Alabama players are not paying attention to external factors, which now includes former coach Nick Saban picking Georgia and Texas in the SEC title game.
Nick Saban joins"Get Up" to discuss the strength of the SEC and why he believes there are six or seven teams that could be playoff contenders. to play for the conference title this season, they approached it the only way they knew how -- the way Saban taught them.
"Something he taught me was not to pay attention to external factors, and since he works at the stadium now and not the facility, he's an external factor," offensive linemantold ESPN,"so I'm not going to pay him no mind. He said, 'Don't listen to a guy who sits in his mother's basement and tweets all day, so I'm not going to listen to a guy who plays golf all day.
Booker, the Crimson Tide's starting left guard, was laughing as he said it, and hadn't run into Saban at the sprawling Omni Hotel, where Saban is working as a TV analyst for ESPN. On Monday morning, in a segment with Greg McElroy and Benjamin Watson on SEC Network, Saban pointed to Texas' depth in its quarterback room and Georgia's talent as some of his reasons for picking them in the SEC title game.," Saban said on-air.
"It's so quick to see Coach Saban take on another role other than being Coach Saban," he said,"but he has a job to do, and he's entitled to his own opinion. But yeah, we heard him.""All we want to do is focus on us and worry about us," Milroe said."We still love Coach, it's all good."
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