Secret text of Saban-Bowden call

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2008-09-04T13:19:54-04:00

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Nose Guard

Decatur 95032

I bet you got stuffed in your locker alot as a kid, didn't you Peter? Enough with the attitude toward Saban already. 2662562

2008-09-03T14:50:18-04:00

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Martel - Moopsbane

Bridgeport 100373

Authorities are urging everyone to avoid contact with horses...I always thought that went without saying... gill ----------------- Didn't we finish the Katherine the Great discussion yesterday? 2652502

2008-09-03T14:44:00-04:00

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gill_

LaCoMo 202477

Re bats: two cases of rabies reported recently in KC area...one was a bat. Authorities are urging residents to do what they can to avoid bats. (with their echo-location, good luck avoiding one if they want to get you) the other was in a horse. now how the heck does a horse catch rabies? Authorities are urging everyone to avoid contact with horses...I always thought that went without saying... 2652426

2008-09-03T14:41:07-04:00

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Becky37

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Can I say new post or is that line reserved for Marshall? 2652318

2008-09-03T14:41:01-04:00

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BKJ - no 10 Spot, no peace!

Jacksonville 89693

To the new post! 2652383

2008-09-03T14:40:32-04:00

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FGB

Neyland Stadium 111430

They use the bat phone during the day. That have to use the beacon during the night so they don't wake the bat wife and bat kids. manta ----------------- I thought the bat boys and bat girls were at the baseball games. 2652360

2008-09-03T14:39:59-04:00

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Kari - DaPrez

Geneva 88743

AW...good point. Nicely typed. 2652368

2008-09-03T14:39:26-04:00

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manta

Pittsburgh 348695

So what happens in Gotham if they need Batman at say...noon? Kari - DaPrez +++++++++++ They use the bat phone during the day. That have to use the beacon during the night so they don't wake the bat wife and bat kids. 2652312

2008-09-03T14:39:13-04:00

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Aimless Wonderer

Brooklyn 350758

Well then Gotham is filled with dumb criminals. Seems like a pretty easy thing to me...terrorize, pillage, and steal during the day...hideout at night. The bat doesn't come out in the day! Kari Well of all the times batman got caught in some trap or other, when was the last time you saw one of them actually take away his utility belt? 2652367

2008-09-03T14:37:40-04:00

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Kari - DaPrez

Geneva 88743

Bats don't come out during the day anyway. Aimless Wonderer | 09/03/08, 02:35 PM --------------------------------------------------------- Well then Gotham is filled with dumb criminals. Seems like a pretty easy thing to me...terrorize, pillage, and steal during the day...hideout at night. The bat doesn't come out in the day! 2652351

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After his ninth-ranked Clemson team was shocked by Alabama 34-10 in the season opener, Tiger coach Tommy Bowden did something even more surprising--he called Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban for some tips.Fortunately, the 10 Spot has obtained an exclusive look at the text of said phone conversation. Here you go:Bowden: Coach Saban? Coach Bowden here.Saban: Is that you, Wayne? Get over it. I've already told you I honestly had no intention of taking the Alabama job until I actually took it. That's not lying.B: Wait, Wayne who?S: Sorry, I thought you were the Dolphins' owner, Wayne Huizenga. Who's this again?B: Tommy Bowden at Clemson.S: You still want a piece of me? Didn't I just drag your skull across the Georgia Dome?B: That's why I'm calling. I'd like some advice.S: Get out.B: I'm serious. Anything you could tell me. They're looking to pepper me about the head with Howard's Rock if I don't turn this around fast.S: You know what? I'm game, so long as we make this call public. There's nothing I like more than being portrayed as a genius with all the answers. So shoot.B: Well, what do you think we did wrong in the opener?S: First, you let expectations get all out of whack. You have to spend all your time droning on and on how it's all about the "process," not results. How these things take time, how the media is always focusing on the wrong things, how only the coach knows what goes on during closed practices, blah blah blah. That way when you lose to a nothing team like Louisiana-Monroe, you can act like it's an essential part of the building process rather than one of the most embarrassing defeats in the history of the program.B: Good thinking. S: Also, feel free to compare a bad loss to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. The media will kill you, but the fans will rally to your defense because that's how they feel too. B: Fair enough. But how do you turn things around after a loss like that?S: Personally, I like to blame the assistants. Nothing like yelling at the top of your lungs and telling them they won't see their families for the next two months if they don't get their heads out of their posteriors to perk you right up. Why do you think half my assistants leave every year?B: I'm not sure I can play the bad cop like that.S: Hey, if you don't want to make $4 million a year, that's fine. More for me.B: Money's not the most important thing.S: You keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, my agent will continue to leak my name to his media buddies for every NFL and top college job that comes open every season, just like he's done for the last decade. Your bosses never like you so much as when they think somebody else wants to steal you away. How long have you been at Clemson now?B: This is my 10th season.S: Chump.B: My daddy's been at Florida State 32 years, and he's doing just fine.S: Yeah? When's the last time he landed on the covers of both SI and Forbes in the same season? How ‘bout never.B: Maybe this call wasn't such a good idea.S: Not as good an idea as when your defensive coordinator made that crack about our recruits driving around in Escalades. I got plenty of mileage out of that in the locker room. I told the players you guys were trying to make it illegal for us to give them sweet new rides.B: Uh, that is illegal.S: Such a sweet kid. Listen, I've got to get going soon. I have a few media interviews to blow off.B: OK. Any final pieces of advice?S: How about actually winning a national title; that always helps. Then hightail it out of there, and if the next guy is more successful than you ever were, whisper to everyone that you deserve the real credit because he's winning with "your players."B: Coach, thanks for taking the time.S: You have no idea. I mean that literally; you don't seem to have any clue what's going on. Let's play again real soon. 1365 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/396/4/thumb/mcentegart_pete.jpg 6586 NY

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