Fool me once, shame on me.
Fool me twice, ain’t gonna happen
~Probably Nick Saban in the deep dark night one year ago.
What a difference a year makes. This time 12 months ago, we were all caught off guard by how the inaugural Early Signing Period (ESP) would unfold - and that included Nick Saban. Looking back to reactions from last December, some observers were somewhat satisfied to have 15 commits, because that is what Alabama teams tended to get in December. However, things did not quite finish as Saban had hoped.