Nick Saban

[muqluk]

https://twitter.com/on3sports/status/1745206560706457781

[CHONGS]

Goat

[CNS]

Harbaugh is going to get another 50% out of Michigan or Vegas.

[Spracne]

Yes m'am. He's got more money than Jesus.

[michigancat]

Goat

without question

[Pete]

I feel robbed of the opportunity to see him whine about being out spent in recruiting by Texas (and those haplessly chasing Texas). 

[wetwillie]

UT is a Kirby Smart heart attack away from running the joint now.

[Pete]

They should probably hire someone that they fully expect to fire within 3 years and just get the "can't follow Saban" thing over with as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

[Spracne]

UT is a Kirby Smart heart attack away from running the joint now.

You're G.D. right we are.

[Brock Landers]

Saban watched Deuce house it in the Sugar Bowl and he immediately knew the game had passed him by.  I'm honestly surprised he even stayed for this season.

[pissclams]

gotta think the job is kiffin’s if he wants it

[catastrophe]

Pretty clear now why Klein decided to make the move.

[wetwillie]

gotta think the job is kiffin’s if he wants it

Dan Lanning is the #1 target

[Spracne]

gotta think the job is kiffin’s if he wants it

Dan Lanning is the #1 target

The basketball coach?

[Pete]

gotta think the job is kiffin’s if he wants it

Dan Lanning is the #1 target

who do people think Greg Byrne (their AD) thinks is the best coach in college football?

[MakeItRain]

Harbaugh is going to get another 50% out of Michigan or Vegas.

He will be coaching at neither of those places. Vegas might be the worst NFL job open right now

[cfbandyman]

UT is a Kirby Smart heart attack away from running the joint now.

No doubt, it's coming.

Saban watched Deuce house it in the Sugar Bowl and he immediately knew the game had passed him by.  I'm honestly surprised he even stayed for this season.

gE aside it's not really that crazy, at least the game. He's expended tremendous energy this year imo to get Bama into the CFP and it's quickly showing that while bama is the standard, they aren't the only ones anymore (though 99% of any schools would want that) . 2020 was his last natty, and 2021 was the last time they even made the title game. I think he's bowing out at the right time, before he is unable to keep it going.

[pissclams]

gotta think the job is kiffin’s if he wants it

Dan Lanning is the #1 target

lol not sure if you are trolling but they would never consider l(f)anning

[pissclams]

[bananaeater]

They should probably hire someone that they fully expect to fire within 3 years and just get the "can't follow Saban" thing over with as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

The ole "don't be the guy that replaces a legend, be the guy that replaces the guy that replaced a legend".

Don't be Ron Prince replacing LHC Bill Snyder, be LHC Bill Snyder replacing Ron Prince . .  replacing LHC Bill Snyder.  Or something.  I don't remember how the transitive property works exactly but you get the idea. 

[Pete]

Saban blaming the NIL and the state of recruiting seems pretty hypocritical to me. When he took the LSU job, and the Bama job, there is no way he did so without full participation in the underbelly of SEC recruiting practices. 

I’d bet he is afraid Alabama’s inability to maintain a clear lead when the differentiator is no longer “willingness to cheat” and instead “ability to pay.”  Competing in a free market instead of a black market requires different resources in order to stay ahead.

Certainly he’s very likely to also be upset with a system where the personnel are less like indentured servants or enlisted troops, and instead posses the same freedom of movement as he enjoys and all other Americans enjoy.  Those liberties of staff members can be very difficult for men of his generation to accept. 

[sonofdaxjones]

Alabama had 25,000 students when he got there, and 80% of them were instate students.  Now Alabama has 40,000 students and 60% of them are out-of-state students. The biggest student recruiting weekends are football weekends. 

Just in core tuition dollars (before fees and other charges) that's $22,000 more per student per academic year for every out-of-state.



 

[Pete]

Alabama had 25,000 students when he got there, and 80% of them were instate students.  Now Alabama has 40,000 students and 60% of them are out-of-state students. The biggest student recruiting weekends are football weekends. 

Just in core tuition dollars (before fees and other charges) that's $22,000 more per student per academic year for every out-of-state.



 

No doubt that it was a huge economic benefit for the University.  Probably a horrible decision for many of those kids to pay that much for an Alabama degree when almost all of them could have gotten just as good of an education for a fraction of the cost if they had stayed in-state. 

[MakeItRain]

Alabama had 25,000 students when he got there, and 80% of them were instate students.  Now Alabama has 40,000 students and 60% of them are out-of-state students. The biggest student recruiting weekends are football weekends. 

Just in core tuition dollars (before fees and other charges) that's $22,000 more per student per academic year for every out-of-state.



 

No doubt that it was a huge economic benefit for the University.  Probably a horrible decision for many of those kids to pay that much for an Alabama degree when almost all of them could have gotten just as good of an education for a fraction of the cost if they had stayed in-state.

Well I bet most of those out of state kids are from Florida and Mississippi, so maybe not.

[Kat Kid]

It has become the southern safety school.