July 17, 2015 · 9:52 AM

Action-packed excitement 

All I can say is that when the buzz at SEC Media Days is over Dan Mullen’s shoes and Mark Richt’s haircut, I picked a good time to go on vacation. 

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  1. kckd
    July 17, 2015 at 10:08 AM

    What was funny to me is Mullen wouldn’t discuss the confederate flag, but Hugh was all about talking about it. Wonder if the Tunsil situation has anything to do with that.

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    • Ben
      July 17, 2015 at 10:26 AM

      I don’t know if the tunsil thing made him or talk about or we’re just so accustomed to agents and cheating that no one cares anymore.

      Plus, the flag is a bigger deal at Ole Miss than it is at MSU, with the mascot and university and all that stuff.

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  2. Bright Idea
    July 17, 2015 at 10:22 AM

    And we are getting so used to Saban’s excuses that even what he says has become mundane. I’m sure no other coach can get away so easily with excuse making. Only Finebum called him on it.

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    • lamontsanford
      July 17, 2015 at 10:30 AM

      …don’t forget about Plaxico Buress. Plax and I don’t always see eye to eye about stuff, like wearing sweatpants to the bar and shooting ourselves in the leg…but he is spot on in this last rant.

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      • Cojones
        July 17, 2015 at 4:34 PM

        Yep, but not moreso than an 80yr-old lady’s comments to his face as he pulled the same thing when he left LSU.

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    • kckd
      July 17, 2015 at 10:32 AM

      Chip Towers said and I quote “Saban, a man who rarely makes excuses, made two yesterday”. Has he been living under a rock. How does the press let him get away with it when he constantly treats them like shite. Why can’t one reporter ask “Did Ohio State have any guys interested in their draft prospects?”

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      • Macallanlover
        July 17, 2015 at 10:48 AM

        I didn’t take Saban’s comments as an excuse, he had a point to get on the table for discussion, and it is a good one. Why rush the commitment date? And as much as many here do not want to admit it, the level of play is more related to the players’ attitudes and focus than to coaching. Alabama may have been better than ohio but they were clearly no the dominant teams they had been in earlier years (see the Old Miss, Arkansas, and Auburn games for proof). If they didn’t play with intensity, it is surprising they only lost by 7.

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        • kckd
          July 17, 2015 at 12:00 PM

          If it’s not an excuse I don’t know what you’d call it. He also complained about the extra game earlier saying that it makes it hard when you play in the SEC. A good reporter would’ve said “but Nick, you didn’t play an extra playoff game”

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          • Saxondawg
            July 17, 2015 at 2:42 PM

            Yep. Context is everything. The way he places his “point,” it comes off as something that kept him from winning in the playoffs. Rather than having his team ready to play. It’s really not even a very good excuse. The man is a great coach, and an elite complainer, but this wasn’t one of his best efforts.

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          • Macallanlover
            July 17, 2015 at 3:16 PM

            I would call it a very strong point that needs to be made, the NFL deadline for an NFL grade/decision is more important to many of these players than a football game. His point is valid, and it should be dealt with. Why not move it to the end of January? The draft isn’t until April.. Regardless ow who is right about his intent, surely you can agree that someone should get htis date moved back because it isn’t a crisis deadline time. Top players don’t really come to college for a degree or to entertain the alums, they would go out of HS if they could get their money. It is a distraction in the days leading up to mid January, moving it back would not harm anyone at all.

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            • Cojones
              July 17, 2015 at 4:16 PM

              Agree, Mac. Just because Saban makes excuses is no reason to diminish the point about early positioning for the draft. I most certainly think it would influence play attitude and effort if they are going early in the draft and they want to remain healthy. Have to admit that I saw the game through Saban’s glasses – it just didn’t look like they responded to tOSU with full effort and that resulted in making tOSU appear more competent than they had reason to be with a 3rd string QB.

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    • GaskillDawg
      July 17, 2015 at 12:28 PM

      Colin Cowherd wasn’t at the event so h could not ask Saban directly but Cowherd took Saban to task on The Thundering Herd. Cowherd pointed out that OSU had NFL players, too.

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      • Dog in Fla
        July 17, 2015 at 4:24 PM

        This is shit up with which Phyllis from Mulga will not put

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        • Uglydawg
          July 17, 2015 at 5:43 PM

          DIF..that was brutal. I hope never to meet this……woman…..
          Imagine getting seats right in front of her for the SEC Championship game (should UGA and AL end up there). Whew.
          I wonder if Phyllis ever takes the Marlboro out of her mouth when she’s ranting.
          Friends, it’s a slow day with the Senator gone lickety splicity and is out mending fences, so why not take a few minutes and listen to DIF’s link…it’s funny for all the wrong reasons.

