Nick Saban Compares Ulm Loss To:

[SUMG]

(from the dmnews.com blog by Chuck Carlton):

Football coaches have the annoying tendency to sometimes compare their game to war.

But Alabama's Nick Saban may have set a new standard for lack of perspective.

Talking about his team's 21-14 upset loss Saturday to Sun Belt member Louisiana-Monroe, Saban waded deep into analogies that were better left unsaid. Here's the first three paragraphs of the Associated Press story on Saban's Monday press conference:

Alabama fans aren't the only ones treating the Louisiana-Monroe loss as a monumental event.

Coach Nick Saban described the humbling defeat in almost apocalyptic terms Monday, mentioning the 9-11 terrorist attacks and Pearl Harbor in talking about how his team must rebound like America did from a "catastrophic event."

"Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event," Saban said. "It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, and that was a catastrophic event."

Oh, he also compared the Crimson Tide to an alcoholic hitting rock bottom.

[NT03]

This only helps my case in thinking that NICK SABAN is really the DEVIL HIMSELF , SATAN

Maybe it was your GAME PLAN or lack there of that was so horrible , not the loss itself. You arrogant SOB probably didn't even bother to look at any game film of ULM. I'm glad you lost !!!!

Edited November 20, 2007 by NT03

[UNTflyer]

If Saban can't prepare Alabama for a game against ULM, then the terrorists have already won.

[UNTFan23]

I can't equate any sports game being like 9/11. The devastating plane crash that killed the Marshall football team, yes, but no game anywhere can ever parallel what happened on that day.

[MeanGreenEagle]

He should have been like Mike Leach and compared Bama's loss to breakfast.

[NT03]

He should have been like Mike Leach and compared Bama's loss to breakfast.

Maybe the head offical that game was from Monroe as well , who knows.

He couldn't do that .. Leach says the coaches are like ham , they are commited... Obviously , Saban wasn't committed to taking ULM seriously

[JesseMartin]

Ham? I missed that, can you elaborate or provide a link?

This is classic. Ordinarily, I would ask if the individual in question was joking; under these circumstances, it just sounds like a hick trying to drum up patriotic sympathy. This is just too funny.

[MeanMag]

what a prick

[Smitty]

what a prick

Well said.

[FirefightnRick]

That would piss me off so bad, to think that the coach of my alma maters football team is so out of touch with reality

than to compare a loss in a football game to 9-11 and Pearl Harbor?

Gotta be kidding me?

Rick

[SilverEagle]

That would piss me off so bad, to think that the coach of my alma maters football team is so out of touch with reality

than to compare a loss in a football game to 9-11 and Pearl Harbor?

Gotta be kidding me?Rick

People who get 4 mil a year to coach football obviously don't think that anything is more important than them.....or what they do.

They're like movie/TV/pro sports stars..........it's all about me.

[KRAM1]

Is everyone SURE that he really Was trying to compare the loss to 9/11, etc.? I've read the quote several times and am not 100% sure that it was the point he was trying to make. Maybe if I had heard it "live" on a re-broadcast....could he have really that the two were even remotely similar?

[Eagle1855]

whether or not he meant it literally is immaterial in my opinion. He's a douche for even bringing them up. Im sick and tired of these sports jerkwads (be it coaches, players, or commentators) comparing a form of ENTERTAINMENT (which is all sports really are) to war, soldiers, battles, etc. Losing a football game isnt the end of the world, and it certainly isn't analogous to defending a country.

[untbowler]

poor Bama is getting crushed all over, first they lose to ULM in football and last night they lost to Belmont in Basketball.

Haha could not happen to better group of fans, outside of the annoying Hog Fans.

[Green Crazy]

Did he forget to mention the Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami disaster? What a dumbass.

[Green Lantern]

Oh well...Alabama paid $600,000 grand for ULM to come to their house and hand em a loss. That's just plain funny. I can see how they'd be a little touchy about it though.

[island eagle]

People who get 4 mil a year to coach football obviously don't think that anything is more important than them.....or what they do.

They're like movie/TV/pro sports stars..........it's all about me.

Like all our politicians also.

[Quoner]

Like all our politicians also.

Rich people are so damn evil its sickening.

I'm glad our school is to poor to build a stadium - it keeps us grounded. If only we could join a new conference, like the WAC. How would that work?

[Green Lantern]

Rich people are so damn evil its sickening.

I'm glad our school is to poor to build a stadium - it keeps us grounded. If only we could join a new conference, like the WAC. How would that work?

Maybe a new thread where we could discuss the possibilities is in order?

[foutsrouts]

Didn't his cousin Lou, who wanted to be our head coach a few years back, say something similarly stupid back in the 90's? Maybe it runs in the family.

[trud1966]

Well said.

I was going to say What Arrogance, but Prick is more apt. Nobody likes to lose to an underdog, but instead of paying ULM some accolades, he compare the loss to that event. That's insulting as Hell to ULM.

[meangreendork]

"Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event," Saban said. "It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, and that was a catastrophic event."

Okay, Rudy Giuliani. Whatever.

[Quoner]

Okay, Rudy Giuliani. Whatever.

Ooooh, a politics hijack. Well done sir.

[emmitt01]

"It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events...

Gee, ya think? Ya think maybe having religious fanatics run fully fueled jets full of American citizens into buildings symbolizing American commerce and strength (which just happened to also be full of American citizens) changed our spirit 'relative to catastrophic events'? Somewhere the comittee that hands out Rhode's Scholarships is weeping because they missed this guy.

Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II...

Got us ready? Like we were sitting back packing our luggage to go overseas to fight and we just couldn't get ourselves in the proper mindset? Like actors we were all milling about screaming "What's my motivation?" until one day the Japanese bombed American ships and soldiers allowing us to fully grasp the concept of the second World War?

Amazing.

Edited November 20, 2007 by emmitt01

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

Did Alabama people die because of the loss.....?????..... They did at the other events he mentioned.

---He must have failed history.... Pearl Harbour was a PART of WWII...... we were already preparing for war as fast as we could. U-boats had been sinking shipping a few miles off our coasts for months (the public in general did not know this) and we were contructing weapons and army bases as fast we could at the time. My father working was constructing one when Pearl Harbour happened. When Germany invaded Poland (1939) we only had about 170,000 men in uniform.... not enough really to fight anyone... Our early soldier trainees used wooden guns because the army did not own enough to go around and could not even locate any. That is really the reason we did not involved earlier.....no trained men and no pile of weapons....and many of them were way outdated... This guy is a nut.

Edited November 20, 2007 by SCREAMING EAGLE-66