No I'm not an a BAMA fan in case you're wondering but I do go to law school there. I received this from a university official so I think it's correct
Saban's comments.
>
>Alright... everybody get in here, take a knee. No I mean it get in close, I
>
>want everybody in close together, because I can barely talk. Jordy get the
>hell out of here.
>
>{PLAYERS GATHER IN}
>
>Everybody quiet...QUIET. Some of you juniors and seniors, it's going on
>three years and by now you guys know me well enough to know that
>there's no way in hell I can really be happy about this game. And I'm
>sorry.
>I know it's a big thing for everybody else -- and it's a great feeling, and
>it's
>better to be on this end of it than the other end. But for those of you who
>
>know me, you know that I can't be happy about this. Maybe inside of your
>own heads you can, but I can't. There came a point in this game where in
>the third quarter, both offensively and defensively when we should have put
>
>this game away. I give all the credit in the world to the players in that
>other
>locker room, but we should have dominated that team over there realtive to
>the strengths on this football team and the strengths on that one.
>
>And I'll tell you I'm angry about it. Unfortunately for us, they're going
>to be
>replaying this game all week -- you're going to hear about this game all
>the
>time. But instead of saturating your minds with this, I challenge each and
>every one of you to do something different. Instead of the 24-hour rule
>that we have, let's take this game, this game because what happened out
>there was so unusual relative to reality, relative to what normally
>happens,
>let's take this game and say "You know what, we're going to change our 24
>hour rule into a 24-minute rule." Meaning that it'll be over as soon as
>we're
>done here.
>
>The reason I say that is because I can't think of any other way to
>re-direct
>my anger about what went on in the second half of that football game
>today. And when I think of the Alabama game, I see a tremendous
>oppotunity for us to rectify what went on here today. Of course, Alabama
>can't win the SEC Championship -- and we're the defending SEC
>Champions. So this is their SEC Championship. They're over there saying
>"Oh the NCAA stopped us from going to going to the championship, so we
>we're going to show them that we're the best team in the conference by
>beating LSU in Baton Rouge. Can you imagine the f**k*ng nerve. Can you
>imagine the F**king nerve. Another words, we got caught cheating, so
>we're going to go out and show the rest of the conference that we're really
>
>the best team, even though we're cheaters. I'll tell you right now, I'mnot
>letting that bulls**t happen to our SEC Championsip. Well, that's our SEC
>Championship. That's our SECChampionship that we earned on the field.
>That's our SEC Championship that the kids over there with thousands of
>dollars in their pockets are trying to redeem their season with.
>I guarantee to you that will be the best team we've faced all year.
>Probably
>the only one that's so obviously broken the rules. I mean do we get to do
>pas intereference all game? Dominick, you look like you've been through
>hell
>today, brusises all over -- at the end of the game do I say, here's
>$200,000? Have I ever given you $200,000? Believe me, I'd like to -- but
>that's the rules. That's the rules.
>
>{SILENCE}
>{SABAN, HIS VOICE BEGINNING TO CRACK}
>I'll tell you the answer - No. Hell No. F**K No. I am a competitor. I want
>win
>with what I earned,what we as a team have earned -- not with what I some
>f**king booster gave me. Everyone in this room wanted to come here --
>and maybe some of you were offered money to go otherplaces. What F**
>King nerve -- we don't want the team in Atanta to be the best team in
>conference????? Are you kidding me??? If no one else says it I'll say it.
>THAT IS BULLSH**T. Let me tell you something, the best will be in Atlanta
>this year. Whether it's us or somebody else. After we get through with
>Alabama, no one will doubt that the best team will be in Atlanta.
>
>And you know what, I don't care if Tyler Watts and every kid on that team
>is driving a Lexus...
>
>IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
>
>I don't care if we have to physically make the referees look at the goddam
>Jumbotron on every F***king play
>
>IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
>
>I don't care of if all of their players get a Chrsitmas bonus and a 401k
>plan...
>
>IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
>
>I don't care if Matt's out for this season...If Toe's got a broken arm...If
>
>Damon leaves the team...If marcus is playing on half a leg...
>
>IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
>
>If you're an American, if you like to compete, if you like football then
>those
>sh*tholes with numbers on their helmets coming into Tiger Stadium --
>talking with all of their bulls**T about the best team in the conference
>should make you very, very ANGRY. This is a stake in the coffin game. Get
>close everybody. I know there have been a lot of distractions -- I don't
>give
>a sh*t abbout anything else that's going on. From a coaching standpoint,
>Coach Fischer and Coach Muschamp and all of us are going to put you in a
>position to win that game -- and I don't mean like last year when we kind
>of
>dominated the game, but only won by two touchdowns. I mean a total F**
>ing game from everyone on team.
>
>Is there anybody in this room who thinks we've put together a complete
>game this year -- anybody? No. Well, from this moment on -- understand
>it, feel it, know it that everything we do this week relative to
>preparation
>right up and execution of every moment -- right up until the very last
>second of that game we will be focused on total and complete domination.
>
I think I'm betting on the tide here at -2 I heard the team is incredibly pumped, I also heard (from a player) that this speech is pinned up in the locker room at their practice facility.
just what i heard take it for what's worth
-DELLMONT
Saban's comments.
