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Alabama’s Nick Saban is up for coach of the year honors, and you can vote to help him win and contribute to charity at the same time, says Pat Whetstone, Director of Alumni Affairs for The University of Alabama.

In a press release today, Whetstone said these goals have been successfully achieved this year:

Winning the SEC Championship

Pasadena bound for the National Championship Game

Mark Ingram winning the Heisman

Next on the list?

Coach Saban winning the Liberty Mutual’s Coach of the Year

The final voting stage has begun. The coach who receives the most votes wins a $50,000 donation to his favorite charity plus a $20,000 donation to his school’s Alumni Scholarship Fund.

“This will be a great opportunity for Nick’s Kids and the Alabama Alumni Association,” Whetstone said.

You can vote once a day until Dec. 29th.

Go to CoachOfTheYear.com and vote once a day…

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Time Out
by Dan Rutledge

It’s Week 14, the SEC Championship Game Week, the week all football fans have been waiting on all season long. Let’s not kid ourselves. Saturday’s affair in the Georgia Dome is THE GAME … the real national title game.

Oh, they will put on what they will call the BCS Championship Game on Jan. 7 in the Rose Bowl. It will be quite a show, out in California and all. But that’s what it will be, a show. Whichever wins Saturday at the Georgia Dome in the SEC title tilt, Florida or Alabama, will be the favorite and should handily defeat whoever the BCS puts up against them – be it Texas, TCU, or Cincinnati, or ……

That is not meant as an insult to the Longhorns, Horned Frogs or anyone else. It’s just the way it is this season.

All season long, it’s been Florida or Alabama at No. 1 and the other at No. 2. Everyone has watched as the Tide and Gators ticked off win after win … everyone holding their breaths, hoping neither would slip. And they didn’t. Now we are here. Both teams come to Atlanta with perfect 12-0 marks. Only one can leave still undefeated.

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