Nick Saban on coaching in SEC: 'What happens to me when we lose 3?'
Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide advanced to the SEC Championship game against Florida on Saturday thanks to a 29-13 win against Auburn in the Iron Bowl last week.
Here is what Saban had to say during his weekly press conference on Monday:
On current coaching environment:
Saban asked about his success raising the coaching standard around the nation. Gives a very long answer …
— Christopher Walsh (@WritingWalsh) November 30, 2015
Saban: "I would be more concerned about when we lose three, what's going to happen to me?"
— Christopher Walsh (@WritingWalsh) November 30, 2015
Saban then goes on about how they're supposed to develop young men and then 9 wins isn't good enough. A lot of negative energy out there.
— Christopher Walsh (@WritingWalsh) November 30, 2015
On Iron Bowl win:
Nick Saban on Iron Bowl win: Not our best execution, but the players kept competing and fought hard for the win.
— Marq Burnett (@Marq_Burnett) November 30, 2015
Saban: Iron Bowl wasn’t necessarily our best consistency and execution, but the players competed well, came out with a win.
— Sean Landry (@LandrySean) November 30, 2015
On injuries:
Saban: No new injuries.
— Marq Burnett (@Marq_Burnett) November 30, 2015
On playing Florida in SEC Championship game:
Saban: Florida is probably the best overall team we've played against all year long.
— Aaron Suttles (@AaronSuttles) November 30, 2015
Saban: Anybody out there who thinks this isn't going to be a tough game for us, I don't know what you're thinking.
— Marq Burnett (@Marq_Burnett) November 30, 2015
Saban said people should respect Florida, who has a good team and beat "Ole Miss bad, the team that beat us."
— Marq Burnett (@Marq_Burnett) November 30, 2015
On working with DC Kirby Smart on the Crimson Tide defense:
"I try to be a good graduate assistant whenever I can," said Nick Saban when asked about how he works with Kirby Smart on defense. #Alabama
— Duane Rankin (@DuaneRankin) November 30, 2015
On initially hiring Kirby Smart, Saban said he wanted to get a younger guy who would be with him for a while. "It worked out great."
— Marq Burnett (@Marq_Burnett) November 30, 2015
On Florida QB Treon Harris:
Saban: Treon Harris reminds me a lot of Blake Sims in terms of his style of play.
— Marq Burnett (@Marq_Burnett) November 30, 2015
On the success and usage of Derrick Henry this season:
Saban said the entire offense & staff deserves credit for the big season Derrick Henry has had. Said Henry would be the 1st to tell you that
— Marq Burnett (@Marq_Burnett) November 30, 2015
Saban: It was not our intention to have Derrick Henry carry the ball 46 times and 14 times in a row in the fourth quarter.
— Aaron Suttles (@AaronSuttles) November 30, 2015
Saban on RBs behind Henry: We definitely need more guys to be able to contribute at that position.
— John Zenor (@jzenor) November 30, 2015
On if his success has changed expectations for other coaches around the league:
Saban on how his success affects other coaches' standards: "I would be more concerned about … when we lose 3, what's going 2 happen 2 me?"
— John Zenor (@jzenor) November 30, 2015
Saban: I'm old school and I care what college football is and what it should be about. We're supposed to help and develop young people.
— Aaron Suttles (@AaronSuttles) November 30, 2015
One 9-3 season will not do Saban in. Three consecutive seasons of falling well below expectations will.
As an Alabama fan, Saban could go 6-6 got 4 seasons and I wouldn’t call for his job. I think he deserves, and has earned, the right to end his career at Alabama when he so chooses.
What happens when you lose three? Well, that statue incoming down. Then that Mercedes is going to be sitting on four flat tires. If there is a 4th loss, I wouldn’t leave the coaches locker room without armed security.
Football is serious business in Alabama, a state with not much else going for it…
simple, lose 3, death threats, lose 4, might earn a few attempts in them parts…
Really – attacking the state of Alabama from someone who pulls for a Louisiana school? LA and MS rank 49/50 or 50/49 on every “good” list. I know, I lived in both states and would NEVER live in LA again!
But I agree, football is NOT as serious in LA as in AL.
just curious, what are those “good lists” you reference?
forgot to acknowledge that you were replying to MLU tho..
screw you, too, larry, like the state of AL has anything besides cfb on us. And it’s TX at the bottom of the education list, no doubt the biggest of the myths you are referring to.
