After much post-National Signing Day hand-wringing over the Tide’s lack of signing a quarterback, Nick Saban proves good to his word by acquiring former East Carolina signal-caller Gardner Minshew.
This past recruiting season scramble for Alabama involved late offers to a Princeton commit and a 3-star gunslinger from Arizona who eventually signed with Iowa State. Some were questioning why the Tide did not add Montgomery native James Foster, who landed in College Station.
When asked a question about quarterbacks during his NSD presser on February 7, Saban replied: “We’ll probably have a quarterback join us some kind of way.