re: Spurrier or Saban

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Is this even a serious question? Spurrier was the coach in the best football producing state in the united states and only won a title once. This also is in a time when Lsu, alabama, georgia, etc were no good. He's also in one of the best talent producing states in the country now. They're not even comparable. Who ever started this question needs his head examined. Saban has changed college football, spurrier is most famous for his whining and throwing his visor.

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... Florida is and was one of the greatest pools of talent, but when Spurrier arrived it was being plundered by Miami, FSU, and the other SEC vultures with UF getting the third level talent. The Florida you know today was not the Florida he inherited. It is the one he created. They are a hot spot for recruits because of Spurrier's legacy. Can the same be said of Saban?

South Carolina produces great players, but not nearly in the quantity of Florida. We'll produce maybe ten great players a year to Florida's fifty plus. But the difference is what those players do with Spurrier at the helm. It's the same formula as when he took over at UF. The cream of the crop was being snatched up by other teams before he arrived. He put SC on lock down grabbing the best and the brightest to play at home (for the most part) instead of heading off to UGA, UT, UF, UA, etc.

Spurrier did the same thing at Duke that he is doing at Carolina. Taking a perennial also ran into a legitimate contender. At Duke... Saban will not be going from Alabama to build a program (NFL or otherwise). Watch, he will go back to the NFL to take over NE or some other talent rich program. He is not a builder, but a molder of talent. Without that talent already in place he was mediocre at MSU and Miami.

I would take that whining and visor throwing coach over Saban heads up twenty years ago, ten years ago, right now and in five years.