That’s ridiculous, and LSU doesn’t have much room to talk in regards to the disrespect shown to Les Miles.
This jibe coming from a State known for mud bugs?
How is than even supposed to be insulting?
Mud BOG. If you going to insult people, at least do it correctly.
Because we all know those mud bugs will get cha lol.
Not much else going for it? Have you been to the state of Alabama? It has some of the best musicians vying to play in Muscle Shoals. Huntsville is where the space program for the United States was born. Huntsville also can boast of having some of the best technology in the South, including several aeronautical companies, the Department of Defense, a large military base, Marshall Space Flight Center and the Space and Rocket Center.
And, yes, football is serious business in Alabama. There’s nothing wrong with that. But we have plenty of things going in our state…including football.
While I think the time had come for UGA and Richt to part ways, doing it right after a 3 loss season sure doesn’t look good. Like most of what Saban says its spot and will be twisted out of context repeatedly. If UA loses three, they will want Saban’s head, they don’t have half the patience of UGA and they would be the school that would have fired Miles. No offense to Bama fans, but that is just how I think it is. It’s not the fan base either, though they have an indirect impact. It’s the ad at a program and the heavy wallets that do or do not control him.
He lost three in 2010……
Yeah, I forgot about that one, but look at those three losses vs. UGA’s and look at the fact that he came off a 14-0 season. That season might be proof that Mullen will never beat Bama, and we lost to AU by 3. At least we helped drop a collective crap on the Big10 and just embarassed the state of Michigan.
It is not bama fans that talk crap about Saban. It is the media and fans of other teams like yourself. As soon as he drops one game you all freak out……End the end it all works itself out.
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I’ve never talked crap about Saban, so slow your roll. I’ve said before, most of what he says is spot on, besides the man has coached at 4 schools in three conferences and has never posted a losing season, not one. He hasn’t failed to win 10 or more games in what, like a decade. Even a ‘delusional’ State might admit he could possibly know what he’s doing. So take that ‘like yourself’ and blow it out your volcano.
Get your feelings hurt? Need a tissue? You just said UA will want his head if he losses 3 which is not the case. So yeah, “like yourself”.
Actually bulldogbuck55 has been very reasonable in his post about Bama. But your correct overall about other fans and the media being the ones who slam Saben.
Bama fans would lose their crap of Bama lost 3 games. I think they are gonna freak out when he loses to Ole Miss again. Bama folks I know we’re ready to pay him a visit when they lost that game this year.
Saban’s statement was interesting but a bit disingenuous because he knows he’s not gonna lose 3 regular season games any time soon.
Saban has lost 3 games at bama. Nobody lost their mind.
9 wins is great, but look at the top 25 teams. How many have 3 losses? I think LSU squeaked in there. More like limped. Hell, they may have been dropped off by a handicapped persons van. Point is 3 is bad enough to not make a conferemce title game in any year in the SEC. It just can’t happen and won’t. So you really only have one contender; Florida. If you are Georgia that is. South Carolina can mess up some plans every few years when Georgia or Florida had a bad recruiting year and pair that up with injuries and suspensions. The SEC East has a few problems. It isn’t that difficult to make it to the conference championship. The issues are that the east is very weak compared to the west. When was the last time Vanderbilt, Kentucky and Tennessee were all ranked in the same season? My guess is never. Oh and I forgot about Mizzou which won the east the last two years! So, you have a weak division so that isn’t going to help the ranking. Then you have to rely on the west to defeat itself and there are too many powerhouses to rely on that. Alabama, LSU, Auburn sometimes, the last several years both the rebels and the bulldogs have been a force. The rebels have downed Bama 2 years in a row. That is hard to do. Luckily it was in the beginning of the season. So for any team in the SEC three losses and you are done and probably won’t make the SEC title game. Actually that goes for any conference.
Long post – little useful content. 9-3 is better than the vast majority of Div I schools and should not deserve firing. I know a lot of folks hop off the bandwagon at some schools (I’m looking at UA, UGA, UF) if a few games are lost, but the coach should not be one of them.
