News Article: Vanderbilt’s James Franklin calls Saban “Nicky Satan”

cuda.1973

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He was talking about CNS? I just thought he was confused about a member of Fleetwood Mac.

It is going to be a long off-season. My outrage meter must be broken, because it hasn't budged.

Everyone, from our bitter rivals, to the lowest nobodies, envies Bama's success, and wishes they could replicate it. Better this, than 10 years ago.
 

bamafaninOhiO

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He was talking about CNS? I just thought he was confused about a member of Fleetwood Mac.

It is going to be a long off-season. My outrage meter must be broken, because it hasn't budged.

Everyone, from our bitter rivals, to the lowest nobodies, envies Bama's success, and wishes they could replicate it. Better this, than 10 years ago.
Exactly.
I dont think it worried Coach Saban, so I just don't see why it should worry me.
Coach Franklin looks worse for making the statement, and Coach Saban holds the high ground by not responding to it.

Moving on to other news.
 

thunderz7

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I don't understand how anyone who has watched a Franklin coached team, with
ALL their late hits, cheap-shots and chippy play, would think he ever had any class.
Vandy is as dirty as any team in the NCAA.
 

GrayTide

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To bad that Franklin and the UGA DC were seperated after the game in Nashville in 2011. IMO Franklin is a thug who happens to coach at a supposedly nationally acclaimed academic school and therefore will get a pass from the media.
 

Alajambama

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I bet Coach Saban laughed when he heard it. To be the best, you have to beat the best. When Coach Franklin beats Coach Saban, he'll be worth a listen. Otherwise just see it for what it is, one coach making a lighthearted joke about another coach. Spurrier has made millions doing the same thing.
 

Ole Man Dan

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I just don't get why anybody would want to make an issue out of this. Remember when our beloved St. Nick made the crack about an LSU fan reacting like he'd done his wife or something when he took the Alabama job?
Coaches, even the CEO types, are still coaches and their "off-the-record" humor is still pretty close to playground/locker-room because it's all they've ever known. Musicians, racers, and school teachers also fall into this '"Juvenal-outlook-forever" because something inside never quite grows all the way up.
Ya got to add Policemen and Lawyers to the guys with 'Droll Humor'.
Sometimes if it wasn't for 'Gallows Humor', we'd have no humor at all.

(May be because we share the same clientele.)

Sorry Earl and any other 'Legal Beagle' I just offended.
It's sometimes too easy to offend now days.
(Just comes natural to some of us)
 
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rizolltizide

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I agree that the overuse of any cliche including....that word makes me weary.

I am weary of reading on this board, which I do daily, the use of class, classy, classless or a relative facsimile thereof, on the Bama board.

Please find another word to describe folks on this board or from other boards.

:cool2:
I prefer cretins and thugs.
 

mikes12

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Saban was probably more irritated by having to stop what he was doing to take time to accept a silly apology than he was by being referred to by a silly name. His time is valuable, and Franklin's reference (will work as hard as...) just shows that Saban is the standard by which the rest measure themselves.
 

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