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If there were a model program in college football, Alabama
under Coach Nick Saban would be it. The Crimson Tide won the 2021 national championship and got through the off-season blemish free until Sunday, when an outside linebacker was arrested for driving under the influence and promptly suspended from the team. The antithesis of Saban’s Alabama might be Tennessee
under former coach Jeremy Pruitt, whose staff allegedly gave recruits piles of cash inside of McDonald’s Happy Meals containers. NCAA Compliance officer’s weren’t lovin’ it: Pruitt was fired, longtime athletic director Phillip Fullmer retired “independently” and plenty of players transferred out of Rocky Top. LSU
also took some lumps on the shame axis for the aforementioned issues with Miles.
If there were a model program in college football, Alabama
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