Nick Saban, the head coach of the top-ranked Alabama football team, has something of a dual reputation. Outside of fan circles, he's widely known as the prime symbol of college football's corporate excess and deceitful posturing. Among college-football aficionados who think $32-million contracts are not necessarily appalling, though, he's known as the ultimate hardass; the heir to the stern Bear Bryant legacy. Or as Buzz Bissinger puts it, his face is "locked most of the time in a constipated grimace."
After Alabama drubbed Auburn in the Iron Bowl, Sportsline's Gregg Doyel took the analogy to its creamy green extreme, noting that even in victory the coach "looked like a guy with an avocado allergy at a guacamole convention."
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