"Ya know, I want our fans to know out there that we don't have a depth chart here, aiight!?" Saban...

"Ya know, I want our fans to know out there that we don't have a depth chart here, aiight!?" Saban said, just getting warmed up. "So anyone out here in the media who writes about a depth chart and really kinda disrespects some of our players based on their depth chart is really not being very professional. Without checking with us first."

Note to self: Don't attempt a depth chart until after the Clemson game...

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He must've been in a...

bad mood because I would be worried if he’s trying to get his players from reading the media’s opinions on what the team’s depth chart looks like.

THe media themselves are going to make a huge deal about this over nothing of course.

by CaliforniaTide on Aug 6, 2008 1:37 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Ian is on the roundtable

as we speak. What a dork. He ain’t got shit else to talk about. This guy, this guy is a douche and why he and Lance have a talk show is BEYOND me. Filler between OD and Slimebaum is all.

Roll Tide, Bitches!!!

by BamaReturns07 on Aug 6, 2008 1:41 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

EDIT: Because Jim Rome SUCKS

only alternative.

Roll Tide, Bitches!!!

by BamaReturns07 on Aug 6, 2008 1:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I like the RoundTable, but that might be because of my age and what I find to be funny. Yes, there are times when Ian and Lance make some stupid comments, contradict themselves, and obviously are trying to create something out of nothing. But I did agree with Ian today that I didn’t really see the point of Coach Saban going out of his way to talk about the depth chart issue. It’s just some guy’s opinion based on whatever information that he has, and if the football players are reading the media and getting butt-hurt over the fact that some bozo sports writer doesn’t think that he’s good enough to be two-deep on the team, then Coach Saban has some serious head cases on the football team that need to get thicker skin. I support Coach Saban 100% and I know he’ll make us a perennial contender again, but sometimes he does say things that make me go “Huh?”

by CaliforniaTide on Aug 6, 2008 2:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agree

Yeah, I agree. I think when Saban talks about the depth chart he make a bigger issue of it than it would be otherwise. Does anyone really care whether Josh Chapman is playing with the 1st string or not?

I am going to say that in this case though, Saban may have been sending a message to his team. I think he wants his players to know, who they are playing with is not indicative of where they will be on the “depth chart.”

by Kenny483 on Aug 6, 2008 2:47 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think you're right...

...about the message he’s trying to convey.

Additionally, I like him giving the media crap.

by Nico2.0 on Aug 6, 2008 2:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I love it too...

When he undresses the media like he does, but sometimes he says stuff and it backfires in the form of media criticizing how he handles them.

by CaliforniaTide on Aug 6, 2008 3:05 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Really...

I don’t think cares much about how the media portrays him. They paint pictures of tyranny and whatnot, but what happens when he steps out of the bus? They’re all over him.

Considering anything bama related is news, and that his players probably eat it up more than nearly any school in the nation, why wouldn’t he speak to them in a medium they frequent?

Saban is a smart guy, he learned very quickly how to communicate effectively to both his fans and his players through the media whipping boys.

by rhinoskin on Aug 7, 2008 9:47 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If Saban is having to do that through the media...

Then I really wonder why some of those players are not just putting in the work that the coaches tell them to do and let the chips fall where they fall.

Maybe I’m looking at it wrong, I don’t know.

by CaliforniaTide on Aug 6, 2008 3:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Saban and the media

For whatever reason Saban really seems to enjoy sending message through the media. I am not sure that is a point of him not getting through to his players, as much as a different form of communicating to his players and the fans.

I think everyone is right though, he can be an ass. I really think he does enjoy ripping the media, and I will admit I find it humorous. Of course, there are times when we as fans might prefer he take the Tubberville model and be better with the media, but that is just not Saban. I am fine with that, even if it means a little more scrutiny.

by Kenny483 on Aug 6, 2008 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Let me regress a bit

I don’t like the 30-something wanna be fratboy personas they convey. It gets old, IMO.

Roll Tide, Bitches!!!

by BamaReturns07 on Aug 6, 2008 4:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nick should just be glad

that his players read.

Cause bama's pluck and gritt has writ her name in crimson flame.

by pluckandgritt on Aug 7, 2008 2:15 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

but

dont you guys also think that Saban overracts too. I mean come on. We have all been waiting for a while for the season to start, and a guy just wrote an article he thought was interesting. I think Saban (and im going to get killed for this) can be an ass sometimes and just reacts like that to flex his muscles.

