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College Football Picks: Does it get any better than Saban vs. LSU?

Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:40 PM
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Granted, this likely would have been our Podcast Game of the Week had we done a show this past week, so I wanted to bring this up here on the Pregame Blogs instead.

I first suspected Alabama head coach Nick Saban was a questionable character when he said he would not leave LSU for a job in the NFL after there was speculation that he was the frontrunner to become head coach of the Chicago Bears before Love Smith was hired.  Saban was good friends with Chicago GM Jerry Angelo but bowed out of the running because he loved coaching the Tigers, the same team he now faces as the head coach of Alabama after he took a job with the Miami Dolphins for two years.

There is of course no denying that Saban is an outstanding coach - one of the very best in the country - but he will be facing one of the biggest challenges of his career this Saturday in Baton Rouge.  If you don't believe LSU fans are pissed, consider this...

"Saban took the Bama job the day LSU played in the 2007 Sugar Bowl, and signs such as "Saban is a D-Bag" popped up in the French Quarter. Back in Miami, the coach was speaking to reporters off the record. He repeated a story a friend, who Saban said happened to be on LSU's board of trustees, told him - a story that ended up taped and played on the radio a few weeks later. Here it is: "He was walking down the street yesterday before the Sugar Bowl. He calls me. There was a guy working in the ditch, one of those coonass guys that talk funny. I can't talk like them, but he can. Most people in Louisiana can. He says, 'Hey, you see where Coach Saban signed up with Alabama?' You know, however they talk. And the board of trustees guy says, 'Yeah I saw that,' and he says, 'That son of a b?, I feel like he's f-- my wife.'"

It didn't matter that Saban was trying to be funny, or that a lot of people use the word coonass. A segment of LSU fans heard ditch-digging coonass and saw red. "Cajun people are proud," Ragoo explains. "When they perceive that you're putting them down and making fun of them, they become focused and galvanized about kicking your ass."

I give props to those Forums members like Chuck O'Luck who are willing to throw out a GOY on the Crimson Tide and wish you the best of luck.  I certainly wouldn't want one of the most hostile crowds in the history of college football going against me.

Best of luck to Chuck and the rest of you on your college football picks this week Beer

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  • Fri, Nov 7 2008 1:23 PM

    Nobody likes a pissed off coonass.  Bettors beware - it could get ugly in Baton Rouge.  Gut feeling - bama goes down.  

  • Fri, Nov 7 2008 1:34 PM

    Bama has Trailed for 1 minute & 25 seconds this year. When they get the LEAD 3-0 or 7-0 & Take the CROWD out of the Game......Tigers won't be able to Come Back with their QB Play. Alabama by DOUBLE DIGITS!!!

  • Fri, Nov 7 2008 1:59 PM

    You could be right Chuck - I was listening to some guys on the radio saying that 'Bama is lucky this isn't a night game.  It could get ugly regardless.

  • Fri, Nov 7 2008 4:04 PM

    I love BAMA against LSU.  Everyone is talking about how raged and how LSU fans and team are waiting to put a whoopin on Saban, but I just don't see that happening.  BAMA is a well disciplined team and won't let none of that get to them.  I feel Saban wants to put a major ass kicking to LSU due to all the criticism that he's received since leaving them. No matter what field you play on, the crowd will always be loud and will always be wild.  But once u start putting points on the board and start shutting they're team down...that's when everything starts to calm down and everyone is all of the sudden quiet.  

  • Sat, Nov 8 2008 7:03 AM

    Anybody else looking forward to this game today?

  • Sat, Nov 8 2008 8:43 AM

    Alabama's John Parker Wilson is the latest SEC player attempting to overcome the LSU fans snagging his cell phone number and listing it everywhere on the internets. Confounding Cajuns. You'll recall that earlier this season Knowshon Moreno and A.J. Green were the victims. They joined Tim Tebow from last year. Imagine what people in Louisiana would be capable of if they focused as much energy on literacy. Anyway, for the record, John Parker Wilson's old cell phone number was 205-910-2876. It's already been disconnected, so it's too late for you to call and make fun of his 'Bama Bangs. How pissed would you be if LSU fans put your cell phone number on the internet and you had to switch to another number? Especially if you were a starting quarterback in the SEC and didn't even remember the names of most of your regular, ahem, post midnight lady calls. Yeah, thought so. Nick Saban should thank his lucky stars that his number didn't get out there.

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