Ben Batson? Joey Batson’s son? He has a full time position on the staff after a single year working at Georgia Southern? Wow, oh man, what a shock. I can’t believe that. What are the odds that Dabo was out looking for the best candidate for a position and it happens to be a kid of a current staffer? SMH. West Virginia mining towns are less incestuous than our staff.

…hires that were made on the basis of familiarity or throwing a friend a bone over an actual search for the best candidates. He has his own son and in-laws on the staff, as well as cases like Batson’s. The staff also seems to be a retirement plan for former players whose NFL careers didn’t totally pan out.

Look at Dabo’s coaching tree next to Saban’s. Very, very few coaches branching out from him and going on to further success, and there’s a reason for that. Instead of staff who are highly desired and recruited by other schools, we have a building full of people who know they’re on a gravy train they wouldn’t have been on otherwise, and aren’t going to say a word to Dabo to jeopardize that. It’s a yes-man culture led by a well-compensated man who is playing games with other people’s money, and is never going to hear an opinion that contrasts with his own.