Saban on "Mistakes"

[121Josey]

Freezus leaves the coaches meeting early for the interview. Saban, on the next Finebam interview, say...

"I think one of the things that we all have to be concerned about is player judgment….
When players use poor judgment, I don’t think we are helping them any by not doing something to help them to change their behavior and covering things up like that..
But the judgment is the more important thing. We have to get our young people to make better choices and decision and have good judgment

And all these guys say, I made a mistake. NO you didn’t make a mistake. You make a mistake when you miss-add a math problem. When you do all this STUFF and you got a lots of time to try to think about it, that’s poor judgement. So, and there’s a difference in that and that’s something I think that we need to do a better job and help our players make better decisions about."

No wonder Freezus looked pissed on the set. I don't think Freezus wants to debate this with his competitors.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

I made a mistake = I got caught

 

[ShrubDog]

I got a DUI and thats a mistake. But I didn't drink that much.

 

[patdog]

I made a mistake = I got caught

And "I take ownership" is quickly followed by all the reasons it wasn't my fault.

 

[SwampDawg]

Man I like that summation. Then they say "I'm ready to put this behind me and move on with my life." How many times have we heard this?

 

[bulldognation]

Because labeling an act as a mistake takes all the responsibility off the individual. What Saban is saying here is that the fault lies with the individuals ability to judge the situation and act in a responsible manner.

These are 18-19 year olds who have almost zero life experience with serious judgement calls. Easy pickings for someone who can convince them that all they need to do is play along.

A good coach would mentor the boy on such things. Otherwise they wind up wearing gas masks on Twitter or jumping out of windows high on spice.

 

[Shmuley]

I thought Saban was talking about one of his players (Tony Brown, in case you're wondering, although nobody with the university has confirmed it) flunking the pre-BCS piss test and the sanction is 6 game suspension starting the next September. Did I miss something? Was Saban relating his comments toward beaver?

 

[bulldognation]

Doesn't matter... He used a word Febreeze used. Therefore yes.

 

[121Josey]

I thought Saban was talking about one of his players (Tony Brown, in case you're wondering, although nobody with the university has confirmed it) flunking the pre-BCS piss test and the sanction is 6 game suspension starting the next September. Did I miss something? Was Saban relating his comments toward beaver?

He was deflecting from talking about Baylor. But it was within the context of discussions at the meeting and probably has a basis in reality.

His narrative on "mistakes" happened to match HF's narrative. You can replace all his "player" references with "coaches" and come to the same conclusion on judgment/intent.

 

[Shmuley]

Gotcha. I didn't correlate the two, but, HEY, I like it.