[Dr Jkel]

Alabama beat LSU in every catagory except the one that counts.......SCORE.

Part of the reason I like college football so much is tradition......Traditions like the RRR, A&M/TX, The Backyard Brawl, Civil War, Iron Bowl plus some of the other pre-game things that go on.

I have heard Saban speak and what struck me most about anything he said was after his first year here when he went 7-6.........People were talking about QB play kind of questioning his decisions, the way he dealt with the media, the way his press conferences went etc..........This was at a booster banquet when he spoke...the people who kind of pay his salary.....You have to remember before he got here what Alabama was going through.....really a medicore football program.

Saban said and I quote......" I put the best players on the field, it does not matter if they are Freshman, Soph, Jr's or Sr's. You pay me to win football games. PERIOD and you pay me a lot of money to do that, if I do not succeed then I will not be here. It is kinda like buying a car.....if it performs you love it and if it doesn't you get rid of it.......I know I am loved CONDITIONALLY and I know what those conditions are. My job is to win Championships and restore a once proud football tradition....anything else is just clutter"

What struck me by this statement was first it was true....if he doesn't win he will be gone, secondly people could care less how he does a press conference as long as the Tide rolls on Saturdays.

The next fall he went 12-0 in the regular season, in 2009 he won the BCSNCCG and is poised to have his team there again.

Today people are result driven...same with our cars...WE WANT RESULTS.....His players graduate, he wins football games and no scandals have come our way since he has been there ( Cross our fingers).


My point about Saban is this......He wins and people in Alabama love it.

Alabama has a tradition that any coach who wins a National Championship gets a statue at the Walk of Champions...Saban is no different than Coah Stallings in the fact that they have both won 1 National Championship at Alabama and each have a statue....

Being one who gre up watching Bear Bryant...none will ever surpass him no matter how much he wins...Bear is ......Well the Bear.........

I do not believe Bear Bryant could coach in todays football but he is still loved by many in this state like I am sure other teams have like Darryl K, Johnny Majors, General Neeland, R.C Slocum, Barry Switzer and the list goes on.........