🏈 Saban, Alabama agree to contract extension

[JoshB]

Gus Bus or David Shaw out at Stanford will be next on the list. Thanks for coming around Old Timer! Good luck in your search.

Maybe I'm wrong but I think Shaw is at his dream job currently.

 

[bamaraider]

I hope it isn't true. If it is, I think the dream is over for many Texas fans.

Congratulations Alabama fans.

You're welcome to stay here if you please and discuss other things.

 

[bamaraider]

ShaggyBevo won't allow anyone on. Lol, full meltdown mode.

 

[JoshB]

"We are excited about the future and the University of Alabama is where I plan to end my coaching career." - Nick Saban

 

[JoshB]

Recruits react...

Christian Miller: "I honestly trusted Coach Saban when he told me personally he was staying so this news isn't so alarming. Although I am pumped to know that it's now written in stone."

Ross Pierschbacher (twitter): "Saban stays! Rollllll tideeee roll!!!"

Cameron Robinson (twitter): "S/o to everybody that thought Coach Saban was leaving lol!"

^^ Im sure Cameron was hearing it the worst being in LA.

 

[PhillyGirl]

So glad he's staying.

 

[bamaraider]

So what kind of statement does this make nationally? Best HC in CFB just turned down the "oh so rich and powerful" Texas program to stay at Alabama.

 

[Snake2]

A good time to get this settled. A lot of 5 * on campus this week-end.

 

[Old Timer from TX]

So what kind of statement does this make nationally? Best HC in CFB just turned down the "oh so rich and powerful" Texas program to stay at Alabama.

You guys, even though you didn't get the SEC Championship this year... You guys have no idea how good you got it. And just because you think that other places and people have more money might mean they have it good... I'll be the first to tell you that just because a person, group, family, business, whatever has money, it doesn't mean they have it good.

With that said, I do have to eat a little crow. And it doesn't taste good. Swallowing one's pride does a lot for a man's humility. And if there is anything to be reinforced here, for myself and my sad Longhorn brethren, is that money isn't everything. It's highly important, but it's not everything.

- down and out in Austin

 

[bamaraider]

You guys, even though you didn't get the SEC Championship this year... You guys have no idea how good you got it. And just because you think that other places and people have more money might mean they have it good... I'll be the first to tell you that just because a person, group, family, business, whatever has money, it doesn't mean they have it good.

With that said, I do have to eat a little crow. And it doesn't taste good. Swallowing one's pride does a lot for a man's humility. And if there is anything to be reinforced here, for myself and my sad Longhorn brethren, is that money isn't everything. It's highly important, but it's not everything.

- down and out in Austin

You're good man lol.

 

[JoshB]

You guys, even though you didn't get the SEC Championship this year... You guys have no idea how good you got it. And just because you think that other places and people have more money might mean they have it good... I'll be the first to tell you that just because a person, group, family, business, whatever has money, it doesn't mean they have it good.

With that said, I do have to eat a little crow. And it doesn't taste good. Swallowing one's pride does a lot for a man's humility. And if there is anything to be reinforced here, for myself and my sad Longhorn brethren, is that money isn't everything. It's highly important, but it's not everything.

- down and out in Austin

Tried to tell you that bro...

This whole "Texas can buy whoever or whatever they want" shit has gotten extremely old. EXTREMELY. We get it, Texas has plenty of money, but guess what? That doesn't mean you can buy anything or everything they want, not everything or EVERYONE is for sale. If I hear that one more time I'm going to puke, its gotten to the point where Texas fans are more proud of how much money the school has than the product on the field. Thats your damn problem in a nutshell.

 

[Old Timer from TX]

I'm going to sleep tonite. And when I wake up in the morning, none of this happened.

Oh pls god. Pls,pls, pls. Let it not be true. You can let Alabama keep Saban. Just let us get rid of Mack. Oh dear god. Holy god. For the love of god. Is that so much to ask? Please.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

ESPN in the background, telling me pre-contract extension Saban is the highest paid coach by three thousand dollars over Mack Brown, followed Bielema and then Butch Jones at Tennessee. I like our return on investment. Scab's analogy of of a post-contract extension vaulting $6 mil for $7 mil isn't too back, if Carl Lewis was a high jumper. I think he long-jumped or sprinted past $6 mil.

Some people might look at Saban’s new deal, which adds a year through the 2020 season and bumps his average annual salary above $7 million, and gasp. College football has never had a $6-million man. Saban was close, but he just high-jumped that threshold like Carl Lewis at the Olympics.

 

[TheChief]

Carl Lewis long jumped but okay.

 

[planomateo]

You guys, even though you didn't get the SEC Championship this year... You guys have no idea how good you got it. And just because you think that other places and people have more money might mean they have it good... I'll be the first to tell you that just because a person, group, family, business, whatever has money, it doesn't mean they have it good.

With that said, I do have to eat a little crow. And it doesn't taste good. Swallowing one's pride does a lot for a man's humility. And if there is anything to be reinforced here, for myself and my sad Longhorn brethren, is that money isn't everything. It's highly important, but it's not everything.

- down and out in Austin

I'm gonna say this slowly for you...THIS IS ALABAMA FOOTBALL

 

[TerryP]

ESPN in the background, telling me pre-contract extension Saban is the highest paid coach by three thousand dollars over Mack Brown, followed Bielema and then Butch Jones at Tennessee. I like our return on investment. Scab's analogy of of a post-contract extension vaulting $6 mil for $7 mil isn't too back, if Carl Lewis was a high jumper. I think he long-jumped or sprinted past $6 mil.

I caught that as well, Tim, and ESPN's graphic is very deceiving. As we've talked about briefly here...Bielema's and Butch Jones contracts both reflect money given to them for their buyouts. It's far from a true figure.

I find it interesting that Franklin is getting roughly 3MM a year at Vandy and it's going to end up being less than half of what Saban will pull in...he's had a great run up there.

 

[Southern Bama]

I caught that as well, Tim, and ESPN's graphic is very deceiving. As we've talked about briefly here...Bielema's and Butch Jones contracts both reflect money given to them for their buyouts. It's far from a true figure.

I find it interesting that Franklin is getting roughly 3MM a year at Vandy and it's going to end up being less than half of what Saban will pull in...he's had a great run up there.

Franklin is the Coach Texas needs to be going after.

 

[TheChief]

They need to get a guy that has a high profile job, has won a national championship, and who knows the in's and out's of the Texas situation. Someone like, well, ... Mack Brown.

Carl Lewis was also an excellent sprinter, but never high jumped.

 

[Tider27]

Speaking of contracts, does Les Miles still have that dollar more than the highest paid coach stipulation in his contract? If so, LOLSU needs to get to renegotiating.

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

They need to get a guy that has a high profile job, has won a national championship, and who knows the in's and out's of the Texas situation. Someone like, well, ... Mack Brown.

Carl Lewis was also an excellent sprinter, but never high jumped.

He did Long Jump though.:biggrin_blue: