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Nick Saban: “It is what it is”

Posted by BRAGGonUT on November 19th, 2007 under Football

In Nick-speak, that means fuck you for asking, Mr. Reporter.

The question asked was why did DJ Hall play in the second half after Saban released before the game that he was out for the entire game after violating unspecified team rules. It might have been because you were in a dogfight at halftime at home to the school formerly known as Northeast Louisiana University. Justice lives with a sliding scale.

Alabama Sports columnist Kevin Scarbinsky thinks you have lost the team.

“It is what it is.”

I have a few other questions:

Why were five players awarded Players of the Week after you lose to a Louisiana directional school?

Can you explain “the process” of how you took a 6-7 Independence bowl team from last year and turned them into a 6-5 team that is staring at a one-game season to even be invited back to Shreveport with 14 returning starters plus both kickers?


Fuck the process, I want results

How can Alabama lose to the University of Louisiana at Monroe who’s athletic budget is just shy of your annual salary?

Who is Charlie Weatherbie and would you offer him a position on your staff in the off-season because every one of your position coachs makes considerably more than he does?

Do you think you’ve earned your $4M price tag?

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  1. Buddy Garrity said:

    November 19th, 2007 at 9:41 am

    Screw Saban, that guy is pure evil (he even ended Culpepper’s career). Don Shula is going to kick his ass one of these days

  2. I know the transitive theory doesn’t apply to sports, but it’s still nice to believe that we are 47 points better than Bama.

    But I guess by that same reasoning, we are 70 points worse than Virginia.

  3. Bear Bryant said:

    November 19th, 2007 at 9:55 am

    What a fuckin’ pussy.

  4. Kenneth Starr said:

    November 19th, 2007 at 1:43 pm

    “It is what it is”…Sounds pretty suspicious to me.

  5. Woody Bombay said:

    November 19th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    “The process begins” is a pretty got-damn stirring slogan!

  6. Alabama’s theme for the 2008 season will be “Barring unforeseen circumstances, the process continues to evolve as per the planned schedule.”

  7. It’s Alabama. They’ll be going with the much simpler “The process is in process.”

  8. Tulsa beat La-Monroe.

  9. It gets better…now he has related the loss to 9-11 and Pearl Harbor.

    From the AP (http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/7467808):

    Citing the 9-11 terrorist attacks and Pearl Harbor, Saban said Monday his team must rebound like America did from a “catastrophic event.”
    In this case, that would be an embarrassing 21-14 loss Saturday to Louisiana-Monroe.

    “Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event,” Saban said during the opening remarks of his weekly news conference. “It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, or whatever, and that was a catastrophic event.”

  10. “Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, or whatever.”

    Now THAT is inspiring! Or whatever.

  11. GEEZ, I thought Callahan at Nebraska said some stupid ass shit!

  12. BoobieMiles said:

    November 20th, 2007 at 8:17 am

    “Callahan at Nebraska?” Unless you’re talking about Bowdens or Stoops-es, I think we can figure it out there, Private.

  13. “Unless you’re talking about Bowdens or Stoops-es, I think we can figure it out there, Private.”

    That was necessary.

  14. TittyKilometers said:

    November 20th, 2007 at 8:59 am

    “That was necessary.”

    I thought it was a useful comment.

  15. “That was necessary.”

    Yes. This blog doesn’t have enough football snobbery.

  16. CrazyJoeDavola said:

    November 20th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

    I’ve occasionally said stuff like what Saban said. Usually, it’s accompanied by my internal monologue screaming “STOP TALKING STOP TALKING THIS INSTANT! RUN!”

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  18. [...] in Thursday’s Birmingham News by Ian Rapoport, the reporter who fished the instantly classic “it is what it is” line from Saban (instantly classic at least as far as context, at least around these parts – [...]

  19. Ya buncha whiney-ass pussies! It IS WHAT IT IS!
    Big Game Baby! BCS Baby!
    Kiss my ass Babies!

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