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Nick Saban (ex-HC Alabama Crimson Tide)

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Forbes: The Most Powerful Coach in Sports

The Most Powerful Coach in Sports

Monte Burke 08.07.08, 6:00 PM ET

College football has long been a big business. But the money and control Alabama gave Nick Saban raised the stakes to an unprecedented level. Is he worth it?

On New Year's Day in 2007 Mal Moore, the athletic director at the University of Alabama, boarded a private plane bound for Miami. A little over a month earlier the university had fired Mike Shula, its fourth football coach in eight mediocre years. The pursuit of a new coach to that point had been bungled badly--the once proud program was reportedly turned down by Steve Spurrier, from South Carolina, and Rich Rodriguez, at the time the coach at West Virginia. Moore was on his way to Miami to try to woo Nick Saban, then the coach of the NFL's Dolphins. It was all-or-nothing, with no real backup plan. "I told the pilots when they dropped me off in Miami that if I didn't come back to this plane with Nick Saban, they should just go on and take me to Cuba," Moore says.

Saban, a onetime head coach at Louisiana State, fretted over the decision to leave Miami for two restless days, then took the job and flew with Moore back to Tuscaloosa--and into a national media outcry in which he was called a "weasel," a "loser" and "Nick Satan" for leaving Miami after publicly denying interest in the Alabama job.

But in Tuscaloosa, which was desperate to return to national football prominence, Saban, 56, was a savior, welcomed with an open wallet. Saban, with his agent, James E. Sexton II, negotiated an eight-year, $32 million contract that was, at the time, the highest salary ever paid to a college coach. It remains among the highest and is bigger than all but a handful of NFL coaching salaries. His deal includes, among other perks, 25 hours of private use of a university airplane, two cars and a country club membership, extras that make his annual compensation closer to $5 million a year, estimates Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist. He can leave the school at any time without financial penalty, a rarity in big-time college coaching contracts.

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I saw Nick Saban at the Toledo Central Catholic v Bowling Green HS game tonight checking up on his recruit Mike Marrow. OK, Nick didn't make it to the game but he missed a good show. Mike Marrow (6' 2" - 240) played both office and defense. On offense he scored twice and rolled over his would be tacklers.

Mike Marrow
"I like to hit and run through people."
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He did. Mike ran for 96 yds and 21 carries. TCC won 24 to 7.
 
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Saban said in an ESPN interview that over the last couple of years he has been portrayed differently than what he really is.

Tom Rinaldi (the guy that usually has the violin music playing behind his stories) asked him 'How have you been portrayed?"

Saban: "Like Attilla the Hun".

:tibor:

But this week I'm expecting several ambulance chasers to be searching for Hun descendants in order to file a slander suit against Saban.
 
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Nick Saban is a very good coach, I hate him, and yet I can still say that he is a good coach.

Nick Saban is also a dirty filthy fucking snake that should never be trusted, he knows it (or he should), and he needs to own up to it.

I wouldnt let him drink the water out of my toilet to save his life.
 
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si.com

'Bama admits to NCAA violations

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- The University of Alabama has appeared before the NCAA's Committee on Infractions concerning violations involving textbooks for athletes.

The university said Thursday that the hearing was held on Feb. 20. The university self-reported the violations after uncovering them during the 2007 football season.

The university admitted in its 67-page response to the NCAA's notice of allegations that infractions occurred and that it didn't adequately monitor its distribution of textbooks to student-athletes.

Alabama suspended five football players for four games two seasons ago for using their athletic scholarships to get free textbooks for others.

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As if residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina needed another reason to hate Saban.

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Nick Saban is famous for his sensitivity, so it was truly shocking to hear him make this analogy when describing the challenge his Alabama team faces: "You know when you build a house and you make it hurricane proof, you're getting prepared for what? A hurricane that may or may not ever come. But we're going to have 12 hurricanes next year. We know they're coming."
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For those wondering, the 12 'hurricanes' for 2009 include home games against:

Florida International (5-7 in the Sun Belt in '08)
North Texas (1-11 in the Sun Belt in '08)
Chattanooga (an FCS/1-AA team)
 
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BB73;1438020; said:
As if residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina needed another reason to hate Saban.

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For those wondering, the 12 'hurricanes' for 2009 include home games against:

Florida International (5-7 in the Sun Belt in '08)
North Texas (1-11 in the Sun Belt in '08)
Chattanooga (an FCS/1-AA team)
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Silly bastard. It would be a Tropical Depression, at best, by the time it reached Chattanooga.
 
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Nick had some interesting comments about the Bama fans recently.

Birmingham.News.blog

After A-Day, what did Nick Saban say about fans and the Sugar Bowl loss?

Posted by [URL="http://blog.al.com/rapsheet/about.html"]Ian R. Rapoport -- The Birmingham News[/URL] April 20, 2009 9:22 AM

One of the more interesting things about Alabama coach Nick Saban is that he never misses an opportunity to send a message. Even after a mostly positive A-Day, Saban was asked by a reporter, How successful have you been in changing the attitudes and expectations of, well, everyone?

What followed was a long, meandering answer from Saban that included a discussion of 15 of 20 seniors graduating by December, what his program does in terms of personal development and how he is inspired by the attitudes of LeBron James and Tiger Woods, the latter of whom says,
"You've never arrived."

Then, Saban turned everyone toward a Sugar Bowl experience that was brutal for fans, players and coaches alike. Here was his message:

"I want our fans to understand that when they don't have positive passion and energy for what we're trying to accomplish, then it affects everyone," Saban said. "Last year's team was a great example of that."
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And this:

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Nick Saban is a little irritated, and this time his irritation is directed at Alabama fans. He's peeved that some of them seemed to jump off the bandwagon late in the season after their perfect record went up in smoke: "For 13 weeks, we got great positive energy and passion about what we’re doing. (Then) there’s very little interest from our fans, our players or anybody else to play in the Sugar Bowl, which to me is a tremendous opportunity. I tried to tell everyone you’re only going to remember one thing about this game and that’s going to be the outcome of this game. So there’s no interest, there’s no passion and everybody’s embarrassed because of how we played. Well, it’s because you didn’t have any passion for it, you didn’t have any interest in it, you didn’t have any enthusiasm to do it and that’s across the board. And that’s not right. We go to a BCS bowl game, (then) everybody ought to be positive and enthusiastic about what we’re doing." Yeah, we could see where Saban would have no respect for someone who jumps ship at the first sign of adversity.
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Irony

Hypocrisy

Stupidity


Nick Saban Loses to a heavy underdog (in the minds of most); then he throws FANS under the bus. And WHY was it their fault? Because they gave up on the team.

You couldn't make this stuff up.
 
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