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NICK SABAN REALLY DOESN'T. THERES PROOF.

Go to about 2:50. Expect an audible "shit." Gawk in awe.

Anger come in layers. When you watch Mike Gundy get mad, there's obvious hurt underneath the anger; you get the feeling Mike Gundy puts on anger like a dusty formal suit, trotting it out for special occasions like funerals. He gets angry on principle, not because there's some underlying rage just seething and waiting to explode. When Dennis Green grows angry, there's obvious frustration and confusion, but no sort of basic low-boil of anger. When Herm Edwards goes nuts...well, he's obviously suffering from the deleterious effects of parasitic worms dining on his brain.

When Nick Saban gets angry, the air in the room grows frosty, all hope evaporates, and metal objects begin to wiggle and slide toward him. We mean this: it is one of the most frightening things we have ever seen, and we have been through an earthquake in an Asian city, a motorcycle accident, and a night out in Phnom Penh. There's just anger there, and more anger, and if you get out the excavator and start digging, still more deep and untapped reserves of anger. If we could turn it into a form of energy, we could tell Saudi Arabia to fuck themselves five minutes after the technology was completed.

Nick Saban is Ahab. He is bottomless in his complexity and terrifying in his anger, and capable of speaking whatever language needs to be spoken to get his point across. In another age, he'd be holding onto the harpoon five hundred feet below the surface of the ocean. His ears would bleed in another hundred feet as the whale with the harpoon embedded in its hide dove deeper and deeper; the rope would bloody his already shredded hands. Soon, he'd turn inside out from the pressure. But he'd die with that fucking rope in his hands.

(HT: Friends of the Program.

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methinks the man has been quaffing his own koolaid or something

that is not the controlled coachspeak that a bigtime CFB coach exhibits… but maybe that is the coachspeak of a bigtime recruiter…and that is enough in CFB

by InsaneCoachPosse on Nov 14, 2008 1:35 PM EST reply actions  

That’s red meat for the red tide.

by Earl on Nov 14, 2008 1:37 PM EST reply actions  

Much like Obama controls his message, Saban knows exactly what he is saying.

by Geori on Nov 14, 2008 1:38 PM EST reply actions  

I see nothing wrong with that….unless the some young kids where listening or the FCC.

by Mich-Placed Gators on Nov 14, 2008 1:43 PM EST reply actions  

Agreed, Geori.

The “shit” may or may not have been premeditated, but the message certainly was.

by Tater Salad on Nov 14, 2008 1:44 PM EST reply actions  

Until I saw that, I had a very faint glimmer of hope for our chances Saturday.

They’re just gonna line up and KILL us the old fashioned Bear Bryant way. 23.5 line? Hogwash. It’ll be 27-0 by halftime. If we’re lucky.

by yoyofutbawl on Nov 14, 2008 1:48 PM EST reply actions  

Aight.

by Bobby Decatur on Nov 14, 2008 1:48 PM EST reply actions  

If those young kids have ever ventured within Bryant-Denny, they’ve heard worse. I wouldn’t worry about their constitutions too much.

by Holly on Nov 14, 2008 1:51 PM EST reply actions  

I bet neyland has been a sanctuary of grammer and diction this fall.

by King Harvest on Nov 14, 2008 1:55 PM EST reply actions  

“You people”?!?! You mean the black man?!

by etsuVol on Nov 14, 2008 1:55 PM EST reply actions  

Holly, Uh-huh! And what about the infamous “Our students don’t die” cheer in K’ville?

by Der Schatten on Nov 14, 2008 1:56 PM EST reply actions  

I love that man

by haybeav on Nov 14, 2008 2:08 PM EST reply actions  

I just ran through a wall.

by Etch Westgrin on Nov 14, 2008 2:15 PM EST reply actions  

Well, there you have it. That’s why Bama has had such a good year—the players are terrified of what he’ll do if they lose. Would you want to face that wrath?

aight.

by CKGator on Nov 14, 2008 2:16 PM EST reply actions  

I’d follow him through the gates of Hell toting five gallon buckets full of napalm.

by El Kabong!!! on Nov 14, 2008 2:24 PM EST reply actions  

Holly,
I would venture to guess there’s ten of thousands of children under the age of 10 that are big Bama fans that have never even seen Bryant-Denny with their own two eyes. I’m sure many of these kids have parents in this “bible belt” state who are moral, God fearing people who take their kids to Sunday School every Sunday (in their Bama shirts, no doubt), teach their kids right from wrong, and how to speak without using profanity.

Just because they hear worse in public, or at the stadium don’t make it fuckin’ right I tell ya!

by Mich-Placed Gator on Nov 14, 2008 2:27 PM EST reply actions  

Transcript? Since “this video is no longer available.” Bastards.

by Raider Red on Nov 14, 2008 2:40 PM EST reply actions  

Dammit. At 1:51:29 this afternoon, I actually started liking Nick Saban. I actually started wanting him as my coach.

