Really positive article by USATODAY discusses how college teams treat NFL scouts and what kind of access they are given to evaluate players during the season.
Not surprisingly Saban and Alabama are featured as treating the NFL Scouts best and giving them access to the prospects.
Auburn? Not so much..
Can imagine this doesn't hurt Alabama in recruiting (actually Alabama has already created a promotion about this article.. See the Tweet later down in this thread).
Excerpt of article :
"An inside look at how college football programs treat NFL scouts
Marvin Gentry, USA TODAY Sports
For NFL scouts, there is no better campus to visit than Alabama.
Tape is available starting at 8 a.m. every day. Practices are open from fall camp through the regular season. The entry on the NFL’s secure website says it all: “No restrictions.”
“We feed them lunch and everything,” Alabama coach Nick Saban told USA TODAY Sports recently. “We treat ‘em good.”
It’s an extension of what Saban sells in recruiting: This is a place you can not only get an education and win championships, but get help extending your career individually, too.
It stands to reason others would follow the lead of one of college football’s most successful coaches. But as fall scouting season wraps up, complaints persist about restrictions that have turned scheduling into a puzzle, practices closing without notice and resources wasted on visits that yield little more than a strength coach reciting players’ bios.
Every coach gets to make his own rules on who’s available to scouts, where, when and how often. And in dozens of conversations, most on condition of anonymity because of fear of retribution from schools, NFL evaluators made clear heavier restrictions can make a difference.
“It’s a lot stricter and a lot more difficult than it used to be,” one general manager said. “Some schools just totally shut you out.”
Said another GM: “It doesn’t hurt the top players. What it hurts is the middle-of-the-road players and the down-the line-players. They don’t get seen and they might not go to an all-star game or a combine.”
The primary gripes from scouts are about how often certain schools are open, what “open” means and whether they even feel welcome on campus.
For instance, Michigan State is open two days a week. All scouts must watch tape together in one room. They’re herded into a corner before the start of practice, allowed to watch stretching and one individual period, then ordered to leave over the loudspeaker.
The dichotomy is evident in Alabama, where Saban is regarded as the most open in the country and Auburn coach Gus Malzahn among the most restrictive, though Malzahn says he has eased restrictions, opening this year for spring and fall camp and before nonconference games.......
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...de-football-scouts-draft-nick-saban/75997934/
Not surprisingly Saban and Alabama are featured as treating the NFL Scouts best and giving them access to the prospects.
Auburn? Not so much..
Can imagine this doesn't hurt Alabama in recruiting (actually Alabama has already created a promotion about this article.. See the Tweet later down in this thread).
Excerpt of article :
"An inside look at how college football programs treat NFL scouts
Marvin Gentry, USA TODAY Sports
For NFL scouts, there is no better campus to visit than Alabama.
Tape is available starting at 8 a.m. every day. Practices are open from fall camp through the regular season. The entry on the NFL’s secure website says it all: “No restrictions.”
“We feed them lunch and everything,” Alabama coach Nick Saban told USA TODAY Sports recently. “We treat ‘em good.”
It’s an extension of what Saban sells in recruiting: This is a place you can not only get an education and win championships, but get help extending your career individually, too.
It stands to reason others would follow the lead of one of college football’s most successful coaches. But as fall scouting season wraps up, complaints persist about restrictions that have turned scheduling into a puzzle, practices closing without notice and resources wasted on visits that yield little more than a strength coach reciting players’ bios.
Every coach gets to make his own rules on who’s available to scouts, where, when and how often. And in dozens of conversations, most on condition of anonymity because of fear of retribution from schools, NFL evaluators made clear heavier restrictions can make a difference.
“It’s a lot stricter and a lot more difficult than it used to be,” one general manager said. “Some schools just totally shut you out.”
Said another GM: “It doesn’t hurt the top players. What it hurts is the middle-of-the-road players and the down-the line-players. They don’t get seen and they might not go to an all-star game or a combine.”
The primary gripes from scouts are about how often certain schools are open, what “open” means and whether they even feel welcome on campus.
For instance, Michigan State is open two days a week. All scouts must watch tape together in one room. They’re herded into a corner before the start of practice, allowed to watch stretching and one individual period, then ordered to leave over the loudspeaker.
The dichotomy is evident in Alabama, where Saban is regarded as the most open in the country and Auburn coach Gus Malzahn among the most restrictive, though Malzahn says he has eased restrictions, opening this year for spring and fall camp and before nonconference games.......
CLICK FOR REST OF ARTICLE::
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...de-football-scouts-draft-nick-saban/75997934/
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