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Curious about Saban/Carroll
Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:44 pm
Why is it that Pete Carroll can be successful in the NFL and Nick Saban can't?
Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:45 pm to covlatiger
Is Pete Carroll having tremendous success in the NFL?
Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:47 pm to plazadweller
Why is it that you still have a boner for a coach that left you almost ten years ago.
Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:47 pm to covlatiger
IMO, Saban leads by intimidation and millionaire, grown up, Pro's aren't gonna be intimidated. Carroll is a "players coach". He's probably friends with most of his players....
Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:47 pm to plazadweller
Not 'tremendous', but he has made the playoffs and hasn't bailed on the team.
Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:48 pm to covlatiger
Pete Carroll is only a .500 coach in the NFL. Saban was 15-17. Not a huge difference although the sample sizes are not ideal for comparison.
Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:49 pm to ErnestTBassmaster
Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:52 pm to covlatiger
Nick Saban is a better college coach, Pete Carroll is a slightly better NFL coach.
This isn't rocket science.
This isn't rocket science.
Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:53 pm to covlatiger
Pete Carroll failed in his first TWO coaching gigs in the NFL. He got fired after one year with the Jets. In New England, he took over a team that went to the Super Bowl the previous year and they went steadily downhill the three years he was there. Bill Simmons sums up his time in New England.
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Once upon a time, back when I was still living in Boston, Pete Carroll did a terrible job coaching the New England Patriots. Eventually, they fired him. But not before I gave him the nickname "Coach Fredo" on my old Web site.
Deep down, I always felt bad about it. Pete seemed like a good guy. Of course, that was the problem -- there wasn't anything coach-like about him. His teams consistently screwed up and did dumb things. His players consistently walked all over him and found trouble off the field. Even in his press conferences, beat writers found ways to undermine him and make him look bad. Poor Pete carried himself like a giddy substitute teacher for an inner-city high school, the high-energy dude who strolls in hoping to change everyone for the better and ends up getting duct-taped to his desk and covered with gobs of whiteout. That was Pete Carroll in New England.
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Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:54 pm to NashvilleTider
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Posted on 11/18/12 at 2:58 pm to covlatiger
You wish he had been a bit more successful, maybe so that he would return?
Posted on 11/18/12 at 3:08 pm to covlatiger
Saban's time a LSU screwed him up much like it's caused Miles to go insane.
Posted on 11/18/12 at 3:11 pm to covlatiger
quote:I'm not certain that he "can't"
Why is it that Pete Carroll can be successful in the NFL and Nick Saban can't?
Perhaps he didn't during those two years, but that certainly does not indicate an inability to have success. He was made to take Dante Culpepper over Drew Brees. Really throws off your ability to be successful when you have a gimp of a QB who couldn't finish a season.
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