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        • Cosmic Dawg
          July 18, 2015 at 12:14 AM

          +1 for the Churchill (I believe?) reference.

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  3. kckd
    July 17, 2015 at 10:30 AM

    My point is that it was a nice way to shift the focus off Tunsil.

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  4. Debby Balcer
    July 17, 2015 at 2:18 PM

    Loved Malcolm Mitchell and his book.

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  5. Derek
    July 17, 2015 at 2:22 PM

    I thought that Sabans suggestion that player misconduct issues should be left to proceedings such as this: http://youtu.be/mdeo7Q2E5cE

    was at least a little newsworthy: http://www.macon.com/2015/07/15/3844876/nick-saban-said-jonathan-taylor.html

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  6. 3rdandGrantham
    July 17, 2015 at 3:07 PM

    All I know is, the picture gallery at AL.com is totally cringe worthy. Not surprisingly, mind you, but cringe worthy nonetheless. From the guy dressing as the Bear, to the Ohio State trolls, to the pathetic looking sack wearing the Bama ring hat…and finally the couple posing while holding Nick Saban’s book upside down; all I got to say is, thank God I don’t live there.

    http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/07/wrapping_up_sec_media_days_201.html#incart_most-comments

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  7. Uglydawg
    July 17, 2015 at 6:58 PM

    Now you’re risking Phillis’s wrath.
    BTW…I’ve learned that her siblings called her “Sis Phyllis”.

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  8. Trbodawg
    July 18, 2015 at 2:12 PM

    Totally a thread jack, but I just saw the “A NFL Life -Terrell Davis” Was Coach Goff really that bad? No wonder we were so bad…

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  9. Uglydawg
    July 18, 2015 at 3:42 PM

    Trobodawg…I always agreed with the mantra that Goff was the unluckiest man coaching college football, while other’s were appalled at his coaching skill. I was thinking TD came after Goff..but I lose track of a lot of stuff.
    As far as hijacking a thread…that’s expected in a situation like this…we run out of stuff to talk about and morph to different subjects.
    see below

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    • Scorpio Jones, III
      July 19, 2015 at 8:25 AM

      I am, unlike others here, hardly fit to judge Ray’s ability as a football coach, but ultimately, Ray took the job when there were not many who stood in the line.
      Ray took the full brunt of the Jan Kemp backlash and did what he could with it.
      Was he ready for the job? I doubt even Ray would say that, but I find and found it interesting that some of the same folks who pushed him to the job quickly decided he was over his head.
      Yet for all the abuse he took and takes, Ray was and is there for people who need his help when their own troubles call for it, spending his own money, using his own resources to help Bulldog families through tough times.

      It is a sad commentary Ray Goff is judged by people here who know nothing of the man beyond his won-loss record as a football coach or care about him beyond that.

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      • Noonan
        July 19, 2015 at 10:48 AM

        Ray is a good man. He wasn’t prepared for the job, and he had some bad luck. No one can pass judgement on his character or his love for UGA because he wasn’t successful as a head coach. I spoke with Ray one night a few years back, and told him I was in school from 91-95. He joked that I was probably one of the ones screaming to have him fired. He has the right perspective on life.

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        • Scorpio Jones, III
          July 19, 2015 at 1:05 PM

          “He has the right perspective on life.”

          Yes, he does. I, too, have seen Ray a couple of times in Athens, talked to him. He was bitter about the way some people treated him for a while, but seems to have put that in the past and is living life well.

          Back in my photo journalist days I got run over on the sidelines by Ray Goff during the 76 Bama game…he was a gentleman then, too.

          One of my fondest memories…that and the fourth string tailback scoring the final touchdown.

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      • Mayor
        July 19, 2015 at 6:44 PM

        Ray Goff’s won-lost record is 46-34-1 which isn’t high enough to keep being HC at the University of Georgia (even he would say that) but it isn’t as bad as some make it out to be, either.

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  10. Uglydawg
    July 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM

    Is anybody besides me ready to demand my subscription money back from the Senator? It’s been weeks since we got a new thread. Maybe he’s been captured by the Colorado St. crowd..lots of stuff happens out there.

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