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Alabama coach Nick Saban goes off on the 'Wild, Wild West' of recruiting

Published May. 31, 2016 5:04 p.m. ET

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Aaron Torres

Just when you thought we were finally, mercifully done talking about satellite camps ... well, think again.  

The latest to weigh in on the great college football topic that no one really cares about was Alabama coach Nick Saban, although in his defense, his rant came only after he was asked about it Tuesday at the SEC spring meetings in Destin, Florida.

But once he was prompted, Saban rattled off a typical rant that only Saban could provide, explaining that football could one day go the way of AAU basketball thanks to all the shady characters involved in satellite camps, even calling the camps themselves the "Wild, Wild West" of recruiting.

From there Saban continued, and in the paranoid, the-sky-is-falling, let-me-take-everything-to-the-utmost-extreme way that only Saban can, he explained how these camps could one day lead Alabama — and any school who participates in them — to landing in trouble with the NCAA.

To his credit, Saban brings up some pretty interesting points even if, again, they are a bit extreme. It's also fair to ask — as SEC coaches did all spring long — how they will be regulated as they continue to grow and expand.

Only time will tell, but in addition to raising some interesting points, let's give Saban credit for one more thing: He took a truly boring and mundane topic, and somehow made it interesting.

(Saban also dropped Jim Harbaugh's name, saying "there needs to be somebody that looks out for what's best for the game, not what's best for the Big Ten or what's best for the SEC or what's best for Jim Harbaugh, but what's best for the game of college football" — and that got Harbaugh's attention.)

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