Nick Saban recently left the Miami Dolphins for the head coaching job at Alabama.  To inform his staff and his players of his departure, he didn’t meet with them personally; he made a speakerphone call to his staff members, and he sent an email to his players.

In contrast, consider Bo Schembechler.  At Bo’s memorial service at Michigan Stadium, Lloyd Carr spoke of the time Bo received a very lucrative offer from Texas A&M; the Aggies wanted him badly enough that they offered to make him the highest-paid coach in the country.  He met with his assistants and asked each for his opinion on the offer.  After a somewhat divided response from his staff, Bo looked at them and, with a tear in his eye and a cracking voice, said, “Yes, but you don’t have to tell those players you’re leaving.”