It is illegal to show a recruit on the jumbotron during a school sanctioned event, such as a basketball game, but the University of Alabama did just that as Saban sat between Sanders, Jr. and Senior to see the Tide win the SEC West in basketball this Saturday night.
Of course this is just the second secondary violation (that we know of) in Saban’s recruitment of Barry, Jr. The first came as a violation of Saban’s very own bump rule in Oklahoma City.
Maybe the third time is a charm?
Not that anyone can really blame him, I believe the maximum NCAA penalty for a secondary violation is 15 minutes in timeout and a stern talking to from your parents.
Update: Do you think Rob Ezell doing his Saban impersonation helped or hurt Bama’s chances?
6 responses so far ↓
1 bammer cheats again // Feb 19, 2011 at 9:14 pm
why would anyone be surprised to see saban disregarding the rules
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3 Jimmy "Stick'em" Womack // Feb 20, 2011 at 7:39 am
Apparently you can’t converse with a h.s. athlete in public anymore……if its right or wrong
4 gerry dorsey // Feb 20, 2011 at 8:56 am
whether you like him or not, i find it a little hard to put the jumbo tron thing on saban’s ledger. i suppose he COULD be controlling the jumbo tron with his mind, but its unlikely.
5 bammer always cheats // Feb 20, 2011 at 9:43 am
Gerry – only difference is if AU had done this, thamel/brooks/evans would have already had it in the NYT and have us convicted. Nice double standard. We’ll see how Oklahoma feels about saban’s cheating ways. We’re used to it.
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