Nick Saban (shown above at Lake Eufaula) defined:
- Motivated solely by a desire for monetary or material gain.
- Hired for service in a foreign army.
- A professional soldier hired for service in a foreign army.
- Prototype for Herban Meyer (who is widely regarded as a poor man’s Nick Saban)
Last week, Saban said flatly, “I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.”On Monday, the scurrilous, persistent Tide came at Nick with a mountain of money. With an official offer. (I love the word scurrilous). Suddenly, Nick is not saying anything flatly anymore.–Miami Herald
“As a college football coach who loves college football, you just hate to see a university that’s done as much for college football as Alabama has horsing around like they’ve been,” Joe Paterno said. “I don’t know whose fault it is. I’m not going to get into it.
“Don Shula and I have been friends for a long time. I think he hit it on the head. He said something about leadership. Mal (Moore) is a good man and was a good coach and a good administrator. I just don’t think they’ve been able to get the right combination.”
The fear has begun and Nick hasn’t even accepted the job yet. And probably
won’t accept either. He has watched Rich Rodriguez work the Bama offer into a more lucrative contract with his present employer. A technique that rivals the “Dirty Sanchez” known as the “Doing the Rod”. If Saban is unhappy because of lack of total personnel control in Miami, wait until he gets to the Ghettos of Tuscaloosa, he’ll have even less control.
Bama has suffered embarrassment on embarrassment. The humiliation of a another failed run at a coach is likely more damaging than the money ($40 million? insane, driving up coaches salaries). This program has the longest active probationary streak in college athletics. They’ve run through five coaches in ten years. Add in the humilating fact that Auburn is currently on a five year run.
Bama has a majority of its fans living in the past, poor leadership and Bryant, Jr. (Just how many coaching wins does this moron have anyway). Between Moore and Bryant, Jr Bama is on the edge of being a laughing stock.
(I always liked this picture so I posted it. See I don’t hate Bama)
A couple of different perspectives of Saban’s impact from a Bammer and a Corndog are below:
Bammer
If you mix Saban in with all this Crimson history the recruiting could be insane! That is what I am most enthusiastic about! Not to mention he is a great coach! I think that coaching is only gonna get you so much you still have to have quality players that can win games in any situation and Alabama has always brought great players just for being Bama! I wanna see what happens when you add someone that can actually recruit!
I do know that I want our team to get back to what ‘Bama fans have known in the past. We need a “strong” leader to take our program back to the proud spot we once occupied.
Corndog
BAMA fans sound as if you may require a little reality check. Nick Saban is not going to be able to just come in and will a 10 or 11 win season. He made some mistakes while at LSU and LSU’s success in football didn’t come exactly overnight. LSU went 7-4 in his first year at LSU and then he won the bowl game to finish at 8-4. At Michigan State his records were also just about average overall. Should you get Nick Saban as your coach you should also realize that although he is an outstanding coach and recruiter, he absolutely does not walk on water. He is very conservative by nature and sometimes his offensive schemes border on boring, as it was a well know fact that he often meddled with Jimbo Fishers play calling. There were many rumors about Jimbo Fisher dislike of Saban changing plays throughout games. While at LSU he did lose several games he had no business losing. Alabama Birmingham and Ole Miss come to mind, among others. He is conservative almost to a flaw at times. It is rare that he will allow is OC to actually open up the offense.
SABAN’S RECORD:
With Dolphins: 15-17 (2005-present)
With LSU: 48-16 (2000-’04)
With Michigan State: 35-24-1 (1995-’99)
With Toledo: 9-2 (1990)
Shared 2003 NC with one loss
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