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Quit checking me out.
Are you being serious with this post? You and a couple of other Bama fans have been calling people haters and jealous, etc. for pointing out the hypocrisy and dumb statements made by your coach. You have attacked a style of football that some may prefer and/or their team plays as not being "real football" or "good football" simply because it's a style that you and your coach don't like. Sorry, but you are no less guilty of what you accuse other posters of than they are.
Like it or not, Saban never should have opened his mouth on this subject. There is simply no way for him to come off looking like anything other than self-serving.
As for his contention about the NFL's pace of play. Even when the college football playoff starts, the highest number of games a college team will play is 15 (assuming a Hawaii game and making it to the NC). An NFL regular season is 16 games. When you add in exhibition games (which college does not have) and playoffs, teams that make the Super Bowl can play as many as 23-24 games. How many more snaps is that than college even if everyone ran hunh? Neither Saban, nor the good doctor address this?
The rule being discussed was proposed last year before Saban said anything about it, and the article linked in the OP directly says that Saban had nothing to do with it, and that the rules nearly passed last year but the vote was a tie. But yet, somehow even though the rule was proposed before Saban said anything, before Saban even spoke to the committee, it's all about Saban. Bullshit.
You say Saban is self serving here, but all the football coaches who run the HUNH crying about Saban aren't? You call Saban a hypocrite, but I'm wondering if you even know what the word means. Maybe you can say Saban has an agenda, but being a hypocrite would be like - saying other coaches have an agenda while you yourself are worried about protecting your own form of offense. Which for some reason is celebrated among you.