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Saban speaks out on Tide fans' behavior
Nick Saban doesn’t want University of Alabama football fans to shower opposing players with garbage. He’s not too fond of late-night phone calls from irate fans, either.

The head coach of the 22nd-ranked Crimson Tide spoke out on fan behavior at his Monday press conference in the wake of the aftermath of Saturday’s overtime loss to Georgia, where fans in the UA student section threw cups and other objects onto the field where Georgia players were celebrating their victory.
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One way to help control fan behavior would be to have all 11:00am games.That would limit the ETOH consumption. But I do love the night games they are much cooler.The later games give fans time to go a little overboard.I hate that It happened , cause we are always talking class and what it means..:biga:
 
jps1983 said:
CNS is absolutely right. Those actions have no place at UA.
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Agreed. I have less of a problem with showering the field with the detritus of celebration. (Hello - Alabama-Georgia, 1995?) But Alabama fans are SUPPOSED to show class, ESPECIALLY in defeat. Why? Because we expect, realistically or not, to win, week-in and week-out, and mean-spirited and unsportsmanlike behavior is beneath our dignity.

Georgia and Alabama both played hard, and the game obviously could have gone the other way. The winners deserved to be treated with respect, and if I had been sitting in or near that section (instead of a reserved seat) nearby "fans" would have learned of my displeasure, in short, declarative (and possibly profane) sentences.
 
When watching on ESPN, and the UGA players were building a pyramid of themselves, my friends and I were saying "Hey, that was just a good play. What can you say?". Then I saw some guys (facility staff?) around the pyramid's perimeter, and saw that they were taking some of the brunt of the garbage being thrown, and tossing it to the side while catching the next wave, and thought to myself "Glad I don't have that guy's job".

And then it hit me. It's our fans doing the throwing. And I felt ashamed.
 
How do we know this was a Bama fan?? Also, Saban should be used to this kind of behavior. I'm sure this stuff happens all the time. There are idiot fans at every school.

As for the throwing stuff on the field, every one is blowing it out of proportion. I counted 7 PLASTIC cups thrown (5 from the endzone, 2 from the non-Greek FWIW) Also, last time I checked PLASTIC cups, MINIatures and SHAKERS have never hurt any one. I understand it's the principal, but the media and some of you are really blowing this thing up.
 
MOBILE-BAMA said:
How do we know this was a Bama fan?? Also, Saban should be used to this kind of behavior. I'm sure this stuff happens all the time. There are idiot fans at every school.

As for the throwing stuff on the field, every one is blowing it out of proportion. I counted 7 PLASTIC cups thrown (5 from the endzone, 2 from the non-Greek FWIW) Also, last time I checked PLASTIC cups, MINIatures and SHAKERS have never hurt any one. I understand it's the principal, but the media and some of you are really blowing this thing up.
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Let's say if Justin Britt had been the one to swing the helmet last week against Arkansas. You'd see an uproar, and folks on here talking about how classless, etc. Well, the way Coach Saban sees it, and the way I've always seen it, Justin doesn't swing a helmet, I don't sling a cup/mini/shaker/whatever. Why? Because it's the right, and therefore "classy" thing to do. No sparring here, that's just what I believe. :BigA:
 
Oh, I'm with you hippie, but every one is making it sound like it was some dispicable act. Yes it was bad, but the media and some of you make it sound like we were throwing rocks, broken beer bottles and metal objects at the players. Ane when I say "we", I mean the 7-10 people that did this.

Yesterday, Neal McCredy said he'd never take his son to a football game because of the fans and that some one was going to lose an eye from the PLASTIC cups and SHAKERS that were thrown from the stands.

Just really blown out of proportion. Roll Tide
 
I was at the game and personally, I was embarrassed by the actions of the ones throwing debris onto the field. The touchdown happened right in front of the Bama student section.

Yes, it was very disappointing and heartbreaking but we need to remember (1) it's just a football game, and (2) it was a good, clean, hard fought battle that deserved a show of appreciation instead of anger.

