Nick Saban doubles down on 'rebuilding' comment, opens fall camp with latest rant
Nick Saban made waves earlier this week when he described the 2021 season as a “rebuilding year” during an interview on WJOX out of Birmingham, Alabama.
On Thursday, following the first practice of fall camp, Saban was asked about the comment, and he doubled down on those remarks.
“I don’t understand what’s so hard to understand,” Saban said. “The point being, we were young, and we should have 9 starters back on offense, and 9 starters back on defense. That’s the point I was trying to make. Six guys went out for the draft, so as we usually have to do, we have lots of rebuilding to do again this season. So that’s the point I was trying to make. So when you have a lot of young players playing, I don’t think our standard is like everybody else’s standard. But when you have a lot of young players playing, you’re actually trying to rebuild, so those guys get the kind of experience you need so those guys are playing at a level you need them to play at so you can play at the standard you want to play to.”
“The point being …” | Nick Saban explains his “rebuilding year” comment about the 2021 Alabama Football team.#RollTide #ThursdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/8RE7mjDiju
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Welcome to Gumpville where are new slogan is, “Some Excuses.”
Seriously, I have no idea how y’all will win even a single game without Mookie and Wilson this season considering how unbelievably important they were to your entire team last year since your GOAT Coach doesn’t believe in rotating players anymore.
“Seriously, I have no idea”
We know…
Waaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!! Mookie and Wilson!!!
^^ How old are you actually? ^^ if SDS paid you by the comment you would be set for life Corch.
If he ever did have an idea, he stole it.
Buffoonery!
The correct word to us would be our, not are. Sure wish GA trolls would finish high school and they wouldn’t have to be paid by the comment.
Another BAMA article, another jawja clown commenting!!
Like I posted on the last article about the rebuilding comment… He said it prior to the season starting as well…. Nobody had a problem with it then.
It’s almost as if coming off of a couple of years that saw your offense lose 10 first round picks might result in alot of really inexperienced kids having to grow up fast.
LSU still hasn’t recovered from that kind of exodus.
We’re still rebuilding. It’s a process.
So you agree then…..no amount of talent can just replace losing the insane amount of leadership and experience teams like LSU in 2019 and Alabama in 2020.
A certain amount of rebuilding is involved when you lose your entire offense and coaching staff.
Of course I agree. Saban just does it better than everyone else.
I agree. It’s not necessarily the talent, it’s the experience. I don’t know what’s so hard to understand about that.
They are just idiots that want to generate callers or comments. Any team that is in the top 10 teams in FBS for inexperience is rebuilding.
Rebuilding. Reloading. Whatever.
Saban has earned the right to say whatever the h3ll he wants. Of course everyone and their mother is going to nitpick everything he says and run with it to make a story out of it. He is the King of college football!
No.. He really hasn’t. In fact, I would say the opposite. If he is the “King of College Football” like you said (hilarious take btw); he should be held to a higher standard than all other coaches. Coming out and saying “A&M bought all of their players”, only to give BooHoo Bama more time to buy recruits. “Up tempo offenses are a detriment to player health…”. “Hey Lame Kitten, install that up tempo offense while I distract these guys with my whining”. Saban has lost his marbles, and is a raging hypocrite… I would venture to say he has earned the right to just stop talking.
Nobody cares what you would say…you’re a degenerate piece of tr@$h
You think calling him the “King of College Football” is a hilarious take? Have you been watching or following the sport over the past 15 plus years? Do you live under a rock?
Saban carries the biggest stick in the entire sport and there is no debate to that.
2008, you sure do run your mouth a bunch. Would you be interested in meeting and talking about it in person?
Saban’s comment was coach speak for “Paul Finebaum is clueless about football”.
It was coach speak for we weren’t very good, and we didn’t do a good job of coaching the kids up.
It’s coach speak for “Jawjuh fans are degenerate pieces of tr@$h and I’m going to hang 50 on their team if they show their faces in Atlanta”.
Now hop back into the tr@$h bin with the rest of the lowlife g@rb@ge
Dawgs will find out this year what it is like to replace 15 starters. NC rookie fans are so entertaining and cute.
In today’s society, there is nothing a coach can say in regards to not winning a national championship that won’t be taken as excuse making by some.
Words to remember.
You have to leave it at, they scored more points than we did.
I have all the respect in the world for Coach Saban and what he’s accused. Florida Auburn and Tennessee are rebuilding, Alabama’s not.
Accomplished, not accused
Saban is not a gifted coaching talent per say as he is a very good staff recruiter. But Sark is missed and it showed. 11th vs the SEC in rushing.. They only rank the top 12! This forced Young to attempt 547 passes.. for a pct of 64%, 7 INT’s. Those issues are alarming when you go back and look at year’s past. 3.34 yards per carry. TN 4.97 and UGA 5.13. Than, lets just t r a s h your backups as a coach after the natty game. “They weren’t prepared”. Isn’t it his job and staff to get them ready? Where is the depth development compared to when Sark was there???