QUESTION 1
What can your fans expect from your teams this season?
Nick Saban: âThe first thing to expect from our young men is to begin the journey in the context of the moment. The key is to not get wrapped up in the end result. The process of getting there is how you eventually get there. Whether it be the weightroom, the practice field, the classroom, or wherever, the object is for our young men to grow not only as football players but as human beings. We at Alabama not only expect this, but we demand this. Nick Saban will personally kill everâ
OK, Mr. Saban, weâd love to listen to you all day. But we donât have a lot of time. Letâs continue.
Houston Nutt: âSure, weâre excited about Darren McFadden and Felix Jones, but, honestly, son, we just hope that we donât kill each other before the season is over. Lemme take this opportunity to tell our wonderful fans in Arkansas that firearms are not permitted in Razorback Stadium.â
Tommy Tuberville: âWell, Brandon Cox is a senior. Heâs a leader. And, he obviously has female organs. But anytime you have that much experience from the quarterback position, you should have a good season.â
Mark Richt: âDespite allowing 51 points to Tennessee at home last year, having a quarterback with a near two-to-one interception-to-touchdown ratio and losing to Florida again, a lot of pundits are still picking us to win the league. Iâm so thankful to the Lord for idiot media members.â
Urban Meyer: âYou should expect a lot of Tim Tebow, a lot of Percy Harvin and a lot of blue jean shorts. Weâre confident, and weâre dominant. Who cares that we have nine new defensive starters. I work miracles.â
Rich Brooks: âExpect me to die on the sideline if LSU completes another game-ending Hail Mary in Lexington.â
Les Miles: âIâll tell you one (expletive) thing. Weâre going to kick a whole lot of (expletive) this (expletive) year. With the (expletive) defense we have this year, even I canât (expletive) up this season.â
Ed Orgeron: â(inaudible) Dadgum Schaeffa, and, um, gotta Chris Stronga eljble ona defense, so a (inaudible) yaw, um, fo wins maybe. Lucky, five. WILD BOYZ!â
Sylvester Croom: âExpect me to play LSU and a couple others tough but lose my job. But weâll be leaving Starkville betterân we found it. I ainât castrated no bulls.â
Steve Spurrier: âWell, wonât be doinâ a lot of pitchinâ and catchinâ, but we should be doinâ a lot of hittinâ. Iâm tellinâ ya, if I can keep Mrs. Jerri out of recruitinâ and my quarterbacks out of bars, we could have a fightinâ chance.â
Phillip Fulmer: âObviously, weâre pleased with our football team. The kids have worked like heck to get better this offseason, and weâre working like heck to do better than 9-4 this season. Weâve stayed relatively within the law since last year, and once we get our kids out of the rehab clinics, Iâll like our chances.â
Bobby Johnson: âWeâll be the cleanest-mouth, best-educated losers in the country, but I think weâll be competitive again this year.â
QUESTION 2
What individual do you see having an impact for you this year?
Saban: âFirst off, young man, if you ever interrupt Nick Saban again, Nick Saban will personally break into the Bear Bryant museum, steal a houndstooth hat and implant it in your (expletive), is that clear?â
âNow, Nick Saban has a tongue-lashing to give Major for screwing around and getting a verbal from a three-star last week, so letâs make the rest of this interview quick. We donât accept three-stars at Nick Sabanâs institution.â
âUm, Mr. Nutt, you answer first this time.â
Nutt: âLet me finish this text ⊠(reading to himself:UR B34UT1FUL SM1L3, XOXOXO and SEND). OK, yes. Impact player. Iâd say, McFadden, of course.â
Tuberville: âAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! WHAT IS THAT NOISE? Is that another dog whistle? Lord, those folks in Opelika have no regard for people with big ears with their dog whistles.â
âMr. Tuberville, are you OK?â
Tuberville: âNo, son, Iâm not OK. Ever since Saban came to Tuscaloosa, I can hear myself sweating.
