A lot of message board posters ream the media for the questions they ask - and sometimes, I'm one of those people. But I generally criticize the manner in which the question is asked and not the question itself.
Regardless, these kinds of questions aren't bad questions. People want to know what one of the premier college football coaches thinks about realignment. Hell, I want to know what Saban thinks about conference realignment.
Maybe it wasn't the right medium for asking the questions, but there isn't a lot of opportunity outside of press conferences for the media. Saban is right...but he's also wrong.
I don't have a problem at all with the media doing their job at all. My point is that no one knows what's going one until things are actually confirmed and it's tiresome answering questions that hold no wait at all. I'm not asking the media to stop asking conference realignment questions, just wait until we know what's actually taking place. What's the point of asking Saban "what do you think about playing Missouri?"...when in reality he has no idea if he will ever play against them.
I am on an email chain with a bunch of Kansas, KState, and Nebraska friends and conference realignment SPECULATION dominates the conversation daily. I am just tired of all the "I hear this school is going to this conference or this conference says they are expanding to 16 teams."
Not a big deal at all. Maybe I'm just whining....but that's what you do on message boards, right? Ha!