President Trump thinks Lou Saban coaches Alabama football.
President Trump gave an endorsement of former Auburn, Ole Miss, Texas Tech and Cincinnati head coach Tommy Tuberville on Monday night. Tuberville wouldn’t be the headliner from president Trump’s endorsement speech ahead of Tuesday’s runoff vs. Jeff Sessions for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.
The big takeaway is when president Trump lauded Tuberville’s 7-3 record vs. Alabama during a 10-year stretch from 1999-2008 that resulted in the Crimson Tide going out and hiring Nick Saban who was then the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.
When making that connection, the president forgot Saban’s name, the most famous person in the state of Alabama and who has won five national championships as the Alabama head coach. President Trump referred to Nick Saban as “Lou Saban” in a regrettable misspeak. It was not the first time he got Saban’s name wrong.
“Really successful coach,” Trump said, speaking of Tuberville, via Al.com. “Beat Alabama, like six in a row, but we won’t even mention that. As he said … because of that, maybe we got ‘em Lou Saban. … And he’s great, Lou Saban, what a great job he’s done.”
Lou Saban is a real person who used to be a college and NFL head coach with the Denver Broncos and Buffalo Bills. He also passed away in 2009 at the age of 87 years old.
Twitter reacts to President Trump mixing Nick Saban with Lou Saban.
Naturally, Twitter had some funny reactions to president Trump forgetting the first name of the best college football coach of all-time.
Lou Saban’s career record as a college coach was 94-99-4
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) July 14, 2020
Lou Saban was a great coach for the Bills in the 60s and 70s. https://t.co/HjvSEYSYSS
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 14, 2020
Trump calling Nick Saban “Lou” should be enough to flip Alabama https://t.co/rpY3nPFQrY
— Charlotte Wilder (@TheWilderThings) July 14, 2020
Lou Saban coached the Buffalo Bills in the 1960s and 1970s. He coached a lot of other college and pro teams as well. None of them in Alabama, where Nick Saban has been the head coach since 2007 and where voting takes place tomorrow. https://t.co/ybfnvhfHPB
— Matt Viser (@mviser) July 14, 2020
"He's great, Lou Saban, what a great job he's done."
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 14, 2020
-- President Trump tonight, in a conference call, confusing Nick Saban with former head coach Lou Saban, who died 11 years ago.
Fine, I'll say it: Lou Saban's coaching resume is more impressive than Nick Saban's six national championships. pic.twitter.com/rGxCxWOvqw
— Josh Vitale (@JoshVitale) July 14, 2020
Literally in tears laughing at ‘Lou Saban’
— Christina Watkins (@CWatkinsWESH) July 14, 2020
How’s this for a fun fact? Lou Saban went winless at Northwestern and he isn’t even the worst coach by win percentage in program history.
a fun fact about Lou Saban is that he went winless as Northwestern's head coach but does not have the worst winning percentage among Northwestern head coaches pic.twitter.com/0Jdn7dFZLa
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) July 14, 2020
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