Nick Saban goes on rant after being asked if Taulia Tagovailoa will play vs. Arkansas
With star QB Tua Tagovailoa sidelined with an ankle injury, backup Mac Jones will start for Alabama against Arkansas on Saturday.
Tagovailoa’s younger brother, Taulia, is now the backup, and on Wednesday night, coach Nick Saban was asked if there were plans to get Taulia some playing time to “expedite his development.”
As you can see below, he took issue with that question, going on a rant in which he said “winning the game” 5 times:
Nick Saban gets heated when asked about fr. QB Taulia Tagovailoa playing Saturday: “We’re not assuming we’re going to have an opportunity to play anybody that wants to play, to expedite anything except winning the game. I don’t think anybody should expect us to do anything else.” pic.twitter.com/3hIVBUX7qr
— Alex Byington (@_AlexByington) October 23, 2019
“No. We’re focused on winning the game, aight?” Saban said. “So we’re going to try to win the game. And we’re going to play the best players that we can play to win the game. We’re not assuming it’s going to be an easy game, aight? And we’re not assuming that we’re going to have the opportunity just to play anybody who wants to play to expedite anything except winning the game. We’re going to play anybody who can expedite winning the game. That’s what we’re gonna do. So I don’t think anybody should expect us to do anything else.”
So it sounds like the Tide aren’t planning on the younger Tagovailoa playing as of right now.
Aight, Nick. LMAO.
His height inserts must have been out of place and aggravating him.
I feel like they would be better off using a stool or maybe a lower podium. It seems like we could hear him better if he were taller.
Thing is “bubba”, he’d still stomp the shï+ out of your inbred asś.
Gotta love him.
Which is why Nick makes 11 plus million dollars a year and the reporter asking the stupid questions is lucky if he makes 30 K.
Douche. Bag.
This man, at best, is a egotistical, condescending prick.
I wish these social media ‘journalists’ would just stop showing up to his pressers. Leave them with empty seats. He begrudgingly goes out of his way to insult people’s intelligence on a regular basis, pressers and national television. Only Paul Finebaum, once, had the cahones to truly challenge him. And of course, in Paul Finebaum fashion, he brings that up pretty frequently as if it’s some nerdy trophy he won.
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Jeez, that’s a bit much
No it isn’t.
you don’t need to put the “er” on the end. It makes sense without it.
LOL
Bee bee gee…the fact that you’re butthurt and bįtching about it means you’re just that, a biiiiitch!!! Get over yourself and go pop your boyfriends herpes blisters, you’re boring as hell.
Using poor grammar to criticize makes you look like a “douche. bag.”. Use “an” when the next word begins with a vowel (see your first full sentence as “an” example).
Nick would prefer no one show up for press conferences. He hates them, especially when he is asked the same question over and over and over. Perhaps you should be addressing the “pressers” instead of a coach who puts his team first! RTR
BTW…..I went to school at Alabama where I learned basic grammar.
Did they teach you about run-on sentences?
Seriously though, how could anyone that makes that much money be that angry? He does come off as a prick.
This was just a matter of time this week. A reporter asking a question that Saban interpreted as everyone presuming this weeks game is a gimme, which of course it is. Rat poison as Saban calls it. Obviously Saban does this to guard against overconfidence. But Bama could start the janitor at QB and still blow Arkansas out.
What D.A. reporter ask that question?
lol seems like he’s getting more and more testy in his old age
Trump needs Saban to do the daily press briefings.
Too funny. Can you imagine him as press secretary. Be fun to watch for sure.
Looks like he had a choice and he chose Coke. Several of them.
How big a check do you think Coke is giving him? More or less than Aflac?
He has been asked that question many times, and it always ticks him off. It’s actually fun to watch.
Something tells me Juedy runs for 270 yards on reverses as Bama rolls up 600 rushing yards. Not even Saban’s paranoia can stop this blowout.
Saban got his weekly rant out early. Good for him
At this point in Saban’s tenure, how stupid do you have to be as a reporter to ask a question like this? These people should know by now that he’s going to make you his next viral video if you insinuate in any way that Bama’s opponent is going to be blown out.
I love it when he goes on these rants.
I think his wife might have accidently put starch in his underwear.
I love the ends of his rants when he walks off stage muttering his true contempt for reporters. I think he said “jeez bunch of dumba$$” But can’t tell for sure. For all the Saban haters he did show up on a list of biggest sports jerks but you gotta go through a lot more to get to him.