A DECADE LATER, BURRESS STILL HATES SABAN

It’s been a long time since Plaxico Burress played for Nick Saban at Michigan State in the 1990s. Burress has gone on to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants, while Saban has gone on to coach at LSU, the Miami Dolphins and Alabama.But that doesn’t mean Burress has forgotten that he thinks Saban was a first-class jerk.In his new book, Burress writes that Saban did a lot of lousy things during their time together with the Spartans, including preventing him from taking time off from practice to visit a close friend who was in the hospital.Burress does acknowledge that Saban is “really smart,” but he also writes, “I didn’t like him."Adds Burress, according to the Sun-Sentinel: “When Saban got mad or something happened, he would just spaz out, flip out.“Burress indicates that it’s common knowledge that players don’t like Saban; he writes in his book that in a conversation with Giants teammate Sam Madison, who played for Saban with the Dolphins, Burress tried to tell Madison why he doesn’t like Saban, but Madison beat him to it by saying, “He don’t have no people skills."And Burress reminds readers of his book what everyone who follows football knows: Saban regularly lies about his future plans.Saban’s most famous lie was insisting that he wouldn’t quit on the Dolphins to coach Alabama, but Burress also says Saban told the Michigan State team he wasn’t leaving Michigan State for LSU."Then the next day, the very next day, Saban said, ‘Guys, I’m going to LSU,’” Burress writes. “So that let me know where he was coming from as a person and how loyal he was. … I didn’t trust anything he said at that point. Nothing.