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Saban will find crowded pond in Tuscaloosa

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. -- Wealth just triumphed over imagination. The power of college athletics once again ran right up the middle against higher education. Alabama's hiring of Nick Saban takes everything that is skewed about college football, shines a spotlight on it and says, "Hey, watch this!" Which, if memory serves me, is a punch line to one of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck" jokes, as in, "Has anyone in your family died after saying, 'Hey, watch this!'?" Yep, Alabama done g ...

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