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Saban doesn't apologize for bringing Jonathan Taylor to Alabama

Alabama coach Nick Saban said Monday that he was not apologizing for bringing former Georgia defensive tackle Jonathan Taylor to the school.

Taylor was dismissed Sunday after a domestic violence arrest. It was his second domestic violence arrest in less than a year. He was also one of the Georgia players in trouble for depositing tuition checks twice in the spring of 2014.

"No, I'm not sorry for giving him an opportunity," Saban said via TideSports.com. "I'm sorry for the way things worked out. I'm not apologizing for the opportunity we gave him. We wanted to try and help the guy make it work, it didn't work. We're sorry it didn't work, we're sorry there was an incident, we're sorry for the people that were involved in the incident. But we're not apologizing for what we did."

Saban also described Taylor as a "good person." He said that Taylor was involved in counseling programs upon his enrollment at Alabama.

The coach's remarks are not what critics of the decision to bring Taylor to Alabama wanted to hear. Given that Taylor was in trouble twice at Georgia – once being for domestic abuse – you can make the logical argument that he should never have been given the opportunity to play for the Tide. Taylor enrolled in January after he was kicked off Georgia's team in July. However, as with the Dallas Cowboys' decision to sign defensive end Greg Hardy and other athlete examples, players with talent will usually get multiple opportunities to be contributors on the field.

At Georgia, Taylor was accused of choking and hitting his girlfriend in his dorm. His Saturday arrest at Alabama involved an alleged incident that led to minor injuries to a woman's neck.

Saban also said defensive back Geno Smith has "quite a bit" of things to do to get back in the team's good graces following his second DUI arrest.

"A little disappointed in Geno Smith," Saban said. "When he does a few things that he needs to do over the next few days, and he's going to have quite a bit of things that he has to do in the future, which I'm not going to be willing to share with anybody – that's kind of a private matter – then he'll be back on the field and we'll allow him to practice again.

"But our focus right now is to help Geno in every way that we can, do things that we need to do so that he can be a productive person, a productive student and productive player. He's always been a good student and he's always done a good job and he's always been a good competitor on our team and has always set a pretty good example, in terms of how he's played."

For more Alabama news, visit TideSports.com.

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Nick Bromberg is the assistant editor of Dr. Saturday on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at nickbromberg@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!