Nick Saban: For the love of God, SHUT THE F___ UP!!!!!

JD: "Nick, people are telling me you read my last column as a personal attack."
Saban: "Well, about 100 people called our house and saw it the same way."
JD: "It was a professional criticism, not a personal one."
Saban: "Well, my family thought you were making fun of the way I talk when you kept saying 'aiight' all through the article."
JD: "I was just speaking to you the way you speak to us. You can't accuse the media of trying to ruin or sabotage your season and expect to not be criticized. But if you took it personally, I apologize for not making it clear it wasn't personal. You attacked our integrity as journalists by saying we wanted to ruin your season."
Saban: "After everything I've done for this community, I didn't deserve that shit, Johnny. But if I offended you, I apologize."

 

I changed my mind.

I want Saban to keep spouting shit. Because if he'd shut up, then we wouldn't have Starman posts like this.

 

Hadn't thought about that yet, but that should be fun.

Seeing the fans fighting for turns to blow him in the lobby of the Wynfrey won't be much fun, though.

 

Aaaah... nothing like generalizing, stereotying and branding everyone by the actions of some. Do you do the same thing with people of different races, ethnicity and sexual preference, or are you just a selective bigot?

 

From the trivia section of his wikipedia page:

* Saban is known for being a complete asshole to pretty much everybody.

 

I myself would welcome Mr. Mizzou to come down south and show us ignorant yokels how to properly cover a team. Does he do workshops? And if so, Sundays are no good for me. That's cousin-fuckin' time!

 

I didn't do it, but I am certainly not surprised somebody did.

 

It was all the female Bama fans that went gaga over Shula in the lobby of the Wynfrey. I don't know that Saban commands THAT kind of reaction, but then, there is drunk Collette.

 

Not an attempt at being a Southern apologist or anything, I actually find the folks here to be pretty freaking wacko. But for nonsoutherners to completely understand, football (especially college football) permeates every facet of Southern life for at least six months of the year.

It is so intertwined with Southern life that it's completely unavoidable for most. Maybe in the big cities one may be oblivious to football, if they're on the fringes of society.

It's at work, almost year round, and at almost every profession. It's a primary social force at wage-level employment, which is the type of work most Southerners do.

And football is well intertwined within the Calvinist, Great Awakening kind of lineage that is most Southern denominations, from COGIC to the Southern Baptists, to the Pentacostals and other Holiness faiths.

With religion and a particular sport so tightly connected, woven into the fabric of Southern being and existence, the two become indistiguishable.

So the point is, Southerners totally worship both Jesus and football. It's not that there's too little to do, it's just that it would be "sinful" (an aberration) to do anything else.

 

Sartean, that's a great perspective. They're still fucking nuts and still way over the edge.

 

And that's why non-Southerners laugh their ass off at the total lack of perspective. And why Mizzou's digs give me a guilty pleasure grin every time.

 

starman is right, but this issue isn't that complicated. saban could've had the exact same career path and we'd all think he was a cool guy if he'd stop compounding his bullshit with more bullshit. the shit about 'it's not a lie unless you intend to deceive' is something saban wouldn't even allow his own daughter to use.

btw no lawyer in their right mind would approve a contract unconditionally guaranteeing the money. it would most likely guarantee the money even if he's fired. maybe, possibly he'd still get paid even if he's fired for cause (ie. an NCAA violation or something crazy like a DUI charge or a mike price/tim floyd thing) but that's doubtful. if he left of his own volition it obviously wouldn't pay him the money. so probably the deal just doesn't have a buyout.