re: Great video of Mike Detillier on LSU’s disconnect from the summer

So as a classroom teacher with teenagers I took the approach long ago (borrowed from a college coach I know well, not football) that this classroom is a bubble where political topics, current events, social issues, etc aren’t going to be discussed or argued. It is part of day one “Thou Shalt Nots” but I offer a caveat that any time a student feels a burning need to get something off their chest about those topics I will be happy to have that conversation and hear them before or after school.

It’s a successful approach of saying to the kids “what you say/think matters” without creating a divisive culture.

Where I think Saban outplayed O is he let his players know he cares— from the rumor mill CEO just pretty much blew it off.

Saban concluded that it's best to allow these kids to be
marginalized pawns of the DNC if it means keeping them happy. Once they leave his team, whatever happens happens.

justustm2
You beat me to the punch. Well said, these stereotypes and dumb innuendo about blacks falls in line with the agenda driven media who continues to brain wash fearful and mislead people.

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Well, when adversity hits and you have kids looking for the Leader, the Leader has 3 choices, he/she can choose to do the RIGHT thing, he/she can choose to do the WRONG thing, but the worst thing a Leader cannot do is choose to do NOTHING.

Coach O for whatever reason and in the eyes of those that depended on him made the WRONG choice

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There was no GOD DAMNED ADVERSITY. Not a frickING thing that happened had any personal effect on a single LSU player except for the drama they created for themselves.

Most of them were at LSU when Wayde Sims was shot and killed. They were here a year earlier when Clyde Edward Helaire and Jared Small were accosted at gun point and could have been shot while selling an XBOX. In both instances the perpetrators were black. Where was the outrage then when something occurred which really affected them?

I don’t think Saban is a completely altruistic individual. I think like most coaches he is a political figure that will say or do anything to keep himself empowered at his university/football program. It’s how life works but unfortunately, Ed O was too aloof to understand how the game is played with minority recruits.

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Kids today will always find something to be upset about or that hurts their delicate feelings

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Funny. Every other school has the same generation of kids and no other program worth a damn is dealing with these issues on this scale

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Coaches like Saban are just smarter and get ahead of issues before they happen.

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bullshite.
Saban is a fantastic football coach, I'd say the best of my lifetime. the man lives and breathes football and the results show.


He isn't some super intelligent, socially tuned in infallible genius. I actually saw another thread where he was referred to as "sophisticated" come on man!?!? I personally found the fact the he walked 15 feet in front of his (90% black) team for bamas social justice march to be borderline offensive itself and a look at me moment for the little man with the huge ego. LSU'S record vs him has been very disappointing lately but ige seen the man take beatings here and there, get outcoached and occasionally flat outsmarted.
After he left LSU and discovered that he wasn't cut out for an environment where you manage grown men with money and options instead of kids who's entire future could rest on staying out of his dog house look where he landed. tell me any program that is top to bottom 100% dedicated to the success of their CFB team in a way that even rivals Alabama. I think that he is a great coach, very dedicated and would do very well nearly anywhere but bama football is an intricate machine with resources and shite that I cant even imagine all laser focused on one thing, winning football games. his success there shouldn't surprise anyone.

Again yes... the man is a fantastic football coach. he is not some genius, he isn't plugged into the pulse of today's complex racial issues. The bama football machine I would imagine is, Nick Saban himself naaaa, no more than any other high profile coach. Sophisticated? Nick Saban? Gets in front of problems before they surface? Eh, maybe, probably. any more than other top tier CFB coaches? Nope.

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So when a student athlete starts organizing a march for social justice for Floyd and Taylor (people they don't know, aren't part of the family,not part of LSU, and it's a based on misinformation of what happened in these cases) that's when I call a team meeting and I do all the educating of facts to undo what the media has been teaching

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I agree as that is the moral thing to do, but in a world of lies it would amount to professional suicide which O may have committed anyway.

How do you KNOW that is what happened.