Nick Saban commented on sign stealing in football Thursday when he was asked about the subject in reference to Michigan on the Pat McAfee Show.
Saban did not directly say anything about the accusations surrounding the Wolverines program, but he did speak about a solution to the problem of sign stealing.
“I don’t know enough about the Michigan situation to really comment on that situation specifically, but I could give you the historical facts on way back when, when I was in the NFL,” Saban said. “I’m talking about way back when, 88, 89, early nineties. You were allowed to send pro personnel guys to scout a game ahead of when you played it. I think that it got to the point where sign stealing was unbelievable in the NFL. I mean you had somebody that you hired to put in the box to watch signals of the other team. And by the first quarter, we got the runs, we got the passes. When I was a coordinator, I told the guy don’t tell me what you think they’re gonna do. We prepared. We know what we’re gonna play in these situations. We’re gonna play it. I don’t want to hear it, it’s just messing me up. But that became and if you look historically, you’ll know that there were reasons that they changed the rules. So you couldn’t do that. Then they come with the microphone, helmet, whatever they call it and there was no sign stealing. There was no signs because there was just communication, which I think we would solve a lot of those problems if we would do the same thing in college football. There’s no reason not to do that.”
Saban went on to say he can not directly say Michigan did or did not do anything.
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