Nick Saban gets fired up about Alabama coaching staff size complaints

Alabama head coach Nick Saban gets fired up during a press conference following Friday's scrimmage, when asked about complaints regarding his coaching staff size. The NCAA Football Oversight Committee is set to evaluate staff sizes within the next year, meaning the addition of various analysts and other support positions could soon be regulated.

[@chollettgarrett]

I always thought that coke bottle was glued down

[@jemeeladams1197]

Lmao

[@BrianGlaze]

That was the first time that Coke bottle ever moved!!!

[@1980jmc876]

Nick's response was expected. That Coke bottle moving was shocking.

[@inlinechris]

Bammie Sucks-Cock gr8 b8 m8

[@DemDawwwgsEPIC-BEATDOWN]

1 second left :-D

[@seanparker8876]

Hea couple of seasons ago he picked it up and used it as a reference. He told the reporters to ask the coke bottle.. may have been about the QBs battle between Jalen and tua. Or when kirby leaving was still a rumor

[@hscollier]

I like how he calls out the stupidity and idiocy he sees in CFB, and even his own school. He’s not PC at all.

[@oldironsides4107]

Exactly he used to bring in railroad bums and make the players mock the hobo and if the hobo said anything saban would punt the street vagrant in the crotch and make the players beat the homeless bum to death. He’s a different kind of coach and does things his own way. This may be a big reason he’s successful.

[@JK-br1mu]

So he doesn't vote Demoncat?

[@gatorbodine2011]

3 Auburn & 3 Georgia fans have disliked this Video.

[@garrisonridgway7494]

Tim Tebow go dawgs

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

7 now - BAMA haters.

[@camthegreat_3945]

wow the fewest number of coaches per player than any college

[@camthegreat_3945]

my point is i never new my favorite college team had the fewest coaches per player since the fact how good alabama is so i thought the would have the best of the best

[@camthegreat_3945]

no

[@camthegreat_3945]

i've been with alabama for a long time

[@NCISfanatic21]

camthegreat _ Your new favorite college team?

[@KingGrapeBear]

SPORT he said...

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

You tell ‘em Coach 👍🏻🥰🐘🏈🌊‼️

[@tensecondbuickgn]

a'ight

[@tyrellpreston6280]

Feeling somke go roll tide best coach Nick Sadan

[@yasha12isreal]

3 Auburn fans were here

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

7 now - BAMA haters.

[@johnygrasa]

Shocked how cheap labour of coaches are? Look at how much the players get!

[@thelastjohnwayne]

Coach is right. If it is not against the rules, it is not against the rules.

[@jayjohnson6158]

Savage.

[@susiedyer3260]

So how awful win the tide b now and if I'd been the head coach I'd left part of the staff that was a winning group but no this new head coach has just killed the tides football program

[@bmaze35640]

C'mon Saban! The ratio of players to coaches is the highest of all sports? How many of your "analysts" and "interns" interact with the players like a coach would? When you include them, that increases the number to 20 or more total coaches and brings the ratio down from like 9 players per coach to 2, 3 or 4 players per coach. At the schools like Alabama, that ratio is much lower than your Vandys and UABs of the world.

[@thewonderblunder3421]

Not against the rules. Most teams do it too. The rules dictate what kind of interaction coaches have with players. Take Sarkisan as an example. He did not talk to Jalen Hurts more than a few sentences until the week before the national title game despite being what you would consider a "coach". This is because he was not allowed to do so. Sarkisan was a QB coach before becoming an OC - No. Your definition of a coach is different than the NCAA's.

[@bmaze35640]

You gotta be kidding me. There's no way that Hurts and Sark didn't have more conversation than just a few sentences before becoming an official coach. The NCAA only allows nine coaches and four graduate assistants to interact with the players on game day and practices. What about non-formal interactions away from the football complex? How about phone/text conversations during the week? What I'm saying is that there are loopholes to get around those rules. The analysts are much more than just film room junkies. Even if they don't formally interact with players, they are the ones who are answering the questions that the coach can't answer right away. The coach passes a player question to the analyst, and the analyst sends the answer through the coach. So in essence, they are doing the job of a coach even if it's not the NCAA definition.

[@thewonderblunder3421]

You can watch Sarkisan talk about the game plan and becoming the OC in the pre-national title talk (an hour long.) He makes it quite clear that he had not interacted with Hurts more than a few times. It is also against the rules in the NCAA so if he did and revealed it on national television that would have been a mistake. (However he did seem genuinely impressed with Hurts as if he hadn't spoken in detail to him.) What you say about the loophole can be true but it is true for all teams/schools and frankly the average is quite high (somewhere in the mid-thirties or low forties.) Any team can hire as many interims/analyst as they wish and if the rules are followed it should matter very little in the long run because ultimately while having a better "advisor" or trend focused group it is not going to impact the game all that much when you think about it. Develop the scheme more accurately perhaps, but some might argue that having too much help in that area can actually be a downside. Alabama's success is a good story but not many would credit the size of the interim/analysts for it except perhaps in that when a coach leaves there is a pretty good replacement waiting who knows the system very well. Hope you have a great day!

[@bmaze35640]

@@___meph___4547 About 4 years too late?