DALLAS -- When Alabama players at SEC media days learned their former head coach Nick Saban picked Georgia and Texas to play for the conference title this year, 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 lineman Tyler Booker told ESPN, "so I'm not gonna 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.