FINALLY - someone in "national media" gets it (mostly) right about Brandon Miller (SI had it too and deleted it)...
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It was a local guy — from Patch? — commenting on the disappeared SI article.
I’m not even sure I’d consider that SI thing an article. It read like a fan opinion price with a bunch of repeat from the Patch article.
So Coach Saban either chose his words poorly OR he tried to throw Oats under the bus? SMH
I just heard it. He probably meant to say it since he stayed on the topic as long as he did. From my vantage point though, he’s not exactly wrong.
Coach Saban is a smart man and entitled to his viewpoint, however, I'm going to have to disagree with him on this one. You can be minding your own business, taking care of your own business, and absolutely find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time because of someone else's decisions/actions.
Yeah he took the jab at Oats. Love the man but I think it was poor taste to use those words I'm sure Oats regretted saying. Saban has said some things that haven't always sounded right either.
He just extended the shelf life of this. Uncool
Agreed. Don't you know Greg Byrne has to be pulling his hair out.
Our PR staff is ABYSMAL at their jobs.
That or CNS went off script in a way that’s damaging to our B-Ball program right slap in the middle of an NCAAT run.
I’m TICKED about this completely preventable distraction.
That or CNS went off script in a way that’s damaging to our B-Ball program right slap in the middle of an NCAAT run.
I’m TICKED about this completely preventable distraction.
And you know the national media will probably pick up on it and drive it in the ground. Don't understand why he used the issues with one of his players to throw back to this, especially at this time when things were beginning to settle down a little. All statements concerning issues like this should always be run through PR.
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I just can’t see any controversy here. Saban is talking about a completely different situation. Looks to me like the writer intentionally tried to make it controversial so that people (me included) would read it and talk about it just to keep it going.
I'm not sure if Saban's words were intentional or not.
On the one hand, he rarely if ever makes a public statement that isn't fully thought out and delivers exactly the message he wants, to his target audience (not always the questioner), in the exact phrasing he wants. Which would lead you to think he used the "wrong place wrong time" wording intentionally.
On the other hand, I don't see what motive he might have for choosing Oats' unfortunate words as the center of this message.
Regardless of intent, I think he could have delivered his message using other phrasing.
And yeah....where is the Athletic Department's PR function? I don't know who's in charge of that, but holy moly they're doing a horrible job.
On the one hand, he rarely if ever makes a public statement that isn't fully thought out and delivers exactly the message he wants, to his target audience (not always the questioner), in the exact phrasing he wants. Which would lead you to think he used the "wrong place wrong time" wording intentionally.
On the other hand, I don't see what motive he might have for choosing Oats' unfortunate words as the center of this message.
Regardless of intent, I think he could have delivered his message using other phrasing.
And yeah....where is the Athletic Department's PR function? I don't know who's in charge of that, but holy moly they're doing a horrible job.
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I read a comment on twitter pointing out that CNS does have tunnel vision. He doesn't watch the news, only in the last few years started using email, and actually compared a loss to 9/11. He was saying that this may not have been an intentional jab at CNO. That said, I'm not sure how he wouldn't know about it.
That settles it, the university has no PR staff and I will not believe any one who says otherwise.
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