But to answer your question, Iâd say Quentin Groves will be difficult to stop. And our supplements crew â er â strength and conditioning personnel have Tray Blackmon looking like a monster.â
Richt: âIf we can keep Matthew Stafford away from Talladega, he could have a huge year.â
Meyer: âIâll try to put my man crush on Timmy aside here and say myself. I think, even though I donât play, Iâm a beautiful man, and if anybody can get the most out of these kids, it would be me.â
Brooks: âAndre Woodson single-handedly keeps my fragile heart beating.â
Miles: âThree words: Glen (expletive) Dorsey.â
âMr. Miles, please. It doesnât make you a bigger man to use profanities. And, please, pull your hat down for once.â
Orgeron: âWell, um, fo sho at (inaudible) Jel Powe if eljble, yaw, yaw anâ um, Green-Elliz on a ground, yaw. Fo sho.â
Croom: âOur entire defense has done nothinâ but work their butts off during the offseason. Weâve kept them out of the one fast food joint and gas station in Starkville and on the football field.â
Spurrier: âWouldya want to meet olâ Jasper and Casper in a dark alley? Didnât think so.â
Fulmer: âObviously, weâre trying to get my belly eligible, but the Clearinghouse wonât budge. If that doesnât happen, Iâll go with Jerod Mayo having a huge season.â
Johnson: âEarl Bennett. How does a kid like that get out of the state of Alabama and end up with me AT VANDERBILT??! Heck, Iâve been trying to get out since I came.â
Saban: (Staring down Tuberville) âYou just pissed your pants, didnât you, Tommy?â
Tuberville: (Shudders)
Saban: (Chuckling) âIâll agree with Urb. Nobody will make an impact on Alabama like Nick Saban.â
QUESTION 3
(Sigh) This is taking longer than I thought. OK, third question. Even the national media is tagging the conference as being the strongest, like it isnât every season. Why do you believe weâre finally getting some love?â
Tuberville: âLemme change my pants. I know Iâm holding up the interview ⊠there.
Iâd say itâs about frigginâ time we got some respect. It sure wouldâve been nice when Auburn was relevant two years ago.â
Richt: âWell, I believe itâs a combination of things. First of all, I believe the Lord has blessed the SEC, in part because of my cameo in Facing the Giants. Good things happen to good people, and the SEC is home to a lot of us. Even if we do have Les, Phillip, Rodney Garner and Darth Visor over there.â
âSecondly, I just believe the caliber of athlete that weâre able to recruit on a year-in, year-out basis makes everyone in the country stand up and take notice.â
Meyer: âQuite obviously, itâs because of the National Buckeye Molesting display our proud university administered last January.â
Brooks: âHeck, you know itâs a banner year for the conference when Kentucky has three potential high-end draft picks.â
Miles: âYou listen here Snoop (expletive) Dog. You think you can (expletive, expletive, expletive) out LSU on (expletive) national radio and cause a (expletive) storm, do you? I just want to stick my white sneaker so far up your âŠâ
âMr. Miles, you are done with this interview. Somebody please escort Mr. Miles out of the building. Thanks.â
Orgeron: âCauza recruitinâ on da yaw be goinâ on here. Recruit to Missippi wid da Curnel Reb, we can recruit anywhea. Take yaw shirt offen, a twist it round yo head lika helacopta.â
Croom: âI think we have at least nine fine universities in this league, and Iâve submitted a resume to all nine of them.â
Spurrier: âObvious. Itâs coachinâ. Just got a coach âem up. We got me, olâ Nicky, Ears, Golden Boy down at Georgia, Herbanâs trying to step out of my shadda down there in Gainesvul. Even got olâ Flabby over there. Even heâs gotta championship.â
Fulmer: âObviously, weâll have to look at the film and evaluate ourselves somewhat, and weâll have to work like heck to keep up the national exposure.â
âHuh?â
Johnson: âWeâve beaten Tennessee and Georgia in the past two years. And weâre historically the worst in the league. We donât even have an athletic program. Would you want to play in this conference? Weâre trying to join the SoCon.â
Saban: âNick Saban is the reason. We try to develop a culture to be a very demanding group of coaches, motivators, teachers. Itâs not uncommon for Nick Saban to give the custodian a verbal undressing if he halfway cleans the urinals in the locker rooms. When you want to be perfect and you strive to be perfect, itâs essential that you are perfect in everything that you do. The other day, Nick Saban followed John Parker to the bathroom, and he missed a button on his pants after taking a dump. Nick Saban made him pull his pants down and start over from scratch. Itâs the way Nick Saban rolls. Thatâs how we win national championships.â
âOh, for cryinâ out loud.â
Nutt: âWell, itâs certainly not because of old geysers like Frank Broyles.â
QUESTION 4
Well, weâre running out of time, so I think we have time for two more questions.
First, to have this much talent in the league, you have to have fantastic recruiting schemes. To what do you attribute your recruiting successes?
