players, if you can't produce something to show us that what we know about Nick Saban is wrong, the calls for accountability ring hollow. He has a history of accountability, someone would have to disprove that in order to make that assertion.
