TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Comparisons aren’t Nick Saban’s thing.
They’re not fair, Alabama's 65-year-old head coach will say with some degree of annoyance in his voice, noting how they don’t take into account the different circumstances from one season to another. It doesn’t matter if he’s comparing one set of star linebackers to another, like the duo of Dont’a Hightower and Rolando McClain or C.J. Mosley and Reggie Ragland, he’s not willing to play the game. He just doesn’t like it.
“Look, I don’t compare anything to anything,” Saban told reporters a month ago.
But Saban’s hard-and-fast rule doesn’t always extend to his players.