"I'm such a baby 'cause the Dolphins make me cry"

Well, Nick Saban won't be crying any longer, I guess. After two miserable years as the Miami Dolphins' head coach, Saban has agreed to become the next coach at Alabama, returning to the SEC where he won a national title with LSU. The contract is reported to be in the $40-50 million dollar range for 8-10 years.

I don't begrudge someone taking a new job, though it confuses me that Saban -- like Steve Spurrier before him -- would so quickly bail out on the NFL, returning to the college game, where both men have already won everything there is to win. Doesn't seem like these coaches would wave the white flag so quickly.

I do think that Saban is a rat without integrity for how he handled this whole situation. At a December 21 press conference, Saban said this:

"I'm not going to be the Alabama coach."

Pretty cut-and-dried, there. He'd danced around the question for a while, but less than two weeks ago, made this pretty emphatic statement. Turns out, it was all a load of crap.

Shame on you, Coach Saban, for deserting the Dolphins, quitting on Wayne Huizenga after two lousy years, when you promised to "turn the team around." Shame on you for taking the easy way out and running your yellow belly all the way to Tuscaloosa. You're a coward, and although the Crimson Tide faithful will disagree, I hope you fail miserably in Tuscaloosa.

At least Spurrier had the decency to quit the NFL before taking a college job. And he didn't lie about his intentions either.