You have to be careful when transcribing Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban these days. He's become somewhat self-aware, often saying things with his tongue firmly implanted in his cheek.

Other times, however, he tells it how he sees it. It doesn't make him right, or wrong for that matter, but there's clearly a tipping point for Nick Saban whenever he has to deal with the media. At press conference, this was as evident as ever.

“I think a lot of things you {media} do are overblown, but I realize why you do it,” he said, as transcribed by ESPN. “It's your job to create news. It's our job to try to help our guys play winning football. I think different players play winning football in different ways. If you want to be critical of a guy for rushing 154 yards and think he should not do that so he can pass more, than that's up to you. You can do that if you want.”

To create news? That isn't exactly what journalists are doing. Of course, there are some people who take something he says, or something one of his players might do, then they run with it. At the same time, if those are things that actually happened or were said in real life, those aren't creations. They are real events being reported on.

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He added later:

“I don't think this is any more overblown than a lot of other things you do, if you want to know the truth about it. But I kind of get it. It's not personal. I don't mind it. It's OK. I get it.”

LOL.

Nick Saban, no one is making stuff up just to get at you. You are correct that it isn't personal, though.