Unauthorized biography of nick saban bio
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TUSCALOOSA, AL (WBRC) - Nick Saban made it clear he's not happy with an unauthorized biography that hit shelves this week.
Toward the end of his news conference after Alabama's first practice on Thursday, Saban said he didn't approve of someone "you don't even know trying to profit by your story, or someone else's story."
The biography "Saban: The Making of a Coach" by Monte Burk was released on Tuesday.
"One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book," Saban vowed. "Because you know, there's only one expert on my life. And guess who that is? Me."
The head coach went on:
"And there won't be any misinformation, there won't be any false statements, there won't be any hearsay, there won't be any expert analysis from somebody else. It'll be the real deal."
"But I'm not really ready for that to happen. And, you know, it's a little amazing to me that the timing of all this happening right when we're starting camp, I just want everybody out the
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Did Saban’s ire damage bio sales?
Monte Burke grew up in Birmingham rooting for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. As a writer at Forbes magazine, he found himself charmed by Alabama coach Nick Saban after shadowing the Crimson Tide coach on the Tuscaloosa campus while working on a cover story about Saban.
The magazine article convinced Burke to spend several years researching and writing a biography of Saban, a book published in August. Two days after a book signing and launch party for Burke at a Birmingham bookstore that included camera crews from ESPN, Saban ended his first news conference of fall practice with an unprompted diatribe about “Saban: The Making of a Coach,” Burke’s page book published by Simon & Schuster.
Standing in the Alabama media room, Saban told reporters, “I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography for anybody. I think that’s some person that you don’t even know trying to profit by your story. One of these days, w
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Now that Nick Saban's slammed his unauthorized bio, are you more or less likely to read it?
Watch Nick Saban get upset about his unauthorized biographyNick Saban said he does not approve of any unauthorized biography at his first press conference of the fall preseason.
Turns out Nick Saban isn't all that thrilled about that unauthorized biography after all.
Sales should really skyrocket now.
Saban was in edgy midseason form at his press conference after Thursday's opening practice of fall camp, and that was before closing the festivities with a rather scathing commentary directed at Monte Burke's new book, "Saban: The Making of a Coach."
Saban blew a hole in the notion that, even though he didn't participate in the book, he was OK with it because he didn't prohibit people close to him from talking to the author.
Reading from a prepared statement, even though no one had asked about the book, he made it klar that he's not OK with