Nick Saban aka Hypocrite

[cynicalpuppet]

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Alabama coach Nick Saban does not like Florida’s path to BCS game
by Jason Lieser

Florida in the Sugar Bowl? Nick Saban doesn't like it. (AP photo)

[Updated Nov. 26, 2:11 p.m.]
There are high stakes for the upcoming SEC championship game between No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia.

The winner will play for a national title. The loser likely will slip out of the BCS bowls entirely, falling behind No. 4 Florida. That would put the Gators in the Sugar Bowl.

Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban does not think that is fair.

“It’s not really a great scenario,” he said Sunday on a teleconference. “You play your way into the (SEC) championship game, which means you’re the best team in your division… It doesn’t seem quite right, but it is what it is. I don’t really know what me commenting about it is going to do to change it. But I don’t feel good about it.”

Saban and Gators coach Will Muschamp are longtime co-workers. They were together at LSU and with the Miami Dolphins.

Here was Muschamp’s response this afternoon: “Well, I can switch and go to Atlanta if he doesn’t want to go to Atlanta and play the Dawgs. Be careful what you ask for, Nick.”

Florida (11-1) is virtually guaranteed a spot in the Sugar Bowl. The Gators are No. 4 in the BCS and should not finish third or fourth. The top four teams are assured spots in BCS games as long as no conference sends more than two teams. It will be hard for a two-loss Alabama or Georgia team to stay ahead of the Gators.

[lynchmob42]

For reals?

*facepalm*

[architechguy]

This is typical Saban. He's the master of manipulating public opinion to suit his best interests. At SEC Media Days over the summer, Spurrier and Miles proposed a rule change to use division record instead of overall conference record to determine division winners for the SEC Championship game, guess who was among those leading the opposition. Earlier this season after playing Ole Miss, he went off on a tangent about up tempo offenses being dangerous for defensive players saying "We have to ask ourselves the question, is this how we want football to be?" He has always been the first to defend the unethical policies of oversigning and grayshirting, plus he coerces under performing players to accept medical hardships so he can replace them on the roster without losing a scholarship. Since he's been at Alabama his team has had as many medical hardships as the entire rest of the SEC combined.

Nick Saban's position on any topic in life is whatever is most convenient to him at that point in time. It's not necessarily wrong, it's just being a good businessman, a good salesman. He has an agenda to sell and his success on the field give him the credibility to sell it (even when that agenda is questionable).