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ccgw · Jan 5, 2005

G_MAN113 said:

Maybe so, but when WE said it during the season, Saban was the very picture of outrage. Now that he's gone, I guess he thinks it's OK to come out and diss these kids...just like the way he basically threw Ronnie Prude under
the wheels during the post-game PC Saturday. Just like the way he commented on the LSU fans for booing him when he first got here.

Saban needs to take a little bit of that 4.5 mil and invest in a Dale Carnegie course...he might learn about a little something called tact. He might learn a little something about dealing with people with dignity and class instead of just saying what's on his mind, no matter what the context. Speaking your mind is often an admirable quality, but when you're
totally insensitive to what it is you're saying, you've crossed the line.
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I perfectly agree with that. I am sure Prude must have felt bad about it already; no point in rubbing it in. Players are human too and unfortunately mistakes and miscues are made. Did he miss the play call from Muschamp? I like Prude because he also had some some excellent plays during the season.
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marcmc99 · Jan 5, 2005

ccgw said:

I perfectly agree with that. I am sure Prude must have felt bad about it already; no point in rubbing it in. Players are human too and unfortunately mistakes and miscues are made. Did he miss the play call from Muschamp? I like Prude because he also had some some excellent plays during the season.
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A few notes from the postgame article in the Advocate. That last quote is a doozie in my opinion.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/010205/spo_lsufoot001.shtml

With Iowa scrambling to get a play off, LSU defensive coordinator Will Muschamp signaled in a defensive set -- one of five or six Saban said the Tigers rely on in hurry-up scenarios -- that called for the secondary to match up man-to-man.
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True to form, though, Saban wasn't making any excuses for his team.

"All the players know the signals ... so everybody needs to get the call and somebody didn't is what it amounts to," Saban said. "The (defensive) call was made quickly and decisively by Will and there wasn't nothing wrong with the call. But it's like every other call that you make. If you don't execute it properly and correctly, you've got a chance to get beat and that's exactly what happened."
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Because Holloway stayed up, the Tigers were down as they walked off the field for the final time under Saban. Even he had a hard time masking his emotions.

"The disappointing thing here is that the last 14 seconds, 20 seconds tarnishes what a lot of good football players, the seniors on this team have been able to accomplish in their career here," he said.

"I feel badly myself that there's not something that I could do to help the players play better in this game."
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