kathydwells
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I'm thinking...YEAH, we have a freaking football coach, and he is not bad to look at. Now, if they will just leave him the hell alone and let him coach!!!!!!!
New coach - Saban at Bama
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I'm thinking...YEAH, we have a freaking football coach, and he is not bad to look at. Now, if they will just leave him the hell alone and let him coach!!!!!!!
He is an idiot to take that job ! 
Not the way SI sees it...
A bad fit for Saban
Alabama a better situation for former Dolphins coach
Posted: Wednesday January 3, 2007 11:15AM; Updated: Wednesday January 3, 2007 11:37AM
Five reasons why Nick Saban decided the NFL meant "not for long,'' and opted for the University of Alabama on Tuesday, ending his tenure as the Dolphins head coach after just two seasons:
1. Saban discovered he couldn't fix the Dolphins' problems quickly. In fact, he's leaving with the program headed in the wrong direction. Instead of being the start of something big, last year's hopeful 9-7, second-place finish wound up being a bit of a mirage. Miami went just 6-10 this year, dropping into last place in the competitive AFC East. The Jets, Bills and Patriots all improved their win totals in 2006 by two games or more. The Dolphins were three games worse.
And the truth is, things could get bleaker in Miami in 2007. The defense is getting older by the minute, and the team isn't any closer to solving its post-Marino era quarterback problems. Saban bungled Miami's quarterback decision last offseason, choosing to believe Daunte Culpepper's knee was more likely to rebound than Drew Brees shoulder, and we all know how that call turned out. Brees threw for 4,418 yards, sparked MVP talk and led the resurgent Saints into the playoffs for the first time in six years. Culpepper played four games and underwent more knee surgery.
Miami next season could be looking at the same unappealing QB options that didn't work this year: a questionable Culpepper, Joey Harrington and the unproven Cleo Lemon. No wonder Tuscaloosa was looking pretty good.
2. College football suits Saban's style. Those who know him best call him thorough in his preparation, almost to a fault. Others consider him a classic micro-manager, or control freak. In the college ranks, Saban found it possible to dictate and control every detail of his program, from the personnel decisions to the media's coverage of his team.
But that approach just doesn't fly in the NFL, and Saban's frustration with that part of his coaching assignment only intensified during his two years in South Florida. As one league source told me recently, "Saban spends a lot of time stressing about little things that don't necessarily help you win games in this league. From the smallest details of the game plan on. But that's the way he did it in college, and won, so that's what he knows.''
Saban had full personnel authority in Miami, but his ability to delegate and rely on others in the organization to manage their jobs was not among his strengths. Dolphins general manager Randy Mueller was virtually invisible during the Saban era, and sources say his skills for evaluating personnel were wasted because of Saban's penchant for trusting no one's counsel but his own.
3. In the NFL, Saban's superb recruiting skills were somewhat wasted. In college, those skills help set his teams apart as he replenished the roster with a never-ending source of talent. In the NFL, it's largely money that does the talking during free agency, with the coach's personal appeal playing a much smaller role in the process.
"He'll win at Alabama because he can recruit,'' one league source told me Tuesday. "That much we know.''
Said another league insider who knows Saban: "College coaches have a hard time getting used to the salary cap in the NFL, because in college you could have the No. 1 running back in the country and still go recruit the No. 2 and No. 3 guys. You just stack up good players and then you have all the leverage with them. 'Oh, you don't want to do it my way? Well, I'll just play the next guy.'
"Another factor is that in college the season and work year is so much shorter. In the NFL, there's a good team on the schedule every week. In some college programs, you start every year knowing you've got six or seven wins right from the start. They're just not used to being in a dogfight every week.''
4. Saban has told some peers within the league that coaching at Alabama was always his dream job. While his ego and professional pride pulled him in the direction of finishing the job that had barely begun in Miami, he felt he couldn't pass up what he considers still to be one of the most prestigious and history-filled jobs in college football -- leading the Crimson Tide, back in the powerful SEC, which he knows so well.
