Truth & Rumors > NCAAF
Tide now more prepared for repeat
- Views
- 12893
- Comments
- 143
08:19 AM ET 04.09 | What does it take to repeat? After Alabama won a national championship in 2009, it knew what it wanted to do the following season. Repeat. The Crimson Tide didn't know how to do it, because the experience was new to every player on the roster. The experience wasn't new to Alabama coach Nick Saban, who won a national championship in 2003 at LSU. He told the Crimson Tide to focus on playing to a high standard. ... Saban repeated and repeated and repeated the message, to no avail. The Tide lost three games in 2010. And now here Alabama is coming off the 2011 national championship. It knows what it wants this season. Repeat. And this time, it knows how to do it, because it has a roster full of players who have experienced how not to do it.
Nick Saban, Getty Images
Truth & Rumors
MOST POPULAR
-
1
Cavs coming up empty for top-pick deal
- Views
- 7688
- Comments
- 725
-
2
Yankees suddenly need ... A-Rod
- Views
- 14692
- Comments
- 219
-
3
Marchand accuses Shaw of eye-gouging
- Views
- 7614
- Comments
- 126
-
4
Letang may sign ticket out of town this week
- Views
- 2897
- Comments
- 76
-
5
Cards have big plans for Fitz: 'All over the field'
- Views
- 9190
- Comments
- 57
Jessica Perez
Kate Bock
Rare Photos of Lou Gehrig
Protests in Brazil 
TM & © 2013 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved.
FanNation.com is part of Sports Illustrated Sites
Terms under which this service is provided to you.
Read our privacy guidelines, your California privacy rights, and ad choices
Comments (143) Add A Comment
Of course they are ready. Saban has his smurf suit on.
Deep Creek
Total Comments (18281)
al.com will never be accused of journalistic excellence.
Joe Kidd #1
Total Comments (10004)
They make their readers happy.
With the following byline:
By Don Kausler Jr./Tuscaloosa Bureau, The Birmingham News, Press-Register, and The Huntsville Times RTR
BS&B:TrustInO-6
Total Comments (14550)
I was out of town for the holiday. Did something happen in pigland?
Did WPS and King have to symbolically hang on a cross this weekend?
SL Guido
Total Comments (5797)
He's not all that great, but yeah, he's the Alabama beat writer. What's the paper that always runs down Florida? Yeah, just like that paper.
Joe Kidd #1
Total Comments (10004)
Not yet, but CBP is on administrative leave, unless something has changed. I think he'll be reinstated.
If it were me, I'd suspend his for 3 games and cut his pay 1 million and redo his contract. But, hey, I'm not an AD, am I?
Joe Kidd #1
Total Comments (10004)
The Orlanda Fishwrapper - uhh, I mean Sentinel.
The highest quality birdcage liner material you can buy.
GR=O-6fan
Bumfrack, TX
Total Comments (12753)
Orlando Sentinel has two UF beat writers. One that bashes UF, the other is the homer.
BS&B:TrustInO-6
Total Comments (14550)
Probably correct. I'd like to see him take a bigger hit than that, though - that's less suspension time than what the Vest got.
GR=O-6fan
Bumfrack, TX
Total Comments (12753)
Hardly....
Anyone seen LUS around? I lost a bet to him and I need to pay up. Kinda scared about what my name/avi is going to be for the week with the current Arky scandal, but a bet's a bet.
WPS
Total Comments (5307)
Nothing is hanging here.....except the coach's fate. Still no word from the hill
WPS
Total Comments (5307)
Selfishly, I would be OK with this. Dude didn't lie to the NCAA or to the police, but he did to his boss. The problem is the hiring of the lady he was involved with (over other applicants who have a valid law suit against the U of A as well). Infidelity isn't the issue, litigiation and liability for the school is.
IMO, this threat of litigation may be his undoing. I'm starting to get the feel that he will be terminated.
WPS
Total Comments (5307)
If I was the Arky AD, I would can his arse. Not for cheating on his wife with a 25 year he just hired, but that he lied about it. In this age of compliance and risk management, you need to know the truth to mitigate issues.
Once a liar, always a liar. What else is Petrino hiding from the AD? NCAA potential violations...
BS&B:TrustInO-6
Total Comments (14550)
You in deep <hit there WPS. LUS is cruel as hell when it comes to the avi/moniker stuff! Ruthless I say, ruthless!
Deep Creek
Total Comments (18281)
Comment
Remember to keep your posts clean. Profanity will get filtered, and offensive comments will be removed.