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re: Saban turned down $100M in order to stay at Bama
Posted on 7/16/14 at 4:21 pm to Aman
Posted on 7/16/14 at 4:21 pm to Aman
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You have no basis for this statement other than pure desire to see the man fail. Coaches might out coach him at times and he will lose some games, but until his recruiting starts falling way off the man just has too much talent in his program for it to start sucking.
even if he does fall, his legacy has pretty much already been set. really the only thing he has to achieve at this point is passing bear bryant. he could never have another winning season and still be viewed as one of the greatest coaches in cfb history. unless he's broke and has made horrible investments with his money, i doubt he'll regret much (although I still doubt the validity of the "offer")
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Posted on 7/16/14 at 4:49 pm to lsufball19
You're posts ahve been great, throughout this thread, just FYI. Lots of reading pleasure.
I think the deal (as an Aggie) was probably pretty close to legit. tu donors could offer saban interest in well royalties/land etc. That would have made this an enormous deal to walk away from.
Do I think Saban ever really leaned to going to tu? No. The problems(scandals) going on at that program, matched with the pressures of the fan base to win instantly, matched with an overall shitty conference, all rounded up with the LHN issues, and its easy to see why Saban would be turned off.
DO I think Saban could have done well at tu? Yeah, they are an established program that is in the gutter, but pretty easily can be rebuilt... by the right coach.
That brings me to the fact that Saban would have to play and coach against spread teams (obviously not his brand of ball) just to get tu back to even footing in the shite 12 conference (easily behind OU and Baylor, if not even OSU).
With A&M drawing great interest from all the states top talent, Saban would have hurt the recruiting efforts of A&M, but the conference they play in is still crap compared to the SEC.
To recap; Saban took these behind the scenes offers, got a little more out of Bama, and remained happy.
One thing everyone else is forgetting, Saban would have taken most of his staff, likely, and thats a pretty expensive staff, if memory serves me right. And tu can't just throw 100million at Saban and scraps to the staff. Most likely, it would have been viewed as a bad procedure to up a HC's pay that much, and then spend that much on staff as well.
One more note, tu thinks they are the program they were in the late 60's, every day. That's part of the issue with their program. So, lets say tu really does offer saban this deal, why did they not offer some of these guys way up on there list an even smaller deal that most would jump at, and instead settle on Charlie?
Sips HC list
1. Saban
2. Harbaughs (they wanted either one)
3. Gruden
4. Shaw
5. Chip Kelly
6. Urban Meyer
7. Briles/Muschamp/Peterson
8. Chollie
And the reason this number is being reported so high, if not real, is because the tu boosters need to keep appearance up that they did everything the could to "get their man".
I think the deal (as an Aggie) was probably pretty close to legit. tu donors could offer saban interest in well royalties/land etc. That would have made this an enormous deal to walk away from.
Do I think Saban ever really leaned to going to tu? No. The problems(scandals) going on at that program, matched with the pressures of the fan base to win instantly, matched with an overall shitty conference, all rounded up with the LHN issues, and its easy to see why Saban would be turned off.
DO I think Saban could have done well at tu? Yeah, they are an established program that is in the gutter, but pretty easily can be rebuilt... by the right coach.
That brings me to the fact that Saban would have to play and coach against spread teams (obviously not his brand of ball) just to get tu back to even footing in the shite 12 conference (easily behind OU and Baylor, if not even OSU).
With A&M drawing great interest from all the states top talent, Saban would have hurt the recruiting efforts of A&M, but the conference they play in is still crap compared to the SEC.
To recap; Saban took these behind the scenes offers, got a little more out of Bama, and remained happy.
One thing everyone else is forgetting, Saban would have taken most of his staff, likely, and thats a pretty expensive staff, if memory serves me right. And tu can't just throw 100million at Saban and scraps to the staff. Most likely, it would have been viewed as a bad procedure to up a HC's pay that much, and then spend that much on staff as well.
One more note, tu thinks they are the program they were in the late 60's, every day. That's part of the issue with their program. So, lets say tu really does offer saban this deal, why did they not offer some of these guys way up on there list an even smaller deal that most would jump at, and instead settle on Charlie?
Sips HC list
1. Saban
2. Harbaughs (they wanted either one)
3. Gruden
4. Shaw
5. Chip Kelly
6. Urban Meyer
7. Briles/Muschamp/Peterson
8. Chollie
And the reason this number is being reported so high, if not real, is because the tu boosters need to keep appearance up that they did everything the could to "get their man".
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