OT: Florida Asst. Calls Nick Saban "Satan"
Florida Asst. coach Tim Davis refers to Saban as "satan". I will give you all time to find your gif's. Ready go......
Mark May on Florida o-line coach Tim Davis: "As far as I'm concerned, he's a backstabbing coward." (Simmer down, Mark.)
It's quite amazing that Mark May is stupid enough that I watch College Football Final and honestly wonder whether he or Lou is the more senile one
Those two are in serious contention for the worst duo of talking heads on ESPN, and that's saying something. For the record, I think Barry Melrose and Buccigross are probably the best but it could just be that they don't do that much. I long for the good old days of ESPN with Cohn, Mayne, Scott, etc.
Hockey can't count... they dont shove them down our faces the way they do those boneheads.
... It seems pretty clear that Davis was using the expression, "the devil himself," in an idiomatic way. If anything, given the quotation provided, he seemed to mean this more as a compliment than as some pejorative. Is the implication really supposed to be, "my boss worked under an evil man, and now he's evil too... come play for us!"?
But, by all means, ESPN and Mark May...
The reaction from people around the situation seem to know he really wasn't making the comment in jest. Plus, it's kind of like when you have a crazy uncle, aunt or grand parent, and evryone calls them crazy. While it comes off funny, in the back of everyones mind they know they're dead serious.
I don't have any knowledge about the people around the situation, and I don't doubt that Davis quite likely has ill-will towards Saban--and, more than anything else--I'm not trying to defend Saban. Thus, I wasn't trying to suggest that Davis was just joking around, while deep down he has nothing but respect for Saban. My point is simply the following: when ESPN has a link on their frontpage entitled, "Coach calls Nick Saban 'the devil'," and they are pulling that out of the quotation below, I think this has much to do with page hits and generating controversy.
"I've always wanted to work with Will [Muschamp]," Davis said. "Will's got a plan. Will coached under the devil himself for seven years. I only did three. He did seven. And his DNA is not any different than Nick."
Maybe you had to hear the way he said it, but taken at face value it does look like he is complimenting Saban. He states he wants to work with Muschamp, and then says Muschamp's DNA isn't any different from Saban's. Why would he want to work with Muschamp unless he had some admiration for Saban. It's almost like he's saying he wants to work with Muschamp because Muschamp had the opportunity to work with Saban longer than Davis himself did.
As far as the devil comment, I take that as an acknowledgement that Saban is difficult in some way, perhaps a taskmaster. I think he could have said "drill sergeant" there interchangably. Davis may detest Saban on a personal level, and perhaps that led to the devil comment, but at least on a professional level this seems to show respect.
Can't even watch the show. Stopped years ago. Too annoying. Who knew college football could be ruined.
Nick Saban doesn't reply, he consumes the souls of the lesser beings around him. Nick Saban is actually 627 years old.
I mean, not gonna lie. He does kinda remind me of the Devil
You"ll have to either get off my lawn or explain what that means. Also, if it's sarcasm, I don't get it.
YEYEYEYEYEYE
Based on the articles title
Expectation: "Nick Saban is the devil. Nick Saban is Satan himself and is doing evil, wicked, nasty things."
Reality: "Will coached under the devil himself for seven years. I only did three. He did seven."
Not taking this story seriously.
Every team in the SEC -- SEC West in particular; SEC east secondarily -- is facing the prospect of losing to the Alabama steamroller.
Want to know why Urban Meyer left Florida? It wasn't the "health" reasons -- it was Alabama.
"Satan?" No. Just playing the SEC game better than everyone else.
Saban's time to tumble will come. Be patient, my friends ... it will come.
Adding this to Franklin's public 'Nicky Satan' slip, SEC coaches must casually refer to Saban as the devil amongst themselves with some regularity. I like it.
Nick Saban is a complete asshole and the biggest douchebag in college football in the last 30 years. But he's not Satan. That's giving him way too much credit.
That said, I hope he does meet Satan. He has ruined many young kids lives for his own personal gain. He deserves to go to hell.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist.
At least he did not call him chicken.
A short devil.