http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/col...d/20983/saban-not-a-fan-of-mccarrons-comments
Saban probably saw the complacency gnaw at his team, but he wasn't pleased with McCarron throwing youngsters under the bus:
Saban probably saw the complacency gnaw at his team, but he wasn't pleased with McCarron throwing youngsters under the bus:
“I think a senior player -- and I love AJ -- but I think a senior player has a responsibility as a leader on the team to understand that when younger players come into the program, they are not going to necessarily have all the right stuff or understand the right stuff to be a part of the team. There has to be a tolerance and a commitment on the older players to sort of embrace the younger players to try to get them to where they need to play, even if they don’t play. It should not be something that upsets an older player. It should not be an issue with an older player because I can take some of these same older players and tell you about them when they were freshmen and they needed older players to help them get where they needed to be and they had to learn lessons along the way to help them develop into what they became.”