Can’t beat ‘em, learn from ‘em
Geoff Collins has seen Alabama’s recruiting machine up close. He was a part of building it, after all. He recently sent some Temple staffers to Tuscaloosa to get a crash course. Collins spent 2007 as Alabama’s director of player personnel. He later moved to on-field coaching jobs at UCF, FIU, Mississippi State, Florida and now Temple as head coach. As he continues to build the recruiting operation at Temple, he wanted to take lessons from Nick Saban.
“I was able to be on the ground floor on day one, helping the transition to the social media age with Coach Saban, set the groundwork for the great recruiting class we had that year with Julio Jones, Mark Ingram and on and on, and the run that has happened,” Collins said on Smashmouth Radio 99.