Baton Rouge can’t catch a break when it comes to Nick Saban.

First, he leaves LSU for the NFL only to leave the Miami Dolphins for the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Now, it looks like he notched a win in Louisiana’s capital.

Per a Wall Street Journal report, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Thursday that Saban will claim a bad-debt deduction the IRS tried to block.

According to the report, Saban loaned developer Joseph Spinosa $2 million in 2006 for the development of a shopping area and office space.

The project, financially, didn’t work out and Saban wasn’t repaid. Instead, he agreed to a 15 percent stake in a different real estate project, known as 2590 Associates, in Baton Rouge.

Interestingly enough, Saban, according to the judge in the case, didn’t want to own 2590 Associates because of his popularity – or lack thereof – in Baton Rouge.

“Mr. Saban did not want to directly own 2590 Associates because of privacy concerns,” Judge Joseph Goeke wrote in the opinion, per The WSJ. “At the time he was the head football coach at the University of Alabama and felt there was negative public sentiment toward him in the Baton Rouge area because of his decision to leave LSU. He wanted to receive his interest through a business entity.”

Per the report:

“2590 Associates claimed a worthless debt deduction of $2.9 million for that loan, plus interest, in 2011. The IRS challenged that deduction, arguing in part that Mr. Saban’s receipt of the stake in 2590 Associates satisfied the loan.”

Goeke, however, wrote the transaction was a legitimate debt.

Saban has shown interest in investing over the years.

The Alabama coach has an affinity for Mercedes-Benz.

Check out the full WSJ report here.