In light of the recent incident involving Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, some have argued that domestic violence is a problem in the sports world, especially among football players. Just how big of a problem it is, well we don’t know that yet, but it has definitely seemed to force Alabama coach Nick Saban to become proactive about the issue with his players.
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Saban revealed in a recent interview with AL.com just how important the subject matter is, as well as making sure the young men that he’s currently in charge of in Tuscaloosa understand that as well.
“That is definitely an area where we want to continue to educate the players,” Saban said Sunday. “The importance of respect for other people, compassion for other people, and treating people the way you’d like to be treated yourself.”
The four-time national championship-winning coach explained a little further about how he believes everyone, regardless of sex, should be treated.
“We teach our players they should not evaluate the circumstances of someone else in terms of how they treat them,” Saban said. “Every person should be treated with the kind of respect you would like to be treated with regardless of their station, anyone from whoever cleans the building, cleans the locker room, to whoever the president of the university is.
“The right way to treat all those people is the right way. There is not some other way. I think the message is very effective that we had the other night and we continue to support that in terms of the kind of respect we want our players to show other people.”
This was a great move by the Crimson Tide head coach, and you could only hope that other coaches around the country will eventually follow suit, or have done so already that we just haven’t heard about publicly yet.