Bullock is just flawless in this role.

It got cut for (print-edition) space, but I think Bullock turns in a Golden Globe-worthy performance, and, depending on how things break, could find herself nominated for an “O-word.” She's really good.

Since when did Nick Saban qualify as a failed SEC coach? Have you seen the BCS rankings lately?

Nick Saban in purple and gold, mere moments before he fled for NFL cash = failed SEC coaching. For that matter, I think Tuberville and Nutt got raw deals before they were ejected from their respective schools (and I'm a Razorback fan), but there's no denying the hilarity of seeing so many high-profile coaches wearing their old colors. I just wish they could've snuck Sylvester Croom or maybe even Joe Lee Dunn in there somewhere.

Poor judgement and failed NFL coach, maybe, but leaving for another job at the pro level hardly equates to failure in this league. Poor choice of words on your part. You may not like the way he handled himself in that situation, but the guy has a national title, 2 SEC titles, and 4 division titles in 8 seasons in the SEC and has his current team ranked 2nd in the BCS and in the hunt for another SEC title and another national title. If that qualifies as a failure in this league then I want to see what your criteria are for being considered successful.

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SK, we may have to agree to disagree. In the context of a movie scene about college recruiting and trust, and in the real world where adults give teenagers the spiel of "you commit to me and I'll commit to you" — then Saban recruiting for LSU a week before he chases NFL money constitutes a fail.

You can't take Saban's on-field pedigree away from him, and I'm not trying to. And I'm not trying to sound sappy, but character counts, even in the SEC. Ws and Ls are a bottom line but not the only one. Saban's admittedly a different kind of failed SEC coaching than Orgeron, but the two of them walking in Oher's house wearing former school logos strikes a note in me worthy of conflation.

And since we're talking word choice, please note that I said "failed," not "failure." There's a subtle difference.

GA, you're right, we'll just have to agree to disagree. I understand what you are trying to say but I think Saban (and other coaches for that matter) get a bum rap about these types of situations. The guy left a job for what he perceived as a better job. He continued to recruit while he considered the move. What was he supposed to do? If you decide to test the job market, do you just quit your current job while you look around? I just don't understand how that makes him a failed coach. If anything, he was giving LSU his full effort until the end. Isn't that what you are supposed to do as an employee? Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you are rationalizing your choice of words as it applies to Saban. All the other coaches in that group either were fired, flamed out, or otherwise couldn't get it done in some way or another on the field. Saban just doesn't fit and rationalizing his inclusion in that "failed" group by implying dishonesty or lack of integrity for (basically) job hunting is a weak assertion in my opinion.

Umm, have you ever actually WATCHED a college football game? Nick Saban, Phil Fulmer (both with national champs), Nutt and Tuberville both with winning records.

I hear what ya'll are saying. I really do. But going back to the original point in the review of the movie, when you see the sequence in the film, it comes across as funny — intentionally as a comic moment in the script, unintentionally (to me) seeing all these guys who are no longer with their teams in such a short amount of screen time.

CDB: I do watch a lot of college football. And when I do, I notice that Fulmer and Tuberville are currently nowhere to be seen on a sideline, and Nutt isn't coaching in the same state he used to. Right or wrong, the facts are that those three guys were asked to kindly leave the schools they were at. Regardless of the national championships, SEC titles, perfect seasons, or winning records on their CV. Don't take it out on me. I didn't fire them.

And, for the record again, I loved Nutt as a Hog and thought the Tuberville dismissal was the most boneheaded coaching change any school has made in a while. Well, there's the Kiffin hiring... Anyway, getting rid of Tuberville was dumb.