{"id":1147,"date":"2019-11-13T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2019-11-19T09:49:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:49:10","slug":"fire-saban-bama-fans-be-careful-what-you-wish-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/fire-saban-bama-fans-be-careful-what-you-wish-for\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;FIRE SABAN!&#8221;  Bama fans, be careful what you wish for!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nick-Saban-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1155\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The critique of college football coaches (really, all football coaches) has become worse in recent years. Alabama fans have apparently become even more unreasonable given Nick Saban\u2019s historic success.\u00a0 But if you look more closely, are they really different from any other group of fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to a sport talk radio show after a college or NFL\nloses can be highly entertaining.&nbsp;\nThe entire program is falling apart, the head coach needs to go, the backup\nQB is better than the starter, both coordinators are atrocious and the\nrecruiting has dropped off.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that the Twitter age has made fans even more\nunreasonable and has given them an easy and widely distributed platform to\nvoice their anger\/frustration\/knowledge.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intensity of every game and the importance in the\nstandings has made each week a do-or-die mentality for the fans.&nbsp; Patience is not an option.&nbsp; Contentment with mediocre results is not an\noption.&nbsp; Lose a game and the \u201cCoach must\ngo\u201d tweets start, regardless of how well the team has done in the past.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You might expect to see that in schools\nthat are struggling to breakthrough to the next level and feel that they just\nlost their opportunity due to a \u201cbad\u201d or \u201cdisappointing\u201d loss.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quick trigger finger has not served many organizations\nwell.&nbsp; Look at how frequently Nebraska\nhas changed coaches since it ran off Bo Pelini wih a winning record.&nbsp; 9-3 was not good enough.&nbsp; You would think that winning 5 Nationals\nChampionships would buy you a little bit of leeway, but as soon as Alabama lost\na tight home game to LSU, the calls for his replacement started.&nbsp; Sentiments like \u201ctoo old\u201d, \u201cthe game has\npassed him by\u201d or \u201che is not interested\u201d littered the Twitterverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be careful what you wish you Bama fans. You might not remember the lean years (i.e. Pre-Saban) where the Tide were little more than an afterthought to college football\u2019s elite.\u00a0 Historically, the most successful programs have had a lot of stability at the top.\u00a0 Once you starting changing, it takes a new coach 2 to 3 years to truly get everything the way that they want it.\u00a0 Most schools don\u2019t have that patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The critique of college football coaches (really, all football coaches) has become worse in recent years. Alabama fans have apparently become even more unreasonable given Nick Saban\u2019s historic success.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[610],"tags":[612,516,611,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}