He then blamed it on someone else.

is there a non-derogatory way to refer to someone as a coonass?

Did he call Barack Obama a "Clean" black ala Joe Biden.

Sometimes the truth hurts

Tanner, can you verify if you've heard anything about the comments below. I read it on a message board but I think it's a fake. There is no way he would say this. I figured LSU people would be in an uproar if this was true. The article is supposedly from the Birmingham news and quoting him from a radio show.



I'm sure the SEC hasn't changed much over the past two seasons. I mean Mississippi State is still funding scholarships by collecting pop bottles and aluminum cans along the highways," said Saban, half jokingly Friday afternoon. "Auburn, our motto --'Where most coaches are fired' -- is still
in effect."

"LSU was nothing before I arrived. Academically, athletically, physical plant, nothing. I made LSU. I was LSU. Their current success is solely due to my recruits. Coach Miles, while a fine man, does not fill my shoes, fit my desk, or cast a taller shadow. Our coaching staff is superior to anything in Baton Rouge. We will go into Louisiana an take each and every player we want. LSU will not, nor can not stop me. Mark my words."
Finebaum point blank asked Saban if those comments mean LSU is a bigger foe than Auburn, a team that has dominated the Crimson Tide in recent years.

Adding insult to injury. Just now starting to make national news. Called french cajuns coonasses in a derogatory way on tape. He then blamed it on someone else.

Don't certain people down there kinda celebrate the term "coonass"?

I just remember my brother having a "Coonass Militia" patch or cap or something.

you fucking foreigners will get sore about anything...

I'm pretty sure anyone would be sore with a raccoon up their ass.

Being the safe minority, and threatening to no one, the whole thing is silly to me. A slur is either a slur or it isn't, you know what I mean? And where did coon fome from anyways? I've always wondered.

and I love cajun food. I mean coonass food. And i love nigger food. I mean, coon food? Oh, i meant soulfood.

I just like food.

Sincerely,
your resident sand nigger.

is there a non-derogatory way to refer to someone as a coonass?

Did he call Barack Obama a "Clean" black ala Joe Biden.

Did Biden's '08 presidential candidacy even last 24 hours? Heck, in '88 he at least managed to keep it going for a couple of month before all the plagiarism stuff hit. If only he was more...articulate.

"That Obama, he's one of the good ones"

Saban under fire for derogatory remark
Tide coach says he doesn't condone ethnic slur about Cajuns
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:29 p.m. ET Jan 31, 2007

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - As an audiotape spread on the Internet, Alabama coach Nick Saban acknowledged Wednesday using a phrase considered derogatory to Cajuns but said he doesn’t condone such language and merely was repeating something a friend told him.

Saban, a former LSU and Miami Dolphins coach, used an ethnic slur Jan. 3 while telling Florida reporters in Tuscaloosa an anecdote about an LSU fan’s angry reaction to his hiring.

When asked about the LSU fans’ reaction, Saban related a phone call from a friend on the LSU board of trustees, whom he did not name. In what seemed to be an attempt at humor, Saban told of the friend’s encounter with an LSU fan, who speaks in a Cajun dialect.

“He was walking down the street yesterday before the Sugar Bowl,” Saban said on the taped comments. “He calls me. There was a guy working in the ditch, one of those coonass guys that talk funny.

“I can’t talk like them, but he can. Most people in Louisiana can.”

Continuing to tell the story, Saban then quoted the worker’s vulgar comment about Saban going to Alabama.

Saban, in a statement Wednesday, said the word “can be taken as derogatory by some people.”

“Those comments need to be placed in the proper context, so as to understand the meaning of what was said,” Saban said. “The words were used in paraphrasing a story told to me by a friend. I was simply using the same wording used by the person who told me the story.

“The term in question is not language that I use or condone, and I can understand how some would take offense. However, I think it must be noted that those comments were made ‘off the record’ and the words merely reflected an anecdote that was told to me using that language.”

Warren Perrin, president of the Council for Development of French in Louisiana, said the term is “highly offensive.”

“I routinely state that the use of that term is highly offensive to descendants of Acadians, who are commonly referred to as Cajuns,” Perrin said.

Alabama spokeswoman Deborah Lane said the university had no comment beyond Saban’s statement.