Shula is mad, Saban is a douche

[Cuse9 129]

There is no gentle way to say this: The man who was coaching the Dolphins the past couple of years, the CEO at the top of a violent game, has been exposed the past couple of days as kind of a wimp.

 

Nick Saban does nothing better than talk, and he kept yammering like the evangelist/politician/fraud that he is Thursday to place blame on everyone but himself. The decision to go pro? It was Wayne Huizenga's fault for sweet-talking him out of the college game. The lack of improvement? It was the fault of Dave Wannstedt for leaving him a salary-cap mess. The losing? It was the fault of Ricky Williams for failing a drug test, and Ronnie Brown and Daunte Culpepper for getting hurt, and the personnel people for picking the wrong players. The decision to leave? His wife missed the atmosphere of the college game.

 

The amazing thing isn't that Saban told his assistant coaches he was leaving by phone. The amazing thing is that he didn't ask his wife to place the call for him.

 

So there goes another one of Saban's bedrocks. After smashing to bits ''honesty'' and ''integrity'' and ''loyalty'' and ''mental toughness'' the past few days, ''accountability'' came crumbling to the ground at the fraud evangelist's feet Thursday.

 

Here's the truth: Saban found he couldn't impact the pro game with all his genius and all his arrogance and all his condescension and all his coaches and all his self-help-infomercial yammering and all of Huizenga's money. So he fled.

 

according to ESPN's Chris Mortensen, Saban actually whimpered to Huizenga that he would stay if the owner really, really wanted him to -- somehow putting this in the boss' lap.

 

Saban came here because he wanted to be The Man.

 

At the end, he wasn't much of one.

 

from the Miami paper......

[6 Million Dollar Faulk 0]

I'm not a Dolphins fan, not a Saban fan and not an Alabama fan but I don't fault the guy for leaving, and who wouldn't? 32 MILLION GUARANTEED, that's all I would have to hear and I would be on the first flight to Alabama. I'm not sure how much Saban was making with the Dolphins but I can guarantee it wasn't 32 million. Even if the guy falls flat on his face at Alabama he can sit at home and swim in his cash Scrooge McDuck style.

[northernsong 0]

I don't think that Saban's move would have annoyed so many people if it weren't for his personality.

 

I can't remember ever seeing a more smug, condescending asspipe. I'm shocked that we haven't heard of any PJ Carlisimo-type attacks on him yet. If he deals with his players the way it appears he treats everyone when he's on tv, I'd be hard-pressed not to smack the little b!tch if I played for him.

 

As far as the job change itself, I don't see how it's any different than the dozens of other guys who do the same thing every year.

 

I think the challenge flag incident from week one showed everyone what a bratty a**hole Saban is. I can't believe people didn't make more out of it than they did.

[GhostofMeanMachine99 1]

Lets look at it from a different perspective:

 

Lets say you owned a business and you hired a guy to come in and run your business. When you hired him you gave him complete control! You even let him have access to your private plane. Well, he does a pretty good job the first year and the second year some bad things happen, but none the less, you still have a shot to have a profitable year (playoffs).

 

Well all of a sudden you start hearing rumors that another business is trying to get this guy. He totally denies that it is true yet your business goes in the toilet (Saban lost his last three games, and missed playoffs) in the final weeks of him running it.....about the same time the rumors started.

 

Now after he failed to improve your business he says, well, I'm gonna take that other job. All those people that I hired at a pretty good price tag....deal with it. Oh, and those stocks (draft picks) I traded that are so valuable....deal with it. In fact, I'm not even going to address our employees or the media.....deal with it.

 

I'm going to go to this other business and tell them how important character and integrity is.

 

Wayne invested alot in Saban and I don't think Saban gave him an honest effort. He didn't let the team know he was leaving. He didn't have a press conference to clarify why he was leaving. If he would have had a press conference in Miami he could have saved some integrity. But, to leave Wayne deal with it by himself was very unprofessional.

 

At his press conference in Bama, Saban blamed Wayne "I never wanted to coach the Dolphins in the first place". Wayne twisted his arm? Threatened to kick his azz if he didn't come to Miami? That was a bullchit statement by Saban.

 

He totally mishandled the entire situation. He talks a good talk.....but don't walk the walk!

 

People hand out misinformation in negotiations all the time. At the end of the day, he is the one that has to live with himself.

 

What I don't completely understand is the contract he signed with Miami. I am clearly surprised that Saban was able to leave so easily. I'm gonna guess that when that contract was negotiated, it was set up in such a way that it left Saban and easy out. If that's the case, I would hold the Dolphins responsible for allowing that to happen.

 

Larry Brown did something similar when he left the Sixers. He left them in a lurch, yet it was the owner who let him out of his contract.

 

The whole thing could have been handled better by everyone. I think there are some behind the scenes thing between the Dolphins owner and Saban that we just don't know about. At this point, it's a "he said-he said" media spat.

 

Needless to say, it's time to move on. Karma will deal with it.