Stay Classy Saban

[Unregistered User]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Saban: I have never kicked a player off the team "who ended up amounting to anything anywhere else." Well that's nice to say.</p>— Seth Emerson (@SethEmerson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethEmerson/statuses/489822834638606336">July 17, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[Nate]

The full context: http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2014/07/alabama_saban_discipline_kenya.html

"I want you to know that there's not one player, not one player, since I've been a head coach that I kicked off the team that ever went anywhere and amounted to anything and accomplished anything, playing or academically," Saban said. "That's not always the answer. Discipline is not punishment. Punishment is only effective when it can help change somebody's behavior.

"When you have a family and you have someone in your family who disappoints you, we certainly can't kick them out of our family. I think we have to try to support them, teach them, get them to do the right things because we love them, we care about them."

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Amazing how people in the media business can take 8 words out of a paragraph, quote it and spin it out of context, and still call themselves a professional.

Twitter is awesome in my opinion, but it's really ruined a certain aspect of media coverage. That said, I still hate Alabama.

 

[DMB123]

Amazing how people in the media business can take 8 words out of a paragraph, quote it and spin it out of context, and still call themselves a professional.

Twitter is awesome in my opinion, but it's really ruined a certain aspect of media coverage. That said, I still hate Alabama.

Exactly. All Saban is saying is that kicking a kid off the team is not the answer and it doesn't help the student-athlete. He'd rather keep them in the program, discipline them, and improve their behavior/character, as you would someone in your own family. At least that's how I read these comments.