Tyler Booker was good. It didn't take long for Nick Saban to blame Alabama, and Ty did.
As we all know, legendary college football coach Nick Saban announced his retirement at the beginning of 2024 after a dominant performance with the Alabama Crimson Tide and now works as an analyst for ESPN.
Well, Saban's already pissing people off (welcome to the media!), and his latest example is picking This season's SEC Championship Game will feature Texas and Georgia, not Alabama. (Related: EA Sports College Football 25 reportedly raked in a staggering $71.3 million on first day of early access)
But far from being upset by his former captain's comments, the Tide offensive lineman Tyler Booker He said he kept it quiet and didn't care, but that was due to advice Saban himself previously gave him.
“What he taught me was not to pay attention to the outside factors. He's working in the stadium right now, not the facility, so he's an outside factor,” Booker said at SEC Media Day. ESPN“So I don't care what he says. He said, 'Don't listen to some guy who sits in his mom's basement and tweets all day,' so I'm not going to listen to some guy who plays golf all day.”
Tyler Booker is under fire. I asked him how he felt about Saban not predicting Alabama would make the SEC Finals. “He always said, 'Don't let some guy who lives in his mom's basement dictate how you feel.' So I don't want some guy who plays golf all day dictating how I feel…
— Alex Scarborough (@ByScarborough) July 17, 2024
Fire! I repeat! Fire!
