The Alabama Crimson Tide are in all probability 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 lower. This isn’t a matter of believing in Sanders as a coach a lot as the truth that he hasn’t completed 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 blissful in Boulder proper now. However on Friday’s version of First Take, Stephen A. made a fairly nice level about why Sanders is the proper particular person to maintain the Tide rolling after Saban retired and it principally comes all the way down to recruiting.
Who ought to change Nick Saban at Alabama? Stephen A. Smith says Coach Prime.
“Go forward and be blissful in Boulder, Colorado. God bless you… I used to be there twice in my life and the one cause for that was him.” pic.twitter.com/BDvvDbIvQc
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“I’m fascinated by at this time’s technology of gamers. Catching the heart beat of the gamers. I’m fascinated by NIL. I’m fascinated by the switch portal, which clearly have been issues that Nick Saban had some extent of an issue with. After which I’m fascinated by Deion Sanders. He’s obtained the top-ranked switch class proper now. His second yr that he’s pulled that off. So while you take a look at it from that perspective, the power to recruit expertise, I feel in case you’re going to interchange the greatness of a Nick Saban, it begins and ends, before everything, with having the ability to recruit. And you’ll’t inform me, for a giant time program like Alabama, any individual like Prime Time goes there, that you just’re going to have athletes that won’t observe.”
Smith opened and closed his remarks by noting that this isn’t going to occur, nevertheless it’s an fascinating level nonetheless.
Retaining the momentum going throughout the transition from Saban is an important a part of nailing this rent for Alabama. Sanders will surely have the ability to get gamers and recruits excited. Even when he’s not one of the best tactician on the sidelines, Alabama may do what Colorado did and attempt to encompass him with as many elite assistants and coordinators as doable.
Would it not end in wins and nationwide titles? That’s a unique query altogether. But when the thought is just 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 may proceed to star in.