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TigerStagg Founding Member

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just saw it fox sports net. I don't think he has a house in BR now. We might be seeing more of him.

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Dirt Dog Founding Member

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Interesting....

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MOBILE, Ala. · Dolphins coach Nick Saban may have more than salary-cap issues and player contracts in his financial future.

While Saban has been attending Senior Bowl practices this week, interviewing potential draft picks to stock his roster, Heat center Shaquille O'Neal has set his sights on the former Louisiana State coach's house in Baton Rouge.

"I've seen it a million times, and I'm going to get it," O'Neal said Wednesday before taking on the Raptors in Toronto. "And I'm gonna get it for the same price he paid for it."

The asking price for the four-bedroom house, with a swimming pool and guest home, is $3.25 million -- pocket change for the former LSU star now earning an NBA-high $29.5 million.

The Sabans paid $1.72 million for the house in July 2001.

"My wife has been [in South Florida] for four days looking at houses, and the budget for houses has risen every passing day," Saban said.

Since accepting the head-coaching job and $22.5 million over five years from Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga on Christmas, Saban has been holed up at team headquarters assembling a staff, studying tapes of players and catching up on salary-cap nuances or sleep at a nearby hotel.

"I sleep there from maybe 10:30, 11 o'clock at night until about 5 or 6 in the morning," Saban said. "It's really a nice place. You've got to make it home. It is what it is, but we enjoy it."

So, spending last weekend at the family home (or Shaq's new shack) with Terry and their children -- 12th-grader Nicholas and eighth-grader Kristen -- then hopping over to Mobile to watch 100 players prepare for the Senior Bowl has been a welcome respite.

"I'm a ball guy, so this is what I like," said Saban, who most likely won't relocate his family until Nicholas, a senior golfer, finishes high school. "I like watching this.

"The football part of it is what I enjoy doing. The coaching part, the teaching part, the relationships with the players are all things I enjoy doing."

O'Neal recently paid about $18 million for a Star Island mansion once owned by former Heat center Rony Seikaly. O'Neal still owns a $6.25 million home in Orlando.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/...0,973157,print.story?coll=sfla-dolphins-front

JVincent25, Jan 27, 2005

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Maybe Rohan Davey will buy John Brady's house when it opens up! Just kidding...

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DallasLSU said:

Maybe Rohan Davey will buy John Brady's house when it opens up! Just kidding...
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:hihi: :lol: :rofl: :hihi: :lol: :rofl: :hihi: :lol: :rofl: :hihi: :lol: :rofl:

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DallasLSU said:

Maybe Rohan Davey will buy John Brady's house when it opens up! Just kidding...
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I'd like that, if only because of the implications...it's only about an hour's drive from the Saints' practice facility. :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

G_MAN113, Jan 27, 2005

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this is getting off thread and forum but, i for one would absolutly love to see BIG RO in black and gold.

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So in other words Shaq is gonna pay 1.7 mill instead of 3.2 mill for the house? He did say he was gonna pay what Saban originally payed for it.

IMO 3.2 mill for a house purchased for 1.7 just five years ago, is a ripoff. I don't care who lived in it.

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I-of-the-Tygrr said:

So in other words Shaq is gonna pay 1.7 mill instead of 3.2 mill for the house? He did say he was gonna pay what Saban originally payed for it.

IMO 3.2 mill for a house purchased for 1.7 just five years ago, is a ripoff. I don't care who lived in it.
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I think this was covered in a thread earlier, but as I understand it, the 1.7 was just a steep discount below market value from an LSU booster. So, it might not be the ripoff it would appear to be.

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Where is the house located?

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