“When I first saw the Wizard, I was like ‘Who the hell is this guy?'”

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You’ll never guess, either.

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45 responses to ““When I first saw the Wizard, I was like ‘Who the hell is this guy?'”

  1. TNlogdawg

    Isn’t this the guy Trump wants to keep out of the country?

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  2. “You have to brainwash your players.”

    Boy, that’s encouraging. If Ray had just brainwashed his players, they could have beaten Florida in 1995.

    Saban’s success has nothing to do with the University of Alabama spending oodles of money to give him everything he wants, his ability to recruit any player he wants regardless of their history, and his roster management tactics that certainly look more like that of an NFL general manager than a college coach/educator.

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  3. Argondawg

    How the hell are we ever gonna beat Saban when he has a Jedi as his master. F’ing dark side is starting to piss me off.

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  4. hassan

    I wonder if he calls Nick Saban “Grasshopper”?

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  5. Jared S.

    This. Is. Gold.

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  6. Normaltown Mike

    Professor at Michigan State?

    Bullfeathers! I’ve seen that guy panhandling at the 10th street exit for years now.

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  7. Careful Brad

    I thought that was the guy that used to shoot 3 pointers in Ramsey wearing the Kentucky sweatshirt, around the late 90s early 00s

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    • Lakatos Intolerant

      Yes!!!! I used to watch that dude practice his mid-court hook shots over and over. We used to joke that he had turned basketball into a science.

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    • dubyadee

      Ha. I thought the same thing when I saw the picture. Can’t remember the name of the guy from the Ramsey center, only that he had played at Austin Peay back in the day.

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  8. Jared S.

    Holy Shit.

    From his bio on MSU’s website:
    “Captain, U.S. Army, First Special Forces Group, General Medicine and Preventative Medicine Officer, 1966-1967”

    http://psychiatry.msu.edu/about/faculty-directory/rosen.html

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  9. I would hate to check this guys browser history.

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  10. Mayor

    Dr. Rosen is correct. The key to optimal athletic performance is focusing on the task at hand and not the ultimate outcome. Professional golfers call it “staying in the present.”

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    • That’s very true. Tiger at his height was a master of it. The Golden Bear was quite possibly the best ever (regardless of sport) at staying in the moment. Joe Montana or Michael Jordan was likely the best in a team sport at it. None of them needed a “wizard” to remind them. It was a gift …

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      • Jared S.

        Michael Jordan may have not needed his own personal wizard, but his championship-winning Bulls team had one of the best wizards of all time in Phil Jackson.

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        • That’s a great point, but #23 played in the moment. When he was feeling it, he was in the zone.

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          • Jared S.

            Man, I’ve never seen any athlete who was more fun to watch. Ever. Some of it is nostalgia, I admit, because my memories of Jordan are tied to some of my best memories of times spent with my dad and brother. I can remember I was 9-years old (my brother was seven) and my dad sat us down to watch Jordan for the first time. It was the first game of what would be his second Finals Championship – against Portland. I can remember my dad saying, “I want you boys to watch number twenty-three. He’s the best at what he does.”

            I can remember my dad saying, “It’s a huge mistake,” when Jordan came back from his first retirement. “He’ll never be what he was.” At first, when he returned in 1995, it seemed like he might not ever repeat the magic he had before. Then we watched him win his fourth Finals on Father’s Day 1996. It was the first NBA game he’d played on Father’s day, since his dad had been murdered nearly three years prior. When asked about his dad after the game, Jordan was crying. My dad was crying – one of the only times I’ve seen him cry. Incredible memories.

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    • I thought the key was breathing through your eyelids. :/

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  11. DawgPhan

    Why am I not surprised that all the comments are about how he looks.

    I am guessing he and saban will be laughing about what “the process” looks like in athens in a couple of seasons.

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    • Normaltown Mike

      “Why am I not surprised that all the comments are about how he looks.”

      Perhaps because we can’t touch, taste, smell or hear him through the intertubes?

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  12. Dylan Dreyer's Booty

    Hey, we have a psych department at UGA, too. Apparently, not as good as the one at MSU. And yes, that’s a throwdown, Dr. Keith Campbell.

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  13. The Quincy Carter of Accountants

    “When I first saw the wizard I was like who the hell is this guy?”

    And then he got 50,000 on Double Dragon.

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  14. 69Dawg

    This explains the lack of response our players got from the Alabama team when we tried to “get into their heads” when they came on the field. Saban has somehow managed to turn his players into cyborgs. They don’t have time for your weak stuff, they are only interested in the next play. I’ll take a load of that to replace all the fake juice we have had over the years.

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    • PTC DAWG

      It has been documented that the Bama players started that “fracus”…but carry on with your rhetoric. They were just much better than our fragile team this year.

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  15. Charles

    points at Nick Marshall

    “YOU. SHALL. NOT. PAAAAASSSSSSSSSSS… unless it’s over the line of scrimmage.”

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  16. red

    Same theroy behind golf pysch, one shot at a time, one hole at a time. Don’t let one bad shot led two bad shots.

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  17. Otto

    So this is the Dwarf’s wise elf?

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  18. THE DOG MAN

    Looks like he belongs in the GREATFUL DEAD BAND.
    Also kind of looks like a Tennessee fan….YOU know a HILLBILLIE.
    The GREATFUL DEAD BAND will have to go down in history as the band
    with the least amount of talent…….THEY sux and always will sux.

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