Of all the stupid Saban Rules that have come down the pipe the past decade, perhaps the dumbest is this newest form of weaponized administrative buffoonery. Beginning this season, only 20 headsets will be allowed on the sidelines and booths.
“I don’t know who is driving all this stuff, but to me it’s kind of like mouse manure when you’re up to your ears in elephant doo doo.”
He’s right, of course. With the systemic problems that college football faces, and with the incipient ones that will arise from legalized sports gambling, this is another short-sighted rule designed to attack one program but that will have far-reaching consequences that diminish the game.