Oh No, Nick Saban goes to Miami and Becomes a "Soljuh"

SKOLNICK: War is swell … to Saban
Published April 26, 2005

Nick Saban's first draft went just fine until he emerged from his, um, bunker, to recap it.

"I got asked the question yesterday, what the difference in being involved in the draft is relative to college recruiting," the Dolphins' new coach said. "So I gave it some thought and came up with this analogy. You do all this planning if you are going to be involved in a war."

Oh ... no.

"If there's a war you plan the battle, you plan, you plan, you plan."

He's not going there, is he?

"We've probably spent -- our scouting department -- planning this war basically for six, eight months, all the way from last year. Our coaches are really involved in the planning of it, and just like every other war, though, as soon as the first shot is fired, there's a lot of chaos and things you can't control. And that's the draft. And that's the way it is. It's an interesting scenario."

Sure, just like Fallujah. Does that make the Patriots the insurgents? Or the insurgents patriots?

"The one thing about the war is the people that have the most firepower usually are the ones that win."

The other thing? Those with less often lose their lives.

"And you hope that the planning gives you the best opportunity to be successful, and I certainly think with the firepower that we had to work with in this particular draft, I felt like we got a lot done."

Mission accomplished. Where's the flight suit?

Seriously, shouldn't this silliness stop? Shaquille O'Neal, stepson of a military man, recently compared the NBA playoffs to war, though at least he apologized in advance for any offense.

Jason Taylor, after a trip to Iraq two years ago, was affected enough to declare himself "done" using war analogies. Everyone should be. Yet it didn't stop after Sept. 11, or even after Pat Tillman's inconceivably selfless act, and it won't stop even if another 1,600 soldiers die in Iraq.

To a point, it's unavoidable. Football's lexicon is littered with war terms, from bomb to blitz to war room to the very word draft itself. Still, it's largely our fault for characterizing players and coaches of games as warriors and generals. This gives them such inflated views of their profession that they liken athletic activity to actual combat, and even equate the preparation for both.

Considering how carefully he crafts his comments, Saban should know better. He coached at Navy for a year, and he clearly appreciates the military -- he had been scheduled to fly an F-16C Fighting Falcon with the Air Force Thunderbirds in Fort Lauderdale's Air & Sea Show.

Still, Saban, so fond of analogies, could have found a dozen to explain how the Dolphins did a lot with a little. Why not use ketchup, as he has before? It's never killed anyone.

Time to "fire away" with other draft observations:

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what is this from?

 

www.seethelink.com

 

I bet if someone like Tuberville said this you would have about 200 replies to this thread.

 

:lol::lol::lol:

if that ain't the truth!

Keep in mind i'm not condoning what he said. I think it was a bad decision on his part, just liek it would be a bad decision on Tubs, or anybody elses part.

 

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

 

yeah i know. first thing I noticed. the rest didnt bother me. lol

 

No joke. Can we say o-b-s-e-s-s-i-o-n? :hihi:

 

you guys are fn delusional if you think anyone obesses over anything in da-planes da-planes.

Closer to disgusted.

 

He didn't say Auburn, he said Tuberville. That man could sneeze the wrong way and you'd have a 200 page thread about it.