Nick Saban compares Bama loss to 9/11, Pearl Harbor

[timothy1997 0]

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Saban is way way way outta line for his comments. It's just a football game, not life or death.

Saban needs to shut up.

[Guest jaytan]

Did you even read the article or listen to his comments? He wasn't saying that the loss was as big a catastrophe as either event (though people down in Alabama might feel differently). He just used the way the country rebounded to those attacks to illustrate how he'd like his team to bounce back. It's only a metaphor, get over it.

Or are you just still pissed at him for leaving the Spartans?

[timothy1997 0]

Did you even read the article or listen to his comments? He wasn't saying that the loss was as big a catastrophe as either event (though people down in Alabama might feel differently). He just used the way the country rebounded to those attacks to illustrate how he'd like his team to bounce back. It's only a metaphor, get over it.

Or are you just still pissed at him for leaving the Spartans?

I don't want to hear the words "9-11" or "Pearl Harbor" mentioned at all from a football coach. It is just a game. I know what he tried to say but he choose the wrong words. He could have easily said "you find out the true spirit of a team when they hit rock bottom and see their season spiril down." He didn't have to use 9/11 or Pearl Harbor in his speech at all.

[eva unit zero 271]

All he had to do was say 'App State' and '8 game win streak' and he could have related it not only to something from college football, but something from this season. But then again, that would have required Saban being half as good a coach as Lloyd Carr is.

[mannysBETTER3434 1]

I don't want to hear the words "9-11" or "Pearl Harbor" mentioned at all from a football coach. It is just a game. I know what he tried to say but he choose the wrong words. He could have easily said "you find out the true spirit of a team when they hit rock bottom and see their season spiril down." He didn't have to use 9/11 or Pearl Harbor in his speech at all.

I agree. Saban didn't mean it literally, but it was a horrible example. After he said that he flipped out on a reporter for "winning the right way". Saban has no right to talk about winning the right way because he ditched MSU, LSU, and Miami..not to mention he is known as a dirty recruiter.

[Grittzkey 1]

This is a fine example of sports writers taking what he said out of context.

Loosing to ULM? or was it ULL? IDK, and frankly IDC.

I just hate seeing a great coach recieving unneeded critisism.

I understood what he said perfectly. and its a fact that sports writers want to stir up drama, and want to see "spotlight" people "suffer" in a weird kinda way.

my two cents. and Saban has done a good job at Bama, and a few years from know he will have built a power house.

[timothy1997 0]

All he had to do was say 'App State' and '8 game win streak' and he could have related it not only to something from college football, but something from this season. But then again, that would have required Saban being half as good a coach as Lloyd Carr is.

Mark it down Eva. I agree with you on this one.

[Guest jaytan]

my two cents. and Saban has done a good job at Bama, and a few years from know he will have built a power house.

And a few months after that, he'll be coaching at Auburn.