I hope the recruits realize the actions of a few do not represent the majority.
 
bamahippie said:
When watching on ESPN, and the UGA players were building a pyramid of themselves, my friends and I were saying "Hey, that was just a good play. What can you say?". Then I saw some guys (facility staff?) around the pyramid's perimeter, and saw that they were taking some of the brunt of the garbage being thrown, and tossing it to the side while catching the next wave, and thought to myself "Glad I don't have that guy's job".

And then it hit me. It's our fans doing the throwing. And I felt ashamed.
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I felt it, too.
I know this will be unpopular with some, but I was sitting right on the boundary between the Greek section and the non-Greek sections of the student section. The overwhelming majority of the cups and trash being thrown onto the field came from the Greek section, probably a 3-1 or 4-1 basis.
I would like to see more police in the student section, and, if this nonsense continues, videocameras pointed at the student section. Let there be a few prosecutions, and I would wager this stuff would stop. With ACTION cards, troublemakers could be barred from getting into the student section.

If that won't work, put a 40 foot tall chain link fence between the student section and the field. Maybe shame will work where honor fails.
 
While I do agree that fans should not throw anything at players or anyone else I remember thinking at the end of OT that Georgia's players should not be celebrating right in front of the student section. Most teams would have moved immediately to the section where thier fans were seated and celebrated without incident. JMHO.
 
MOBILE-BAMA said:
And Hippie, there's a BIG difference between hitting some one in the face with a helmet and throwing a plastic cup at some one
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I really don't know where the point got lost, but my point is that you do neither. Period. End of discussion. I don't care if it's bricks and broken glass or plastic cups and shakers. It doesn't get tossed. I don't care what McCready or anyone else said, that is my opinion. I don't even care how many people did it, or how many items were tossed. It shouldn't happen. I don't care what is happening at other schools. It shouldn't happen here. Period. As Forrest Gump once said "That's all I have to say about that."
 
Since when is something wrong only when someone gets hurt? If you try to run someone over with your car, and you miss, you could be charged with attempted assault, reckless driving, etc.

It was purely classless and nothing changes until someone does something to deter that on an individual level. A drunk greek throws a cup, shaker, etc at someone and nothing happens. What is to keep him/her from doing it again?

An easy solution would be to keep certain fraternities from attending games, or basically "suspending" them. I know it wouldn't be the most ideal situation, but if something happens, review it on video or so and then see from which fraternity it came from and punish the fraternity as a whole. This way, it is a group effort in keeping crap like this from happening.

Even though one person may do something, it reflects the group.
 
Tidewater said:
I felt it, too.
I know this will be unpopular with some, but I was sitting right on the boundary between the Greek section and the non-Greek sections of the student section. The overwhelming majority of the cups and trash being thrown onto the field came from the Greek section, probably a 3-1 or 4-1 basis.
I would like to see more police in the student section, and, if this nonsense continues, videocameras pointed at the student section. Let there be a few prosecutions, and I would wager this stuff would stop. With ACTION cards, troublemakers could be barred from getting into the student section.

If that won't work, put a 40 foot tall chain link fence between the student section and the field. Maybe shame will work where honor fails.
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And was it just 7 plastic cups? :biggrin::conf2: Judging by the stuff the facility staff guys were catching, I couldn't really tell to be honest, but it looked like more than that.
 
Dr. Keith said:
Most teams would have moved immediately to the section where thier fans were seated and celebrated without incident. JMHO.
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That statement is ridiculous. They celebrated where the winning play took place. Bama would have done the same in Athens. (and probably would have had plastic cups thrown at them.)
 
Tidewater said:
I felt it, too.
I know this will be unpopular with some, but I was sitting right on the boundary between the Greek section and the non-Greek sections of the student section. The overwhelming majority of the cups and trash being thrown onto the field came from the Greek section, probably a 3-1 or 4-1 basis.
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Those Greeks! You just cant trust them. Remember that horse thing they pulled?
 
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