phinfan2003
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grendel said:Saban decided RW was gone, after seeing AJ practice! LOL
RW=Ricky Williams :confused:
grendel said:Saban decided RW was gone, after seeing AJ practice! LOL
jagmagicus said:Look business is business, Saban knew the guy was leaving and chose not to include him who cares. Anyone bothered by this needs to A) get a life and B) realize that not everything goes as planned
So what if he did give him the silent treatment. The Sun Sentinal has to be the worst paper for sporting news. The Dolphins could win the superbowl and the Sun would still find a negative somewhere to write about.
Roman529 said:EXACTLY...you stole my words....business is business.....in the real world you get a pink slip or the boss telling you, "You're fired." Nick needs to bring in his own people. Also, Saban at least let Spielman go now while he still may have a shot to be picked up as an administrator by another NFL team (or a college team?)...Nick had to clean house after the stench left by Wanny.
phinfan2003 said:Now I know the media doesn't always print the whole story and may only include part truths but supposing the article in the Herald is true about how Spielman was treated past couple weeks by Saban (giving him the silent treatment), don't you think that's a bit unprofessional on Saban's part? I mean, I have no problem w/ Saban getting rid of Spielman because he wanted someone he felt more comfortable with but assuming this article is true, couldn't he just have been straight with him? He could have waited until after the draft and then told Spielman something like "look, this isn't going to work. Thanks for everything but I'm looking to bring in my own personnel man here" and that would have been the right thing to do. Those that look at Saban as God please view this post as if the article was true. There may be more to this story but I'm just looking at what I've read so far.
phinfan2003 said:Do you realize that I (and others) are not feeling sorry for Spielman getting let go or are in any way saying that he shouldn't have been canned? I said from the beginning of this thread that Saban needed to bring in his own people, people he was comfortable with so that is not the issue here. The only question I was wondering about is that there is a professional way of handling these situations and if the media is correct (which I am not saying that they are but have prefaced this thread with the hypothetical "supposing what was written is true"), that is no way to treat Rick Spielman. Say what you want about the man and his mixed results but he did his best and worked gave the organization 5 years.