The Alabama Crimson Tide are most likely not taking a look at Colorado’s Deion Sanders to interchange Nick Saban.
Even on For The Win’s preliminary checklist of candidates to take over the Crimson Tide, Prime Time didn’t make the minimize. This isn’t a matter of believing in Sanders as a coach a lot as the truth that he hasn’t achieved sufficient on the sector but to justify touchdown arguably the largest opening the game has seen in many years.
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith is aware of all of this. He additionally is aware of Sanders seems completely happy in Boulder proper now. However on Friday’s version of First Take, Stephen A. made a reasonably nice level about why Sanders is the right individual to maintain the Tide rolling after Saban retired and it largely comes all the way down to recruiting.
Who ought to substitute Nick Saban at Alabama? Stephen A. Smith says Coach Prime.
“Go forward and be completely happy in Boulder, Colorado. God bless you… I used to be there twice in my life and the one purpose for that was him.” pic.twitter.com/BDvvDbIvQc
— Terrible Asserting (@awfulannouncing) January 12, 2024
“I’m eager about at the moment’s era of gamers. Catching the heart beat of the gamers. I’m eager about NIL. I’m eager about the switch portal, which clearly had been issues that Nick Saban had a point of an issue with. After which I’m eager about Deion Sanders. He’s bought the top-ranked switch class proper now. His second yr that he’s pulled that off. So while you have a look at it from that perspective, the power to recruit expertise, I feel in the event you’re going to interchange the greatness of a Nick Saban, it begins and ends, firstly, with with the ability to recruit. And you’ll’t inform me, for an enormous time program like Alabama, any individual like Prime Time goes there, that you simply’re going to have athletes that won’t comply with.”
Smith opened and closed his remarks by noting that this isn’t going to occur, but it surely’s an attention-grabbing level nonetheless.
Preserving the momentum going through the transition from Saban is a very powerful a part of nailing this rent for Alabama. Sanders would definitely be capable of get gamers and recruits excited. Even when he’s not the perfect tactician on the sidelines, Alabama might do what Colorado did and attempt to encompass him with as many elite assistants and coordinators as doable.
Wouldn’t it lead to wins and nationwide titles? That’s a distinct query altogether. But when the concept is solely to maintain expertise flowing into Tuscaloosa — and simply as importantly, cease it from transferring elsewhere — Sanders makes a ton of sense.
And that’s all earlier than contemplating all of the Aflac commercials Saban and Sanders might proceed to star in.
