Nick Saban Uses Rat Poison Tactics on Kirby Smart To Mislead Georgia Against Beloved Alabama

Georgia fell to Alabama last week by 34-41, inviting a lot of discussion in the college football realm. While Kirby Smart prepared his boys to take up the toughest challenge in the season with confidence and composure, the loss sent a blow to the Bulldogs’ ego.

The game has been a topic of discussion this whole week. How do you approach your team after such a loss? On the other side, how do you keep your team engaged after such a rollercoaster of a victory? These two questions perturbed Kirby Smart and Kalen DeBoer. Former Bama coach Nick Saban also shared his views on this issue on today’s College Game Day.

Nick Saban has been a huge spirit booster to Kirby Smart following the latter’s week 5 beatdown

The legend that single-handedly carried Alabama to the top and maintained the momentum consistently for a while is certainly happy about how Kalen DeBoer is rightly following in his footsteps all along but his heart also reaches to the unsung heroes of the night, the Georgia squad. Asking the Bulldogs’ coach, Kirby Smart, to keep his chin up, Saban dropped a text that read, ”Hey, this is not the worst thing that ever happened. Most of our best teams lost a game someway along the line, and they responded the right way because we had really good leadership on the team that held people accountable to do things the way you needed to do it to have success.”

It will be nothing but a recapitulation of his popular rat poison theory that he used to apply to the Bama to keep them grounded after achieving some sky-high feats.

Saban revealed his secret mantra to the former Alabama defensive coordinator while discussing the odds of motivating a winning team and a loser team during ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’. As per the bona fide Bama coach, it is ten times more effective to uplift a loser, maybe because they have the room and hunger to do better, which the winning team might lack for that time being. So, Saban did the same, extending his good thoughts to the Georgia locker room. Now, for those who have wondered if Bama needs his vision as well to scale up their top-tier performance even more, the greatest of all time coach’s astute strategy is still firmly stitched all around the Tularosa football.

What is Nick Saban-led Rat Poison theory all about?

The legendary Alabama coach might have passed the torch to DeBoer, but his unbelievable success with the Alabama from 2007 to 2023 was something the history will adore forever. That said, the behind-the-scenes of the quintessential success was equally praise-worthy. Saban, a seasoned visionary, knows well how overconfidence sometimes becomes more detrimental for a team’s progress than underconfidence. Hence, he strictly refrains from letting success get into the head of the players at any cost, no matter how prodigious it is. This mentality of Saban has widely been known as a rat poison theory.

It was just like kids being on their phones and receiving the headlines that Alabam can never lose; they are unbelievable etc, etc. The unprecedented hype, on the flip side, is prone to create a superego among the players who forget to pay attention to the details and lose the game as a result. Saban’s generous prudence has been embodying the height of sportsmanship, never letting this rat poison be the spoilsport, not only to Alabama but to any other CFB team in question.

What’s your take on Nick Saban motivating a dejected Georgia coach with his famous rat poison tactic via text message? Let us know in the comments.