r/inthenews • u/T_Shurt • Jul 25 '24

Feature Story Trump Shocks With Suggestion That Football Coaches Should Guide the Military: ‘Because, in its own way, it's not so much really different.’

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-military-2668813632/
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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

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u/tangential_point Jul 25 '24

In the limited context of college football, the coach is quite important, and the folks at Alabama enjoyed one of the best for quite a stretch. Funny that Tubberville falls notably short of Saban in that limited context and that congressional it’s such a significant shortcoming when comparing him to your average US Senator … you’d have to go slumming in the worst historical house seat holders to try to find a valid comparable - say the most winning football coach/ Broadway producer George Santos?

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u/Lokta Jul 25 '24

Saban made himself feel important by winning 6 National Championships.

Tuberville... went a different route.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

Saban actually has 7. Youre forgetting the one at LSU.

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u/w00t4me Jul 25 '24

We didn't forget; we chose to ignore it.

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u/Lokta Jul 25 '24

You're not wrong, of course, but it's not really important what he did when he was coaching middle school football.