Saban's Assistants to be highest paid in SEC as well.

No raise will keep him from taking a HC job someday. Other than that, he is more than fairly compensated as DC.

 

i guess you get what you pay for/ however some times you wind up paying way too much for what you get:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

What are you made about? He did what was best for him and in return their program will make more money. Is this because you just hate Saban?

 

Saban was lucky. When he came to LSU, Fisher was a cast off from Auburn, Muschamp was unknown, and the talent level as always in Louisiana was and is exceptional. Saban parlayed his meteoric rise to a high price reputation and rise to Miami. Showed he was an average, or below average coach in the NFL and ran scared back to what he felt comfortable in doing at Alabama. EGO in tact to the highest bidder. Rejected by assistant after assistant, and we at LSU know from Dinardo you are only as good as your assistants. No one but rejects and wannna bees, want to work for this man now.

Good Luck Alabama in paying his buyout, Pendry was hated everywhere he went, sounds a little like a LOUsy Tepper clone(inside LSU joke). He is by no means a Fisher or Crowton, which neither wants to work for Saban. Pendry will make Tepper look like he is a genious. I'll bet Tepper wished Pendry was at Bama when he coached LSU's defense.

Saban was an average coach at Michigan State with average talent , and he was a better coach at LSU with superior talent, but he will be an average coach at Alabama with average Alabama talent.

Saban is a head case that all recruits, all assistant coaches, and all fans except Bama fans now understand. Saban got Lucky with talent at LSU, and that will not happen at Alabama.

Alabama could recruit nationally with the Bear, but no longer. The only thing Alabama fans will be left with after Saban leaves is a greater impression of the Bear. If he wasn't already godlike, Saban will insure that Alabama's only hope is for the Bear's second coming. There will be no Kims kicking footballs or Namath's from Beaver Falls, just Wilson's from Hoover for Nick.

BUT, Winning Championships is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!

After all the derogatory comments from Alabama fans, Fineblumingidiots, and Huntsvillecosmonauts writers about Less Miles. Less will prove as little Nicky did, that talent wins ballgames more than coaches do. However, Nick's assistants can lose games because they are not SEC caliber. Pellini will beat Pendry's offense like a stepchild.

Good Luck Nick in your new job two years from now, replacing Rich at WVU who left for the NFL. Yes Nicky you can go home again.

 

Yeah, he was lucky to win 2 SEC championships and a MNC. Any coach could have done that at LSU, besides Archer, Hallman, and DiNardo. Yep, Saban was lucky to find LSU. He did nothing for LSU. Just blind luck.

That commercial about brains, drugs and fried eggs comes to mind when I read such stupid posts.

 

Well, red just covered what I was going to say about the talent myth.

People said he wouldnt be able to compete with Auburn in recruiting (well not me of course because Im a damn genius). Have you looked at that lately? Have you looked at Alabama's in state talent? All southern states are loaded with great football players.

Its okay to say he will be a decent coach.

 

randyb, LSU fan?

 

Red55 - Exactly what kind of coach was Paul Dietzel when he left LSU? What type of coach was he at LSU? The man won a NC. What will or won't make Saban better?

I am not saying Saban is not better than average, but not any better than or worse than any other top 20 coach, and that includes Less. Talented players separate most of them and recruiting those players is important in ones own playground. If memory serves me, the reason Saban gave for coming to LSU was because Louisiana was a talent rich state and LSU was the only flagship University. Not the situation at Michigan State, but if he was such a great recruiter why should it matter? And, not the situation at Alabama.

He came because Michigan kept kicking his ass in recruiting.

Archer, Hallman, and DiNardo were really less than average coaches. Dinardo managed to have some good assistants and that helped him in the beginning. Arnspaugher was probably the best actual football coach LSU ever had, and anyone that thinks he was a poor recruiter should look at LSU's record the year after he left.

Saban is not having the success of recruiting quality assistants as he did when he first came to LSU, and I think this will be a major factor in his success or lack thereof at UA.

I think he is back at another Michigan State. By the way, there were no assistants that followed him to LSU, and maybe one that followed him to UA. I think his reputation of abusing assistants is catching up with him and his record will reflect as much.

 

Tiger fan for half a century, but realist.

It takes a little luck to win a NC, and the best team does not always get in the game, just ask Tennessee in 2001. Outside of maybe 3 teams, how many teams have won more than 1 NC in the last 50 years, and what is their chance of repeating in the next ten? How many coaches in the last 50 years have won more than 1 NC?

The odds are better for a new coach to win a NC with a team that has won a NC, than a coach that has won a NC to win a NC with a new team.

The odds are more in Less' favor, and less in Nick's favor. An appropriate pun I think.