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Nick Saban (ex-HC Alabama Crimson Tide)

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ant80;2132870; said:
Nick Saban now the highest paid coach in NCAA

"From my standpoint, the acceptance of this extension represents our commitment ... to the University of Alabama for the rest of our career," Saban said. "We made that decision after the season when other people were interested."
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Is he going to have his assistant coaches buried with him like the cats in Egypt? Wtf?

Eh, at least he didn't go all "Nick Saban loves this contract because it's what Nick deserves", I guess.
 
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Oh8ch said:
I have often lambasted the NCAA for exploiting its amateur athletes, but I guess I was a bit out of line. Students get tuition, books, room and board, etc.

Coach Saban earns a mere 275 times the total of these student expenses at Alabama. Certainly his contribution to their success is at least 275 times as great as that of a Mark Ingram or Trent Richardson.
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Rick Pitino earned $50,000 for his win in the round of 32 in the NCAA Basketball Tournament that advanced his team to the Sweet 16.

Rick Pitino earned another $50,000 for his win in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament that advanced his team to the Elite 8.

Rick Pitino earned another $75,000 for his win in the Elite 8 round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament that advanced his team to the Final Four.

Rick Pitino has earned $175,000 over the last 2 weeks, while the players that actually earned the victories through their athletic exploits on the court have earned $0.

Pitino has himself a nice set of workers during this harvesting season.





(Please, no one freak out. That was very much tongue-in-cheek. I think.)
 
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From an ESPN panel forum last August, there was this exchange betwen Jay Bilas and Nick Saban.

BB73;1969567; said:
Bilas - "You force kids to be pros because we don't want to give them anything. We want to keep complete control, God forbid if they made a couple bucks, too. Like a music student could who's on a full music scholarship, can cut a record, can play at Carnegie Hall, can be on TV, can be in a movie, whatever they want. Regular students get paid all the time."

Saban - "There's nobody takin' profits from what we make at Alabama or any of these schools here, and puttin' in in their pocket. It's not a business, it's revenue producing, that's all reinvested back in the university and the athletic department and the program. Nobody's really making money - I mean we get paid salaries."

Bilas - "I'll say." - laughing.

Saban "Do you?"

Bilas nods.
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I guess to Saban, $5 or $6 million a year isn't "really making money". What an asshat.
 
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OHSportsFan;2132963; said:
Rick Pitino has earned $175,000 over the last 2 weeks, while the players that actually earned the victories through their athletic exploits on the court have earned $0.

Pitino has himself a nice set of workers during this harvesting season.
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Well, at least if all the poor kids who actually played the games continue to win, once they have their championship rings they can at least put those on Ebay & pick up a couple of bucks...can't they?
 
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http://thebiglead.com/index.php/201...-beating-up-sorority-sister-in-drunken-brawl/

On August 28, 2010, Kristen Saban and some of her sorority sisters played power hour before going out to the bar. At the bar (Rounders) Kristen got mad at her boyfriend because he wasn’t paying enough attention to her. Kristen and her friends stayed until the bar closed, drove home and got into an argument because Kristen was whining. Later Kristen went into her room and wrote a Facebook message about Sarah Grimes. Sarah wanted to confront Kristen, but her friends cautioned her against it because of Saban’s “known violent nature and previous assault on others.” To the block quotes!

27. Sarah walked across the hall, with her phone in hand and knocked
on Kristen’s door with the palm of her hand saying, “You’ve got five seconds to
take it off, or I’m going to tell everyone that you punched Daniel (Kristen’s
former boyfriend) in the face last week. Try me.”
28. Kristen did not respond but opened the door seconds later waving
her phone in Sarah’s face, causing Sarah to move backwards towards Courtney’s
bedroom door.
29. Kristen was yelling, “I took it off, I took it off!”
30. Sarah responded, “That’s fine, but we’re done, you’re crazy.”
31. Kristen immediately used both of her hands and shoved Sarah into
the corner of Courtney’s open door, slamming Sarah’s head.
32. Sarah defended herself by pushing Kristen into the opposite wall,
saying “Don’t touch me.”
32. Kristen proceeded to punch Sarah Grimes multiple times in her
head and nose, and to pull Sarah’s hair, even though Kristen knew that Sarah had
really bad migraines from a prior head injury from an automobile accident.
33. By this time Meghan, who was outside in the parking lot, heard the
yelling and ran upstairs.
34. Sarah screamed “I’m calling the cops!”
35. Kristen’s grip on Sarah’s hair prevented Sarah from getting away
and they moved down the hall toward the kitchen as Sarah tried to get away.
36. After multiple blows to Sarah’s face, Hannah intervened and tried
to pull Kristen away but was unable to do so due to Kristen’s grip of Sarah’s hair
and Kristen refused to stop hitting Sarah.
37. The screaming woke up Beth Terry, who immediately jumped in to
help pull Kristen off from behind (Beth’s shirt was ripped and stained with
Sarah’s blood).

When it was over, there was a ton of blood and Sarah had a bruise on her temple the “size of a tennis ball.” The final damage was an “elbow contusion, a concussion, cervical strain, and headache.” Oh, and “Later, Sarah would be diagnosed with a deviated septum.” Sarah Grimes is seeking compensatory and punitive damages against Kristen Saban.
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