Top Ten Villains In College Football (Take A Stab At Who's #1)

[AUChizad]

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The top 10 villains in college football

Monday, August 17, 2009

This week's top-10 list topic: the best villains in college football.

I'm not including players who might get the villain tag thanks to police blotter issues or high-profile players such as Colt McCoy, Tim Tebow and Sam Bradford, whom rival fans might deem as overexposed or too-good-to-be-true types. Instead, I'm listing the brash, stir-the-pot characters:

   1. Alabama coach Nick Saban: It's not just fans in south Florida and in Louisiana who are sour on Saban. ("Nick Satan" T-shirts, anyone?) In our recent ESPN The Magazine survey of college players, Saban was the runaway top answer to the question, "Who is the last coach you'd want to play for based on what you know?" In fact, Saban was named almost twice as often as any other coach. Apparently, word from some Tide players has circulated. "Guys never have anything good to say about him," one SEC player said.

   2. Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin: It didn't take long for the young, first-year Vols coach to annoy fans in Florida, Alabama and South Carolina with some of his brash comments or abrasive statements that have been attributed to him. Lots of USC fans don't have many nice things to say about him, either.

   3. Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis: The former NFL assistant tweaked his brethren almost from the moment he got the ND job when he boasted about schematic advantages. And plenty more bluster was coming. He once boasted how he "could get hoodlums and thugs and win tomorrow." He also has alienated Irish alumni and high school coaches with arrogant behavior, Teddy Greenstein reported last year.

      Weis also was the only coach besides Saban whom at least 10 players around the country named in the poll as the coach they would least want to play for.

   4. Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino: Think Saban minus the national title ring. Colleague Pat Forde once labeled Petrino "the disingenuous drifter" because of the coach's efforts to chase different jobs every year during a five-year stretch that began in 2003, his first year as a head coach at Louisville. That year, he went behind the backs of his employer and his onetime boss, Tommy Tuberville, to negotiate a deal to replace him at Auburn.

And then 5-10 is premium.

Ouch. I guess recruits don't read this stuff...

[Snaggletiger]

Batman can flat out recruit.

[AUChizad]

Batman can flat out recruit.

Yeah, looks like Melick should have compared him to the Joker.

In fact, I feel a fark coming on...

[AuburnChopper 3.0]

This is all fine and good, but Bammer fans wear this as a badge of honor as long as he keeps recruiting.  With the exception of a very diplomatic acting few, I don't really think they care.

[RWS]

This is all fine and good, but Bammer fans wear this as a badge of honor as long as he keeps recruiting.  With the exception of a very diplomatic acting few, I don't really think they care.

It really doesn't matter to me. If they're going to cry at this level, they are in for a rude awakening if they go to the NFL. If you look at what a lot of recruits say, they know how its going to be. They don't sugarcoat it, and neither do the coaches.

[Hogwally]

     ESPN continues its smear of Bobby Petrino.  If you asked any other source, Petrino wouldn't be on this list, or at least not nearly this high.  Pat Forde has hated Petrino for years, don't know the real story behind why, but I would sure like to.  I bet it's pretty funny, probably makes Forde look like an ass.

[Birmingham]

The writer has an enormous amount of credibility when he claims that nobody wants to play for the coach that has gotten more top talent to play for him than any other coach in the entire country for the past 2 years.  What a dolt.

[Pell City Tiger]

The writer has an enormous amount of credibility when he claims that nobody wants to play for the coach that has gotten more top talent to play for him than any other coach in the entire country for the past 2 years.  What a dolt.

I think it had more to do with the Dodge Chargers and new kitchens funded by the REC. Hell, I'd play for him if I got $25,000 to sign.

[Birmingham]

I think it had more to do with the Dodge Chargers and new kitchens funded by the REC. Hell, I'd play for him if I got $25,000 to sign.

I'll let Saban know that you're available for $25,000.

[Snaggletiger]

I'll let Saban know that you're available for $25,000.

PCT would play for an 02' Jetta and a bucket of hot wings. 

He has his price but he can be bought.

[Pell City Tiger]

PCT would play for an 02' Jetta and a bucket of hot wings. 

He has his price but he can be bought.

02 Jetta! Nigga, please. Give me a 76 Chevette and a tank of gas and I'll grow me a mullet and be all up in dat mug.

[Snaggletiger]

02 Jetta! Nigga, please. Give me a 76 Chevette and a tank of gas and I'll grow me a mullet and be all up in dat mug.

Stop hatin' bitch.  My first car was a 78' Chevette.  No air and it only started when I got out with a screwdriver and touched off a spark around the starter.

Believe it or not, you can get laid in that little piece of shit.  My girlfriend was only 5'1"

[Pell City Tiger]

Stop hatin' bitch.  My first car was a 78' Chevette.  No air and it only started when I got out with a screwdriver and touched off a spark around the starter.

Believe it or not, you can get laid in that little piece of shit.  My girlfriend was only 5'1"

Laying out the pickle suprise in a Chevette. That's some serious game you had going!

[AuburnChopper 3.0]

Laying out the pickle suprise in a Chevette. That's some serious game you had going!

"HAAAYAAAAMMMMMM!!"

[Snaggletiger]

"HAAAYAAAAMMMMMM!!"

Place the ham thusly please.

[AuburnChopper 3.0]

Place the ham thusly please.

The next great emoticon??

[DnATL]

My girlfriend was only 5'1"

Average height for a 12 year old?

[AUTiger1]

Average height for a 12 year old?

So Uncle Sani isn't the only one who likes em young?  Apparently Birdman is giving him some competition.