I always thought that the only way Temple football could compete nationally was to, well, cheat. There is only one major football program in America that doesn’t have to cheat: Alabama. Five-star recruits recruit Alabama, rather than the other way around. The Crimson Tide coach, Nick Saban, a man about as congenial as a nor’easter, simply picks and chooses the best of the best. And the Tide roll. You think those SEC schools who have to lure the great recruits away from ’Bama, to compete with ’Bama, aren’t getting a little help from their boosters in the form of $100 handshakes and a dorm room full of strippers?