🏈 Saban: "He's only going to stay in Tuscaloosa three or four years."

[Max]

And here we are a decade later and he's the most tenured coach in the SEC.

Here we sit with our 'traditional rivalries" (UT and AU) on their third HC and our other SEC rivals (like UGA, FSU, and UF) on their second.

 

[bama alum]

SIAP. After Lester got canned yesterday, every SEC school has fired its HC at least once since Saban arrived. He's processed them all.

 

[jocephus8179]

And here we are a decade later and he's the most tenured coach in the SEC.

Here we sit with our 'traditional rivalries" (UT and AU) on their third HC and our other SEC rivals (like UGA, FSU, and UF) on their second.

UF is also on the third. Myer, Muschamp, McElwain.

 

[jocephus8179]

I love pointing out this fact to all of my aubie friends who talked a TON of crap from the beginning about Saban leaving us out to dry after only a few short years.

 

[rammerjammer]

I love pointing out this fact to all of my aubie friends who talked a TON of crap from the beginning about Saban leaving us out to dry after only a few short years.

......................And the fact that Tuberville has a winning record against him. I heard that crap a lot too. I told them that Tubbs would always have a winning record against Saban because they would fire him after he lost to us 2 years in a row. Only took one year.

 

[PurlJam]

Guess most of 'em are waiting 8 to 10 years from now for CNS to retire so they can tell us "I told you so"

 

[UAgrad93]

I remember the '07 LSwho game in T'town and a couple of the Coonasses beside us said, "Saban isn't going to stay here maybe 3-4 years and then he is coming back to us." I laughed and replied that, " he will leave after he has tied or passed The Bear. By then, he will be tired and will retire to his lake house." I'd love to see those guys now!!!

 

[TheChief]

Dog years...

 

[Max]

got this in an email

• I don't believe Saban could have done anywhere else.... bamajf 2016-09-28 07:28:40
  What he has done at Bama. Maybe he could but it would have been difficult. He had just the right AD, just the right president, and atmosphere. Would that have been the case through that time at LSU? Maybe but we will never know but things were perfect for him here. Bama is a unique place that brings things out in coaches. As bad as Shula was he won 10 games in a year. Bad as Dubose was he won 10. Bama is a place that can allow a bad coach to be fair, a fair coach to be good, a good one to be great, and in Sabans case a great one to be legendary. Not many places can bring that out in a coach.
  

 

[TerryP]

Five reasons why Nick Saban is college football’s best coach

He is the best in the business; arguably the best of all time. Kentucky faces him Saturday. Playing Alabama at almost any period in the history of college football has been a daunting task, but even more so now. Nick Saban makes it so.

The Alabama coach has won five national championships — four at Tuscaloosa; one at LSU — including three in the past five years. Alabama has not lost more than one SEC game in a season since 2010. It has won 30 of its last 33 games overall. It is, again, the top-ranked team in the country.

OK, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer, owner of three national championship rings, is in the best-coach conversation. Every other coach is fighting for No. 3 on the ladder.

When it comes to No. 1, however, the discussion begins and ends with Saban. Here are five reasons why:

1. His ridiculous work ethic. The story goes the morning after Alabama won the national title in 2012, Saban was on the phone with a golfing buddy back in Tuscaloosa. The friend offered congratulations. Saban grunted. “That damn game cost me a week of recruiting,” he replied.

By all accounts, Saban’s work ethic came from his late father in West Virginia. Nick Saban Sr. coached Pop Warner football. A steep hill was located next to the practice field. When it became too dark to see the football, Saban would command his young players to run to the top of the hill. To make sure they made it all the way to the top, he required they bring back a leaf off a tree.



Five reasons why Nick Saban is college football’s best coach

 

[TerryP]

^^^ At the end of that article, read his list of top 25 coaches in college football.

 

[UAgrad93]

A couple of head scratchers there. I would have David Shaw higher up than 10. Dabo, too high. Ferentz, too high. Freeze? seriously?