Jeff Long to Saban: "Shut your whore mouth"

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban has said on multiple occasions that the attention cast on the inaugural College Football Playoff took away from the other bowl games.

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Saban repeated the sentiment earlier this week when he said he feared going into the playoff that “all the attention, all the interest would be about the four teams in the playoffs” and “that by having a playoff we would minimize the interest in other bowl games, which I think is sort of what happened and I hate to see that for college football."

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Jeff Long, the CFP selection committee chair, doesn’t think a coach like Saban – who is so accustomed to success at the highest level – can necessarily judge the interest in the lower-level bowls

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"Well, I think sometimes coaches, particularly those at the highest level, I'm not sure how aware they are of what's really going on out there in the real world," Long said on Sports Talk with Bo Mattingly, per Al.com. "You know, bowl games, they keep adding bowl games. And I think the television interest for the games is higher than ever before, so I think that's not only the College Football Playoff, but as we've gone through some of those bowl games. So I'm not sure it's having that effect."

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