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I just want to get my thoughts on Barn (click clack), LSUÂ Les Miles the Rainman, and Mississippi State out there.Â
more to follow…..Oh, if you ain’t a Bammer, you can Kiss My Ass! RTRÂ
By Steve Reeves
Assistant City Editor, Birmingham News
January 19, 2007 3:30AM
TUSCALOOSA | Alabama head football coach Nick Saban continues his whirl-wind
courtship with the Crimson Tide faithful in person and on the air waves.
State-wide stable, Paul Finebaum ended his 13-year affiliation with WERC-AM this week with a three-hour call in show with Saban. Finebaum has agreed to a three-year contract with Citadel Broadcasting, which owns WJOX.
Finebaum’s last show on WERC, Saban presented a confident, personable style, punctuated with good-natured barbs at Auburn, Mississippi State, and saving his strongest lines for his former employer, LSU.
Finebaum’s show airs from 2-6 p.m. Monday through Friday and is also carried on about 20 other stations, mostly in Alabama, under the banner of the Paul Finebaum Radio Network.
Finebaum’s show was previously heard in Tuscaloosa on WTBC 1230AM, where it will still be aired. Officials with WTBC did not return a phone call Friday.
“I’m sure the SEC hasn’t changed much over the past two seasons. I mean Mississippi State is still funding scholarships by collecting pop bottles and aluminum cans along the highways,” said Saban, half jokingly Friday afternoon. “Auburn, our motto –’Where most coaches are fired’ — is still
in effect.”
“LSU was nothing before I arrived. Academically, athletically, physical plant, nothing. I made LSU. I was LSU. Their current success is solely due to my recruits. Coach Miles, while a fine man, does not fill my shoes, fit my desk, or cast a taller shadow. Our coaching staff is superior to anything in Baton Rouge. We will go into Louisiana an take each and every player we want. LSU will not, nor can not stop me. Mark my words.”
Finebaum point blank asked Saban if those comments mean LSU is a bigger foe than Auburn, a team that has dominated the Crimson Tide in recent years.
“No. Auburn is in-state. They are consistently the best team in the West,which speaks to the talent in Alabama. As talent I recruited graduates from LSU, after this season, they will return to the loweer depths of this league.”
When pressed about his initial comments about LSU “being special”, Saban rejoined, “It was special. I won a title there. But LSU fans focus is on the pre-game party aspect. Winning the party is paramount there. Seven-win football and winning baseball will keep them happy.”
Currently there is a controversy regarding Saban’s comments about the staff at LSU to previously committed Tiger recruits. In visiting Curtis star Joe McKnight, Nick Saban has created a stir while visiting LSU commitments Phelon Jones, a cornerback from McGill-Toolen High in Mobile, Ala., and Luther Davis, a defensive end from West Monroe.
According to both prospects, Saban took credit for LSU’s recent success as he signed most of the players involved in the Tigers’ 22-4 run since he left.
Neither player agreed to take a visit to Alabama, though, and refused to de-commit from LSU.
“Great guy, but he is a little bit overconfident,” Jones’ father Tony is quoted as saying at Tigerbait.com.
Saban also got a no from Davis in West Monroe.
“He (Saban) was kind of mad that we turned down the visit and turned down the scholarship,” Davis told Tigerbait.com. “He said that there is no way that the coaching staff at LSU can compare to the coaching staff we have at Alabama right now. He gave no credit to anyone.”
“I don’t think the LSU coaches are upset with Saban,” according to Mike Scarborough of Tigerbait.com. “It probably just makes them very motivated to out-recruit him. I think they also think it’s unbelievable some of the things he is saying about LSU.”
Associated Press reports were used in this report
January 28, 2007 at 11:25 am
[...] “I’ve always respected coach Saban,” said Davis. “Believe in everything he tries to do. He’s proven. When he came to LSU, he inherited a 3-8 team. Then years later and they were a powerhouse. Now, LSU is one of the most feared programs in the country. I mean coach Miles is a good coach, but he’s getting most of his success from coach Saban.” Click here for Saban’s interview on the Finebaum Show. [...]
January 31, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Is this article on Saban’s interview real? or a hoax? It has not appeared anywhere else in any media I have seen. It is going around the internet. I would like to know where this article was actually printed. Is this sited from the university newspaper?
February 2, 2007 at 7:06 am
Bob
If it here then….I have really great hair
February 4, 2007 at 2:17 pm
If this is true then why did Saban have his agent make contact with LSU seven years ago. Saban pursued the LSU job while he was the head coach at Michigan State. LSU was trying to make arrangements to interview Tommy Tubberville of Auburn when Sexton who represent both coaches made Saban intrest none to the search commitee.
It is True Auburn should be considered as a bigger rival to Saban. He oly beat Tuberville and the Auburn Tigers two time out of the five he played them at LSU.
The only game he ever coached against LSU he lost to Gerry Dinardo in the Independance Bowl.
