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Here's a story by the Wall Street Journal about how Alabama coach Nick Saban forces some players to take medical redshirts even if they want to continue playing. A few years ago, Pete Carroll was determined to do something similar with some fullbacks but then he changed his mind when he realized he needed them because of depth problems at fullback.
Leave it to Scott to get it azzbackward. Alabama forces kids to take medical scholarships. Those end your playing career and you are no longer on the team or receive the help from the athletic department academic tutors and counselors (with their handy course selection.)
A medical red-shirt is just taking a year off. A lot of time that works in the players favor even if the kid doesn't want to take.
timmay is spot on here. Scooter has no idea even what planet he's on.
I mean, come on dude. You read that story and reached your conclusion? Did you really graduate from USC or did you print out a fake diploma using Photoshop.
Now that I've got that off my chest, Nick Saban is a class A douche bag. His constant over-signing/gray-shirting/medical scholarship crap has run its course. Why can't the NCAA do something about these shady coaches (Les Miles, Houston Nutt, Bobby Petrino - I'm looking at you guys) that populate the SEC? Why is it that they go after the student athlete while protecting the establishment? I mean, I know WHY they do it - but why are they allowed to do it?
Isn't there something we can do about this travesty/sham/mockery?
Wolf even hacks the cut&paste job. Some journalist.
http://oversigning.com/testing/
"It's none of your business alright. And don't give me this (stuff) about the fans need to know, because they don't need to know."- Nick Saban