Nick Saban responds to Kirby Smart at Fan Day press conference
Alabama coach Nick Saban met with reporters prior to the team’s Fan Day on Sunday.
He was asked about Georgia coach Kirby Smart’s recent comments regarding Alabama blocking the graduate transfer of Maurice Smith:
Saban responds to Kirby Smart: "The extent that college athletes can go other places originate with the NCAA and at our conference offices."
— Alex Byington (@abyingtonTD) August 7, 2016
Nick Saban on Maurice Smith situation: "We live by the rules that the conference lives by."
— Stephen M. Smith (@Smsmith_TDALMag) August 7, 2016
Saban/transfers 2: "I don't run the conference. Alabama doesn't run the conference. The conference runs Alabama."
— Cecil Hurt (@CecilHurt) August 7, 2016
He also announced an injury:
#Bama CNS: Derrick Gore sprained his knee in practice and will be out a couple weeks.
— Ken Rogers (@DEBamabeat) August 7, 2016
Here’s what else he had to say in the early portion:
Nick Saban: "We are finding the identity of this year's team."
— Stephen M. Smith (@Smsmith_TDALMag) August 7, 2016
Saban: "There's a lot of questions that are going to get answered in fall camp. And that starts with what's this team's identity?"
— Charlie Potter (@Charlie_Potter) August 7, 2016
Saban: "Then you have the internal questions that have to get answered, whether it's the QB competition, the RB competition."
— Alex Byington (@abyingtonTD) August 7, 2016
Saban: I don't know where we are on a national basis. I don't even know where we are in the Western Division. The team is evolving.
— Aaron Suttles (@AaronSuttles) August 7, 2016
Saban on Alabama's No. 1 ranking: "I don't think we should have rankings until the fifth or sixth game of the year."
— Charlie Potter (@Charlie_Potter) August 7, 2016
Saban: I'm not displeased in any way with how we approached the summer or how we came back. I'm encouraged.
— Aaron Suttles (@AaronSuttles) August 7, 2016
#Bama CNS on complacency: Human nature that when things go will, people have a tendency to want to relax, get casual.
— Ken Rogers (@DEBamabeat) August 7, 2016
Saban on QB competition: "I would hope somebody can (win the job) in practice."
— Charlie Potter (@Charlie_Potter) August 7, 2016
Saban on WRs: "We have 3-4 guys who have played a lot of football." Mentions freshmen, Gehrig Dieter. "This is a good problem to have."
— Charlie Potter (@Charlie_Potter) August 7, 2016
Saban would like to have at least 6 WRs who "can go out there and play winning football for us."
— John Zenor (@jzenor) August 7, 2016
Saban: If a player transfers, he can still work out here, but he can't work out with the team.
— Aaron Suttles (@AaronSuttles) August 7, 2016
Saban on outgoing transfers: "A player can continue to work out, but he doesn't work out as a part of our team if he's planning to leave."
— Alex Byington (@abyingtonTD) August 7, 2016
Saban on 2016 freshman class: "I don't like putting these expectations on freshmen. We emphasize development so that they can be the best."
— Stephen M. Smith (@Smsmith_TDALMag) August 7, 2016
Saban: "If you want a future as a football player (professional), you got to want to be the best that you can be." Leaves on that note.
— Stephen M. Smith (@Smsmith_TDALMag) August 7, 2016
“I’m Nick Saban. I’m the most important person in western Alabama. That excuses me from making a judgement call based on decency.”
I wish Saban would just go ahead and release Smith to Georgia. I can think of several SEC teams that have a legitimate shot, and where Smith could come back to bite us, but Georgia’s not one of them.
exactly….because they won’t play unless they meet in the SECCG! smartguy
exactly….because the Dawgs would have to make it to the SECCG first! smartguy
Smith is “released”. There are 114 other schools he can go to and play immediately.
Most important coach in the country! The decent thing to do is finish your commitment that you signed up for! Kids feel entitled these days!
I’m UGA, my plan is to try to emulate everything Alabama does under Nick Saban. Unfortunately, I’m UGA, I never win a big game, I’ve had my ass handed to me by Bama twice out of the last 3 games we played and lost to them in the SECG which was the biggest game in our history since we won our only measly NC, I think my crap doesn’t stink, I can’t win the SEC or beat my biggest rival in Florida even though I get a top 10 class every year.. Oh, but did I mention Hershel Walker? He played college here, we won our only NC in our 100+ years of having a football team with him, he’s the best ever, Hershel Hershel Hershel Hershel….Herschel. I’m sorry, he’s then only thing worth a dang to talk about in our unfortunate football history. Anyways, unfortunately since we won that only NC, every single one of our biggest rivals have won NC’s, even Georgia Tech. We think we are the holy school of the SEC, well, at least when Richt was our coach. To make our short and boring story even shorter, we’re mediocre. Go Dwags.
I’m an Alabama fan who treated Maurice Smith like garbage and now he’s moving to Athens. Sankey awarded him the transfer.
Listen up recruits, don’t let Saban run your lives, go to a school that appreciates you, not to the SEC’s only Iron Curtain police state school. Actually we are finally seeing Saban’s true colors:)
Yes, by all means go to Georgia, the most eternally overrated team in the conference. That is of course, if you don’t like winning big games and having the national championship on the line each and every time you take the field.
😂😂😂 Go to UGA and never win a thing! 😂😂😂
You’re dumb. By all means, recruits, don’t go somewhere where every recruiting class that Saban has recruited to Bama has won a NC. Go to UGA and lose to Bama. 38-10. You’re not a respectable program if you get spanked like that at home, also “the blackout.” Haha UGA sucks.