PAAAWWWL?

[AUChizad]

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2014/02/nick_saban_could_be_subpoenaed.html

Nick Saban to be subpoenaed as part of suit over proposed Irondale Mercedes-Benz dealership

Jeremy Gray
on February 17, 2014 at 4:23 PM

IRONDALE, Alabama -- Attorneys for Hoover's Crown Automobiles today filed paperwork stating they intend to subpoena University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban as part of its suit to stop the opening of a new Mercedes-Benz dealership in Irondale.

Saban's attorney, Bobby Plott, said they will comply with any subpoena they are legally obligated to comply with but declined to immediately offer further comment.

The filing requests all correspondence from Saban referring to the possibility of the coach "participating in the ownership and operation of a Mercedes dealership, including but not limited to a dealership in the Birmingham, Alabama area."

Saban is also asked to turn over financial projections for a new dealership in the Birmingham area and documents that "reflect your duties or responsibilities to the new dealer Mercedes dealership in Irondale," the filing states.

The filing also states attorneys for Crown Automobile intend to subpoena the John Plott Company, Inc.; Southpace Properties; and Mercedes Benz Financial Services, LLC.

Today's filing comes after Crown Automobile sued MBUSA in December stating the Hoover dealership "has suffered, and will continue to suffer, immediate and irreparable harm as a result of MBUSA's decision to add an additional Mercedes dealer in Crown Automobile's market area."

Attorneys for MBUSA filed a response stating that although "Crown's AOI (area of Influence) presently includes the intersection of Grants Mill Road and I-459 in Irondale ... Crown's dealer agreements with MBUSA clearly provide that Crown "has no right or interest in any AOI and that MBUSA may add new dealers to or relocate dealers into [Crown's] AOI."
A status review for the case is set for March 7.

     

[djsimp]

So, what is the over/under on this making the B'ham evening news?

CBS.....no
Fox 6....no
33/40.....no
NBC.....maybe

[AUChizad]

So Saban is set to officially be a used car salesman.

Recruits and the NCAA should definitely trust everything he says.

[AUChizad]

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2014/02/it_wont_be_nick_saban_mercedes.html

It won't be 'Nick Saban Mercedes-Benz,' but partner says Irondale dealership will fulfill coach's dream

By Jeremy Gray
February 18, 2014 at 8:36 AM

IRONDALE, Alabama -- "Every car dealer I know wants to be a coach," Nick Saban said in a January speech at the American Football Coaches Association convention. "I always wanted to be a car dealer."

Depending on the results of a lawsuit pending in Jefferson County civil court, the coach may soon get his wish.

Long simmering speculation that the famed Alabama football coach was associated with plans to build a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Irondale was confirmed Monday when attorneys for Hoover's Crown Automobiles filed notice of intent to subpoena Saban in a quest to find any documentation that he was planning to own or operate such a business.

"My partner and I have entered into a letter agreement with Mercedes Benz to open a new dealership in Irondale. We are honored to join the Mercedes family and are extremely excited about the benefits this dealership will bring to the
citizens of Birmingham, Irondale and surrounding areas," Saban said in a statement provided by his attorney, Bobby Plott.

Attorneys for the Hoover dealership filed the suit in December arguing plans for the new dealership had derailed a plan to sell Crown Automobile causing the dealership to sustain "immediate and irreparable harm." Attorneys for Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC have argued they are well within their rights to open a second Birmingham area dealership.

Joe Agresti, who operates a Baton Rouge Mercedes-Benz dealership, said Saban and his wife, Terry, will be his partners in the dealership. Although land has been purchased near Irondale's Grants Mill Road auto mall, Agresti said Monday construction is delayed until the court case is resolved.

"We are very much hoping to open a Mercedes dealership" on the land, Agresti said. "We don't know when we're going to start building."

Saban, Agresti said, has long been a Mercedes enthusiast and years ago expressed an interest in opening a dealership. Saban contacted Agresti about partnering for the new dealership although for the coach "99 percent of the man's working hours are spent on the football team," Agresti said.

"He told me, 'I don't have a minute to run it, but I love the brand,'" Agresti said.

So if and when it opens, will the dealership bear Saban's name?

"I sure wish it could, but Mercedes-Benz doesn't allow that," Agresti said. The dealership instead will likely bear the name Irondale or Birmingham, he said.

