I mean, I did. I really did.
“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
I just hope someone with a camera was there to catch the off-camera shit-kicking of PAWWWL.
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The Senator provideth!
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Well, aight then!
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Can anyone catch the audio on the behind the scenes bit?
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I watched it and 😆😆😆😂😂😂. Poke the SaBear, get chewed up!
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What does Nick say right before Paul has to turn in his Alabama gear –
“There’s no law against concealed weapons in Louisiana, aiight…”
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Saban does not want to admit the process includes overlooking bad behavior if you have the potential to secure him a win. Paul had it right.
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Saban: Your stirring the pot will get Malzahn fired, I’ve got a good thing going.
PAWWWL: YAAAaaahhhh….
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The picture in the tweet makes it look like Nick has a halo. Saint Nick, I guess.
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Nice to see someone of fortitude stand up for an athlete while addressing due process and the court of public perception on quasi national TV and in the ear hole of Disneys biggest ego no less.
Footbaw season just started if you ask me.
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Saban is a master asschewer.
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Make it a good one, peckerhead! Ain’t got time for this shit but oncet a year, aiight?
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lol
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Somehow, both sides have points that are diametrically opposed. Paul is doing his job as a journalist whereas Saban is hitting back at roadblocks of perception being erected in the face of his hubris about his players. Paul is calling out the rules while Saban is applying them the way he sees it. Saban is wrong to slice the legalities so thin before speaking of appropriate punishment for his scalawags (as Saban sees them), whereas, Paul is calling for the look at their transgression as a reflection on all disciplinary rules of the SEC member schools. You either got a program or you don’t and this happenstance takes Saban out of a transparent program that member schools are held to.
There will be more to their conversation and the honeymoon between the two just got raspy because Paul is heading up a more even-handed public application of the SEC disciplinary programs in his expanded moderator role for Disney. Ole Paul has got some spunky grit when it comes to the Bama interviews.
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By this time next week there’s going to be paintings of saban w/halo on church ceilings throughout Alabama!
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That’s the reason why he get all those 5* recruits I guess.
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“Touchdown Jesus has nothing on me.”
http://www.gettyimages.com/pictures/italy-sicily-palermo-monreale-cathedral-jesus-christ-mosaic-news-photo-481603807
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Saban’s reasoning: How dare Finebaum question the motives of the biggest, most powerful name in college football; a man who makes $7M+ in salary and fringes; who wins national championships at a rate many of the rest of the D1 coaches would gladly trade 10 years off their respective life expectancies; and who wields more power and influence than any other public figure in the USA. How dare he!!!
Finebaum’s reasoning: How dare he squirm and dissemble like a fifth-grader caught lying about how the dog ate his homework when faced with an important question from one of the premier journalists in the business; who want answers and wants them now; who doesn’t care how prickly or curt his interview subjects can become. Who the hell does he think he is?
My reasoning: Screw ‘em both and the horses they rode in on.
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Key words: “I don’t care.”
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I’m glad Finebaum aksed the questions but if the players weren’t charged with a crime, what is there to discipline them for? I’m not defending anyone here but what rules/laws did the players break if they were not charged with anything?
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“asked”, sorry
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So you think that no discipline, internal or external, can ever happen in cases where no crime has been committed? In effect, that the policies of all universities and other organizations are connected strictly to the criminal code?
If so, you’re an idiot.
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I don’t pretend to know all the details surrounding the arrests, but it sounds like there are a lot of questions about the situation. The fact the prosecutor declined to press charges/prosecute the case is a big red flag. Plus only 2 of the 4 were arrested, etc. It sounds as though the first Ledbetter arrest that was dismissed was more clear cut than this situation and a number of people on this board felt Kirby shouldn’t hand down any suspension since those charges were thrown out. I’m not saying Saban doesn’t press the boundaries with some of his actions (see Jonathan Taylor), but this may not be the strongest example of it.
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Finebaum has been officially Processed
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Saban is straight out of the Toby Zeigler school of media relations. Exasperated, sullen, condescending. Just nails it every time.
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At times he looks like a parody of himself. Haha. Like he’s his favorite comedic character and he’s doing an impersonation of himself.
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facial expressions tell me, Saban just accused Fbaun of farting and Finebaum said….”yea ,I did”
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