Nick Saban Says He Plans To Elect To Kick LSU's Ass At The Coin Toss

Caller: “If you win the toss [vs LSU this weekend], Coach, will you elect to kick or will you elect to receive?”

[Pause]

Nick Saban: “I hope we elect to kick ass is what I hope we do.”

And he didn’t even crack a smile.

I love this. I especially love how he took a second to think about the question before landing this answer with perfection. It’s almost like you could watch his genius brain work: “should I say this? Yep I’m going to say this. And everybody is going to love it.” It’s his world, we’re just living in it.

As somebody who has sat in many-a-coaches meetings and done multiple 1-on-1 interviews with Nick Saban, I can totally confirm that everything he does is calculated. He’s way smarter than everybody in the room and it’s obvious. You stand no chance at getting him to crack. He knows EXACTLY what hes doing. (PS – If you don’t read that last sentence in a Squints Palledorous voice, do you even Sandlot?)

If I played for Saban right now, I’d be ready to run through a wall.

Some people at HQ are saying this is “lame.” These people stink. This is awesome. It doesn’t matter if he’s talking about playing some shitty cupcake team or playing the biggest game of the year that will probably decide the fate of the SEC and maybe even the playoffs, he’s consistently a quote machine. GOAT status.

You know Alabama fans are eating this shit up. Hell, all college football fans should be eating this up. I can’t wait for this game. Fire up the T-shirt machine. Every single Bama fan should be wearing a T-Shirt with this on it inside Death Valley tomorrow night.

Bama by a million.