Methinks the Coke bottle is getting a wee bit testy.
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“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
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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I get the feeling someone is getting a little tired of answering the questions. He never has to deal with this from the Tide Pravda, so Little Nicky is getting his fee-fees hurt.
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Maybe Maurice and his parents should share their experience directly with young men considering accepting a scholarship to play football at Alabama to help them in their decision making process.
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What does it mean to do a Belichick on someone?
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To be an @$$hole … although it appears Nicky is already doing it.
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At least he hasn’t threatened a member of the media with being 37-Fd … yet.
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The 37F thing was a threat toward alums. The one to a member of the press was the “you’re a bad guy” rant directed at a reporter who had accurately quoted a wr saying that with Tebow gone they now had a “real qb” in John Brantley.
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I thought he said it to Mike Bianchi or was in response to one of Bianchi’s questions?
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Nope. Shane Matthews. http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=4163417
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That’s right – thanks
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Where’s mike greenberg when you need him?
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He’s just doing the “Trump kind of tweet” LOL.
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Is he finally feeling of “Richt lost control of…..” kind of thing and can’t stand it.
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Somebody in Alabama is going to pay for going off the plantation.
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Problem I see is that the angrier nick gets, he might take it out on his team during practices which might just make them even better.
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I thought the same thing last year when everyone kept asking him about the unauthorized biography. It happened almost exactly a year ago.
http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2015/08/fired_up_nick_saban_not_happy.html
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That and then when they lost to Ole Miss. I thought “Oh boy, here comes another Bama NC.”
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Everyone is taking this out on Saban, and he most certainly deserves a share of the blame, but why is the SEC getting a pass here? The league passed the rule denying grad transfers to fellow SEC teams. Saban is merely playing by the rules set forth by our beloved league. Kids that follow the rules, keep their nose clean AND graduate with eligibility let should be praised and rewarded. Programs should roll out the red carpet for these kids. I am embarrassed by the SEC in this situation, not Saban.
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Good point. Would love to see some steel-testicled reporters lobbing questions to both Saban and SEC leadership about the inequities of this policy to the students. I was waiting for some brave soul to ask Saban which SEC policy he was following when he dumped the young man’s belongings in the trash can. Does “doing everything we can for this young man” include barring him from the facilities?
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I just feel there are so many legal questions with this type of restriction. If Maurice chooses to fight this, it could blow the doors open on transfer rules in general.
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Agree and it’s why I’m surprised he hasn’t filed a lawsuit.
I’d think the SEC and Bama would.likely grant him an immediate release, because they wouldn’t want the no transfer rule declared illegal by a court.
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It’s still too early for that. He graduates tomorrow, and I believe he’s made one more request that should be known early next week. If it’s still denied, I’m sure lawyers will be lining up willing to represent him in a lawsuit.
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The problem is how many Georgia Law attorneys are licensed in Alabama and willing to take on the Yellowhammer State. I assume this would be adjudicated in an Alabama state court rather than federal court. I’m not an attorney but did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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To my knowledge, the SEC didn’t pass a rule specifically on grad transfers; there is no rule specifically on grad transfers. This is the rule on transfers in general being applied to grad transfers because – without a specific rule on grad transfers – they’re included as a regular transfer.
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Yes, the SEC has a set of rules for grad transfers, both those leaving and those coming into conference schools, which states at no player shall transfer from one member institution to another. And yes, the same rule does apply for the run of the mill transfer student athlete.
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Again, I don’t think that’s the case. Or I just keep misreading things like this, from MaconDawg at DawgSports, who is a lawyer:
I’m genuinely not trying to be snarky; I’ve read several comments of people saying there’s an SEC rule on grad transfers, and I don’t think that’s the case based on what knowledgeable persons with a pretty good understanding of legalese are contending.
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I got a,chuckle out of that.
“….with a pretty good understanding of legalese are contending.”
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Probably because of the double standard ( MO player granted release).
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I sure wish the SEC (and barring that, individual coaches, including Smart) would allow kids to transfer (graduate students or otherwise) wherever the hell they want. It’s best for the kids. And it builds goodwill for the program among future recruits. Angry-fans-and-coaches-who-see-good-players-go-to-rival-schools be damned.
