Saban comments

So here's the situation:

You have a coach relating off the record a story that was told to him by someone else, in which he uses a derogatory term for Cajuns (if you haven't heard it, check Deadspin or Every Day Should Be Saturday).

Is this worthy of an "official" statement by the university? On the one hand, I don't think there are many Cajuns who take offense to the term Saban used. The conversation was off the record, meaning Saban could technically operate under the assumption that the comments wouldn't be recorded and put on the Internet.

Personally, I think if a university issued an official statement every time a head coach said a bad word, nobody would ever get anything done. Is this an issue or a smear campaign?

 

If I were Alabama, I would steer clear of commenting on this. All this does is give LSU fans another reason to be pissed at Nick Saban.

 

And to top it off, the Alabama basketball team won at LSU tonight.

 

Tide/Tigers this fall, will be fun.

 

Derogatory? We call ourselves coon asses (the term he used) with pride. I'm not offended, but I know many LSU fans who are (although by now they are just looking for any reason to be pissed at Nick). They need to get over it.

And yes, LSU-Alabama this fall will be one crazy week.

Sincerely,

Johnny Dangerously
Who Went Into Sports Journalism to Avoid Digging Ditches

 

Yeah, it used to be you couldn't go into a convenience store in Louisiana without seeing a "Official Coon Ass" trucker cap selling for $3. I haven't noticed 'em lately, but that's probably more of a result on how everything has become more homogenized than any sort of coon ass pride movement.

 

The timing was the thing. It's a week before signing day.

 

Do Cajuns have derogatory terms they use for non-Cajuns?

 

We've come this far and no one's said that Nick Satan is an asshole? sad... sad...

 

That's a given.

 

Sabans

 

Fewer people are proud of being called 'yats' than 'coon-asses.'

Anyway, you can spot the coon-asses by their bumper stickers:

"Inbred baby on board"

"Proud parent of an honor student at Angola Correctional Facility"