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Nick Saban responded to a new NCAA rule with his latest poop metaphor

He was asked about the coming headset policy, and he isn’t happy about it.

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It’s the offseason, and what’s better than Nick Saban ranting about something three months before the season begins? Saban ranting about something while using a poop metaphor.

His latest? Calling out the new NCAA rule that requires just 20 headsets to be used on the sidelines during games:

Here’s the full rule, from the NCAA:

Teams may use a maximum of 20 headsets on game days. Fifteen of those headsets will be designated for the coaching staff, including the head coach, assistant coaches, and graduate assistants.

Oh, you don’t remember his last poop metaphor? Let me refresh your memory. Back in 2015, Saban went on a heated rant after Alabama’s game against Georgia Southern in 2011, one which the Tide won, 45-21. Saban said the Eagles ran through his team’s “ass like shit through a tin horn.”

Y’all don’t remember the Georgia Southern game, do you? I don’t think we had a guy on that field that didn’t play in the NFL and about four or five of them were first-round draft picks, and I think that team won a national championship but I’m not sure.

And they ran through our ass like shit through a tin horn, man, and we could not stop them. We could not stop them. Could not stop them.

Gloriously, that quote was later turned into a T-shirt for GSU fans to enjoy:

Shitthroughatinhornshirts

While Saban being upset about this new rule isn’t all that surprising given that he employs one of the largest support staffs in all of college football and demands strict headset decorum, I do love the unexpected usage of poop to verbalize his disgust.

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