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I wonder if these people know this does nothing but motivate us....
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Which brings us back to the tired old question about why the national media, particularly those in South Florida and at ESPN, hate the new Alabama football coach? You've heard this question asked before and there are some strikingly obvious answers, starting with Saban himself.
However, I decided to go to someone who has written about the first-year Alabama coach and who converses regularly with others who have been hypercritical.
Bruce Feldman is a senior writer for ESPN Magazine and writes a regular college football blog for ESPN. He has been with ESPN for 13 years and has just completed his second book -- "Meat Market ... A Season Inside College Football's Premier Recruiting Machine." It will be published in September.
I went to Feldman because of a blog he had written about Saban recently in relation to pressure on the Tide coach and his glacial relationship with many in the media: "I can't think of a coach who the media would love to see fail more than Saban," Feldman wrote.
It struck me because of its radioactive honesty. Most scribes at least try to hide behind objectivity.
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