You forgot AU you troll
If Muschamp went 9-3 consistently there wouldn’t have been much band wagon hopping… he went 4-8, 7-6 and 6-5 with losses at home to Georgia Southern, a 41-7 homecoming loss to Mizzou. Ended a 28 year win streak to Vandy at home. Had a 7 game losing streak to finish out a season and went 2-6 against FSU/UGA. And by the way, the last year he went 6-5 he had 7 players drafted in the NFL including 2 first rounders and 3 offensive lineman, a WR and a RB and our offense still ranked in 90+ out of 120 teams…. That guy wasted talent and tried his best to kill the Florida program…
I bet he knows what happens if he goes 9 years without an SEC championship.
that’s assuming he’d make it to 9… ;)
“Saban: It was not our intention to have Derrick Henry carry the ball 46 times and 14 times in a row in the fourth quarter.”
yeah right, that’s called padding style points for the Heisman voters…. at least be honest about it…
If it was about padding style points, then why didn’t Henry play the 2nd 3rd and 4th quarter against Louisiana Monroe. Why didn’t he play the 2nd 3rd and 4th quarter against Middle Tennessee. Why didn’t he play the 2nd 3rd and 4th quarter against Charleston Southern. If Henry had played them whole games, he would already be over 2000 most likely.
Henry told coach he wasn’t coming out of the game and Auburn wasn’t stopping him. They wern’t going to throw it trying to run the clock down, so that is why Henry stayed in there. Had nothing to do about running up stats or anything like that.
My guess would be that when they played ULM, he might have been in the conversation but as being a favorite? I don’t think he was……
let me re phrase, front runner instead of favorite.
Saban, as most successful coaches are, is a coach that builds depth through playing other players when he’s got leads over cupcake teams. Henry not playing in those cupcake games enforces that.
With 2, possibly 3 big games coming up, do you honestly think Saban would roll over just because Henry says “I’m not coming out”, IF he wasn’t thinking about the Heisman? Really?
He was the front-runner when Alabama played Charleston Southern, and he was only in for the first 2-3 drives of the game. If Saban was stat padding, that would have been the perfect time to do it.
you’re right, had Saban not wanted to give other backs experience Henry would definitely be over 2000, probably way over… no denying that..
Cat got your tongue? Too much of a pussy to respond?
who u callin a pussy? pussy..
You two kids settle this behind the gym at recess. :)
you know allenclan, he coulda just stopped at the “cat got your tongue” after all, a whole frickin hour had gone by… some peoples children.. :-/
The people claiming it’s absurd to fire a coach after winning 9 games isn’t looking into the fact that UGA’s wins this year were over:
ULM 1-11
Southern 6-5
Vandy 4-8
UK 5-7
South Carolina 3-9
Auburn 6-6
Mizzou 5-7
Ga Southern 8-3 (only team with a winning record and GSU took them to overtime!!)
Ga Tech 3-9
With the talent UGA has on the roster every year and the recruiting talent in metro-Atlanta and also South GA this is crazy.
Well Saban has already had a season where he lost 3 games: to South Carolina, LSU, and Auburn in 2010. He came back and won back to back championships.
Great post. Soon you will be losing to those teams!
I bet UGA will be the next Tennessee right Larr? That’s what everyone likes to say…
Because they will.
I love that AU guys still talk so much trash… you think because you made it to a nc game that you’re actually relevant now? Cam lead your team and you won two games off fluke plays. Give me a break… nice 6-6 by the way…
The good news for UGA’s next coach is that they have a free bowl game next year no matter what. South Carolina, Vandy, Kentucky, 1 FCS, 2 Minor Conference.
Kentucky is not a bad team any more. They’re not dynasty material, but they’re not at all a walkover.
See a couple crying LSU fans have joined the post. LSU fans were real quiet after the bama game. I guess beating TAMU has lifted the spirits of the corn dog nation.
ha, if you’re referring to me, I have no idea what you refer to with the crying bs, and I’ve only been on th SDS site for about a week now…
It’s actually you and MLU. Look at your posts. Everyone of them is an attack at someone or some team. Not one of your posts have any substance to them at all. If you have only been here a week you are definitely making a horrible first impression.
k then, so if I praise bama you’ll like me more?
meant to ask, who have I attacked?
Not something he has to worry much about as long as Tom Ritter is in the SEC and Saban faces zero regulation on PEDs. If you can blatantly hold every snap for a roided out freak, you wont lose.
Still crying? You need to go to the ER. You got to need an IV by now. Cry,cry,cry
LOL. So sad…