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Take this fwiw, but from I understand or have been told by those in the know, this will be Saban’s last year at Bama. Confidence level is at approx. 75%.
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Oh yeah me too. Heard the same thing.
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If true (and I’m doubtful/hopeful) it makes this all the more WTF??
The biggest reason it would be a good thing for Saban to go out this year is that the chances of them throwing 7 million a year at Kirby is quite low. If Saban hangs around for 4 years and Kirby has made us a playoff team, Tuscaloosa will back the brinks truck up to Butts-Mehre. Can anyone imagine us matching them? I can’t. Would Kirby turn it down? I doubt it.
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This scenario will be very interesting as it develops. Saban will leave sometime in the relatively near future just because of age–I don’t see him being a Bobby Bowden and hanging on forever. I have said all along that Kirby took the Georgia job as a stepping stone to the HC job at Bama because Bama likely would want someone with HC experience. Unless Kirby falls flat on his face in Athens he is the most likely replacement for Saban with Jim McElwain a distant second.
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Unless Saban steps down this year. I can’t imagine Alabama thinking that they’ve seen enough from Kirby to offer him the job in late 2016 or early 17. Moreover, I’m not sure Kirby would entertain it this soon. Bad optics.
However, if its 2019 or 2021 and Kirby has done big things, I could see it playing out much differently.
In short, the sooner Saban lacks the time for any of this shit the better for everyone.
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If Kirby uses this job as a stepping stone after being successful, there will be people with torches and pitchforks looking for an AD to tar, feather and run out of town on a rail.
It would be fun to watch Jimmy Sexton’s interaction with Butts-Mehre if that day comes.
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Had dinner with a Red Elephant Saturday night and his “opinion” is three to five more years, if all goes well.
If anyone says they have an inside track to Saban, they are full of it. Guarantee you the mrs. doesn’t even know.
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Ok.
Lets revisit this in, say, Dec or jan.
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My point wasn’t to challenge you or your “in the know” contacts. Believe me, I will shed no tears when Saban leaves Bama. I wait patiently for the day those fans are reduced to “also ran” status. I will also say that if Bama wins another championship this year, he may wander off into the sunset. Barring that, no one had any insite into what he will do.
Now, if you want to put a friendly wager on the issue, I’ll play. You name it.
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5k. Winner donates proceeds to favorite charity.
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I totally buy that this could be his last year. Especially after how he saw Spurrier go out this past year. We all know Saban lives and breathes football and he’s alluded to the fact that he’d feel lost if he wasn’t coaching. But I also think he’s the kind of guy who wants to go out on top. He doesn’t want to fizzle out like the OBC.
He’ll be 65 at the end of this season. If he makes it to another NCG (win or lose) I think he’ll hang it up. Lord knows he’ll make plenty of money as a talking head if he wants.
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Alabama’s long-held transfer policy is BS. Georgia’s new transfer policy is also BS, so we Bulldogs can’t cry foul too loudly on this one. Say what you will about Mark Richt, but he was most assuredly in the right place on player transfers.
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But…but…but Maurice is a Dawg imprisoned in Alabama. “Let My People Go” should be Kirby’s mantra in this falderal. He belongs on OUR plantation. And what is the Gov of Texas doing about these Texas kids being restricted by Saban? They should be barred from recruiting in Texas and that’s another thingy; if Texas had cleaned up Baylor instead of letting it become a Baptist Rapist Center when all along they should have just let them dance, then this would never have happened. But Maurice and his parents changed their minds about going there probably because he is Methodist or something and knows better.
Personally, I think he would have enjoyed the No Man’s Land that surrounds Baylor because they won’t even prosecute people there; not Baylor, not Texas; it’s just open land with no laws. I know because Ken Starr told me and he was a law professor there and knows the law, but it seems his knowledge is limited to Presidential blow jobs.
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Was a law professor there? Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but according to Wikipedia he still holds the distinguished position of Louise L. Morrison Chair of Constitutional Law at Baylor University.
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http://m.yourhoustonnews.com/sugar_land/sports/spring-football-dulles-smith-a-top-notch-recruit-has-total/article_f2e4fbba-94a9-11e1-8cc3-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=jqm
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Finebum blaming this on an underlying rub with Saban trying to keep Kirby in his place, that he sees Kirby as Bama’s biggest threat now that Georgia is all in on the arms race.
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