Tag: spring meetings

Nick Saban reveals how much he works throughout the course of the year

Nick Saban’s staff works an absurd amount to achieve their success!

It’s a pretty cliche saying, but if you want something, you have to work for it, and that is especially true in the world of college football. The margins are so thin, to begin with inside of the Southeastern Conference that it really comes down to how much are you willing to work and how badly do you really want it.

Nobody knows about it better than Alabama head coach Nick Saban who often jokes that “They just don’t make ’em like they used to” as he continues to dominate CFB into his 70s. At the SEC Spring meeting this past weekend he revealed that he and his staff work seven days a week 44 weeks of the year. Whether it is coaching in the season, the multiple recruiting windows, helping players with the NFL draft process, or going to coaching clinics there is so little time for the coaching staff to rest at any point in the year that it really paints a picture of who wants it most.

Even after seven rings and all the money a man could ever need, Saban is solely focused on the next ring. That’s what separates him from the 65+ other coaches that have coached a game in the SEC during his tenure. For example, as more details have seeped out about Bryan Harsin and his departure from Auburn, it became apparent that he didn’t want to put in the effort it takes to land important recruits, and their recruiting numbers reflected that.

Roll Tide Wire will continue to rejoice that Nick Saban coaches at the University of Alabama.

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Could a new rule cost Kene Nwangwu a roster spot?

If the NFL passes a new rule allowing fair catches to count as touchbacks, Kene Nwangwu could become expendable this offseason.

Having a dynamite returner is a really nice luxury on your roster. The Minnesota Vikings have seen their fair share of talented kick returners play for them. From Percy Harvin to Cordarrelle Patterson and Marcus Sherels, there have been some really dynamic returners over the last 15 years to wear the purple and gold.

According to Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer, a rule change could potentially hinder the kick return game even more. With the spring meetings happening at TCO Performance Center this week, they could implement the college football kickoff rule. That states that a fair catch inside the 25-yard line would be considered a touchback. That would automatically place the ball at the 25-yard line.

The proposal was in response to an uptick in concussions on kickoffs over the last three seasons—with 10 such concussions happening in 2020, 14 in ’21 and 19 last season.

Would that put kick returner Kene Nwangwu’s job in jeopardy? It very well could. Over his first two seasons, Nwangwu has only played 47 snaps on offense and hasn’t shown any aptitude to be a weapon on offense. Without any value on offense and his value as a kick returner devalued even more, could the Vikings cut the former second-team All-Pro?

In my first 53-man roster prediction, I didn’t have Nwangwu making the team due to his lack of versatility on offense. If this passes, the same could happen come end of August.