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re: Why does Saban always blame the losses on Distractions?
Posted on 7/18/19 at 9:52 am to MillerLiteTime
Posted on 7/18/19 at 9:52 am to MillerLiteTime
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Average people and coaches say "oh well, we got beat by the better team, happens to everyone sometimes." Saying the better team beat you is just a cop-out to not have to fix your own mistakes.
Elite coaches like Saban say "How on earth did we lose? What went wrong? What can we do differently next time? Losing should never happen and we are going to find the problem and fix it."
As long as you congratulate and acknowledge your opponent after a loss (which Saban always does) then I would much rather have a coach who finds losing to be unacceptable than one who sees it as just a part of football.
I get it, we all like turtles as well, but why doesnt the man take the blame upon himself rather than projecting it on everyone else?
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Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:00 am to NYCAuburn
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I get it, we all like turtles as well, but why doesnt the man take the blame upon himself rather than projecting it on everyone else?
I think the responsibility for us not playing well really starts with me.
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:03 am to Stidham8
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What distraction did his team face that Clemson didn't? Clemson had one of their best defensive lineman out for the game which was bigger news than anything that alabama had.
That is Saban's point. Every team faces distractions. Clemson did a better job of maintaining focus and Bama's players and especially coaches did not. Saban is not making excuses. He is being critical of himself and his team. How can you overcome and learn from an obstacle if you can't acknowledge what it is? When a bad season is losing a title game, you have to find faults in the little things.
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:06 am to MillerLiteTime
I will give you 2 answers
Saban's public answers - I wish Saban would just give coach speak and move on. No upside to openly discussing this stuff with the media and the world.
Saban's private answers - The fact that he spends every second trying to figure out why something happened and never just accepting that we lost because we tried hard but weren't good enough is exactly what I want in every person that works for me, with me or for a team I like.
In the end #2 and is way more important than #1, but #1 is going to get criticized. If it was me I'd probably just give boring glossy answers for #1 so I didn't deal with it, but obviously Saban doesn't do that whole thing.
Saban's public answers - I wish Saban would just give coach speak and move on. No upside to openly discussing this stuff with the media and the world.
Saban's private answers - The fact that he spends every second trying to figure out why something happened and never just accepting that we lost because we tried hard but weren't good enough is exactly what I want in every person that works for me, with me or for a team I like.
In the end #2 and is way more important than #1, but #1 is going to get criticized. If it was me I'd probably just give boring glossy answers for #1 so I didn't deal with it, but obviously Saban doesn't do that whole thing.
This post was edited on 7/18/19 at 10:08 am
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:08 am to RT1941
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To other coaches who average 3-4 losses a year consistently, they make promises to "turn this thing around", and they claim year after year that "the future is bright" while they put the same unprepared team on the field and lose another 4 games the next yr.
Exactly. If you want nothing but "coach speak" and "the better team won today" go talk to Gus Malzahn or Barry Odom.
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:08 am to MillerLiteTime
quote:Man you are delusional
Exactly. If you want nothing but "coach speak" and "the better team won today" go talk to Gus Malzahn or Barry Odom.
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:09 am to StopRobot
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I think the responsibility for us not playing well really starts with me.
in that interview he details all the mistakes everyone made except himself 
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:09 am to Stidham8
Focus matters in life.
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:11 am to NYCAuburn
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in that interview he details all the mistakes everyone made except himself
He literally said it starts with him. Just take the L, its fine, youll live
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:12 am to StopRobot
quote:Yes then proceeds to detail everyone elses mistakes
He literally said it starts with him
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:13 am to RT1941
Oh we got beat down let us show our bellies and never play them again is just stupid. There are reasons you lose games.
Saban is the GOAT. He is driven to succeed and he will break things down find out what went wrong and work to fix it.Any coach would.
Alabama had just as much if not more talent that Clemson.If they played 10 times Clemson damn sure would not win 10, not even close. So you break the game down and figure out what happened.
Saban is the GOAT. He is driven to succeed and he will break things down find out what went wrong and work to fix it.Any coach would.
Alabama had just as much if not more talent that Clemson.If they played 10 times Clemson damn sure would not win 10, not even close. So you break the game down and figure out what happened.
