This is what people say when you don't practice what you preach

Miami Dolphins Coach Nick Saban broke his "all this, and the moon, too" contract Wednesday to take over the Alabama football program after the Crimson Tide threw in the sun as a deal sweetener.

This, exactly two years after Saban left Louisiana State for the greener palm trees of South Beach. Feh!

This Dan Le Batard column in The Miami Herald is what people generally say about those who so blatantly don't practice what they preach to their charges.

Or, as we used to cheer in the LSU student section way back when, "Around the bowl and down the hole! Roll! Tide, roll!"

Here 'tis:

The punctuation on the Nick Saban Error is greasy and greedy. You know what he was as Dolphins coach? A failure. A loser. A gasbag. And one of the worst investments Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga has ever made. He was less of a success than Dave Wannstedt and more of a traitor than Ricky Williams. There has been very little in franchise history that came with more expectations and fewer results than this hypocrite who at the end avoided the hard questions one last time.

Talk like a warrior. Behave like a weasel.

Maybe Saban would be better off in college. Because, in the pros the last few days, he has looked like a complete and utter amateur.

He will be remembered in these parts as a quitter and a liar. He leaves the franchise in last place, with what used to be his good name somehow far lower than that. And for this he'll get a $25 million raise and more job security in Alabama. Makes you wonder what USC's Pete Carroll or Ohio State's Jim Tressel are worth, doesn't it?

Larry Coker, a decent man, gets fired for his one championship. Saban, a duplicitous one, gets the most lucrative job in college football.

Saban could have fixed his reputation today if he had that mental toughness he is always sermonizing about. We have the meandering spiel memorized by now. About
''competitive character'' and ''overcoming adversity'' and blah, blah, blah. You preach it, Nick. But you don't live it. Not when it's easier to run away and hide.

Such a pity. Saban was a good coach at LSU, and he turned around a decidedly mediocre program there. He preached good values to his players; he stressed good priorities and work habits.

In the end, though, it was All About Nick. I wonder whether he'll have any credibility with his new players at 'Bama when he gives them what's now been proven to be just another load of bull****.

Geaux Tigers! Beat the Irish. Give more for Les!