Click here for linkSteve Spurrier was right about one thing. Nick Saban does have a nice little gig going.
Every fall, his Alabama football team wins a lot of games and puts itself in the national championship hunt heading into November.
Every other year, his team wins the national championship.
Every spring, his team trots out new names and faces, full of potential, to take the place of the old guys, their legacy stamped in crystal and cement, as they move on toward the first round of the NFL Draft.
Oh, and lots and lots of Alabama fans show up on a day better suited to a motorcycle ride on a country road to watch some of the best defensive players in college football not hit the quarterback and the best coach in the game walk around in a suit.
That kind of sustained excellence can lead to complacency, and there was a hint of satisfaction Saturday in Bryant-Denny Stadium. The announced attendance, with the usual no admission charge, was "only" 78,526. That's the "smallest" spring-game crowd since "only" 78,200 showed up in 2008....
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