Thats right, with this chick in action. Gold Medal stuff. Mike Price got fired for messing around like this in Pensacola.

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DAN LE BATARD
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HAND IT TO NICK SABAN: HE FOUND AWAY TO QUIT THAT MADE MIAMI FORGET HOW BADLY HE COACHED

The volume and hostility has no precedent in South Florida sports. Nick Saban is OSaban Been Lyin’, Saddam HuSaban, Pi-Nick-io. Not even Ricky Williams created this kind of echoing name-calling when he left, and the jilted fan base had more reason to miss him. Williams had been, you know, valuable. But even pillar Don Shula, always above it all, came down from the mountain on which his chin is sculpted to agree that Saban is a liar, quitter, coward and fraud. You’d have a hard time finding anyone in these parts who remembers hearing the gentleman Shula so publicly angry. Why all the noise? Coaches lie and leave all the time. Not in this arrogant or cowardly a fashion, granted, but still. Very few of us, in any workplace, would refuse a job with more security, more money and less pressure. Fans can be knee-jerk emotional about these things, raging against the selfishness of a departed mercenary because the SOB had the audacity to hurt our chance of winning. As if any of us would stay in a job that made us unhappy just to please Nick Saban.

Business became personal in South Florida because betrayal hurts most when you believe, and the sermonizing Saban climbed the football ladder by selling character, toughness and overcoming. Want to test a man’s character? Give him adversity, or give him power. In the end, Saban couldn’t be trusted with either. “The shadow fled, absconded, snuck out the back door,” says Dolphins Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti. “I’m thrilled that the guy is gone. What he owed the community was to face it. If you are going to leave, own up. If you are going to preach manliness and coach a manly game in which you have blood all over your uniform, you should act like a man. That’s why everyone is calling him a scoundrel and a sneak. Face your weakness.”

Ah, yes. The hypocrisy. It wasn’t just the one lie Saban told. It’s that all his bedrocks crumbled on him in the end. Integrity. Honor. Trust. Respect. Mental toughness. Accountability. He had his first losing season and promptly quit. Then, upon landing to a savior’s welcome in Alabama, his failures somehow became the fault of predecessor Dave Wannstedt and injured Daunte Culpepper and irresponsible Ricky Williams and sweet-talking Wayne Huizenga and the personnel people and basically everyone outside the confines of Saban’s mirror. Saban was responsible only for the applause, evidently, owning all the power but at the same time powerless. Accountability? That’s just the ability to put $32 million in the bank. Saban said it was Huizenga who suggested the coach not attend a final press conference, to avoid the tough questions. That’s what you choose to listen to Huizenga about, Coach? Everyone is entitled to change jobs, sure, but there’s going to be a backlash when the preacher suddenly decides to become a prostitute. The gay-massage-andcrystal-meth scandal is going to be a little more newsworthy when the person at the center of it is an evangelical famed for railing against homosexuality and drugs. The coach is the closest thing we have to an evangelical in the religion of sports, so you aren’t going to find many falls from grace quite like this one. Al Groh, 9–7 just as Saban was in his first season as an NFL head coach, changed his mind in no place less than New York, the nation’s largest media market, and returned to college without fostering outrage. But it was Saban, the self-proclaimed hillbilly, who elevated himself to Coach Barefoot Bryant status with all his slick speechifying. As Shula pointed out: “The guy likes to hear himself talk and then doesn’t follow up on what he says.” Some of Saban’s memorable quotes are now soaked in irony given the way he fled.

On defensive tackle Manny Wright’s desire to be traded, Saban said, “We don’t have any of this stuff: ‘When it doesn’t work here, let me go someplace else.’ That’s not how it is. This is the real world. It’s business. You have a job. You have a responsibility.” And there’s this gem: “The best way to disrespect someone is to just walk away from them.”

Saban once wrote one of those self-help books and called it How Good Do You Want to Be? We may need a rewrite in South Florida now to better reflect the status of his bedrocks and his reputation.

A Million Little Pieces.