Saban will help market the property, give motivational speeches to employees and appear at events to show appreciation to customers, Agresti said. The coach will frequently record new ads for the dealership, Agresti said.

"You'll get to see his smiling face on TV often," Agresti said.

Having the coach attached to the deal is exciting for Agresti who is opening his first Alabama dealership after working in Baton Rouge for 10 years.

"He has a tremendous national marketing cache," Agresti said. "His Alabama marketing cache is on a whole other level."

For his part, Agresti said he thinks Saban recognized that he has been a good steward of the Mercedes brand.

"Coach chose me to be his partner because I'm going to be a good steward of his important brand as well," Agresti said.

As for the lawsuit that has plans for the dealership on hold, Agresti said he doesn't know many details.

"It has nothing to do with coach and myself. We're not named in the suit," Agresti said. Saban's attorney, Bobby Plott, said he will comply with any subpoena and referred other questions to Agresti.

A status review has been set for March 7.

Agresti said he doesn't have an estimate for how much of an investment the new facility will require but says it will be "big, beautiful" and employ about 75 people.

Irondale Mayor Tommy Joe Alexander, announcing in December the dealership was coming to the city, said officials expect $400,000 in revenue for the city in the dealership's first year of operation and $700,000 by the third year. The city will pave a 1,700-foot road leading to the new dealership, which Alexander said will likely cost Irondale a little more than $1 million.

"Lots of good comes out of this," Agresti said, "for Irondale, metro Birmingham, and the coach gets to do something interesting for him. It's almost unbelievable. The guy is literally fulfilling a life-long promise to himself."

In multiple past interviews, Saban has said he was bound for a car dealership career after graduating from Kent State in 1973. Terry, however, still had a year to go at Kent State and he needed a job until she graduated.

Kent State head coach Don James asked Saban to stay on as a graduate assistant, something the future national championship winner had not wanted to do. James passed away in October.

"I decided to go to graduate school for one year so she could graduate and we could move on," Saban said in 2008. "I was going to go to General Motors school to be a general manager, so I could own a car dealership one day. But I really liked it and I just continued to do it, because it wasn't like working."

Why does this remind me of this...

[Buzz Killington]

"Every car dealer I know wants to be a coach," Nick Saban said in a January speech at the American Football Coaches Association convention. "I always wanted to be a car dealer."

Coach...you have been already for 7 years.

[Godfather]

So Dodge is the one filing the restraining order right?  Cause players will now be driving Benzo's that is just bad marketing.


Actually I feel bad for all the unwashed masses kids,  just think about poor little Bahr, Rawl Tyde, and Krimson as they wont be able to eat cause Daddy gots to drive a saban Mercedes!

[WiregrassTiger]

This makes me really proud to have a football coach who is, well...a football coach. Gus seems to really want to be at Auburn. Not saying he won't ever leave but I don't think that going to the highest bidder is his only motivation.

[Snaggletiger]

This makes me really proud to have a football coach who is, well...a football coach. Gus seems to really want to be at Auburn. Not saying he won't ever leave but I don't think that going to the highest bidder is his only motivation.

It's a Super Sale-A-Thon this Saturday only at Malzahn Mitsubishi. 

[Godfather]

It's a Super Sale-A-Thon this Saturday only at Malzahn Mitsubishi.

Tell'em about it JoJo

"That's Right...every test drive nets you a free Auburn Visor!  We can't keep these cars in stock....they are speeding out of the huddle.  Come in now! This sale is... fast... fast... fast!"

[djsimp]

It's a Super Sale-A-Thon this Saturday only at Malzahn Mitsubishi.

Yes, but is a Mitsubishi really that fast?

[Buzz Killington]

Tell'em about it JoJo

"That's Right...every test drive nets you a free Auburn Visor!  We can't keep these cars in stock....they are speeding out of the huddle.  Come in now! This sale is... fast... fast... fast!"

You couldn't make a better inVESTment than a Malzahn Mitsubishi!

[WiregrassTiger]

You couldn't make a better inVESTment than a Malzahn Mitsubishi!

Your caps lock looks like it may be sticking. I would spray the keyboard down with WD-40 before it gets worse.

[The Six]

WD-40

A thousand and one uses...now, a thousand and two. 

[The Prowler]

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2014/02/it_wont_be_nick_saban_mercedes.html
Why does this remind me of this...

^This^