>
>Alright... everybody get in here, take a knee. No I mean it get in close, I
>
>want everybody in close together, because I can barely talk. Jordy get the
>hell out of here.
>
>{PLAYERS GATHER IN}
>
>Everybody quiet...QUIET. Some of you juniors and seniors, it's going on
>three years and by now you guys know me well enough to know that
>there's no way in hell I can really be happy about this game. And I'm
>sorry.
>I know it's a big thing for everybody else -- and it's a great feeling, and
>it's
>better to be on this end of it than the other end. But for those of you who
>
>know me, you know that I can't be happy about this. Maybe inside of your
>own heads you can, but I can't. There came a point in this game where in
>the third quarter, both offensively and defensively when we should have put
>
>this game away. I give all the credit in the world to the players in that
>other
>locker room, but we should have dominated that team over there realtive to
>the strengths on this football team and the strengths on that one.
>
>And I'll tell you I'm angry about it. Unfortunately for us, they're going
>to be
>replaying this game all week -- you're going to hear about this game all
>the
>time. But instead of saturating your minds with this, I challenge each and
>every one of you to do something different. Instead of the 24-hour rule
>that we have, let's take this game, this game because what happened out
>there was so unusual relative to reality, relative to what normally
>happens,
>let's take this game and say "You know what, we're going to change our 24
>hour rule into a 24-minute rule." Meaning that it'll be over as soon as
>we're
>done here.
>
>The reason I say that is because I can't think of any other way to
>re-direct
>my anger about what went on in the second half of that football game
>today. And when I think of the Alabama game, I see a tremendous
>oppotunity for us to rectify what went on here today. Of course, Alabama
>can't win the SEC Championship -- and we're the defending SEC
>Champions. So this is their SEC Championship. They're over there saying
>"Oh the NCAA stopped us from going to going to the championship, so we
>we're going to show them that we're the best team in the conference by
>beating LSU in Baton Rouge. Can you imagine the f**k*ng nerve. Can you
>imagine the F**king nerve. Another words, we got caught cheating, so
>we're going to go out and show the rest of the conference that we're really
>
>the best team, even though we're cheaters. I'll tell you right now, I'mnot
>letting that bulls**t happen to our SEC Championsip. Well, that's our SEC
>Championship. That's our SECChampionship that we earned on the field.
>That's our SEC Championship that the kids over there with thousands of
>dollars in their pockets are trying to redeem their season with.
>I guarantee to you that will be the best team we've faced all year.
>Probably
>the only one that's so obviously broken the rules. I mean do we get to do
>pas intereference all game? Dominick, you look like you've been through
>hell
>today, brusises all over -- at the end of the game do I say, here's
>$200,000? Have I ever given you $200,000? Believe me, I'd like to -- but
>that's the rules. That's the rules.
>
>{SILENCE}
>{SABAN, HIS VOICE BEGINNING TO CRACK}
>I'll tell you the answer - No. Hell No. F**K No. I am a competitor. I want
>win
>with what I earned,what we as a team have earned -- not with what I some
>f**king booster gave me. Everyone in this room wanted to come here --
>and maybe some of you were offered money to go otherplaces. What F**
>King nerve -- we don't want the team in Atanta to be the best team in
>conference????? Are you kidding me??? If no one else says it I'll say it.
>THAT IS BULLSH**T. Let me tell you something, the best will be in Atlanta
>this year. Whether it's us or somebody else. After we get through with
>Alabama, no one will doubt that the best team will be in Atlanta.
>
>And you know what, I don't care if Tyler Watts and every kid on that team
>is driving a Lexus...
>
>IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
>
>I don't care if we have to physically make the referees look at the goddam
>Jumbotron on every F***king play
>
>IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
>
>I don't care of if all of their players get a Chrsitmas bonus and a 401k
>plan...
>
>IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
>
>I don't care if Matt's out for this season...If Toe's got a broken arm...If
>
>Damon leaves the team...If marcus is playing on half a leg...
>
>IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
>
>If you're an American, if you like to compete, if you like football then
>those
>sh*tholes with numbers on their helmets coming into Tiger Stadium --
>talking with all of their bulls**T about the best team in the conference
>should make you very, very ANGRY. This is a stake in the coffin game. Get
>close everybody. I know there have been a lot of distractions -- I don't
>give
>a sh*t abbout anything else that's going on. From a coaching standpoint,
>Coach Fischer and Coach Muschamp and all of us are going to put you in a
>position to win that game -- and I don't mean like last year when we kind
>of
>dominated the game, but only won by two touchdowns. I mean a total F**
>ing game from everyone on team.
>
>Is there anybody in this room who thinks we've put together a complete
>game this year -- anybody? No. Well, from this moment on -- understand
>it, feel it, know it that everything we do this week relative to
>preparation
>right up and execution of every moment -- right up until the very last
>second of that game we will be focused on total and complete domination.
>
I think I'm betting on the tide here at -2 I heard the team is incredibly pumped, I also heard (from a player) that this speech is pinned up in the locker room at their practice facility.
just what i heard take it for what's worth
-DELLMONT
