ARLINGTON, Texas -- Nothing excites college football fans quite like recruiting stars.
Few coaches have recruited as many players decorated with those stars as Alabama's Nick Saban. The running joke is that Saban doesn't recruit. He selects.
But he also has a favorite saying that every player who has ever come through the doors at Alabama on his watch can recite in their sleep.
"Leave that four-star and five-star stuff in high school," said Alabama safety Eddie Jackson, doing his best Saban impersonation. "This isn't high school. The only thing that matters now is how you grow as a player and as a man.