re: Nick Saban: "Jonathan Taylor did everything we asked him to do"

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I'm not going to pile on, but he took an unnecessary risk and it blew up in his face

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shite, I'm not even going to sugarcoat it by calling it a risk. It was reckless endangerment of the student population and the reputation of the football program and University at large. I'm not going to lay it solely at the feet of Saban as others at the University had to sign off on Taylor's admission as well, but let's call it what it is. The guy hadn't even appeared before a court on his first charge of closed-fist hitting his girlfriend and choking her to the point that she had strangulation marks on her neck before he was admitted into the University of Alabama. This wasn't "boys will be boys" or "wrong place at the wrong time." THOSE are second chance worthy. This was a straight up violent act against someone close to him. The guy needs help but the University of Alabama is in no position to offer him that help, let alone rewarding him with the privileges of a full scholarship and the aplomb that comes with wearing a Bama jersey. And the motivations for why they did it are so clear that they should honestly just fess up to the fact that he was admitted because he looked like a good prospect worthy of gambling student welfare on. Credit to the Bama fans that derided the decision from the outset of his signing, but the Bama administration deserves to eat every bit of the shite being flung at them from all angles.