Richt: âWell, son, you have to recruit the mommas. What good Southern Christian momma worth her scripture wouldnât want her little boy playing for a moral man like myself. I learned from Diddy. Oh, and Rodney Garner helps. And the butt-cut. Chicks dig the butt-cut.â
Meyer: âI just have all of the players who are already here run the 40-yard dash for the new recruits, and then we go to our marijuana farm in Ocala. Works every time.â
Brooks: âI just tell most of the kiddies that I was around when they finished up the New Testament. They like experience, I guess.â
Orgeron: âYaw, yaw go to da grove and um wid da girls in da tanky tops. WILD BOYZ! Den I um, do da benchpress. Gotta kept buildinâ wall âround Mempha, nearly done. Er, um, offa scholahship ta ever 17-year-old in cone-try.â
Croom: âWe take them to a barn party.â
Spurrier: âWellsur, I just tell âem if we can pitch it a little, catch it a little and whip a little tookus on the defensive side over there, we can maybe win a game. Cainât sell tradition if you ainât got tradition.â
Fulmer: âWe have a long, illustrious heritage of cheating without getting caught. Obviously, thatâs a bonus. Also, from a facilities standpoint, weâre second-to-none. Plus, I know all the good buffets in town. Chiefly, though, they know they can get away with pretty much anything here.â
Johnson: âWorld-class education. So, I get all the smart ones ⊠if theyâre smart.â
Saban: âNick Saban will personally pistol-whip any assistant who isnât pulling his weight in four- and five-star commitments. Our culture has been built on a survival of the fittest concept, and if you arenât recruiting or working tirelessly on formations for at least 23 hours and 44 minutes out of every day, you cannot work for Nick Saban.â
Houston Nutt: âPretty much, we try to lock down state borders. Many who live in Arkansas donât know how to function outside of the state boundaries. We try to sell that.â
Tuberville: âI miss Mike Shula.â
QUESTION 5
Again, guys, thanks so much for your time. We have room for one more question, I believe. What are your goals, in less than 10 words, for this season?
Meyer: âRepeat, baby. But, more importantly, score 40 points per game.â
Brooks: âDonât die.â
Orgeron: âUm, keep a jawb anâ speak Engish.â
Croom: âReconnect with my NFL sources.â
Spurrier: âShave my handicap a couple strokes.â
Fulmer: âSee my feet.â
Johnson: âHave a winning season.â
Saban: âAttain worldwide domination. Continue talking without saying anything.â
Tuberville: âGet an in-state recruit. Enjoy my last hoorah.â
Nutt: âBuy stock in Wal-Mart and get an unlisted number.â
Richt: âGive up less than 50 to Tennessee.â
Thanks again, guys.
The Preceding was stolen from Denny Chimes who stole it previously.
RTR
What can your fans expect from your teams this season?
Nick Saban: âThe first thing to expect from our young men is to begin the journey in the context of the moment. The key is to not get wrapped up in the end result. The process of getting there is how you eventually get there. Whether it be the weightroom, the practice field, the classroom, or wherever, the object is for our young men to grow not only as football players but as human beings. We at Alabama not only expect this, but we demand this. Nick Saban will personally kill everâ
OK, Mr. Saban, weâd love to listen to you all day. But we donât have a lot of time. Letâs continue.
Houston Nutt: âSure, weâre excited about Darren McFadden and Felix Jones, but, honestly, son, we just hope that we donât kill each other before the season is over. Lemme take this opportunity to tell our wonderful fans in Arkansas that firearms are not permitted in Razorback Stadium.â
Tommy Tuberville: âWell, Brandon Cox is a senior. Heâs a leader. And, he obviously has female organs. But anytime you have that much experience from the quarterback position, you should have a good season.â
Mark Richt: âDespite allowing 51 points to Tennessee at home last year, having a quarterback with a near two-to-one interception-to-touchdown ratio and losing to Florida again, a lot of pundits are still picking us to win the league. Iâm so thankful to the Lord for idiot media members.â
Urban Meyer: âYou should expect a lot of Tim Tebow, a lot of Percy Harvin and a lot of blue jean shorts. Weâre confident, and weâre dominant. Who cares that we have nine new defensive starters. I work miracles.â
Rich Brooks: âExpect me to die on the sideline if LSU completes another game-ending Hail Mary in Lexington.â
Les Miles: âIâll tell you one (expletive) thing. Weâre going to kick a whole lot of (expletive) this (expletive) year. With the (expletive) defense we have this year, even I canât (expletive) up this season.â
Ed Orgeron: â(inaudible) Dadgum Schaeffa, and, um, gotta Chris Stronga eljble ona defense, so a (inaudible) yaw, um, fo wins maybe. Lucky, five. WILD BOYZ!â
Sylvester Croom: âExpect me to play LSU and a couple others tough but lose my job. But weâll be leaving Starkville betterân we found it. I ainât castrated no bulls.â
Steve Spurrier: âWell, wonât be doinâ a lot of pitchinâ and catchinâ, but we should be doinâ a lot of hittinâ. Iâm tellinâ ya, if I can keep Mrs. Jerri out of recruitinâ and my quarterbacks out of bars, we could have a fightinâ chance.â
Phillip Fulmer: âObviously, weâre pleased with our football team. The kids have worked like heck to get better this offseason, and weâre working like heck to do better than 9-4 this season. Weâve stayed relatively within the law since last year, and once we get our kids out of the rehab clinics, Iâll like our chances.â
Bobby Johnson: âWeâll be the cleanest-mouth, best-educated losers in the country, but I think weâll be competitive again this year.â
QUESTION 2
What individual do you see having an impact for you this year?
