The Bodda Getta

Saban holds tryouts every spring. If you are on the team already, you must still "make" the team each spring or you are at risk of being cut. This spring, 10 existing players won't be good enough anymore and will be cut.

The results speak for themselves. While it's an abomination of what college athletics was originally intended to be, Saban's tactics have forced other schools to start doing the same thing, or get run over in the process. Since wins are the only thing that matter, other programs have no choice but to employ similar tactics...though no one does it quite as welll as the original.