BATON ROUGE, La. — College football coaches constantly say they don’t read newspapers, they avoid posts on the Internet and they absolutely never look at Twitter. But they, somehow, know enough to use the negative information on those platforms to motive their teams. Alabama coach Nick Saban offered the latest and greatest of those examples, using to his advantage the one real piece of criticism floating around about the Crimson Tide: They ain’t played nobody. “We really wanted to make a statement in this game,” he said afterward. “A lot of people talked about our schedule.”
Statement made.