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Putting Sal in the pressbox may keep objects from being thrown his way on the field- this is for the betterment of the sideline!

I wish I shared your optimism...

Hmmm? Looks like allwillbeorange may have nailed it with the "toxic" leadership post assuming that Sal goes to the pressbox.

All I want to see is improvement. If it works, great. At the very least, it'll give this board a lot more things to speculate on. Gonna be a fun week...... not.

I've got to think there's more to this. If he's in the box, I think it's a good move by Dooley. I can definitely see how things could have escalated to a point where no one was being productive (coaches and players). Maybe this will be the start of something good.

Agree completely. Sunseri is yelling, but it's desperate, whiny yelling, that you could clearly see on TV on Sat., along the lines of, "HOW can you not do what you did in practice? HOW can you be so stupid? WHAT is wrong with you?"

On the contrary, Saban yells and screams all the time, but it looks more like, "Get it right and get it right NOW, or I'll come over there and rip out your heart and lungs."

I remember when he was younger and had the rep. of a full-on psycho while at Michigan State, a parent complained that he told their kid he'd rip off his head and isht down his neck if he didn't get right whatever it was he was screwing up.

Obviously, Saban at Bama is the bad cop, and thus the rest of the coaching staff likely has to play good cop to keep the kids from going crazy, but I'm not sure we have a single coach that comes across as a borderline violent psycho. No staff needs to be full of them, but I've about decided that every staff needs at least one, and that one should be either the HC or the DC.

All the kids need a good cop type to go to when they're feeling down or discouraged, too, but don't underestimate the effect of honest fear on Saban's kids when it comes to their fundamental soundness and execution.

I used to think exactly the opposite. I used to think he was a psycho who'd wind up getting fired for punching a kid and/or an official. I also think Michigan State's administration agreed with me. Several NCs have changed my view.