It’s always funny to think about Nick Saban’s recruiting pitches to top-flight prospects. In my head, Saban would go into the homes of 5-star recruits and say something like, “Do you like winning? Do you want to win a National Championship? Do you want to go to the NFL? Okay, then come to Alabama,” and then he would leave and the kid would commit the next day.
I’m sure the reality was a little more nuanced than that, but that’s really all Saban needed to do — he built a machine at Alabama.
That machine certainly hasn’t died under head coach Kalen DeBoer — the Tide are ranked No. 7 in the country right now, primed for another College Football Playoff berth — but the recruiting success that Saban had might not come so easy under DeBoer… until he wins a National Championship or two…