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The Joyless Triumph of Nick Saban
Posted on 8/7/14 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 8/7/14 at 1:21 pm
How Alabama's Coach Conquered Football—With Hardly a Smile
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When it comes to college football, the South has no equal, because the Southeastern Conference has no equal. Find me a conference with a better commissioner, better players, better head coaches, better staffs, better game-day atmospheres, better-looking coeds—better anything.
We have so many trophies, banners and national titles that we rent storage space at the National Archives. Our championship teams have spent more time in the White House than the Secret Service. We've presented so many No. 1 jerseys to POTUS that he could open his own Dick's Sporting Goods. DKS -0.99%
People outside the SEC look down on the South's obsession with college football. I look up to it. The SEC is college football's industrial giant. It makes us Southerners proud again. It helps define us. It makes us a family. College football is our great equalizer. You've got Harvard, Wall Street and Independence Hall. We've got the Iron Bowl, Main Street and Kyle Field.
At the top of the SEC food chain is Alabama and the state's favorite control freak: Nick Saban.
Yes, he can be secretive, manipulative, socially insufferable, dictatorial and imperial. Your point is? All Saban has done is win three of the last five national championships. When the four-team playoff kicks in this season, Saban will figure out a way to win one of those, too. Give him enough time and he'd win "American Idol," the Iditarod and the North Dakota gubernatorial race. He could coach a lingerie football team to the Big Ten championship game.
The next most influential man in his state is probably Governor Robert Bentley. But Saban is Nos. 1 through 10 on the list of Alabama power brokers. He would be in the top 10 even without his three national titles with the Crimson Tide. The position itself—head football coach at Alabama—gives you a platform of power. But because of the program's wild success, Saban is the best-liked person in the state. He has the most visible job in the state, and given the religiosity with which Alabamans apply themselves to college football, Saban now has another title: the pontiff of pigskin.
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This post was edited on 8/7/14 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 8/7/14 at 1:23 pm to Tuscaloosa
2 things:
1-Bama board
2- Paul Finebaum;dr
1-Bama board
2- Paul Finebaum;dr
Posted on 8/7/14 at 1:26 pm to Tuscaloosa
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Paul Finebaum
Nope
Posted on 8/7/14 at 1:36 pm to Tuscaloosa
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People outside the SEC look down on the South's obsession with college football. I look up to it. The SEC is college football's industrial giant. It makes us Southerners proud again. It helps define us. It makes us a family. College football is our great equalizer. You've got Harvard, Wall Street and Independence Hall. We've got the Iron Bowl, Main Street and Kyle Field.
This is why we can't have nice things.
And frick no we aren't a family.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 1:41 pm to Tuscaloosa
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Paul Finebaum
stopped reading.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 1:42 pm to Gladius Veritas
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no one cares
Neat. I can't wait to see what you post in the next thread you don't care about.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 1:44 pm to Tuscaloosa
I love how sports writers these days make articles that read like a script out of Les Miserables.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 1:49 pm to Gladius Veritas
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no one cares
the Big10 doesn't care they are a joke?
sure you don't.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:01 pm to parkjas2001
Those of you who "Stop reading" after you see it's written by Finebaum are missing a great article.
He's a fantastic writer - regardless of whether or not you care for his radio show or personality.
He's a fantastic writer - regardless of whether or not you care for his radio show or personality.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:10 pm to Tuscaloosa
avatar pic related..
his own players physically fought each other on the field during a national championship route..."the process"
so sad...
his own players physically fought each other on the field during a national championship route..."the process"
so sad...
Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:15 pm to madddoggydawg
I don't guess I understand the issue. I'd rather see a knock down, drag out fight in the middle of a football game between team mates - and finish with a National Championship ring - than a team full of besties who sing Kumbaya together and finish with 4 losses.
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Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:24 pm to allin2010
Nick Saban is on a wall in the White House?
Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:26 pm to madddoggydawg
quote:Didn't your teams' players fight each other in the locker room during a national championship route? That's what I heard.
his own players physically fought each other on the field during a national championship route.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:33 pm to Tuscaloosa
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I don't guess I understand the issue.
they can't enjoy themselves just like their coach
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