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re: How many more years will Saban coach?
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:27 am to BAMAisDIESEL09
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:27 am to BAMAisDIESEL09
I'll say 8 more years 3-4 titles
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Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:27 am to cajunsack
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Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:27 am to Beer Bryant
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No coach would want to work for Saban as AD. I think he'll just retire after coaching.
I didnt think he liked the adminstration side of it
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:28 am to dkreller
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Houston Nutt will replace him when he's done.
With the way Saban has the program Nutt could have back to back 10 win seasons his first 2 years. After that though we would need another program builder because Nutt destroys everything he touches.
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:28 am to BAMAisDIESEL09
5 more years tops imo. As hard as he works and as intense as he is I just can't see him not getting burned out in a meatgrinder such as the SEC.
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:29 am to cajunsack
He'll never retire. Ghost Saban will be coaching the Gumps in he year 2525
happy?
happy?
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:29 am to island
He shall coach until he is carried into Heaven on a chariot of fire. This according to 4:15 Acts of the Apostles of Bryant.
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:29 am to mwlewis
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He is aging well
I don't agree - I think he's aged with rapid speed similar to what we see in a US President.
He does appear to have the drive to continue, and I think he's definitely more comfortable now that he was when he got to Bama. I've seen him at a few functions this off-season and he just laughs and jokes around more than he did 3-4 years ago.
He's got this program running with precision, everybody involved with the program knows their job responsibilites and they freakin do their job everyday. I think that has lead to him being less uptight than he used to be.
Be he has certainly aged over these few years.
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:34 am to NYCAuburn
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No coach would want to work for Saban as AD. I think he'll just retire after coaching.
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I didnt think he liked the adminstration side of it
The administration side he could handle. It's the public relations side - the fundraising and hand shaking he'd hate.
Mal is very good at charming the wallets open when he wants or needs $$$$ - Saban ain't a charmer by any stretch. In fact his demeanor may push more folks away than draw them in and make them want to donate $$.
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:37 am to RT1941
He could hire Tyler Watts to do that.
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:40 am to RollTide4Ever
Saban's resume will speak for itself. He won't need alluring charisma to draw people in or lie to them.
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:41 am to cajunsack
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Inb4nflagain
Inb4texas
Inb4higgestbidder
you forgot Inb4dontgiveashit
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:48 am to cajunsack
I could see him staying for a while. Maybe 8 years. He is all football all the time. I could see him coaching until health becomes an issue for him to at least some extent.
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:50 am to BAMAisDIESEL09
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Probably 2 more NCs
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:50 am to cajunsack
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I'll say 8 more years 3-4 titles
Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:51 am to TigerBait2008
TUSCALOOSA — Nick Saban will turn 61 on Oct. 31, which is the same age as Gene Stallings when he retired as Alabama’s football coach in 1996.
But with the Crimson Tide’s season opening Saturday against Michigan, Saban hardly looks like a guy who is ready to get out.
Heck, he hardly looks a 60-year-old. During practice this preseason, the Alabama head coach still works with the defensive backs. He still runs around, wearing shorts, sneakers, white T-shirt, gray sleeveless pullover and straw hat.
He still yells when somebody doesn’t give the effort he wants.
He still gets so involved in some drills that he sometimes has to backpedal to keep from getting run over. On the field, he doesn’t look a whole lot older than defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, who is 36.
This isn’t to say Saban won’t decide after the season to head to the lake house, but if that’s what he is thinking, I don’t see it.
About the only thing that’s different from other preseasons is that now he seems like he’s in an awfully good mood most of the time. Maybe he’s enjoying working with this team that much. He keeps saying he likes the effort he is seeing.
When Stallings retired, he said that one of the reasons was the declining health of his son, John Mark, who died in 2008. But Stallings himself was starting to look a little like a coach ready to step down, too.
He used to open all of practice to reporters, not just 15 or so minutes as Saban does, so we always got a pretty good look at him and his team.
On some days, when the offense worked on one side of the practice field and the defense on the other side, Stallings would stand in the middle and occasionally lean over, grab his knees and work his back as if he was trying to get something back in place. We called those his “bad-back days.”
After one practice in which he leaned over and adjusted more than usual, he opened his post-practice briefing by saying, “When I die, I want them to do an autopsy of me so they can tell me once and for all what’s wrong with my back.”
He smiled as he said it, but he was serious about how much his back hurt on some days.
Saban hasn’t stayed at any school longer than five years until now. This is his sixth year in Tuscaloosa.
My thinking about why he didn’t take another job after winning his first or second national title at Alabama concerned his age. If he had taken another job after last year, he would’ve felt committed to staying four or five years, because that’s how long it would’ve taken to accomplish what he wanted. He wouldn’t leave Alabama for a job he couldn’t complete.
That would’ve taken him to 64 or 65, and I figured Saban wouldn’t want to coach that long. At Alabama, he could retire at 61, 62 or whenever and not leave feeling as if the job wasn’t complete.
His Alabama contract was extended in May and now runs to 2020. If he still is coaching then, he will open the season at 68, which is the same age as Bear Bryant when he opened his final year as Alabama’s football coach.
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But with the Crimson Tide’s season opening Saturday against Michigan, Saban hardly looks like a guy who is ready to get out.
Heck, he hardly looks a 60-year-old. During practice this preseason, the Alabama head coach still works with the defensive backs. He still runs around, wearing shorts, sneakers, white T-shirt, gray sleeveless pullover and straw hat.
He still yells when somebody doesn’t give the effort he wants.
He still gets so involved in some drills that he sometimes has to backpedal to keep from getting run over. On the field, he doesn’t look a whole lot older than defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, who is 36.
This isn’t to say Saban won’t decide after the season to head to the lake house, but if that’s what he is thinking, I don’t see it.
About the only thing that’s different from other preseasons is that now he seems like he’s in an awfully good mood most of the time. Maybe he’s enjoying working with this team that much. He keeps saying he likes the effort he is seeing.
When Stallings retired, he said that one of the reasons was the declining health of his son, John Mark, who died in 2008. But Stallings himself was starting to look a little like a coach ready to step down, too.
He used to open all of practice to reporters, not just 15 or so minutes as Saban does, so we always got a pretty good look at him and his team.
On some days, when the offense worked on one side of the practice field and the defense on the other side, Stallings would stand in the middle and occasionally lean over, grab his knees and work his back as if he was trying to get something back in place. We called those his “bad-back days.”
After one practice in which he leaned over and adjusted more than usual, he opened his post-practice briefing by saying, “When I die, I want them to do an autopsy of me so they can tell me once and for all what’s wrong with my back.”
He smiled as he said it, but he was serious about how much his back hurt on some days.
Saban hasn’t stayed at any school longer than five years until now. This is his sixth year in Tuscaloosa.
My thinking about why he didn’t take another job after winning his first or second national title at Alabama concerned his age. If he had taken another job after last year, he would’ve felt committed to staying four or five years, because that’s how long it would’ve taken to accomplish what he wanted. He wouldn’t leave Alabama for a job he couldn’t complete.
That would’ve taken him to 64 or 65, and I figured Saban wouldn’t want to coach that long. At Alabama, he could retire at 61, 62 or whenever and not leave feeling as if the job wasn’t complete.
His Alabama contract was extended in May and now runs to 2020. If he still is coaching then, he will open the season at 68, which is the same age as Bear Bryant when he opened his final year as Alabama’s football coach.
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Posted on 8/28/12 at 10:52 am to Alahunter
Correct answer is 3-5 more years or until bama faces serious sanctions and he jumps ship. So prolly not even 3 years.
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