TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's latest loss has coach Nick Saban searching for ways to motivate his team.

 

Citing the 9-11 terrorist attacks and Pearl Harbor, Alabama coach Nick Saban said Monday his team must rebound like America did from a "catastrophic event."

 

In this case, that would be an embarrassing 21-14 loss Saturday to Louisiana-Monroe.

 

"Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event," Saban said during the opening remarks of his weekly news conference. "It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, or whatever, and that was a catastrophic event."

 

Alabama's just getting ready to face No. 25 Auburn, its biggest rival, on Saturday.

 

A Saban spokesman said the coach chose the 9-11 and Pearl Harbor references to illustrate the challenges facing his team.

 

"What Coach Saban said did not correlate losing a football game with tragedy; everyone needs to understand that. He was not equating losing football games to those catastrophic events," football spokesman Jeff Purington said in a statement to The Associated Press. "The message was that true spirit and unity become evident in the most difficult of times. Those were two tremendous examples that everyone can identify with."

 

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Srsly.

 

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ooooooooooooooookaaaaaaaaaay.

 

 

Saban's lost it.

 

 

 

 

Come to think of it, that loss was worse than Pearl Harbor. Louisiana-Monroe didn't launch a sneak attack, you had all week to prepare.

 

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Retarded.

 

Coaches are getting paid too much when they take their job and ultimate purpose this seriously.

Come to think of it, that loss was worse than Pearl Harbor. Louisiana-Monroe didn't launch a sneak attack, you had all week to prepare.

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f***in moron.

haha

 

i'm for anything that makes this ahole look bad

I see nothing wrong with what he said.

The Japanese need to attack his house while he sleeps.