Nick Saban Not Happy About New SEC Misconduct Rule

Nick Saban is not happy; when is he ever happy someone may ask? This time, Saban is not happy about the new SEC misconduct rule which will not allow players to transfer if they have history of bad conduct.

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Meaning, basically that a kid can’t transfer to another SEC school if they misbehaved at their previous school. Just think, if this rule was in effect that Cam Newton, Zach Mettenberger, Jonathan Taylor, Nick Marshall, and others wouldn’t be able to go to another school within the conference because they were kicked off their other team.

Saban said to AL.com why she hated the new rule:

“I’m supportive of the league. I understand what they’re trying to do, and I was really to clearly define exactly why — or what — I thought convicted and felonies should be involved in the rule, and I guess I got sort of misinterpreted. But one of the points that I tried to make was Cam Newton being in the SEC and Nick Marshall being in the SEC benefited the SEC, and it benefited those players.

“So if those players were not allowed to play in the SEC they’d be playing someplace else. What I’m most concerned about, I just think that we should have the same rules in the SEC as all the other Big 5 schools have because now we’re not just talking about the SEC. We’re talking about having a playoff — no different than the NFL. One division in the NFL doesn’t have different rules, different salary caps, different anything because the league knows that parity is the best competitive balance that you can create.”

Saban wants everyone to be govern by the same rules which is understandable. If the SEC turns their back on these kids, they end up at a Michigan, Texas or a Florida State. But Saban is no fool, he also knows if he can take those trouble players, it could help his team as well.

That might have been the main reason Everette Golson didn’t end up in the SEC is because he would have had to jump through so many hoops to get in this conference, so where does he end up? at FSU.

You think Georgia or Florida, the two schools that Golson was reportedly looking at, could have used an experience quarterback this season?

To a certain extent, Saban is right, but these rules have barely effected Alabama until the Jonathan Taylor situation.

Look, if a school decides to take on a kid who has been in trouble in the past, that’s on them. But there has to be some rule in there saying they get one more shot and if they fail, they are not longer allowed to play in the SEC.

That seems to be fair and reasonable. In a lot of cases, when guys have been given a second chance, they’ve taken advantage of it and turn their lives around.

But that wasn’t the case with Taylor and now his misconduct may have prevented others from getting their second chance.

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