re: I just lost all respect for Nick Saban..

I wonder how he feels about Norm Chow at UCLA?

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9-3 is the best record we've had in an even year in the 00s.

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2006? 11-2

Oh, you meant under the WVMD, we didn't post a record better than 9-3. 2000, 2002, 2004 were 8-4, 8-5 and 9-3, so that's right. But, LSU (under head coach Les Miles) went 11-2 in 2006.

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Microwave just went off i think your plate of dick is ready.

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thanks, I just spit 7up all over the keyboard!

He was a complete and TOTAL dick and arse in Miami. Talk radio in Miami was critical of him while he was here and would occasionally discuss how he was condesending to EVERYONE and a complete arse at times.

Of course, after he left it got brutal here with what a total piece of shite he is and the lil man complex was a favorite description of a lot of talk radio - esp Lebatard, see below...

Wed, Jan. 03, 2007


Le Batard: Saban leaves as a loser, weasel

BY DAN LE BATARD
dlebatard@MiamiHerald.com

The punctuation on the Nick Saban Error is greasy and greedy. You know what he was as Dolphins coach? A failure. A loser. A gasbag. And one of the worst investments Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga has ever made. He was less of a success than Dave Wannstedt and more of a traitor than Ricky Williams. There has been very little in franchise history that came with more expectations and fewer results than this hypocrite who at the end avoided the hard questions one last time.

Talk like a warrior. Behave like a weasel.

Maybe Saban would be better off in college. Because, in the pros the last few days, he has looked like a complete and utter amateur.

He will be remembered in these parts as a quitter and a liar. He leaves the franchise in last place, with what used to be his good name somehow far lower than that. And for this he'll get a $25 million raise and more job security in Alabama. Makes you wonder what USC's Pete Carroll or Ohio State's Jim Tressel are worth, doesn't it?

Larry Coker, a decent man, gets fired for his one championship. Saban, a duplicitous one, gets the most lucrative job in college football.

Saban could have fixed his reputation today if he had that mental toughness he is always sermonizing about. We have the meandering spiel memorized by now. About ''competitive character'' and ''overcoming adversity'' and blah, blah, blah. You preach it, Nick. But you don't live it. Not when it's easier to run away and hide.

Miami, 6-10 against an easy schedule, was swept this year by younger teams in its division -- the Jets and Bills. The team isn't better than when Saban arrived, just older. What little winning Saban has done has been with players left for him by Jimmy Johnson and Dave Wannstedt. What's the best decision Saban has made in two years? Can you name one?

So it makes sense that he would lack hope. But when his players are losing, he asks them to be proud and fight and overcome, even though what they do hurts a hell of a lot more than what he does. But now, reputation in tatters, integrity stained, he runs away from this fight -- to be a dictator to kids who question less and have less power to challenge him. Of course he'd go. It's a good deal easier. And a new crowd eager for a savior can hear his hot-air speeches about being a gladiator.

Saban made Huizenga look like a public fool with all his condescending talk of integrity recently, reprimanding reporters at every turn while his agent secretly kept taking slimy calls from Alabama in the shadows. What a raging fraud Saban sounds like today, every bit as counterfeit as Miami's Super Bowl expectations.

Oh, a man, even one under contract, is allowed to change his mind and listen to other offers, especially those that double his salary. But what makes Saban's behavior so unctuous recently is that he had the audacity to question the questioners with super-sized arrogance even while lying all along to his players and his boss. Huizenga has given this man everything he has wanted -- given him more than any NFL owner anywhere has given any other coach. He deserves better than this. He deserves better than Saban leaving him to answer the hard questions today.

Makes you wonder, too: Huizenga went after Ricky Williams and his money with cutthroat zeal, and Williams is still paying him back. But Saban just broke a contract, too. There are no outs in Saban's contract to go back to the minor leagues.

Remember how mad you were when Williams retired? Well, he wasn't cheating on you. He wasn't grabbing for more money. His body hurt from a beating, and he wanted to rest. What Saban has done is a more traitorous act -- the most traitorous act in the history of the franchise. He's leaving simply because he couldn't handle a hard job on the sidelines of a game in which he asks others to be violent. He gave up, in other words. And filing it under ''family'' now as a diluter, in search of understanding, rings hollow because you can't believe anything the man says about this situation. You think he'd be leaving if he were 3-13?

Saban, infomercial sermonizer, talked a lot about loyalty and integrity and toughness.

But, in the end, these were not his guides.

They were only the kinds of things he demanded of others.

To lose respect for Nick Saban, one would have to have it first.

But honestly, I don't really care that he wanted to leave the NFL to come back to college. What bothered me was the lying.

He is a fricking COWARD and a lying arse weasel. The SOB left here in the middle of the night, early morning because he was too much of a chickenshit to own up to anything and answer the tough questions. He just left a proud franchise in shambles so much worse off than when he arrived. On top of that he was the highest compensated coach in the NFL that was given EVERYTHING he asked for in Miami and treated the media, fans, and everyone around him like total shite before leaving in the middle of the night and taking zero responsibility.

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Sounds like Chrismas Day of 2004.

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sounds like Tuberville's pinebox stroy to me.

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sounds like Tuberville's pinebox stroy to me.

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Except Tubby did not leave a huge mess behind him, a program much worse off than when he got there, didn't leave in the middle of the night like a coward, was not the highest compensated coach in his profession, and did not act like an arrogant pompous arse to anybody that asked him if he was leaving only a few days prior.

Face it scoop, if Saban was not the current coach at bama and he treated bama like he treated the dolphins, you would not think too highly of him or his character.

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If Saban somehow became the coach at AU, YOU would say he is the greatest thing since sliced bread!

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Probably. I am a homer and anything AU is automatically good.

I have respect for Saban . When he was here I believed his JOB was to WIN!!!! He did that well so hell with the rest of it!!!