🏈 From the "Did they really say that?" category: CoachesHotSeat.com's blog on Saban from January 2008

[TerryP]

(Should this category be renamed "People trying to emulate Neal McReedy? Hrrmm.

Or, perhaps, where are they now? If you take the time and read over some of the comments at the bottom of this opinion piece do you find yourself wondering "I wonder what they are thinking today...")

Here's an excerpt:
When it is all said and done, Nick Saban will not be remembered as a football coach, but rather what kind of human being he has been to the people around him. We really believe that Nick Saban needs his “Scrooge-type” moment right now where he can see the way he has acted in the past, the way he is behaving right now, and where he will end up in the future if he continues on his current path. It is not a given that Saban will succeed at Alabama, because the SEC is much more difficult place to win in, than when he departed LSU for the Dolphins. If Saban does fail at Alabama, and failure at Alabama is not winning SEC and National Championships, Saban’s behavior when leaving the Dolphins and the general sense of the man among his peers might end up as the dominant themes in his biography. We cannot imagine that Nick Saban wishes to be remembered as a liar that also treated the people that worked for him like shit. If Saban believes that his personal behavior is not relative to his immediate and future success, then he is sadly mistaken and he is walking on a very perilous path.

It's worth the read—CoachHotSeat.com's "Saban is a pompous ass."

 

[Bamabww]

(Or, perhaps, where are they now? If you take the time and read over some of the comments at the bottom of this opinion piece do you find yourself wondering "I wonder what they are thinking today...")

Yeah, take the time to read the first several comments. It's worth it. Thanks Terry. Someone told my son "he's nothing but a S.O.B." and he replied "maybe so, but he's our S.O.B."

 

[beachfinder]

Yep, funny how winning cures most ills.... (G)

Larry

 

[riz]

Stuff like that is one of the big problems I have with most sports bloggers. You can just write up any old kind of op-ed, throw it on the web, and there you go. Complete garbage. Hi there, Bleacher Report. :jackoff2:

 

[MunchyOs]

Man, the comments section is hysterical! The barners sure chimed in. My favorite was the idiot talking about how Saban would be fired after the 2008 season, when in reality, it was their man who quit on them after Saban obliterated him 36-0 that year. I knew that 2007 would be a rough year. The schedule wasn't necessarily rough or anything, but Saban had too many Shula players on the team who were undisciplined and not used to the team concept. Not to mention, he had to suspend quite a few of them after that whole textbook thing broke.

I don't know of any other coach that could have gone from 7-6 to 12-2 in one year in the SEC. I remember the clamoring after that first season and I remember thinking "these must be the same morons that actually wanted to keep Shula after the 2006 season".

 

[MunchyOs]

I wonder if DA Baxter (starter of the infamous Saban vs Shula thread from 2010) wrote that article. :biggrin_blue:

 

[psychojoe]

Here's his list of "top coaches" at the time of the article:

Les Miles, Mark Richt, Pete Carroll, Gary Pinkel, Bronco Mendenhall, Rich Rodriguez, Paul Johnson, Jim Tressel, Bobby Petrino, Urban Meyer, Mack Brown, Tommy Tuberville, Bob Stoops, Frank Beamer, Brian Kelly, Dennis Erickson and a few others…

The first two are still hanging around. Carroll, Petrono, Tressel have experienced disgrace. mack Brown is on the hot seat. sooner fans are grumbling about Stoops. Tuberville has drifted to lesser programs. Rodriguez was a cataclysmic failure at Michigan. Beamer has drifted off into mediocrity. Etc.

I'd give the author an F in prophecy.

 

[TerryP]

I wonder if DA Baxter (starter of the infamous Saban vs Shula thread from 2010) wrote that article. :biggrin_blue:

Went on for page after page after page...

http://www.rolltidebama.com/forum/search.php?searchid=2199165

 

[cjaytch]

Here's his list of "top coaches" at the time of the article:



The first two are still hanging around. Carroll, Petrono, Tressel have experienced disgrace. mack Brown is on the hot seat. sooner fans are grumbling about Stoops. Tuberville has drifted to lesser programs. Rodriguez was a cataclysmic failure at Michigan. Beamer has drifted off into mediocrity. Etc.

