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Furthermore, the transition from one job to another is an inherently tricky business, even for people who are not in the public eye. Any person contemplating leaving one organization to join another owes his current employer the courtesy of not jeopardizing ongoing operations by engaging in public rumination about the prospect of resigning.
Jaworski and these other sanctimonious ESPN types talk and write as if Saban's loyalty should have flowed to them, to the sports press, as if Saban owed the public full disclosure of all that he was thinking regarding the Alabama job. In fact, by denying interest in the Alabama job until he had definitely decided to accept Mal Moore's offer, Nick Saban was correctly showing loyalty to the Dolphins organization, which was his professional responsibility for as long as he remained on their payroll.
If anyone wants to blame the mess in Miami on Saban, that's fine.. but don't keep raking him over the coals for denying interest in a job before he had even received an offer.
Mal Moore understood how Saban was feeling because he also made the mistake of jumping to the NFL from college back in the mid 80's. The two did not even speak to each other on the phone until after both Alabama's season and the Dolphins season were over. When he said he wasn't going to be the Alabama coach, he had neither been offered the job, nor spoke to the man that was going to offer him the job. Nor did he know that Huizenga was going to let him out of his contract when he said he wasn't going to be the Alabama coach.
The fallout for letting folks assume that you lied is less severe than the chaos that would result if you told the truth. That's the way the business works now, especially when the media keeps pushing for an answer that you're neither capable nor ready to give.
Jaworski and these other sanctimonious ESPN types talk and write as if Saban's loyalty should have flowed to them, to the sports press, as if Saban owed the public full disclosure of all that he was thinking regarding the Alabama job. In fact, by denying interest in the Alabama job until he had definitely decided to accept Mal Moore's offer, Nick Saban was correctly showing loyalty to the Dolphins organization, which was his professional responsibility for as long as he remained on their payroll.
If anyone wants to blame the mess in Miami on Saban, that's fine.. but don't keep raking him over the coals for denying interest in a job before he had even received an offer.
Mal Moore understood how Saban was feeling because he also made the mistake of jumping to the NFL from college back in the mid 80's. The two did not even speak to each other on the phone until after both Alabama's season and the Dolphins season were over. When he said he wasn't going to be the Alabama coach, he had neither been offered the job, nor spoke to the man that was going to offer him the job. Nor did he know that Huizenga was going to let him out of his contract when he said he wasn't going to be the Alabama coach.
The fallout for letting folks assume that you lied is less severe than the chaos that would result if you told the truth. That's the way the business works now, especially when the media keeps pushing for an answer that you're neither capable nor ready to give.