re: Saban says he selected Brees

It's hard to defend Saban at Miami though many are trying. The roster was cut to 20 players when he arrived so he helped to build that lousy team.

He also made a huge mistake in how he tried to coach professional players and NFL coaches. GE thought his college style of motivational posters and strict college type dress codes, rules etc would work.

It just didn't. Players laughed at him behind his back. Turned out he couldn't take their scholarships away.

He also built a miserable offense, just terrible. He found out fairly quickly that there are no cupcakes in the NFL schedule and he was in over his head. That was when his pitiful sneaking around and lying began.

I'm not saying he couldn't be a good coach if he tried it again, I'm sure he would do things differently but his first stint was a bust.