Maybe Nick Saban could lend Nate Oats and the Alabama athletic administration his moral compass, since they are so clearly lacking their own.
Saban’s suspension of a notable freshman football player following an arrest on drug charges is, by itself, a sharp contrast to Oats’ continuous enabling of Brandon Miller. But it was his reasoning for why, and the specific words he used to explain it, that were a stinging rebuke of Oats and Alabama administrators’ cold-hearted calculation that winning matters more than doing the right thing.
“There’s no such thing as the wrong place at the wrong time,” Saban said Monday.