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Nick Saban has a big concern about Alabama's top-ranked recruiting class

Published Feb. 2, 2017 12:51 p.m. ET

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Chris Bahr

Nick Saban’s recruiting class is being universally praised as the best of 2017 – perhaps the best during his tenure with the Crimson Tide – but he is handling the accolades in typical Nick Saban fashion.

In fact, Alabama's head coach went so far as to point out the program's biggest "failure" on the recruiting trail this year:

"We obviously try to identify needs that we have each year and I think in this class we sort of hit every spot but one," Saban told al.com. "We wanted to recruit at least one corner, maybe two. It just worked out that it didn't happen that way for us."

Nick Saban

  Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports

"Recruiting, personnel evaluation is not an exact science," Saban said. "Everyone who stands up here today ... if you see a coach that stands up here and says he had a bad recruiting day, let me know.  Everybody's going to say they had a good day and things went well. They got what they needed. You never have a bad recruiting class and you never have a bad spring practice.”

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