VIDEO: Nick Saban Addresses Injuries And Satellite Camps

Alabama football coach Nick Saban held a press conference on Wednesday to discuss how the Crimson Tide is looking as the A-Day quickly approaches.

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The hot topic of the past few months is Michigan’s Coach Twitter setting up satellite camps in the south to “cover up” the fact that you will have to actually move to Michigan to play football. Ohio State’s president even got a jab in, saying that would be a good thing to do if the Buckeyes were an upstart program. Urban Meyer set one up days later.

But how does Coach Nick Saban feel about them? Saban questioned if the camps even did any good for the schools that held them. He mentioned that some players committed to them and then they decommitted—probably because they realized winter in Michigan is about as exciting as hammer to the head— or the team found a better player.

“How many teams play Division I football?”, Saban said. “Are we all going to have a satellite camp in every metropolitan area”? That is a bunch of camps in major cities and it sounds like a “pretty ridiculous circumstance for something that no one could really determine the value of anyway” to Saban.

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With a few practices under their belt for the spring as well as one scrimmage on Saturday, Coach Saban said the team is using this week to make improvements where they found out they needed to be made. He once again said that he’s probably not as pleased as he could be. I still like to hear that.

He was right about one thing. If one side of the team does something well, it probably means the other side of the ball from that same team didn’t do something well. It’s a Catch-22.

Saban addressed the report from earlier in the week about offensive lineman Richie Petitbon tearing his ACL during the scrimmage on Saturday. According to Saban, the surgery went really well and the staff expects a full recovery.

Two other players were mentioned as missing practice on Wednesday, but it sounded like nothing too serious. Da’Shawn Hand was having back spasms and Dalvin Tomlinson was sick. Those sound like a day to day type of thing.

Coach Saban reminds fans to make plans to attend the A-Day game, if you can. For his first A-Day game in Tuscaloosa, fans turned out in record number but like the head coach said, it’s just as important to show the team your support and enthusiasm now.

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