Alabama football fans have justification for optimism coming out of the 2017 spring season. The 2017 Alabama football roster is deep with elite and potentially elite players. Nick Saban’s post A-Day one-word assessment was the 2017 team is adequate, not elite.
Assuming Nick’s assessment is a combination of candid and calculating, it is worthwhile to notice what he did not say. Nick never came close to suggesting the 2017 Alabama football team cannot become elite. Nick said as reported by rolltide.com.
“I don’t mean that in a negative way because I think we’ve come out of the spring in a lot of years where we don’t have an elite team.