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Name a game when Saban has equal of less talent

Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:45 am
Posted by michael corleone
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Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:45 am
Name a game when Saban has equal of less talent but did not lose.


I will submit that he beat 2001 Tennessee in the SEC CG when he had less talent. He beat a solid 2011 LSU team in the NCG, but it took him two bites at the apple to do so (to his credit he completely changed his game strategy and Less did not). I will submit that he rarely beats teams when he has equal or less talent, which is why he focuses on the “process” so much.
Posted by RoscoeHarper
Edmond, OK
Member since Aug 2011
4551 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:46 am to
Isn't the name of the game to accumulate as much talent as possible?
Posted by Glorious
Mobile
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Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:49 am to
2018-Citadel
Posted by DawgsLife
Member since Jun 2013
59015 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:49 am to
quote:

I will submit that he beat 2001 Tennessee in the SEC CG when he had less talent. He beat a solid 2011 LSU team in the NCG, but it took him two bites at the apple to do so (to his credit he completely changed his game strategy and Less did not). I will submit that he rarely beats teams when he has equal or less talent, which is why he focuses on the “process” so much.




Okay, the two you mentioned and then the two games against Georgia. We might not have had quite as much talent, but it was pretty close. The two games against Clemson, maybe? You would think all the National Championship games they have won the talent gap was pretty darn close.
Posted by Globetrotter747
Member since Sep 2017
4375 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:52 am to
In his defense he doesn’t have a lot of opportunities to pull upsets because he’s almost never the underdog.
Posted by MoarKilometers
Member since Apr 2015
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Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:56 am to
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I will submit

Just like your team, first weekend in November
Posted by MrMojoRisin
Udûn
Member since May 2014
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Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:59 am to
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LSU fan


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Saban



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Posted by SummerOfGeorge
Member since Jul 2013
102699 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 8:00 am to
You should probably check the starting lineups for the 2009 SEC Championship game

Also, name the times Alabama played a team with equal or more talent. Just saying it doesn't ever happen isn't exactly an indictment on a coach, it just shows that he accumulates tons of talent. And his record vs teams with lesser talent rivals anyone in the modern history of the sport.

So, this argument is always pretty dumb.
This post was edited on 7/21/19 at 8:02 am
Posted by TeddyWestside
Georgia
Member since Jul 2017
2874 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 8:06 am to
I don't understand. The fact that Nick Saban's teams are very talented is supposed to be some kind of indictment against him as a coach?
Posted by ukraine_rebel
North Mississippi
Member since Oct 2012
2275 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 8:07 am to
Part of the job requirement of a college head football coach is to acquire talent, so if he knows he’s lacking in X’s and O’s Dept, he’s more than compensating in the recruiting dept.
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
32785 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 8:21 am to
21-0

Shutout the greatest collection of talent ever assembled and hoisted that trophy.
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26999 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 8:28 am to
Against Tennessee in 2007. He had lost five players just that morning to the textbook scandal, including All-American center Antoine Caldwell, RB Glen Coffee, and another starting OL. With probably his worst OC of his tenure at Alabama in a 28-year-old Major Applewhite, he pounded Tennessee 41-17. Applewhite took John Chavis to the woodshed. John Parker Wilson was 32/46-363-3-0.

Tennessee had three players taken in the 2008 NFL draft, including QB Erik Ainge. Alabama had zero players drafted.

This game itself blows away your assertion that he "rarely beats teams when he has equal or less talent". Not only did he have significantly less talent against Tennessee, but that morning he lost five key players who had gotten all the first-team reps in practice all week. DJ Hall, who had a career day against Tennessee, likely wouldn't have even seen the field at Alabama the last few years.

Your assertion is stupid.
This post was edited on 7/22/19 at 12:33 am
Posted by labamafan
Prairieville
Member since Jan 2007
24268 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:08 am to
2010 Texas
Posted by JCinBAMA
North of Huntsville
Member since Oct 2009
17590 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 11:16 am to
I can name a game that had more talent that still got
their arse whooped...



Posted by Rohan Gravy
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2017
18039 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 11:18 am to
When he was at Michigan State and the Miami Dolphins.

He couldn’t wait to leave both.

Posted by CrabInMyShoeMouth
Member since Jul 2016
2486 posts
Posted on 7/21/19 at 4:57 pm to
Guys- Arkansas hasn't beaten Saban in over a decade because we don't recruit like Alabama. This is bullshite and I want a refund.
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