This is how secure Nick Saban feels as overlord of the Crimson Tide football program.
Saban went on his weekly radio show and admitted to having cheated to help players achieve better scores on their Wonderlic tests when he was an assistant coach in the NFL, SEC Country reported.
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When a player Saban thought his team should draft scored poorly on the Wonderlic, he would ask that the player be granted a re-test, in which Saban himself would administer -- and help ensure that player received a better score.
"I hate to admit it now, but if I really liked a player, I would actually take the test out, look at it, tutor the guy a little bit, alright, before he took it," Saban said. "Maybe lose a few minutes on the timing part of it, so he had a little extra time... and they would do better. But we were trying to create opportunities then, just like we're trying to create opportunities for people now."
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Which raises the question of how exactly Saban is creating opportunities now at Alabama and whether there's been any incidents of playing loose with the NCAA rules.
It's the second time Saban has admitted helping NFL hopefuls cheat in re-taking the Wonderlic for a better score, SEC Country added. He told USA Today Sports in 2006 of a particular incident when he was a Houston Oilers assistant in the 1980s.
"I'm not going to give his name, but he had a low Wonderlic," Saban said, grinning slightly. "They sent me up there with the test to retest him. I really liked this guy. He played safety. I got the test out, and even though I didn't take it, I studied it. Then I tutored the guy for about an hour before he took it, then I gave him twice as long to take it than he was supposed to.
"He doubled his score. We got him to where we could draft him. Now nobody knows about that, but I don't think [Oilers owner] Bud Adams can fire me now, so I'm OK with it."
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