Nick Saban Says One Thing, Does The Exact Opposite

Nick Saban has had a tough week.  3 arrests in 4 days is a bad stretch for the Alabama football team (great for Fulmer Cup standings though), but the story of Jonathan Taylor had eluded me until now.  Jonathan Taylor is very good at playing on the defensive line.  Now that that's out of the way, we can easily explain the rest.  Taylor was arrested twice last year while at the University of Georgia, once for domestic violence.  Mark Richt kicked him off the team, which makes sense given the Ray Rice story in national headlines.  Now Taylor has once again been arrested for domestic violence in Tuscaloosa.  His girlfriend has since recanted, but only after she realized her meal ticket was gone.

Now I must digress.  Earlier this year on July 17th, 2014, Nick Saban was quoted saying, "there's never been a player that I've kicked off the team that ever amounted to anything."  A statement as such would then beg the question, "Why would you welcome a player that one of your colleagues already gave a 2nd chance and was spurned?"  The answer is two-fold in that Jonathan Taylor is very good at playing on the defensive line, and Nick Saban is an obvious hypocrite.  I guess Saban would say that it's only a hard-and-fast rule if Saban himself does the kicking off, or some 2nd chances bullshit that even he doesn't believe.  The bottom line is that Saban thought Taylor was good enough at football to risk a domestic violence issue, or he's narcissistic enough to believe other coaches just don't have the same command of the locker room.  Fuck him in either case.  The good news for Alabama is their egregious oversigning won't matter now that 3 spots opened up in the last 4 days.