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:14 am to SummerOfGeorge
He and Coach Bryant are very similar in their approach to coaching, but but this is one of the few areas where they differ...at least pubicly. Coach Bryant's philosophy toward these situations:
“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games.”
“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games.”
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:14 am to SummerOfGeorge
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Saban's public answers - I wish Saban would just give coach speak and move on. No upside to openly discussing this stuff with the media and the world.
He used to be this way. Very hostile and vague with the media. But then he learned to use the media as his tool. He recognized that his players can only hear him criticize and humble them so much before they tune him out and don't take him seriously, especially when things are going well. If he can get the media to criticize his team that adds a whole new level of motivation in the locker room.
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:15 am to NYCAuburn
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Yes then proceeds to detail everyone elses mistakes
NICK SABAN: Well, you know, first of all, you've got to give Clemson a little bit of credit. They have a really good team. I think the responsibility for us not playing well really starts with me. You know, we obviously didn't go out there and they did do some things that we weren't prepared for, but you always expect that – a couple bunch passes that Oklahoma ran and some other people that we had to make adjustment to at halftime.
But I thought the players prepared well for this game, and I think that they just got out-performed. It wasn't like we just didn't cover a guy. I mean, we tried to cover No. 8. He caught the ball, made a big play. We were in three-deep zone when No. 5 catches a ball and runs 50 yards, 60 yards for a touchdown, guy doesn't play the deep third properly. So you know, those responsibilities start with me, our staff and all the coaches who try to get these guys ready, and when we don't play well, I feel like that's a reflection on the job that we did, the job that I did.
You know, but Clemson did a really, really good job. I know the score. There's a lot of good things that our team did out there today, especially on offense, and we did stop the run on defense, but we couldn't get off the field on third down. I mean, sometimes we just didn't get them covered. A couple times we made some errors on things that they did that we had not practiced that were difficult, and they're pretty good.
Yep. Just dodging responsibility
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:23 am to StopRobot
quote:This looks like a man taking full responsibility.
NICK SABAN: Well, you know, first of all, you've got to give Clemson a little bit of credit. They have a really good team. I think the responsibility for us not playing well really starts with me. You know, we obviously didn't go out there and they did do some things that we weren't prepared for, but you always expect that – a couple bunch passes that Oklahoma ran and some other people that we had to make adjustment to at halftime.
But I thought the players prepared well for this game, and I think that they just got out-performed. It wasn't like we just didn't cover a guy. I mean, we tried to cover No. 8. He caught the ball, made a big play. We were in three-deep zone when No. 5 catches a ball and runs 50 yards, 60 yards for a touchdown, guy doesn't play the deep third properly. So you know, those responsibilities start with me, our staff and all the coaches who try to get these guys ready, and when we don't play well, I feel like that's a reflection on the job that we did, the job that I did.
You know, but Clemson did a really, really good job. I know the score. There's a lot of good things that our team did out there today, especially on offense, and we did stop the run on defense, but we couldn't get off the field on third down. I mean, sometimes we just didn't get them covered. A couple times we made some errors on things that they did that we had not practiced that were difficult, and they're pretty good.
Posted on 7/18/19 at 10:23 am to StopRobot
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Yep. Just dodging responsibility
NICK SABAN : I think the responsibility for us not playing well really starts with me.
NICK SABAN: I just have a feeling that I didn’t do a very good job for our team, with our team, giving them the best opportunity to be successful.
NICK SABAN : I think it was a poor decision on my part not to kick the field goal, the first drive of the second half.
The entire thing is him dissecting the game (including our faults, which - shocker - were numerous) and praising Clemson.
- They were awesome on 3rd down
- We blew some coverages
- Their skill guys were great even when we did our job
- We couldn't get them off the field, couldn't get there when we rushed 4
- praising our seniors on at least 3 occasions
I get the hate Saban gets for some things, but goodness sometimes people just want it so bad that things come up out of thin air.
This post was edited on 7/18/19 at 10:24 am
Posted on 7/18/19 at 11:21 am to Stidham8
Because he has the most talent on the field every time he has a game. So he can't blame it on his players, or take the blame himself for bad coaching that day...so has to be something else.
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