There’s a caricature of Alabama coach Nick Saban and Arkansas coach Bret Bielema that crystallized a few years back. Picture two old men listening to a transistor radio, shouting at a bunch of youngsters to get off their lawn, and you’ve got it. Both of them are muttering that the kids are running too fast, that the kids are breaking all the rules. They’re upset — using Saban’s actual words here — asking the college football gods, “Is this is what we want football to be?”
Saban and Bielema stood out on that ledge together for a while.