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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Michael Wilbon,
Washington Post




The question now for Alabama is: How quickly will somebody else turn [Saban's] head? Clearly, he likes being courted as much, if not more, than he likes coaching. I'd love to be one of the good Southeastern Conference schools -- say, Florida, Auburn, Georgia, LSU -- recruiting against Alabama now. I'd make up a big board with all of Saban's lies over the last two years and I'd show the quotes to all those boys' mamas and daddies. I'd hammer at Saban's credibility in every living room across the South. If Saban had simply said, "I'm considering some options and I'm not ready to talk about this until the end of the season," there would be no issue with him. But his handling of the situation will and should dog him indefinitely.

And there's a question of Alabama's sanity, too. Days after the state told the University of Alabama-Birmingham that it couldn't pay its coach nearly a million bucks, the folks who run the Tuscaloosa campus only 55 miles up the road, the one with the state's crown jewel of a football team, were allowed to pay up to $40 million to this fraud?