Nick Saban wants all of college football to play by the same rules, which would alleviate what he considers a ‘disadvantage’ against other Power 5s.

The owner of four national championships took the provocative lead at SEC meetings in Destin, Fla., on Tuesday, vehemently summing up his opinion on satellite camps and graduate transfer restrictions as league coaches try to search for answers on both.

“We have a lot of crazy rules,” Saban said Tuesday according to ESPN. “A head coach is not allowed to go out during an evaluation period in the spring, but he can go have a satellite camp anywhere in the country to bring your staff in and bring players to it? Does that make any sense to anybody? I think we should have recruiting periods and evaluation periods, and the only time you should be able to have a camp is on your campus. And if a player is interested enough to come to your camp on your campus, then that should be the way it is.”

Saban wasn’t finished.

He, along with many other SEC coaches, feels the league is at a rules disadvantage. Satellite camps at schools such as Penn State and Ohio State gives another Power 5 Conference an SEC footprint and therein lies a serious problem according to Saban.

“If we’re going to compete for the championship and everybody is going to play in the playoff system and everybody is going to compete for that, we need to get our rules in alignment so we’re all on a level playing field, whether they’re transfer rules, whether they’re satellite camp rules,” Saban said according to CBS.

“It’s a disadvantage not to be able to do something in one league and be able to do it in another. It’s a disadvantage to be able to recruit a player in one league and not be able to do it in another.”

Alabama was one of several SEC teams in play for former Notre Dame quarterback Everett Golson who recently announced his intention to play his final season at Florida State. Due to graduate transfer restrictions and the fact Golson breached a league bylaw following an academic abnormality, he likely wouldn’t have been eligible in the SEC this season.

“These (rules) need to be global, otherwise we’re going to become a farm system for all the other leagues,” Saban reiterated.

Pulled from his Tuesday column, USA Today’s Dan Wolken was one of several national media members who views the SEC’s stance on a level playing field as whiny.

If you need to read that last sentence again, go ahead because it is shocking in its disengagement from reality. And yet, it came directly out of the mouth of a coach who has won four national titles, reeled in five consecutive No. 1-ranked recruiting classes and works at a school that spends more on football than anyone in the country.