Our resident Alabama fans are like nyjunc. You mentioned Sanchez, Rex and/or Jets and there he was. You mention Tua, Saban or Alabama and here they are. And this endless stupid defending of Saban's time in the NFL especially with the Dolphins is very nyjunc-like as well.
As Dolphins fan nobody cares what he does in Alabama. His lasting memory in the NFL is not only that he is an awful NFL HC but also a sneaky lying bastard for telling not only media and fans that he had no interest to go to Alabama but also his team and employer while already having completed negotiations with Alabama to become their HC. That is highly unprofessional and even if he would be interested I doubt that any NFL owner would throw cash at him.
That part of his life of course does not diminish the fact that he is a great college coach. He does great recruiting and is a great game day coach.
There are plenty of Dolphins fans who don't give a flying **** about college football. For them the name Saban is equal to: bad coach, bad NFL talent evaluator, liar, unprofessional.
I don't know if our Alabama Crimson Tide trolls are Dolphins fans or not. But if they are they might want to take a page from the Canes fan/Dolphins fan playbook. While we love JJ as a Hurricanes coach we realized his shortcomings as a Dolphins coach (and JJ took on a much worse cap situation than Saban). His failure as a Dolphins HC does not diminish his accomplishments with the Canes and his accomplishment with the Canes does not blind us from his shortcomings as Dolphins HC.
And if you are not a Dolphins fan I have to refer to paragraph 1 in this post and I will look at you as trolls in the Main forum.
Let's also not forget that aside from a mediocre NFL coach who had Wayne hire more assistant coaches than any other team in the league, an SEC-enamored GM drafter making a part time RB the 2nd pick in the draft, and the brainiac who decided, if he can't have Brees, he'd take Culpepper, despite injury affected his mobility, his loveboat nonsense and refusal to rehab in MN, Saban also was a Davie office bully who intimidated general staff. A friend of a friend was the husband of one of them who had to be talked out of ambushing him outside Pizza Loft and kicking the crap out of him out.
Oh, and Heath Evans is a real ayehole and there's no excuse for him stealing the fins playbook and giving it to Belicheat, but let's also not forget that being so butt hurt at Saban for cutting him on a phone call instead of face to face like a man was what prompted his inappropriate behavior.
Great college coach, there's no denying, but he was just another blemish on the Fins history.