There is one ironic note in Saban leaving for Alabama: With the Tide he'll be replacing Mike Shula as head coach. In Miami, none of the four coaches who have held the Dolphins job since Don Shula retired at the end of the 1995 season have been able to fill his Hall of Fame shoes.
5. Then, of course, there is the money. Not just the field is green at Alabama. Saban reportedly has been made the highest paid coach in college football, and will have an eight-to-10-year deal paying him anywhere from $35 million to $40 million. Saban is 55 and in the position to make Alabama his final coaching stop.
This much is a good bet: Given the disingenuous way he handled his courtship with Alabama, it would be very difficult to see him ever returning to the NFL. Convincing a team owner that he was in it for the long haul would be tricky, given that he bolted Miami just two years into his five-year contract. In leaving the Dolphins, Saban has, in effect, cast his lot as a college coach for the remainder of his career, a'la Steve Spurrier and his aborted two-year NFL coaching stint in Washington.
A bad fit for Saban
Alabama a better situation for former Dolphins coach
Posted: Wednesday January 3, 2007 11:15AM; Updated: Wednesday January 3, 2007 11:37AM
Five reasons why Nick Saban decided the NFL meant "not for long,'' and opted for the University of Alabama on Tuesday, ending his tenure as the Dolphins head coach after just two seasons:
1. Saban discovered he couldn't fix the Dolphins' problems quickly. In fact, he's leaving with the program headed in the wrong direction. Instead of being the start of something big, last year's hopeful 9-7, second-place finish wound up being a bit of a mirage. Miami went just 6-10 this year, dropping into last place in the competitive AFC East. The Jets, Bills and Patriots all improved their win totals in 2006 by two games or more. The Dolphins were three games worse.
And the truth is, things could get bleaker in Miami in 2007. The defense is getting older by the minute, and the team isn't any closer to solving its post-Marino era quarterback problems. Saban bungled Miami's quarterback decision last offseason, choosing to believe Daunte Culpepper's knee was more likely to rebound than Drew Brees shoulder, and we all know how that call turned out. Brees threw for 4,418 yards, sparked MVP talk and led the resurgent Saints into the playoffs for the first time in six years. Culpepper played four games and underwent more knee surgery.
Miami next season could be looking at the same unappealing QB options that didn't work this year: a questionable Culpepper, Joey Harrington and the unproven Cleo Lemon. No wonder Tuscaloosa was looking pretty good.
2. College football suits Saban's style. Those who know him best call him thorough in his preparation, almost to a fault. Others consider him a classic micro-manager, or control freak. In the college ranks, Saban found it possible to dictate and control every detail of his program, from the personnel decisions to the media's coverage of his team.
But that approach just doesn't fly in the NFL, and Saban's frustration with that part of his coaching assignment only intensified during his two years in South Florida. As one league source told me recently, "Saban spends a lot of time stressing about little things that don't necessarily help you win games in this league. From the smallest details of the game plan on. But that's the way he did it in college, and won, so that's what he knows.''
Saban had full personnel authority in Miami, but his ability to delegate and rely on others in the organization to manage their jobs was not among his strengths. Dolphins general manager Randy Mueller was virtually invisible during the Saban era, and sources say his skills for evaluating personnel were wasted because of Saban's penchant for trusting no one's counsel but his own.
3. In the NFL, Saban's superb recruiting skills were somewhat wasted. In college, those skills help set his teams apart as he replenished the roster with a never-ending source of talent. In the NFL, it's largely money that does the talking during free agency, with the coach's personal appeal playing a much smaller role in the process.
"He'll win at Alabama because he can recruit,'' one league source told me Tuesday. "That much we know.''
Said another league insider who knows Saban: "College coaches have a hard time getting used to the salary cap in the NFL, because in college you could have the No. 1 running back in the country and still go recruit the No. 2 and No. 3 guys. You just stack up good players and then you have all the leverage with them. 'Oh, you don't want to do it my way? Well, I'll just play the next guy.'
