Collegiate Sports

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After his team wobbled past Texas A&M 27-19, after leading 24-3, Nick Saban issued the most Nick Saban quote ever.

Addressing the media, Saban said, “All the good stuff you write is rat poison.” This is a more melodramatic variation on a long-running Saban theme; he lives is deep fear of the media injecting complacency into his players by writing how good they are. You can almost picture Saban scowling his way through glowing stories about his team, wondering how he’s going to be able to undo the terrible psychological damage inflicted by positive press.

Living in fear of praise. It’s the Saban way. He wins a lot, but it’s a fairly joyless worldview.