It looks like Nick Saban’s love affair with the media continues akin to PETA’s romance with KFC. The Alabama football coach got into a little tiff with Ian Rapoport, a rapoporter reporter for THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS. The story was found via THE WIZARD OF ODDS, who raised the stakes with the video goodness:
If you’re in no position to watch video, or simply protest the entire moving pictures industry, Rapoport asked Saban about the situation with the football team having more scholarship players than the NCAA allows on a roster, and what they plan to do about it. From there, the press conference reached an inevitable nexus:
“I’m not worried about them. It’ll all work out. I mean, the whole thing has a solution to every issue. You don’t put yourself in a position where you don’t know what’s coming, then have to take it in the chops. Aiight? We know how it has to be managed, and it will be managed.”
So he knows, but he didn’t say how. A follow-up question basically cut from the same mold, only with a little more sass (”So you’re not going to tell us?“):
“I’m not going to tell you what? It’s none of your business. Aiight? And don’t give me this stuff about the fans need to know, because they don’t need to know.”
ESPN labels this speech as Saban’s Mike Gundy tirade, but that’s far too shallow a comparison. This is Saban’s 9/11.
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