Saban: âFirst off, young man, if you ever interrupt Nick Saban again, Nick Saban will personally break into the Bear Bryant museum, steal a houndstooth hat and implant it in your (expletive), is that clear?â
âNow, Nick Saban has a tongue-lashing to give Major for screwing around and getting a verbal from a three-star last week, so letâs make the rest of this interview quick. We donât accept three-stars at Nick Sabanâs institution.â
âUm, Mr. Nutt, you answer first this time.â
Nutt: âLet me finish this text ⊠(reading to himself:UR B34UT1FUL SM1L3, XOXOXO and SEND). OK, yes. Impact player. Iâd say, McFadden, of course.â
Tuberville: âAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! WHAT IS THAT NOISE? Is that another dog whistle? Lord, those folks in Opelika have no regard for people with big ears with their dog whistles.â
âMr. Tuberville, are you OK?â
Tuberville: âNo, son, Iâm not OK. Ever since Saban came to Tuscaloosa, I can hear myself sweating.
But to answer your question, Iâd say Quentin Groves will be difficult to stop. And our supplements crew â er â strength and conditioning personnel have Tray Blackmon looking like a monster.â
Richt: âIf we can keep Matthew Stafford away from Talladega, he could have a huge year.â
Meyer: âIâll try to put my man crush on Timmy aside here and say myself. I think, even though I donât play, Iâm a beautiful man, and if anybody can get the most out of these kids, it would be me.â
Brooks: âAndre Woodson single-handedly keeps my fragile heart beating.â
Miles: âThree words: Glen (expletive) Dorsey.â
âMr. Miles, please. It doesnât make you a bigger man to use profanities. And, please, pull your hat down for once.â
Orgeron: âWell, um, fo sho at (inaudible) Jel Powe if eljble, yaw, yaw anâ um, Green-Elliz on a ground, yaw. Fo sho.â
Croom: âOur entire defense has done nothinâ but work their butts off during the offseason. Weâve kept them out of the one fast food joint and gas station in Starkville and on the football field.â
Spurrier: âWouldya want to meet olâ Jasper and Casper in a dark alley? Didnât think so.â
Fulmer: âObviously, weâre trying to get my belly eligible, but the Clearinghouse wonât budge. If that doesnât happen, Iâll go with Jerod Mayo having a huge season.â
Johnson: âEarl Bennett. How does a kid like that get out of the state of Alabama and end up with me AT VANDERBILT??! Heck, Iâve been trying to get out since I came.â
Saban: (Staring down Tuberville) âYou just pissed your pants, didnât you, Tommy?â
Tuberville: (Shudders)
Saban: (Chuckling) âIâll agree with Urb. Nobody will make an impact on Alabama like Nick Saban.â
QUESTION 3
(Sigh) This is taking longer than I thought. OK, third question. Even the national media is tagging the conference as being the strongest, like it isnât every season. Why do you believe weâre finally getting some love?â
Tuberville: âLemme change my pants. I know Iâm holding up the interview ⊠there.
