. Google top 10 most hated sports figures, read through about 5 or 6 of the list, then come tell us about Saban's "national perception"! Dude's a BRILLIANT coach, but he's a douchebag of a person. And that can actually be referenced and proved.

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Posted by MSMHater

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Posted on 8/27/09 at 2:09 pm to MSMHater

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Forbes: Nick Saban is the most hated white man in sports

• Saban, at No. 9, is one of only two non-player hate objects in the top-10, joining Isiah Thomas. (What, no Matt Millen? I guess unemployment heals all wounds.)

• Though Thomas is warming up for his first season at Florida International, Saban is the only hated figure on the list most closely associated with amateur sports -- and even then his appearance seems to stem mainly from the infamous "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach" speech shortly before he became the Alabama coach.

• And most interestingly, Saban is the highest-ranked white guy on the list. The top eight are all black (Michael Vick, Terrell Owens, Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Isiah Thomas, Stephon Marbury) or Hispanic (Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez). Popular pitchman John McEnroe is No. 10. How a fair sample of the public could consider Owens or Bryant worse than, say, Jeremy Mayfield or Ben Roethlisberger, or Iverson worse than heavily tattooed malcontent Jeremy Shockey, I couldn't say.

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Posted by DvlsAdvocat

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Posted on 8/27/09 at 2:11 pm to MSMHater

Go back and reread my exact post and what I was replying to. How somebody is viewed "in your neck of the woods" is not necessarily the "national perception"...

Is the average Louisville, Kentucky or Opelika, Alabama sports fan's opinion of Bobby Petrino the "national perception"....how about the opinion of Bobby Knight within Indiana?

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