Why did Nick Saban get after his players on Saturday night
Why did Nick Saban get after his players on Saturday night
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00:00 Let me ask your thoughts on something else that Coach Saban said after the game late
00:03 night in Starkville.
00:05 And our friend Nick Kelly asked him right off the bat, you got a little fiery on the
00:09 sidelines.
00:10 Can you tell us about what went into that?
00:12 And he said, well, Miss Terry said if the guys weren't playing well for me to get on
00:16 their butts.
00:17 And so I was just doing what I was told.
00:18 For the first time in maybe two years, Coach Saban really letting it loose on the sidelines.
00:24 I have felt just from an outside observer like, man, does coach still have the fire?
00:29 Does coach still have the want to take it to level 12 and get into somebody's rear end?
00:34 And obviously he did on Saturday night.
00:36 A lot of fun to see that again.
00:38 Will we see that going forward?
00:39 And just as you're a long time cover, you've been covering Nick Saban since he was here
00:43 in 2007.
00:45 Did you think you would ever see that again?
00:47 And what does that mean to you as an observer, as an analyst, someone who covers this football
00:52 team?
00:53 Well, somebody brought up a really good point yesterday, and I think it was Martin Houston
01:00 who made this comment.
01:02 I think it came from a caller to his show.
01:06 So I got to give him credit here.
01:10 But this is a real thing that we must discuss.
01:14 I think the grandkids have changed Nick Saban.
01:19 And I love kids.
01:20 Well, I mean, I sometimes love kids.
01:22 If they're not yelling or screaming or whatever.
01:26 But I think about the grandkids were in bed.
01:31 Did that impact that?
01:32 Okay, now think about this.
01:33 Okay.
01:34 I mean, Miss Terry did not make the game on Sunday, excuse me, on Saturday.
01:42 Sunday was when we left, Sunday morning.
01:46 But I think about, maybe that was part of it.
01:50 Maybe the grandkids were not able to see it.
01:52 Or maybe Miss Terry just gave him permission and said, "Chew their butt when they're not
01:57 doing right."
01:58 So maybe that's part of it.
02:00 But it just, it does something that I think about when he said what he did.
02:04 So when you look at this Alabama team, I would like to see more of those butt chewings and
02:13 the things that Nick Saban is known for in the early part of the dynasty here.
02:16 I mean, he would rip, the veteran coaches that you and I ran through a couple of minutes
02:21 ago.
02:22 I think he's grooming, he knows where he wants to go.
02:26 He's trying to get this group to buy into everything.
02:31 And I think you may see more of that.
02:33 To be honest, the sign of him, the way that he was coaching hard, because when a team
02:42 is soft, you'll see Nick Saban pull off of them a little bit.
02:47 When he knows that the team is either fragile physically or mentally, it's kind of like
02:53 after a loss, you think Nick Saban's in there peeling the paint.
02:56 Really it's the other way.
02:58 He's lifting them up, right?
02:59 He knows when to lift them up, he knows when to tear them down.
03:02 So by him tearing into them on Saturday tells me that maybe this team is starting to flip
03:10 a switch.
03:11 Maybe.
03:12 If he thought this team was fragile, he probably wouldn't be lighting them up the way that
03:18 he did.
03:19 And let me tell you, those weren't just players that he was lighting up, those were some of
03:23 those assistant coaches that we were just talking about a couple of minutes ago.
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