Kudos to Nick Saban.

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I don't know where he said this maybe one of you can find the interview. I heard this on a UGA podcast.

So much has been said about coaches wanting to play this season because of the money that they are making. Saban's rebuttal to that was spot on.

"Everybody acts like we want to play for the money. We want to play for the players. I want to play for the players. We have a lot of guys on our team that can create a lot of value for themselves by playing this season. We can create a lot of value in these guys that work very hard to try to create and accomplish something as a team. All those things to me are important to the player. And I want to play for the player."

These guys that coach the players make millions. That's the obvious part. What most don't understand is that they truly have the player's best interest in mind. They get paid that much money to help the players develop their talent well enough to get paid like they hoped for when they started dreaming and working so damn hard when they were young kids. Money is great, but developing young men to success in life is a reward more valuable than all the money in the world.
 
OldDevilDawg said:
It's probably the bourbon. But he ain't wrong.
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No, he is not. Big10 and Pac12 are doing a great disservice to their players and they are letting those kids down. Each player has the option to sit out if they feel the risks are too much. It was wrong to take that decision out of the players and in some cases, the player's family, hands.

My soup probably wont help with the bourbon, but would send it anyway.
 
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Gentle Horse said:
No, he is not. Big10 and Pac12 are doing a great disservice to their players and they are letting those kids down. Each player has the option to sit out if they feel the risks are too much. It was wrong to take that decision out of the players and in some cases, the player's family, hands.

My soup probably wont help with the bourbon, but would send it anyway.
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What isn't being talked about....these players have understood the risk they take just getting on the field....They've risked career ending injuries since they were in middle school chasing their dream of playing in the NFL. They know risk more than all of us, but, #WEWANTTOPLAY. Why are we not listening to these guys that have spent everything in their soul to make it out of that dead end town they grew up in?
 
Gentle Horse said:
No, he is not. Big10 and Pac12 are doing a great disservice to their players and they are letting those kids down. Each player has the option to sit out if they feel the risks are too much. It was wrong to take that decision out of the players and in some cases, the player's family, hands.

My soup probably wont help with the bourbon, but would send it anyway.
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BTW, what kind of soup we talking about? I love me some soup.
 
OldDevilDawg said:
What isn't being talked about....these players have understood the risk they take just getting on the field....They've risked career ending injuries since they were in middle school chasing their dream of playing in the NFL. They know risk more than all of us, but, #WEWANTTOPLAY. Why are we not listening to these guys that have spent everything in their soul to make it out of that dead end town they grew up in?
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Very true. Nothing else can be added to that. We may end up seeing a true feeder league as a result of this.
 
OldDevilDawg said:
Well you know that homemade vegetable soup is pretty much a staple down here in SGa. You are chasing my stomach. That means you are a true southern woman.
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I lived in your neck of the woods down there long enough for some of that southern charm and hospitality to rub off on me and there are some great southern recipes that I brought back up here with me.
And gotta say that there is a whole of truth to the stereotypes of the southern gentleman and them keeping chivalry alive in the south. Up here, not much in the way of manners when you get off the Rez and go into Rapid City or Custer or other local towns. No one opens doors for women and no one pulls out the seat for the lady as she sits down. People always looked at Dad strange up here when he did with Mom and they give the same looks to my husband when he does.

So for as much trash as some will talk about the south, there are alot of good things still going on down there and that I miss since moving back
 
Gentle Horse said:
I lived in your neck of the woods down there long enough for some of that southern charm and hospitality to rub off on me and there are some great southern recipes that I brought back up here with me.
And gotta say that there is a whole of truth to the stereotypes of the southern gentleman and them keeping chivalry alive in the south. Up here, not much in the way of manners when you get off the Rez and go into Rapid City or Custer or other local towns. No one opens doors for women and no one pulls out the seat for the lady as she sits down. People always looked at Dad strange up here when he did with Mom and they give the same looks to my husband when he does.

So for as much trash as some will talk about the south, there are alot of good things still going on down there and that I miss since moving back
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Common courtesy isn't so common anymore. :(
 
Gentle Horse said:
I lived in your neck of the woods down there long enough for some of that southern charm and hospitality to rub off on me and there are some great southern recipes that I brought back up here with me.
And gotta say that there is a whole of truth to the stereotypes of the southern gentleman and them keeping chivalry alive in the south. Up here, not much in the way of manners when you get off the Rez and go into Rapid City or Custer or other local towns. No one opens doors for women and no one pulls out the seat for the lady as she sits down. People always looked at Dad strange up here when he did with Mom and they give the same looks to my husband when he does.

So for as much trash as some will talk about the south, there are alot of good things still going on down there and that I miss since moving back
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Thats Nice and Refreshing to hear, Living here, It saddens me to see people forgetting about manners or courtesy. Just another reminder that this world we live in evolves, there is a time and place somewhere in my past that has been ingrained into my consciousness as "the way things should be". It is Fleeting, and I think each generation in their own way tries to hold to the ideals that made them, to no avail. We still Evolve !
 
Bama Believer said:
Thats Nice and Refreshing to hear, Living here, It saddens me to see people forgetting about manners or courtesy. Just another reminder that this world we live in evolves, there is a time and place somewhere in my past that has been ingrained into my consciousness as "the way things should be". It is Fleeting, and I think each generation in their own way tries to hold to the ideals that made them, to no avail. We still Evolve !
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Most are still minding their manners around here, but as noted, it seems diminished from a generation ago. Part of that is less time spent with family that can teach the manners (and berate if behaving inappropriately), which leads to emulating tv/movies that lack proper manners. Manners and morality are not being adequately passed along to the younger generation. When I was growing up, a neighbor wouldn't hesitate to punish a child for misbehaving, today that neighbor would be in jail for child abuse. We seem to be devolving, instead of evolving.

The core of southern hospitality goes to the Virginia Cavaliers in the 1600's, who were Loyalist blue bloods with hundreds of years of chivalry and pomp and circumstance within the gentleman and nobility class. Usually the third born son would be groomed to train as a parson, rector, reverand, or other religious occupation. The early colonial era churches had leaders raised with "proper manners" and this was passed along to the congregation, rich and poor alike. This seeded manners throughout the entire south as migration westward around the southern tip of the Appalachian range spread from the mid Atlantic .
 
Sadly, the game itself is probably more of a danger to these young men than the COVID virus. If they are willing to accept that danger no one should try and hold them back imo.
 
Wunder.Noid said:
Sadly, the game itself is probably more of a danger to these young men than the COVID virus. If they are willing to accept that danger no one should try and hold them back imo.
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Exactly. I knew the potential risk when I joined the USMC as an 18 year old. No one batted an eye trying to take that decision away from me.

These kids have been aware of the risk they take each time they set foot on the field since they were in elementary school. They are WAY more prepared and informed about the risks they are taking than I was, yet we have "adults" taking that decision away from them. To me, this is unacceptable and motivated by agendas that are well beyond appropriate. As @Gentle Horse stated, "It was wrong to take that decision out of the players and in some cases, the player's family, hands."
 
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