With the NBA season over, we can get to the heart of what really matters, and that’s obsessing about pro and college football months too early for the regular world’s taste, plus, the insanity surrounding Southeastern Conference football is enough to sustain the bellies of hungry college football addicts for days on end in lieu of heads being bashed in come fall and spring games come and gone.
Nick Saban is a personal favorite and high candidate on the levels of douchebaggery as far as the coaching ranks go, and when he came in at Alabama this year (after his bullshit playing coy routine with the Miami media), some players weren’t going to be sticking around. QB Jimmy Barnes, a Mike Shula recruit, was one of them — deciding to head out to D-IAA, and that should have been that, except Barnes’ daddy couldn’t keep his mouth shut and is telling the Birmingham News that Jimmy’s departure is all on Coach Moneybags:
“To be honest with you, it’s the way (Alabama head coach Nick Saban) is treating kids,” said John Barnes, a longtime head football coach at Los Alamitos High in Southern California. “What Jim told Saban was he was not going to give up his dignity and be treated like that.”
In my head and utter fantastical belief, based on nothing except Dan Jenkins novels and obvious crookedness of D-I football that we all know and semi-tolerate, Jimmy’s lack of dignity probably came about because Saban actually made him earn his booster cash or knocking him down to a crappier level of the jock dorms.
Not quite Las Cronicas Locas De Boss Hawg-worthy level (TM Swindle and Montana) — you have to piss off the parents of starters to do that, but still, not a bad start for Saban (with all the current Bama players saying dignity’s a big thing for Saban — right, and we have an SEC championship to sell you.) My observation, until proven otherwise by a larger exodus, is that pere Barnes is simply your usual football coach/SEC parent — there’s always a sense that says “my kid oughtta be starting and running the damn team” — and the only reason I add “SEC” to that is because those parents seem to be more, um, vocal about their displeasure.
Notably, this comes out the day Saban’s contract is approved by the university’s board of trustees. Strategically timed? Potentially. Nothing’s ever co-incidental in locales where Saturdays mean everything. I defer to the Newspaper Hack for further context.
Filed under: coaches, college football, douchebaggery | Tagged: Alabama Crimson Tide, Nick Saban, parents
[...] Speaking of getting started, Nick Saban is not getting along so well with the parents. I am praying for a Dan Hawkins-esque tirade (Signal to Noise) [...]
Nick Saben is a class act. It is great that parents love their children but to fire off at the coach just because Jr. got his feelings hurt is probably not as it should be. Papa Barnes I would offer this non asked for advice. In the future you might want to think about a foot in the pants and telling Jr. to get back their and earn his spot and stop the whining.
The Alabama Crimson Tide are showing lots of pride in their team right now.
They are paying their new coach Nick Saban more than any other coach in the nation.
And they had over 92,000 fans show up for their spring game this year.
I live next door to the stadium, and I was one of those 92,000 fans at the A-Day game this year. It was brutally hot, and Saban wore his suit jacket throughout the entire game. This is a strong fashion statement that says to me that he is going to give us what we are paying for. We have lost a couple of players already who couldn’t hack it… good. Barnes sounds like a hotshot who needed a pin in his party hat anyways. Like many UA football fans, I just want to see a good season this year. Saban’s coaching techniques are reminiscent to the Bear, and I am optimistic that even if we do lose a few games, they are going to be games worth watching none the less.
interesting
Cool…