Tough SEC coaching decisions lie ahead
By Edward Aschoff
Published October 22, 2012, 10:00:19 AM
Nick Saban was only trying to be nice when he praised former assistant Derek Dooley Saturday night.
Speaking with the media following Alabama’s 44-13 thumping of Dooley’s helpless Tennessee team, he said that Dooley’s team “really played hard” and that Dooley was “doing a fantastic job” at Tennessee.
Saban wasn’t being disingenuous, but to those who have been around this sport long enough, a statement like that about a coach whose team dropped to 3-4 on the season and hasn’t won an SEC game since mid-November of the previous year doesn’t really help much.
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