Time to wander off into the desert for a few years and ponder what my life has become.

by Doug on Nov 14, 2008 2:53 PM EST reply actions  

“Nick Saban is Ahab. He is bottomless in his complexity and terrifying in his anger, and capable of speaking whatever language needs to be spoken to get his point across. In another age, he’d be holding onto the harpoon five hundred feet below the surface of the ocean. His ears would bleed in another hundred feet as the whale with the harpoon embedded in its hide dove deeper and deeper; the rope would bloody his already shredded hands. Soon, he’d turn inside out from the pressure. But he’d die with that fucking rope in his hands.”

Now that’s writing. That’s poetry masquerading as prose. That’s WarandfuckingPeace. Call me Ishmael damnit, or I’ll bust your ass!

by DarthGatorOne on Nov 14, 2008 2:58 PM EST reply actions  

Orson—you forgot the all-important difference in your Ahab analogy: If Saban is Ahab, then as the white whale drags him down to oblivion, Saban tears the whale’s heart from its chest and dines on it—IN HELL!!

by jthomas on Nov 14, 2008 3:09 PM EST reply actions  

Raider Red “If our stadium on Saturday…I don’t give a shit who we’re playing…it better be what it ought to be.”

(and as a State fan, I’m predicting some Old Testament style smiting as payback for the past two years.)

by jakldawg on Nov 14, 2008 3:15 PM EST reply actions  

This was indeed fantastic prose, and I was excited to get home and experience the wrath of Saban in its unadulterated youtube form (i.e., with sound).

Now I’ve seen it and uh … that was it? This is the bottomless anger that is making everyone’s balls quiver? FFS, Lloyd Carr was more intimidating than this when he talked to halftime reporters.

There’s other evidence to show that Saban is a near psychotically driven man who will do damn near anything to win … but this video is seriously not doin’ it.

Ooh. He said ‘shit.’ The Horror.

by STW P. Brabbs on Nov 14, 2008 3:19 PM EST reply actions  

What.. so he’s going to blame the crowd if they lose?

by ALGator on Nov 14, 2008 3:21 PM EST reply actions  

Nick Saban is a no-talent PUSSY!

by ALGator on Nov 14, 2008 3:24 PM EST reply actions  

Probably premeditated, but brilliant. It’s a sure thing that our team will be motivated for Auburn (there’s some kind of a streak?) but MSU had legitimate slip-up potential until Coach went postal on the radio show.

He pretty much guaranteed an excited crowd and gave his players motivation for a game they could have came out flat for. He’s evil, but he’s ours, and we love him. (This must be what the parents in “The Omen” felt like before Damien turned on them)

by BamaAtty on Nov 14, 2008 3:26 PM EST reply actions  

ALGator @25:

…But at least he listened!!!

by mookie-szpilman on Nov 14, 2008 4:04 PM EST reply actions  

When the "aight"s start comin’, you should start runnin’,

by twjua on Nov 14, 2008 4:57 PM EST reply actions  

Both Melville and Hawthorne indulged in the “obsession” theme for a majority of their works, but that’s so 19th Century. Ahab is a faulty man because he seeks revenge. That’s where your analogy breaks down.

Saban and Bama do not want revenge. We only want to win. Much like the 3rd Army under Patton, and the US Army in Iraq, it’s undeniable that it’s comforting to ram a red hot poker of tanks up another country’s asshole, but the ultimate reward is to win.

by arlo on Nov 14, 2008 11:48 PM EST reply actions  

Nick Saban was probaly more pissed about the Tim McGraw bumper music that was playing instead of the Eagles he is supposed to get….its in the contract….
He is just ready to go kick some ass and get some revenge and payback…..He holds grudges, remembers everything, and wont sleep until the score is settled. I promise you, its gonna be very tuff to keep this team up for the next few weeks…thank God for the bye week…..God be with Auburn, he will score a TD for every year of the streak, and I am sure he will pile on the score for the fans……and Mike Leach has meltdowns tooooooooo, yaaarrrrrr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfs_RnGbk6g

by Mr.Pelican Pants on Nov 14, 2008 11:54 PM EST reply actions  

I fuggin love this guy

by pfingers on Nov 15, 2008 12:58 AM EST reply actions  

Our coach is Keyser Söze, aight.

by Nick Saban Stole Your Lunch Money on Nov 15, 2008 1:40 AM EST reply actions  

The crowd was awesome in B/D last night, even with freezing temps and winds. The fans on hand when the players arrived before the game was the most EVER I’ve seen in 30 years of Tide Watching. Saban wanted the fans into it, and he got his wish.
Can’t wait till the Iron bowl. B/D will rock the state!

ROLL ON TIDE!

dh

by dh in T(itle)Town on Nov 16, 2008 12:20 PM EST reply actions  

Britney’s tits don’t excite like the verbiage of Coach Saban.
Roll Tide

by Grady on Nov 16, 2008 2:05 PM EST reply actions  

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