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VIDEO: Saban, when asked about Pat White’s Bama Corvette claim: ‘Kiss my ass’
Former West Virginia star Pat White says the Tide have been giving players cars “for years.” Alabama’s current head coach, who was at LSU back then, ain’t havin’ it.
Marvin Gentry-USA TODAY Sports
Wednesday, former West Virginia star quarterback (and current Edmonton Eskimo) Pat White shared a link on Facebook that whipped up quite the internet storm. See, the link was a story about Alabama running back Derrick Henry, who dared post a picture of his (nice) new car on Instagram, spurring accusations of impropriety on the part of Alabama by non-Tide fans around the country.
What made the shared link catch fire was White’s comment, in which he implied he was offered a Corvette to come play at Alabama.
Alabama’s running backs coach at the time, Sparky Woods, told Rivals the Tide weren’t even recruiting White when he was a three-star prospect coming out of Daphne, Alabama -- something White’s 247 Sports and Rivals pages appear to back up (Scout’s Pat White page does, though).
“I didn’t recruit Pat, but I remember he wanted to be a quarterback,” Woods said. “I remember a discussion that we weren’t going to recruit him as a quarterback. That was kind of a closed book on him pretty early because he wanted to be a quarterback.”
Mike Organ, sports writer for The Tennessean, decided to ask Nick Saban about the incident during the coach’s stop in Nashville (which might or might not end up being more eventful than his trip last offseason). Saban, who was still the head coach of LSU during White’s recruitment, was not pleased with the question.
Nick Saban not happy when I asked about Pat White's claim. "Kiss my a$$, do we not have anything else to talk about?" pic.twitter.com/mhCcxQFi8i
— Mike Organ (@MikeOrganWriter) May 15, 2014 
Even if Alabama was not actively recruiting White, that does not necessarily refute the quarterback’s claim. SB Nation’s Steven Godfrey discovered coaches often are completely unaware of the activities of “bag men,” people who give money and other illicit benefits to recruits in an attempt to persuade them to attend a university. However, there’s no evidence for or against White’s claim about Alabama.
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