Saban Equates Football Loss to 9-11
Nov 20th, 2007 by Mark
I have to be joking. Nope.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s latest loss has coach Nick Saban searching for ways to motivate his team.
Citing the 9-11 terrorist attacks and Pearl Harbor, Alabama coach Nick Saban said Monday his team must rebound like America did from a "catastrophic event."
In this case, that would be an embarrassing 21-14 loss Saturday to Louisiana-Monroe.
Coach Nick Saban cites 9-11, Pearl Harbor to show challenges facing Tide
It gets worse:
This guy is off his rocker.
"Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event," Saban said during the opening remarks of his weekly news conference. "It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, or whatever, and that was a catastrophic event."
"or whatever"? "sort of changed the spirit of America" WTF is he drinking?
Oh wait, it goes on.
A Saban spokesman said the coach chose the 9-11 and Pearl Harbor references to
illustrate the challenges facing his team.
UN. REAL. This guy is proving more and more everyday what a complete asshat he is. It was mistake to hire him, time for him to go … out of football, not just ’bama.
The damage control. Note the liberal attitude in the response: ’who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?’
"What Coach Saban said did not correlate losing a football game with tragedy; …
Yea it did. Higher education? I think not.
… everyone needs to understand that. He was not equating losing football games to those catastrophic events," football spokesman Jeff Purington said in a statement to The Associated Press. "The message was that true spirit and unity become evident in the most difficult of times. Those were two tremendous examples that everyone can identify with."
Unbelieveable. Can you say: metaphor? Wonder what his transcript looks like?
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