What's the Fuss?

I saw an interesting piece on ESPN this morning and followed it up by taking a look at the story on TheState.com.

Apparently, Clemson defensive coordinator Vic Koenning made a couple of comments about seeing two highly-recruited Alabama freshmen driving Cadillac Escalades during their senior seasons in high school.

And apparently, Koenning was joking. Well, the punch line didn’t go over too well, especially across the state of Alabama, where, according to The State, he has a summer home.

No. 9 Clemson and No. 24 Alabama play Saturday in Atlanta. The game starts at 7 p.m. Central on ABC.

The two players involved were Julio Jones, a highly, highly recruited wide receiver, and B.J. Scott, an-other highly touted product from the Class of 2008.

Here’s the catch: Koenning said he never recruited Jones. He did try to lure Scott to Clemson. Since the comments, Koenning has apologized profusely, even talking to Scott’s high school coach, who forgave him after banning him from the campus of Vigor High in Prichard, Ala.

On Wednesday’s SEC coaches conference call, Alabama coach Nick Saban said he didn’t have a re-sponse to Koenning’s comments.

“We try to do everything in a first class way here at Alabama,” Saban said. “We have tremendous respect for the rules. We have respect that they do the same thing at Clemson. It’s not even an issue.”

Here’s a link to the story.