As you prepare to genuflect in the nude to the soon-to-be-erected statue of the most brilliant man to ever coach a down in college football, perhaps you consider that he’s the same genius who opted for Duante Culpepper over Drew Brees when he had the choice.
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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Why are you giving him free publicity?
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Saban or Finebaum? 😉
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Finebaum
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Either.
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Saban was told by Miami’s doctors that Brees’s shoulder wasn’t healthy. Unless you’re going to criticize Saban for not having a medical degree so he could contradict that conclusion, you can’t blame him for the decision to go for Culpepper.
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Michael, two points in rebuttal:
1. Culpepper was hurt, too.
2. It was a post offered in sarcasm – Saban isn’t as omniscient as Finebaum likes to describe him. I’m not knocking Saban’s decision, just the god-like powers Finebaum often ascribes to Saban.
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I actually know this story firsthand. Sarcasm or not, this particular fault does all lie at the team doctors’ and suits upstairs’ feet. Saban wanted Brees badly, but he couldn’t get cleared by the aforementioned. They cleared Culpepper for whatever reason and Saban was not happy that he had to take him over Brees. His hands were tied. Who knows if he would be at Bama now if that had turned out differently? Also, I don’t offer this in praise of Saban-the man has plenty of faults, but that particular error was not his.
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Nick too says it is what it is but it’s not his, aiight…
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/2009/10/let-me-just-say-this-dolphins-coach-nick-saban-said-wednesday-in-addressing-the-subject-directly-for-the-first-time-it-wa.html
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This is exactly the sotry that I heard, as well.
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Not to defend the F-baum too mightily here (I live in Alabama, and his column is one of the things I check on once a week; I know, I’m a glutton for punishment), but he hit Saban kind of low this week.
Recapping recruiting, Saban said something about thinking the word “commitment” meant something other than it seems to mean to recruits who bailed on him at the last minute. F-Baum responded in his article, “I don’t think LSU, Michigan State, Miami, or Toledo has your back on that one, Coach Saban”.
When I was thinking he’d string together a decent column, he crapped all over UGA at the end saying CMR was rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic while the fat lady was warming up. Oh, well. His callers, though, are bigger jokes than he is.
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So he’s a god without scruples… 😉
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Exactly. As one Auburn fan I know put it, “I didn’t know his man-love for Saban would allow him to say something like that.”
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Yep he crapped all over Richt and the Georgia fans this week…but if you’ll remember, he wrote a column several years ago stating Mark Richt’s winning ways would go downhill after he started playing his own recruits…of course several months later he won the SEC with DJ Schockley…
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Saban should also ask the over quota recruits what they think commitment means after they get the treatment.
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