re: Dear McElwain, not best idea to throw team under bus after second game

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It's a saban move that he learned from saban who said the same thing in year 1 at bama.

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Was about to post the very same thing. When Saban did it, he wasn't wrong.

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Saban did it at Bama, after having won a title at LSU in the recent past. He'd earned the players' respect from day 1.

When Saban came to LSU, we had a similar type of situation; but he didn't rip the team. He lit into the media and fanbase, going on about that "deer in the headlight/chicken little the sky is falling" syndrome. Told everyone to calm down, the players would get better, it takes time.
That helped the team to buy in and respect him, and enabled him to take control.

If you come in and get too harsh without earning it yourself, you risk another Dooley/Muschamp situation.