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08-13-2008, 10:19 PM
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08-15-2008, 12:18 PM
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Forbes: The Most Powerful Coach in Sports
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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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08-22-2008, 10:43 PM
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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.
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He did. Mike ran for 96 yds and 21 carries. TCC won 24 to 7.
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10-04-2008, 10:39 AM
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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".
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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10-05-2008, 02:41 AM
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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 [censored]ing 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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10-05-2008, 02:57 AM
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I wouldnt let him drink the water out of my toilet to save his life.
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I would ...
Then I'd slam the toilet seat down on the back of his head and yell, "That's for 1998, BITCH!"
Then I'd kick him in the nuts.
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10-05-2008, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Dryden
I would ...
Then I'd slam the toilet seat down on the back of his head and yell, "That's for 1998, BITCH!"
Then I'd kick him in the nuts.
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