Saban also supported BLM.
Ashamed of my Alma Mater.
Saban is best friends with Joe Manchin. He’s from West Virginia.
The Oklahoma State coach wore an OAN tee shirt a while back and they practically ran him out of the profession.
If you recall, Saban heard us loud and clear when there were some empty seats and life long Bama fans made videos of burning t-shirts. And this was during 2020 (when Bama was playing well enough and ultimately won the natty). All of that from a fan base that he praised over and over with awe saying his first impression of Bama fans was us showing our support in 2007 (his first season) with an almost full stadium for just a spring A-day game.
When fans went from that passionately supporting to that passionately against you ... Saban took notice. After that there were a few times within a year the he said something like "black lives matter because all lives matter" and then he let it go. I haven't heard anything from him about stuff like that since. So I, too, let it go and am back to being a Bama fan.
That's the message we should send. We can't be like leftists with their forever cancel culture policy. When we boycott we have to give them a chance to change their ways and be accepted....or we risk showing them there's no pleasing us anyway (like there's no pleasing the left).
Back when I got my MA at UA in the early 90s, the History Department was mostly liberal but had two conservatives left. The often-published Forrest McDonald and the very maverick Gary Mills were a real presence on the Tuscaloosa campus. Nowadays, to walk through Thatch Hall here at Auburn, and view the political messages on the profs doors, it seems like Berkeley or worse. I don’t think much history gets taught at Thatch.