re: The truth about Napoleon Scumbag that deep-down many know…

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I stopped hating Saban YEARS ago. Its kind of like hating The Terminator for trying to kill Sarah Conner. Dude was just a football cyborg.

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I finally got to this point myself. The first few years he was at Bama I hated the man. I mean hated. Because he was making them winners and all of the Updykes were crawling out of their holes and braying about how great they were and how great they had always been. It reminded me of UGA when Richt got their and they started winning.

But after a while I realized that Bama fans were gonna be Bama fans no matter what, and that Bama was always going to figure out how to game the system better than anyone else. And maybe Saban changed some too at some point, changed his outward personality a bit. But I found myself laughing at some of the things he said and did. Leaving the Coke bottle on the lectern and walking off from the press conference; the whole rat poison discussion (and this year's rat poison = Wheaties comparison).

Wife and I were talking about it last night when the news started to break. As much as you hated to play a Saban led Bama team, it was because you knew it was going to be a fight and you better bring your A game or you weren't going to win. It's going to be strange not having him on the sideline for TSIO and IB. College football is going to look and feel very different next year, no matter who is named to replace him.