Hey, Coach, why don't you run the wishbone

[Coach Hank Crisp]

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Thursday night, the Alabama coach was asked why he doesn't use the wishbone.

Saban gave a lengthy answer.

"First of all, I don't know how to coach it," Saban began.

"Secondly, I don't think in this day and age, the way football has developed to a much more wide-open game. ... It's amazing to me when you look in the newspaper and you look at the NFL stats of the best offenses and the best defenses, just maybe 20 years ago the team that could run the ball the best was usually the team that had the best chance of winning, and now you see the No. 1 offense and they have 3,000 yards passing and 300 rushing."

Saban reiterated that his wife, Terry, questions why the Tide runs up the middle so often.

"But it really is the kind of team we have," he said. "I've tried to explain it to her. It's physical. We have big guys, and they do better when we run direct runs, right at people. When we try to move sideways, they don't move sideways as well as they move straight ahead. It's kind of like the Mack truck theory. "

[cbbama99]

I think Terry may be the only one brave enough to question his play calling. 

[Merk]

I think Terry may be the only one brave enough to question his play calling. 

And get away with it.

[BAMAWV]

I can't believe you are presented with the opportunity to ask CNS a question, and THAT is what is most important to you.  CNS is very polite to our fans, and I feel he truly appreciates and is in awe of, the support and generousity of our fanbase.

[navychief]

For anybody that heard the phone call, I believe he was a barner mocking our fanbase.

[SUPERCOACH]

I can't believe you are presented with the opportunity to ask CNS a question, and THAT is what is most important to you.  CNS is very polite to our fans, and I feel he truly appreciates and is in awe of, the support and generousity of our fanbase.

He handled it very graciously.  I'm picturing my response would be something like this:  "Because it is 2011.  HTH"

[SUPERCOACH]

For anybody that heard the phone call, I believe he was a barner mocking our fanbase.

That explains it.

[BAMAWV]

I can't believe you are presented with the opportunity to ask CNS a question, and THAT is what is most important to you.  CNS is very polite to our fans, and I feel he truly appreciates and is in awe of, the support and generousity of our fanbase.

He handled it very graciously.  I'm picturing my response would be something like this:  "Because it is 2011.  HTH"

This topic was slightly relevant, maybe a year ago, when Navy was running it. IDK

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