Saban Heated About Unauthorized Biography

The Alabama coach has already made news for his one-man crusade against unauthorized biographies, but now displays his softer side.

The Crimson Tide opened up fall football camp still looking for a starting quarterback, a suspension, and a rant from head coach Nick Saban.

“One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama, I’ll write an authorized book”, Saban said. And there won’t be any misinformation, there won’t be any false statements, there won’t be any hearsay. “It’ll be the real deal”. “And I think he’ll be full speed next week, God willing, and nothing happens to him”.

Saban doesn’t like how someone can profit off your own name.

He said his book when he’s done coaching “will have the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. “I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody”. Coker did well in mop-up duty last season, completing 38 of 59 passes for 403 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions, but Saban isn’t tipping his hand on how the selection process will transpire for a second straight summer.

An excerpt of the book detailing the Longhorns’ pursuit of Saban was recently released by The New York Times.

What’s revealing about Saban’s outrage is not the content of the book, which has to be void of anything too salty, else we’d have heard about it by now. What the reporters do, as Saban takes pains to make clear, is small (“your little computer”) and not worth getting specific about (“or Twitter or whatever you do”).

Or is it that he assumed by not granting Burke an interview, the book was a dead issue? “He always said ‘No man stands as tall as when he stoops to help a child.’ So Nick’s Kids really represents his legacy and what he was all about and tried to do”. Burke defended his work on the book Thursday, telling the Alabama Media Group that his goal “was to do something fair and objective and I think that’s what emerged”.

“How many times do I have to say that?”