"Another factor is that in college the season and work year is so much shorter. In the NFL, there's a good team on the schedule every week. In some college programs, you start every year knowing you've got six or seven wins right from the start. They're just not used to being in a dogfight every week.''
4. Saban has told some peers within the league that coaching at Alabama was always his dream job. While his ego and professional pride pulled him in the direction of finishing the job that had barely begun in Miami, he felt he couldn't pass up what he considers still to be one of the most prestigious and history-filled jobs in college football -- leading the Crimson Tide, back in the powerful SEC, which he knows so well.
There is one ironic note in Saban leaving for Alabama: With the Tide he'll be replacing Mike Shula as head coach. In Miami, none of the four coaches who have held the Dolphins job since Don Shula retired at the end of the 1995 season have been able to fill his Hall of Fame shoes.
5. Then, of course, there is the money. Not just the field is green at Alabama. Saban reportedly has been made the highest paid coach in college football, and will have an eight-to-10-year deal paying him anywhere from $35 million to $40 million. Saban is 55 and in the position to make Alabama his final coaching stop.
This much is a good bet: Given the disingenuous way he handled his courtship with Alabama, it would be very difficult to see him ever returning to the NFL. Convincing a team owner that he was in it for the long haul would be tricky, given that he bolted Miami just two years into his five-year contract. In leaving the Dolphins, Saban has, in effect, cast his lot as a college coach for the remainder of his career, a'la Steve Spurrier and his aborted two-year NFL coaching stint in Washington.
Oh, I agree with what they say (some of it). College coaches rarely do well in the Pro's. I just think Alabama made a big mistake making him the highest paid coach. He (no coach) is not worth it. Hope he gets to stay for awhile and see if it was worth it to the school. Lots more could be said...
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And lots of cash. I think it's worth it.
A coach should be paid whatever the market will bear even if it sounds ridiculous to us regular folk.
Bama could have selected many coaches that might be a better fit, maybe even a better coach, for a lot less. But that was their choice.
The problem is still all about beating Auburn and winning championships. Now if Saban doesn't do that soon he will be fired and then where do you go from there?
LMAO at all the sour grapes on this board and elsewhere in places like South Florida and all around the SEC.
It's a helluva hire for UA. No one in their right mind can dispute that. He will recruit well and have us competing for championships in short order. People can say what they will about the amount of the contract, but really, what does it matter? It's no one's business what we pay our coach. Hell, Mike Holmgren of the Seattle Seahawks make EIGHT MILLION a year. Within a year or so, there will be a college coach or two making more than Saban.
So everyone laugh all you want. Meanwhile, I'll be laughing all the way to the Georgia Dome and the BCS NC game in a couple years.
Roll Tide!
Does anybody see an inherent conflict of interest? I hated Saban when he was at LSU just like I think Houston Nutt and Tommy T are giant douches now...
Just because someone is a good coaches elsewhere doesn't mean they can be good coaches in Tuscaloosa. I'll bet some of the juniors and seniors are going to take a while to warm up to him...
As an Alabama fan, I don't know that we should be celebrating this decision yet - he hasn't done anything for us...
Also, I think Saban should make some serious charitable contributions - that salary is truly excessive and surely will create a ****ty precedent for the NCAA...
Just because someone is a good coaches elsewhere doesn't mean they can be good coaches in Tuscaloosa. I'll bet some of the juniors and seniors are going to take a while to warm up to him...
As an Alabama fan, I don't know that we should be celebrating this decision yet - he hasn't done anything for us...
Also, I think Saban should make some serious charitable contributions - that salary is truly excessive and surely will create a ****ty precedent for the NCAA...
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This from someone who pulls for a school where 70 percent of the students live in trailers? BWAHAHAHA.
And you'll get your competition, darlin'. Guaranteed. I bet you couldn't hammer a straight pin up Tommy Tubberville's sphincter right now.