Alabama started spring practice Tuesday and Nick Saban was fired up

“Philosophically, I don’t know where you came up with we’re going to go to ball control. That’s not what we do. The New England Patriots threw the ball over 60some percent of the time which is more than we threw it. Where does that assumption come from? Or do you do what everyone else in the media does — just create some s*** and throw it on the wall and see what sticks which is what I see happening everywhere? And people who scream the loudest, they kind of get the attention and we pass some rule that everybody has to live with or some law and the consequences mess up a lot of other things. We do it all the time. We’re doing it right now. The NCAA’s doing it. We’re going to change the way we can summer camps. We can’t have high school coaches working summer camps. It’s the most ridiculous things that I’ve ever seen. But it is what it is and whatever they do they do. So we say we don’t want third parties dealing with players, so we’re not going to let the high school coach bring the guy to camp and some third party guy can bring them to camp. That makes no sense at all. But all the people who have common sense won’t do anything about it. But the people who scream the loudest will get the thing changed and it’ll mess everything up.

“It’s the way it goes, it’s the way it goes in the world of politics … and same thing with you, we’re going to be more conservative now in a ball-control offense. Where did that come from? I never said that, nobody in this building ever said that so where did you come up with that? Just have a dream about it or what? If we’d have caught some passes in the national championship game when we had guys open we wouldn’t have had to control the ball we would have scored more touchdowns.”