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Re: Alabama Crimson Tide

Post by bluetick » Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:57 pm

GBJs wrote:I see us about 9-2 heading into the Auburn game, 10-1 if we somehow squeak by LSU. aTm will kill us.
Yeah, yuk it up now...the good times don't last forever.
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Post by hedge » Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:34 pm

I get a strong feeling that they're going to last as long as Saban as at the helm, and he don't look like he's fixin to retire anytime soon...
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Post by bluetick » Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:54 pm

Retire, no. But the new billionaire ownership of the Browns may offer to make him the richest man in football two times over.

yes i know, money isn't everything
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Post by The Gray Ghost » Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:59 pm

GBJs wrote:I see us about 9-2 heading into the Auburn game, 10-1 if we somehow squeak by LSU. aTm will kill us.
That's really crass to be wasting sandbags with all the flooding left by Sandy on the Jersey Shore.

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Post by AlabamAlum » Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:57 pm

Hmmmm....Saban makes $6million a year in Tuscaloosa. Would $10million be enough to move to Cleveland? What could be do with $10million in C-Land that he couldn't do with $6mil in T-Town?

I don't think he'll leave anytime soon. That's as wishful thinking as Chuckie to KnoxVegas.
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Post by GBJs » Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:00 pm

bluetick wrote:
GBJs wrote:I see us about 9-2 heading into the Auburn game, 10-1 if we somehow squeak by LSU. aTm will kill us.
Yeah, yuk it up now...the good times don't last forever.
How well I know that.
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Post by GBJs » Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:03 pm

bluetick wrote:Retire, no. But the new billionaire ownership of the Browns may offer to make him the richest man in football two times over.

yes i know, money isn't everything
If he were being offered that kind of money to go to another university, I'd be much more worried than I am over ANYTHING related to "Saban to the NFL". But if he were to leave, I'd help him pack and wish him a heartfelt Thank You. What he's done at UA hasn't been done since Bryant, and not just football. There are many reasons he's

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Post by GBJs » Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:04 pm

...AND it's Cleveland....
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Post by Professor Tiger » Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:57 pm

Texas is the only program that could theoretically outbid the REC for Saban's services. I could see Jerry Jones going after Saban too, but there is NO WAY that Saban would agree to become Jones's latest catamite.

Bottom line, I don't see Saban going anywhere anytime soon.
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Post by Jungle Rat » Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:08 pm

Nick will never go back to the NFL. His style doesn't work in the pros. Never will.

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Post by GBJs » Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:16 pm

And for that, we can all happily breath a sigh of relief...
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Post by AlabamAlum » Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:18 pm

I disagree with Rat. Saban's style would work at any level given time.
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Re: Alabama Crimson Tide

Post by Jungle Rat » Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:40 pm

No. He's much better at coaching kids than coaching 53 separate corporations.

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Post by Professor Tiger » Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:50 pm

Saban's style would work at any level given time.
Saban's style didn't work very well at Miami. He was one of several great college coaches who tried their hand at the pro's and failed: John Robinson, Steve Spurrier, Barry Switzer and Butch Davis come to mind.

The only one who I can think of that made the jump successfully was Jimmy Johnson. The jury is still out on Pete Carroll.
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Post by AlabamAlum » Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:27 pm

Saban was there for just two years. It takes time to change a culture. He took over a team that won 4 games in 2004 and went 9-7 and finished 2nd in the AFC-E. Year two Culpepper tore his knee and the Phins had to use Harrington and later Cleo-fucking-Lemon as QB on the way to 6-10 or 15-17 over his two years. Which isn't nearly as bad as people remember.

Given another couple of years, I have no doubt he would win.
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Post by hedge » Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:29 pm

Gotta love any post that uses "catamite"...

"What could be do with $10million in C-Land that he couldn't do with $6mil in T-Town?"

I was going to sass T-Town by saying "Stuff in C-Land" as if Cleveland was obviously a step up from Tuscaloosa. But then I remember that it's Cleveland. Or, as we used to call it, Clevesass...
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Post by hedge » Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:30 pm

Tuscaloosa readily lends itself to sassful transmogrification: Sasscaloosa. Tuscasassla. Tuscaloosass....
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Post by GBJs » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:00 pm

Professor Tiger wrote:
Saban's style would work at any level given time.
Saban's style didn't work very well at Miami. He was one of several great college coaches who tried their hand at the pro's and failed: John Robinson, Steve Spurrier, Barry Switzer and Butch Davis come to mind.

The only one who I can think of that made the jump successfully was Jimmy Johnson. The jury is still out on Pete Carroll.
A lot of that had to do with Miami's roster being filled with piss ant whiners with a sense of entitlement. Which describes about half the league teams today. I give the Miami fans hell at work. The more delusional one are convinced if SABAN had chosen Brees instead of Culpepper they'd be winning championships left and right.

No need for an O line to keep the sumbich upright. And they've sucked since the 70's...
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Re: Alabama Crimson Tide

Post by Jungle Rat » Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:31 pm

Saban can't control NFL players like he can in college. That's 75% of the difference between the 2.

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Post by Professor Tiger » Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:15 pm

Correct. A college coach can scream at his players and cow 99% of them into submission. But do that to a pro player - especially a really good one - and he'll get all Latrell Sprewell on your Carlesimo ass.
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