I'd give the author an F in prophecy.

GaTech fans are ready for Paul Johnson to go. Erickson has been unable to get anywhere near his Miami success and I seem to remember some NCAA issues with him. Brian Kelly has done well with some easy schedules in some really soft leagues but I think we all remember how his team laid an egg in their last game.....

 

[bamafan4ever]

Went on for page after page after page...

http://www.rolltidebama.com/forum/search.php?searchid=2199165

Dead link, Terry.

 

[JoshB]

Went on for page after page after page...

http://www.rolltidebama.com/forum/search.php?searchid=2199165

I cant find the thread. I cant remember it but I wanna read thru it lol

 

[planomateo]

I cant find the thread. I cant remember it but I wanna read thru it lol

http://www.rolltidebama.com/forum/showthread.php?79172-Saban-vs-Shula

 

[JoshB]

Thank you sir.

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

One thing I never understood is why the Miami faithful gave a shat if Coach Saban went back to the college ranks, and LSU felt they got duped. A NFL team can and will get the best coaches if they pay for it. Coach Saban didnt like the NFL and all the prima donnas and went to were he was best suited, he handled it wrong but who is to know what he was thinking at the time. Calling him a liar is a bit harsh, but everybody with the exception of this blogger and DA Baxter knew he would do well, I was giddy as hell knowing he was our coach. Basically all that talk ended up with Coach Saban making the lot eat crow, and Alabama with multiple NC's and the chance of being even better than the Coach Bryant's glory years. That right there surprises me more. Never would of thought we would be even close to uttering the fact that Coach Saban is on the same and maybe better level than Coach Bryant. But 2 more NCs and like it or not Coach Saban is on that level. IMHO he already is. (Can't believe I am willing to say that) Coach on Coach Saban and keep proving what you said at the beginning that you like the college ranks better.

 

[bamaraider]

:rofl::laughcry:

Les Miles, Mark Richt, Pete Carroll, Gary Pinkel, Bronco Mendenhall, Rich Rodriguez, Paul Johnson, Jim Tressel, Bobby Petrino, Urban Meyer, Mack Brown, Tommy Tuberville, Bob Stoops, Frank Beamer, Brian Kelly, Dennis Erickson and a few others…

All of those above coaches are very intense, they are very demanding upon their assistant coaches, they expect excellence from their players, and to a man they all know how to run a football program.

 

[bamaraider]

sivo-

• good article..very true
  he is not liked at all in this area…2 people i know work around him in the ath dept in tloosa and havent liked him since 2 weeks after he got there..a 1 hit wonder that is fading quickly…his chance to shine is now past..5 sec performers, easy home schedule, and still flopped…wow, 2008 is gonna be a TOUGH one..loses his best players and the schedule is gonna be a killer..lol…too bad..

Marty G- Keep your head in the sand, gumps, its much more pleasent for you if you can’t see what the rest of us know – that coaches can win National Titles at LSU, but Nick won’t even win the SEC West at Bama, mainly because Bama can’t cheat like they always have. no cheat=no win.
LSU > bama. you know it, you just won’t admit it.

:rofl: Oh man, this is too much.

 

[rammerjammer]

The thing that gets me is when you talk with players/former players, heck look at some of the videos they have "behind the scenes". Saban will cut up with the players during warm ups and the coach thing..........He has not had any problems when it comes time to replace coaches. And every time we replace one, we don't miss a beat. In all honesty I would imagine guys are lined up to get the experience under CNS in order to help their resume so they can move on to be the next hot coach. How many DC's around the country would love to be in Kirby Smart's shoes right now? He has been associated with some really good offers around the South.