February 5, 2007 at 2:26 pm
This is the dumbest “article” I have read in quite some time. Aside from being an obvious fabrication, it isn’t even well written and has all of the obvious trappings of Bama propaganda. To this, I have several rebuttles which I’m sure will fail to post because Bama fans rarely entertain the other side of an argument, but here they are anyway:
1) Saban’s vertically challenged frame could not possibly cast a larger shadow than Les Miles, who by the way was an offensive lineman at Michigan.
2) Saban may lack class, but he’s not stupid and while he might even think some of this, he’d never say it.
3) The reason Saban pined for the college game while he was busy in the pros (the job he always thought he wanted most of all) was because of the terrific experience he had at LSU. It is well documented that he would call Tommy Moffit, LSU’s strength and conditioning coach (who also coincidentally spurned Saban at Alabama) weekly to talk about how much he missed coaching the Tigers.
4) LSU is in no way behind Alabam. Not in recruiting base, current talent, amenities, money, fan support, etc. In fact, the main difference between out two programs is the natural rivalries that Bama is up against in recruiting versus the ones LSU doesn’t have. The SEC’s worst nightmare happened when Spurrier showed what could be done at Florida and then again when Saban showed what could be done at LSU. Now Alabama is bookended by two of the nation’s strongest programs that also happen to be sitting on two of the nation’s most fertile recruiting areas.
But hey, you’ve always got the ’70’s!
February 14, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Bush and the Republicans were not protecting us on 9-11, and we aren’t a lot safer now. We may be more afraid due to george bush, but are we safer? Being fearful does not necessarily make one safer. Fear can cause people to hide and cower. What do you think? What is he doing to us, and what is he doing to the world?
If ever there was ever a time in our nation’s history that called for a change, this is it!
We have lost friends and influenced no one. No wonder most of the world thinks we suck. Thanks to what george bush has done to our country during the past three years, we do!
March 31, 2007 at 8:20 pm
ALL OF U LSU FANS AND THE REST OF U SEC TEAMS ARE JUST PI*SED CAUSE YALL AINT GOT NO COACH THAT CAN COME CLOSE TO COACH SABAN. NOW THAT HE IS HERE WE WILL WIN OUR 13TH NATIONAL TITLE. F*CK AUBURN,TENNESSE,AND EXSPECIALLY THEM CRAZY A** CAJUN F*CKERS. ROLL TIDE
June 11, 2007 at 4:32 am
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September 14, 2007 at 9:15 am
I laugh at the nonsense. I have nothing against any of you people, except the rivalry we will share once a year. But the jacka@@ by the name of Adam Dial who wrote his peace two or three spaces above obviously checked his education at the door before writing his comments. You need to take your insest created, uneducated, redneck, derilict (look it up) body and bend it over while the TIGERS come into your house and stick it in your a@@. Who is #2 and who is not ranked? Saban’s players, so be it. Your own coach said at SEC media days that his biggest mistake was leaving Baton Rouge. Have a good year finishing 2nd, 3rd or 4th in the SEC. I mean SEC west.
October 29, 2007 at 4:03 am
[...] our motto –’Where most coaches are fired’ — is still in effect.” Finebaum Comments « Nick Saban’s Suitcase; My SEC Journey “LSU was nothing before I arrived. Academically, athletically, physical plant, nothing. I [...]
October 29, 2007 at 4:28 am
[...] our motto –’Where most coaches are fired’ — is still in effect.” Finebaum Comments « Nick Saban’s Suitcase; My SEC Journey “LSU was nothing before I arrived. Academically, athletically, physical plant, nothing. I [...]
October 31, 2007 at 12:11 pm
[...] UAT vs LSU would not be complete without the infamous ‘fake’ Saban/Finebaum interview, from my very close friend at nick sabans suitcase [link] [...]
December 26, 2007 at 6:31 am
NEW SPORTS TERM: “Pulling a Saban” = coach gives up on a failing Pro team, and goes back to coaching college where it is easier to have a winning record. (+/- lies/denials of being a coward/giving up).
(Originated by: Nick Saban who gives up on the Miami Dolphins and runs for cover to coach the Alabama Crimson Tide).
March 19, 2008 at 6:48 am
thanks much, bro
October 3, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I don’t really want to get into a debate about coach saban, it is very obvious that this interview is a fake. it does state some true things like how les miles has been playing with the talent that saban recruited at lsu. The topic that i think is completely ridiculous is the caption around the picture of bear bryant that says “the very average”.
What about his career was average? His coaching career record of 323-85-17 (232-46-9 at alabama)? His 6 national titles? His 13 conference titles?
His 10 SEC coach of the year awards and 3 national coach of the year awards?
Even if you hate alabama, in what fantasy land do you consider these numbers average for a coach? Elite would be a less ignorant word, since few coaches in the history of college football can even come close to this kind of success. You can hate hearing about him but it is ridiculous to belittle the man’s accomplishments. There is a reason he’s a legend, and plenty of results to back up my argument.