星期五 [ 2010-2-26 10:32:41 | watches1013 ]   Bama's Saban is BCS party poop By Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times ANAHEIM, Calif. rolex replica VISITORS TO Downtown Disney were given a treat Saturday afternoon when a character ventured outside the park gates to bless them with his charm. Look, it's Grumpy! "Is this fun?" Alabama coach Nick Saban said, pausing, pausing, pausing. The answer was in his grimace, the "Happiest Place on Earth" clouded with the unhappiest face in town. The answer was in his wardrobe: black shirt, black pants, black socks, black shoes. Silly me, I thought they were the Crimson Tide. The answer was in his, well, answer. "You know, what's fun for me is practice, I really enjoy practice," Saban said in his first news conference of the Bowl Championship Series title week. "You know, some of the other things, it's an entertainment business ... so I'm having fun out of respect for what you all do." Grumpy sounds thrilled. "That's about as diplomatic as I can be," he said. And thus the beatific national title game at the gorgeous Rose Bowl on Thursday will be shaded in a guy who is as pleasant as Pasadena in August. That's about as diplomatic as I can be. Nick Saban is Bill Belichick with a fitted shirt and Southern accent. Give him a pitchfork and he could be in "American Gothic." Give him a garbage can and he could be on "Sesame Street." Saban is a guy who turned down a dinner invitation from the president of the United States - George W. Bush at the time - because it interfered with the second day of training camp. Saban is a guy who once compared an Alabama loss to Louisiana Monroe with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. Saban is a guy who last month pointedly asked the media to stop bugging his players with questions about one particular topic as they prepared for the national championship game. The topic: the national championship game. "I am not worried about winning the national championship," he said at the time. "I don't want our players to worry about it either. I would appreciate it if you don't ask them, although I know you will." Saban is all about football, which works in Alabama, where he was given a hero's welcome three years ago when he left the Miami Dolphins to join the Crimson Tide after spending three months lying about it. The football stuff will also work Thursday on the field, which Saban will enter having won 67 percent of his games as a head coach at five places, with each place nearly doubling its win total the season he arrived. A victory would make him the first coach of the BCS era to win national titles with two teams, even if his 2003 title at Louisiana State was shared with USC. When it replica clothing comes to the college football field, the guy can coach. But when it comes to the college football culture, he just won't contribute. Many of the things that make college football so great, on Saturday he called "clutter." "There are other elements out there that can affect people's ability to perform," he said. "I mean, every guy that gets national awards o 浏览(242) | 回复(0) |