Saban on Talkin' Football Preview

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Blamed the loss in the Sugar Bowl on Andre Smith.

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gumps don't care as long as Saban is kept clean

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there is no way he said that...

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if he did, then WOW, what a dickhead.......

What he meant to say was: "we weren't ready to play, I think we had a big let down after losing to Florida, certainly losing Andre didn't help matters"

not to be a dick but why do saban threads continue to come up here? that's what the SEC Rant is for.

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there is no way he said that...

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Hard to beleive, but he is famous for throwing players under the bus. How does your OFFENSIVE left tackle being out have anything to do with Utah scoring so many points?

I thought he blamed the Sugar Bowl on the fans...

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“There’s very little interest from our fans, our players or anybody else to play in the Sugar Bowl, which to me is a tremendous opportunity,” Saban said. “I tried to tell everyone, you’re only going to remember one thing about this game and that’s the outcome. So there’s no interest, there’s no passion and everybody is embarrassed because of how we played. Well, it’s because you didn’t have any passion for it, you didn’t have any interest in it, you didn’t have any enthusiasm to do it, and that’s across the board. And that’s not right. We go to a BCS bowl game, everybody ought to be positive and enthusiastic about what we’re doing.“

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They should've like overcome adversity or something relative to playing for 60 minutes.

So the effects of the 4th quarter program are voided by losing your starting left tackle?
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Saban is Tigerbait with or without Andre Smith

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Ronnie Prude cost him the Cap One bowl trophy on his trip down to Miami

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He did throw Prude under the bus when interviewed on the field seconds after the game, Which at the time I couldn't blame him. I personally wanted to be the guy driving that bus.
Saban said something like " you call the play and everybody but one guy knows the play. We called man coverage and one guy plays zone and things like that happen."

Thats not word for word but it's pretty much what he said. I can't remember if he said Prude's name or not.