Nick Saban Admitted That He Was Giving Alabama "Reverse Rat Poison" By Predicting Them To Miss The SEC Title Game

Look I'm not a pat on the back type of guy but when you're this right about something you need to take a victory lap. Back on July 15th, Nick Saban was at SEC Media Days and made his prediction for who would represent the great Southeastern Conference in their championship game. As the former Alabama coach as recent as January, most people would safely assume that he'd have chosen the Crimson Tide to be at least one of the two teams. However when he made his selections, he chose Texas and Georgia.

Now the mainstream media and the fans without brains cried to the high heavens about this prediction, but not me. No, I was onto him from the get go, writing this the very next day:

The amount of people that have suddenly forgotten who we're dealing with here is laugh out loud funny to me. You think Nick Saban just suddenly became the most honest man in show business? Or do you think he's making sure his Alabama team doesn't get one ounce of rat poison in their system. He's giving them a rallying cry….even their old coach, the guy who recruited some of them, doesn't believe in them! All the Alabama fans complaining about this prediction should actually be saying thank you. Nick Saban just gave the team another chip on their shoulder.

And look what we had today….Nick Saban admitting that he was just trying to give the boys back in the locker room one last parting gift of some reverse Rat Poison. 

I actually love Nick Saban for this, and I agree with him. If you watch the video, he questions the point of why people need to sit on TV and tell you who's going to win what game and who's going to win which championship when in all honesty, no one has a fucking clue and it needs to be won on the field. So if you have to win it on the field either way, wouldn't it be better to be the team that is doubted than the team that is expected to win? Fat pigs get slaughtered and hungry dogs run fast. So yeah, predict my teams to lose and tell us we aren't good enough, because we're going to find out in the actual game either way, but I'd rather my team be the one coming in with a chip on their shoulder than the one over confident and then playing with a tight asshole if things don't go according to plan.

**Remember when Tyler Booker responded to Saban the next day and people thought there was legitimate beef?

And Nick Saban smiled wider than he has in years. A proud father moment. A "they actually listened to me" realization.