See I just think this is weird man. He declared for the Draft. You shouldn’t be allowed to pursue a guy who already declared for the Draft, he made his decision already.
Curt Cignetti and Dan Lanning were asked about all four HCs left in CFP having been at one point on Nick Saban's staff:
Cignetti: "I felt after one year with Coach Saban, I learned more about how to run a program than I maybe did the previous 27 as an assistant coach."
Lanning: "I was going to take a pay cut to go be a GA there. When anybody asked me why, I said I'm going to get my doctorate in football... Things I thought I knew, I realized I didn't really know anything."
This is the playoff where it all officially changed. All the programs who used to have a leg up on “investing” in players like Bama, Georgia and Ohio State are out.
The teams who mastered NIL and the portal (Indiana, Ole Miss, Miami) are in. The old guard is replaced.