Nick Saban looked like someone had slapped him in the face.
When some misguided reporter had the gall to ask the Alabama head coach if he planned to play his dinged-up prized starting quarterback this Saturday against the lowly FCS payday opponent The Citadel, Saban looked as though he could have chewed up broken glass. His inflammatory response indicated that yes, he would be playing his starting quarterback Saturday morning, and that any assertion to the contrary was ridiculous.
He went on to elaborate in his Wednesday press conference that if he sat a great player to prevent injury, then other elite players would get the notion that maybe they didn’t need to play either.