re: SABAN is absolutely miserable.......

good. he should be miserable. he's earned it.

obviously he's a great football coach, no rational person would ever say otherwise, but that's not why he's had the run he's had at bama. none of his LSU teams were this good, and his Dolphin teams were awful. his IQ didn't drop 50 points the day he arrived in Miami and then jump 100 when he left.

bama football is simply corrupt to the core, and has been for 60 years. this is not some secret. these two were made for each other, winning football games is their whole life, it's all they have, saban for his ego and bama because what the frick else do they gonna do? play with all the pine straw?

not that i think saban is involved with any of that, i assume he doesn't even ask, the football field and the REC are two separate worlds, but he hasn't even tried to hide the fact that he will push every recruiting rule to its absolute limit and only adhere to the rules that he's forced to.

he does that kind of stuff, along with "processing" the kids who didn't work out and are holding up scholarship spots and only drug testing when the ncaa makes him, right out in the open. god only knows what the REC is doing behind closed doors.