I find it difficult to get a lesson on not appreciating success from the Saban's when CNS talks about not being able to recruit because the team is in Miami to play for a national title against Notre Dame. He himself can't appreciate the win and the moment because he's too worried about the future..
I think this is kind of an interesting situation, and a complicated one. I mean honestly, very few coaches or their spouses would have their statements analyzed this much, but I have wondered if what Terry said was really the way Nick would have said it at all. I think he's worried about fans staying and cheering, but it felt to me like Terry's statements were more empathetic than what he's likely to say. The article even notes that Nick declined to be interviewed for it, it might have been beyond his area of concern. But, I think you're right in that Nick is just results oriented and about the only thing that upsets him seems to be obstructions to success.
You can keep guessing that if you want to, but that's not how I feel. My issue in all of this comes from the Texas talk came across as a ploy to get more money. .
I always saw it as issue 1, 2, and 3. A lot of people kind of blended them together. Saban's talk about fan support, Terry's talk about appreciation, and then the Texas talk. I didn't really see it that way, the article might have pulled those together but it's not how I interpreted it honestly. I think any allure Texas might have had simply came down to the possibility that Texas might have proven easier overall at that point (much in the same way Urban Meyer was able to go to Ohio State and have an easier time of things). I do, though, I do get why how that played out hurt some Alabama fan's feelings. I get that, it was a bit of a reminder that he's not one of those bleed crimson type of guys. It's kind of like a reminder that someone might not really be your friend. However, I also think the fact that he didn't leave refuted the notion that he is in fact a hired gun, because he was offered more money, and he did not take it. So, he's taken a step away from hired gun in my mind, but he probably never turns into one of those life long Alabama type of guys.
then when it is advantageous to feel under appreciated, he and,or his loved ones did. I mean if being a demigod, a multi-millionaire, and having a statue built in ones honor is not enough, for doing their job, than I do not know what is.
I believe this is nothing at all but idle speculation. There's nothing of substance to prove any of these conclusions on your part. It's a lot of inferrence based on interpretation of a couple isolated statements from Nick's wife (which I believe have been entirely misinterpreted), and a somewhat dubious account of what happened with Texas. I don't see the need to arrive to such spurious conclusions. Also, enough of the statue talk. That's automatically triggered by winning a NC at Alabama, it didn't matter who won one, the statue would have been built. There's one to a coach that left Alabama for another school for instance. It was not built out of adoration, but merely a performance perk. Also, Saban is still at Alabama, so even by your account I guess it is enough isn't it?
Seriously though, to any poster here. Does anyone here honestly think that Nick Saban was considering leaving for Texas solely on the basis of feeling under appreciated? Anyone? If not, then I don't think Battle or anyone else would either. I don't think Terry's statements had anything at all to do with contract negotiations (why would she do that, then at the same time counter by saying they were not leaving and undercut it), I don't think they had any impact on contract negotiations, and it seems rather illogical to try and draw the correlation.