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A post-game quote from Clemson WR Hunter Renfrow turned heads and raised a few eyebrows this week.
On Thursday, reporter Ross Dellenger shared a quote from one of his Sports Illustrated articles:
“Coach Swinney has built it on fun, and obviously Coach Saban has built it on a process. I’m just so proud of being at a place like Clemson, where I feel like we’ve done it the right way. If we’re supposed to have only five guys on the field as coaches, we’re making sure we have five. We’re not doing it the wrong way and we’re having fun doing it.”
Radio host and Alabama beat reporter Aaron Suttles was among those who interpreted Renfrow’s quote as a not-so-subtle accusation of Alabama breaking (or at least bending) the NCAA rules regarding number of on-field coaches for games and practices. Clemson has five offensive assistants. Alabama is well-known for having former head coaches and assistant coaches on staff as analysts (who are supposed to be “off-field” assistants).
Wooo boy, that Hunter Renfrow quote. He’s not being real subtle. https://t.co/ULobrnCfNK
— Aaron Suttles (@AaronSuttles) January 10, 2019
He’s essentially accusing Alabama of breaking NCAA rules on a daily basis at practice. https://t.co/XCs9e1Lfw1
— Aaron Suttles (@AaronSuttles) January 10, 2019
Renfrow, however, says the quote was “totally taken out of context.”
No disrespect to Alabama. I was just trying to applaud Coach Swinney for the way he runs things and doing it the right way. Quote totally taken out of context
— Hunter Renfrow (@renfrowhunter) January 11, 2019
Renfrow has broken the hearts of the Crimson Tide faithful before, but no one wanted to hate the wise veteran.
He doesn’t mention his steroid infused teammates or the mega-church in SC that raises money for a “needy” family that happens to have a 4 star or 5 star son that clemson is recruiting. In his defense, Dabo probably keeps that on the down low, because Dabo is all about the down low.
…and let’s not talk about Tua TagomovedhisentirefamilyfromHawaiitoTuscaloosavoa either.
Come on now. Everyone knows they loaded the family into an outrigger to cross the pacific. It’s kinda like that guy named Jed who barely kept his family fed…..
The media twists words around? Ya don’t say?!
Now he can go collect his Social Security. Dude has to be 60 by now.
Wasn’t that Butch Jones the (analyst) doing some coaching on the sideline during the NC game?
What coaching did he do? I mean you’re always wrong when you make assumptions and predictions so let’s hear your new one nostradumba$$
Jones was shown talking to an active player during the game. I’m sure he was just telling the player that he couldn’t coach him up, but that they would go over some film after the game.
BT, you know you saw the same thing. But, you just keep towing the company line, and act like you didn’t see anything. Nothing to see here. Just move along…
Talking doesn’t mean he is coaching… You expect someone to stand On the sideline for hours and not talk to someone? A lot of teams even have prior players stand on the sideline… They talk to the players during the game as well…
Rupert has done it again. Every time he trolls, he shows his stupidity. Jawja man doing it the Jawja way.
god BamaTime is the most obnoxious person on here. What Bama does is cheating. Is it BAD cheating? No, no one cares. But the fact that you can’t even admit it’s against the rules only backs up the fact that you are incompetent and clearly embody everything that Bama grads stand for.
So you know Bama is cheating? Someone standing on the Sideline and talking to the players is not a NCAA violation… Coaching the players would be against the rules… Do you know for a fact the players where being coached?
This is probably the first time anyone accused Butch Jones of actually coaching.
This is the best comment I have seen today lol
What he said was pretty cut and dry. Not much room for interpretation. Wish the guy could just be a man(age certainly can’t be used as an excuse) and stand by his word.
The ncaa should simply make a rule that these analysts cannot be on the field, ever. Not during practice and not during games.
It’s hard to be a analyst if you can’t observe the players and the game…
They can observe from the press box. If coordinators can call a game from there, the analysts can alalyze from there. Otherwise, the rule limiting coaches spots on a team is a joke.
sure. They’re still going to be on the practice field observing as well…
My point is, they shouldn’t. If they are there, it’s too easy to coach and that is supposed to be against the rules. As of now, the rule is a joke as there is nobody to enforce it.
I understand you point but again nobody is going to hire and analyst that can’t attend practice or observe the game… This isn’t like Bama is the only one that can have and analyst. Numerous teams have multiple analyst…
They can attend and observe. You don’t have to be on the actual field to do either.
Curious but where would you like them to observe practice from?
The stands, the press box, or anywhere that’s not on the field and avoids direct contact with the players. Most analysts are just breaking down tape anyway. If they are on the field, they will inevitably coach. If the ncaa wants to do away with a limit on coaches, I’m fine with that. Otherwise, this rule will be broken every single day of practice. Self policing never works.