Serious question: what did Saban do? He seems like a hardass but I can’t think of anything that’s really made me question his integrity, or that he at all played a part in the BS the SEC has been engaged in.
I personally know three people who worked with him directly at different jobs and they all described him in varying terms as essentially being "the most miserable a$$hole on the planet."
Beyond being insufferable to work for (it wasn't just people using him as a stepping stone to better jobs - you could only work for that guy for a finite amount of time), he was an incredible hypocrite in loads of respects - whether it be about money, the level playing field, etc. He presented himself as an advocate for the game, but he was always incredibly self-serving and disingenuous.
One of my favorite hypocrite moments was Saban bitching constantly for 2-3 years about up tempo/no-huddle offenses ruining the game of football ("Is this really what we want football to be?") and then getting pasted a few times and hiring Lane Kiffin to install an up tempo/no-huddle offense.
Obviously a great coach - at least when he had the advantages of being in top tier programs - there's mythology that he was great at Michigan State - he wasn't. He had one good year and then bolted for LSU.
Anyways, he's just a turd of a person - like many coaches, unfortunately.
