Due to the wildly successful Crimson Tide dynasty Nick Saban has created in Tuscaloosa, fans and media aren't satisfied or impressed with a one point win over a much improved Arkansas team. This feedback should say and prove that this team has achieved enough for these people to gather these lofty expectations. Well, Nick Saban wasn't a fan of those comments after his team's 14-13 win in Fayetteville. Saban said this Monday at the podium with just a little anger behind his words, "Everybody’s got such a high expectation for what our team should be...I was just happy to see our players be happy about playing a game and winning. It really sort of, if you want to know the truth about it, pisses me off when I talk to people that have this expectation like they’re disappointed that we only won the game, 14-13, and in the way we played." Yes, the media and myself are taking Saban's comments way out of context, in which Saban has every right to lash out his concerns with us as we do the same with him and his team. Even with the, let me be carful in saying this, boring and not entirely impressive win this past Saturday, Alabama showed that even with a rough game overall it was able to pull out a win on the road versus a tough and improving SEC team. Barely coming out of Fayetteville with a win can help lay out a new foundation for Saban and his team as he isn't just there for football purposes, but to teach students to become men while continuing to have success on the field. Yes! Yes, he has every right to be mad because (whether me being right or wrong) I think Saban dealt with this victory a little different than just a W on the schedule when stating "I was just happy to see our players be happy about playing a game and winning." On behalf of all SEC football fans, I can see why there is such a hoopla about Alabama’s measly victory over a mediocre, so to speak, Arkansas team that has yet to win a conference game in the last fifteen tries. It’s not standard for Alabama to just eek out a win versus a mediocre to “bad” SEC West team; that’s the caliber of success Nick Saban has put together when establishing this team as a national power again. It’s not that we have come to say Alabama stinks sucks or however else you would like to put it, it’s the problem of accepting that this might not be the same dominant Alabama team we are used to seeing Saban put out there every Saturday. But most importantly he doesn’t seem to be worried and neither do I. A win is a win and sure we can write this one down as a moral victory for Arkansas, but it’s still a win for Alabama on paper. Whether it’s by one point or 50 points, the Tide still continue their trend of being a top ten standing in at seventh in the most recent AP Poll. College football: where everything is analyzed to the core. Whether drawing truths or hypotheticals, it’s so much fun!
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