DESTIN, Fla. — Nick Saban wants the members of his league to make a choice at this week’s SEC spring meetings.
The Alabama coach has been cast as the villain in two graduate transfer sagas in the past two years. He could simply relent and eliminate the bad press, but instead he’d like to see the presidents, athletic directors and coaches discuss and decide whether the league wants to enforce its intraconference graduate transfer rule or eliminate the restrictions contained therein. In 2016, defensive back Maurice Smith wanted to leave Alabama following graduation and play immediately. The SEC’s rule calls for such a player to sit out a year unless he or she receives a waiver from the commissioner.