Iâd say itâs about frigginâ time we got some respect. It sure wouldâve been nice when Auburn was relevant two years ago.â
Richt: âWell, I believe itâs a combination of things. First of all, I believe the Lord has blessed the SEC, in part because of my cameo in Facing the Giants. Good things happen to good people, and the SEC is home to a lot of us. Even if we do have Les, Phillip, Rodney Garner and Darth Visor over there.â
âSecondly, I just believe the caliber of athlete that weâre able to recruit on a year-in, year-out basis makes everyone in the country stand up and take notice.â
Meyer: âQuite obviously, itâs because of the National Buckeye Molesting display our proud university administered last January.â
Brooks: âHeck, you know itâs a banner year for the conference when Kentucky has three potential high-end draft picks.â
Miles: âYou listen here Snoop (expletive) Dog. You think you can (expletive, expletive, expletive) out LSU on (expletive) national radio and cause a (expletive) storm, do you? I just want to stick my white sneaker so far up your âŠâ
âMr. Miles, you are done with this interview. Somebody please escort Mr. Miles out of the building. Thanks.â
Orgeron: âCauza recruitinâ on da yaw be goinâ on here. Recruit to Missippi wid da Curnel Reb, we can recruit anywhea. Take yaw shirt offen, a twist it round yo head lika helacopta.â
Croom: âI think we have at least nine fine universities in this league, and Iâve submitted a resume to all nine of them.â
Spurrier: âObvious. Itâs coachinâ. Just got a coach âem up. We got me, olâ Nicky, Ears, Golden Boy down at Georgia, Herbanâs trying to step out of my shadda down there in Gainesvul. Even got olâ Flabby over there. Even heâs gotta championship.â
Fulmer: âObviously, weâll have to look at the film and evaluate ourselves somewhat, and weâll have to work like heck to keep up the national exposure.â
âHuh?â
Johnson: âWeâve beaten Tennessee and Georgia in the past two years. And weâre historically the worst in the league. We donât even have an athletic program. Would you want to play in this conference? Weâre trying to join the SoCon.â
Saban: âNick Saban is the reason. We try to develop a culture to be a very demanding group of coaches, motivators, teachers. Itâs not uncommon for Nick Saban to give the custodian a verbal undressing if he halfway cleans the urinals in the locker rooms. When you want to be perfect and you strive to be perfect, itâs essential that you are perfect in everything that you do. The other day, Nick Saban followed John Parker to the bathroom, and he missed a button on his pants after taking a dump. Nick Saban made him pull his pants down and start over from scratch. Itâs the way Nick Saban rolls. Thatâs how we win national championships.â
âOh, for cryinâ out loud.â
Nutt: âWell, itâs certainly not because of old geysers like Frank Broyles.â
QUESTION 4
Well, weâre running out of time, so I think we have time for two more questions.
First, to have this much talent in the league, you have to have fantastic recruiting schemes. To what do you attribute your recruiting successes?
Richt: âWell, son, you have to recruit the mommas. What good Southern Christian momma worth her scripture wouldnât want her little boy playing for a moral man like myself. I learned from Diddy. Oh, and Rodney Garner helps. And the butt-cut. Chicks dig the butt-cut.â
Meyer: âI just have all of the players who are already here run the 40-yard dash for the new recruits, and then we go to our marijuana farm in Ocala. Works every time.â
Brooks: âI just tell most of the kiddies that I was around when they finished up the New Testament. They like experience, I guess.â
Orgeron: âYaw, yaw go to da grove and um wid da girls in da tanky tops. WILD BOYZ! Den I um, do da benchpress. Gotta kept buildinâ wall âround Mempha, nearly done. Er, um, offa scholahship ta ever 17-year-old in cone-try.â
Croom: âWe take them to a barn party.â
Spurrier: âWellsur, I just tell âem if we can pitch it a little, catch it a little and whip a little tookus on the defensive side over there, we can maybe win a game. Cainât sell tradition if you ainât got tradition.â
Fulmer: âWe have a long, illustrious heritage of cheating without getting caught. Obviously, thatâs a bonus. Also, from a facilities standpoint, weâre second-to-none. Plus, I know all the good buffets in town. Chiefly, though, they know they can get away with pretty much anything here.â
Johnson: âWorld-class education. So, I get all the smart ones ⊠if theyâre smart.â
Saban: âNick Saban will personally pistol-whip any assistant who isnât pulling his weight in four- and five-star commitments. Our culture has been built on a survival of the fittest concept, and if you arenât recruiting or working tirelessly on formations for at least 23 hours and 44 minutes out of every day, you cannot work for Nick Saban.â
Houston Nutt: âPretty much, we try to lock down state borders. Many who live in Arkansas donât know how to function outside of the state boundaries. We try to sell that.â
Tuberville: âI miss Mike Shula.â
QUESTION 5
Again, guys, thanks so much for your time. We have room for one more question, I believe. What are your goals, in less than 10 words, for this season?
Meyer: âRepeat, baby. But, more importantly, score 40 points per game.â
Brooks: âDonât die.â
Orgeron: âUm, keep a jawb anâ speak Engish.â
Croom: âReconnect with my NFL sources.â
Spurrier: âShave my handicap a couple strokes.â
Fulmer: âSee my feet.â
Johnson: âHave a winning season.â
Saban: âAttain worldwide domination. Continue talking without saying anything.â
Tuberville: âGet an in-state recruit. Enjoy my last hoorah.â
Nutt: âBuy stock in Wal-Mart and get an unlisted number.â
Richt: âGive up less than 50 to Tennessee.â
Thanks again, guys.
The Preceding was stolen from Denny Chimes who stole it previously.
RTR
