With Saban, `closed' is a relative term

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The Closed World of Nick Saban
Published 4/14/2008 by dawizofodds at The Wizard of Odds
Alabama coach Nick Saban showed up for Saturday's A-Day scrimmage looking like he was going to church. There he was, wearing a gold blazer, gray slacks and brown tasseled loafers, wandering the field at his leisure, often positioning himself behind the offensive backfield. But as quarterback John Parker Wilson was forced to scramble, Saban suddenly found himself in the middle of the action, nearly being run over by defensive lineman Brandon Fanney. After reviewing Saban's poor blocking technique, we've decided to revoke his scholarship in an attempt to get the Crimson Tide under the NCAA limit of 85. While Saban's team might not yet be ...

Nick Saban Hearts Camera Crews, Not Print Media
Published 4/14/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
Nick Saban, easily the most insufferable college football coach in the game today, recently got into a mini-dust up with the media over access to spring practice. Today, courtesy of the Birmingham News, we have the real reason the papers were persona non grata at practice: TV.

Monday -- early edition
Published 4/21/2008 by Truzenzuzex <info@aseaofblue.com> at A Sea Of Blue: Front Page Posts
As all college team bloggers sometimes discover upon a review of the events of the past few days, this morning I found that there was pretty much no uncovered ground in Kentucky football, basketball or even baseball.  In case you missed my update below, Kentucky defeated Florida ...

'Under the Lights: Alabama Football'
Published 6/3/2008 by dawizofodds (noreply@blogger.com) at The Wizard of Odds
Nick Saban, control freak that he is, doesn't allow reporters within shouting distance of an Alabama practice. But he swung open the gates for a film crew this spring to chronicle several practices and the spring game, presumably because this will help Saban on the recruiting trail. Here is a teaser of "Under the Lights: Alabama Football," which will be shown Wednesday night on SportsSouth.

This Update From the Alabama Politburo
Published 8/20/2008 by dawizofodds (noreply@blogger.com) at The Wizard of Odds
First we learn that Alabama recently brought in the Pacific Institute to help players with their mental conditioning/character development issues (i.e. brainwashing; more on that later). Now comes word that Jolly Old Saint Nick Saban pulled scrimmage highlights off Tide TV, a university-run premium site where subscribers pay $120 a year to get, among other things, scrimmage highlights. Ian Rapoport reported that the roughly two-minute clip from Saturday's work at Bryant-Denny Stadium had been pulled from TideTV. "That's right," he wrote. "The in-house video service run by the athletic department was seriously edited." Then the Birmingham News reporter found ...