Go ahead and bash me for saying something negative about Saban…..ill take it like a man (:

Don't take life to seriously, you'll never get out alive.

by bammer on Aug 6, 2008 3:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I think...

...we all know he’s a control freak…but he’s our control freak…and that’s what makes it cool.

by Nico2.0 on Aug 6, 2008 3:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I get that

but sometimes i look at him and im like…..man i kinda don’t like him. I can’t get the images of him coaching for LSU out of my head. Don’t get me wrong im glad hes on our sideline, but that doesn’t mean i have to like him.

Don't take life to seriously, you'll never get out alive.

by bammer on Aug 6, 2008 3:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

LSU Saban

That is funny, that is when I really started liking him. I was really impressed with what he did at LSU, and how quickly he got the program turned around. At the time, I sort of thought he parlayed one really good season at MSU to the head coach job at LSU.

I would not worry to much though, I am sure you too will change your mind once Alabama actually starts winning.

by Kenny483 on Aug 6, 2008 3:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's bad enough

....that my wife keeps me up at night with her constant worrying about our depth (especially at linebacker) while reading this season’s Yea Alabama – then I come here, and all I hear is “Depth Chart! Depth Chart!”
Of course, it’s not like I listen to the radio – heck, out here in Arizona, nobody talks about football anyway.

by thronedoggie on Aug 6, 2008 3:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

In AZ?

They aren’t talking about the Sun Devils?

by CaliforniaTide on Aug 6, 2008 5:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

and this is why I love the SEC

When have you ever heard a Big 11 fan say “dangit, my wife keeps me up at night talking about our depth chart”!

Beautiful.

The only comment I’d have about Saban is that you really don’t want to get on “the media’s” bad side. I mean, he’s already unpopular nationally for ditching Miami. He doesn’t need to become unpopular locally for bitching out reports who are just doing their job, when it’s not like they dropped the beans on some huge secret anyway. Just think if Saban has another one of these little fits say the friday before the tulane game, and then Tulane upsets bama, how will the local media react? That is a pretty big hypothetical, but you get what I’m saying.

by LSU Jonno on Aug 6, 2008 8:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Again...

Alabama had a nice coach. He was a media pushover. Great, except he didn’t win games, he didn’t draw winners to the program.

So Alabama canned him, and hired a coach who is a winner. He isn’t always nice (to the media), but he draws winners to Alabama and as long as he continues winning, I don’t think many fans will care much who gets yelled at in a way overemphasized press conference.

by rhinoskin on Aug 7, 2008 9:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Exactly

One of the problems with the media is their self-inflated sense of importance. Not many other professions on earth can occasionally make themselves the focus of their work. Regarding the “just doing their jobs” that is so often noted, that’s fine. They have a job to do, but that doesn’t mean Saban has to do his job the way they want. Just because telemarketers have a job doesn’t mean I have to listen to their crap or play by their rules. I don’t mean any disrespect to journalists, but they often take themselves way too seriously.

by Nico2.0 on Aug 7, 2008 11:30 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Amen,

Ray Melick used to write about Alabama football. Now he writes about Ray Melick. That other guy with the Rap Sheet is just a kid, but he calls Coach Saban “Nick” every time he opens his mouth (which is a lot). You say you mean no disrespect to journalists. These guys are not journalists—they just write. And talk. Seriously, if Scarbinsky let some words fall in the woods, and nobody was around to hear it, wouldn’t that be a beautiful thing?

Give me Gentry Estes and ‘outsidethesidelines’. Those other ‘writers’ can take a walk.

by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 7, 2008 2:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thats a great point

I really hadn’t thought about that way.

Don't take life to seriously, you'll never get out alive.

by bammer on Aug 7, 2008 1:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well...

He is a great coach who doesn’t worry about what people think. He will do everything he can to win and if it means pissing you off then thats a price to pay. He didn’t get hired to win over the media or entire fan base, he was hired to win football games. So if he has to piss the media off to keep the players focused then good job Nick Saban. ROLL TIDE!!

by BAMA.13 on Aug 7, 2008 1:21 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs