re: NC State players jab at Tide's ex-coach Mark Gottfried

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That's what I don't get. Fran left us; we fired Gottfried.

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I won't claim complete consistency here.

Saban jilted LSU. Fran Jilted us. But Fran was on another level--having the team "hold the rope" and a punter play on a torn ACL all year--then he bolts.

We canned Shula but we didn't hate him. He was in an impossible situation with the scholarship limits. I believe he would have done better with more numbers--not Saban better, but better. Plus he's one of us.

Which brings us to Gottfried. He had no excuses, was porking around and anyone you talked to said hew as about intolerable to be around.