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Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio: Saban to Indianapolis?
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:17 am
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:17 am
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@ProFootballTalk: Are we only a few months away from Nick Saban publicly declaring, "I'm not going to be the Indianapolis coach"? LINK
Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead shares an account that Saban may be on the way out of Alabama, due to apparent misery and frustration. (Then again, Saban isn’t happy unless he’s miserable and frustrated.)
Bob Kravitz of WTHR recently wrote that the pressure is indeed on Colts coach Chuck Pagano in 2015. Adding to the pressure has to be the reality that the presence of quarterback Andrew Luck would allow owner Jim Irsay to lure any coach he wanted to town. If Irsay wanted Saban, would Saban listen?
Saban would want control over the operation, which means that G.M. Ryan Grigson would have to be fired, or at least neutered. An effort by Irsay to hire Saban in 1998 (the year Peyton Manning was drafted) went nowhere because G.M. Bill Polian wouldn’t have given up his authority.
With Luck running the offense and Saban crafting his NFL-style defense, it could work, and it could work well.
For the Colts, the defense continues to be the problem. Who better than Saban, the guy Irsay wanted to hire at the outset of Peyton Manning’s career, to engineer the kind of defense to go along with the kind of quarterback who already can run the offense like a coach on the field?
There’s a long way to go before Saban would ever declare publicly that he’s not going to be the Indianapolis coach. But if Saban ever were going to return to the NFL, it surely would happen only with a team that has a franchise quarterback. And there’s no better team with a franchise quarterback than a team with a franchise quarterback on the front end of the prime of his career.
In the NFL, the team that best fits that description right now is the Colts.
What's with all the chatter coming out of Tuscaloosa about Saban being frustrated and unhappy? Is he hedging his beats in anticipation of a shitty QB and disappointing season? Will he hold the threat of a NFL HC position over the Gumps head like he did the Texas jobs after failing to meet expectations?
Is this the beginning of the end for the Tiny Dictator??
This post was edited on 9/2/15 at 9:24 am
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Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:18 am to undecided
This shite is stupid and beyond getting old.
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:18 am to undecided
I bet this thread will be different than all the other, "Saban leaving!??!?!" threads.
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:20 am to undecided
Chicken, it's time to reopen the "Saban to Texas" Board
ETA: get this crap off the SECr
ETA: get this crap off the SECr
This post was edited on 9/2/15 at 9:22 am
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:20 am to undecided
Inb4 he gone
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:21 am to undecided
Not this again. 
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:22 am to CapstoneGrad06
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This shite is stupid and beyond getting old.
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:22 am to undecided
Saban will never make the mistake of going to the NFL again. If he leaves it will be another P5 conference rebuilding job.
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:23 am to TheJones
At least be inventive with these rumors. This is just rehashed stuff from years past, revamped by the Monte Burke book.
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:24 am to undecided
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due to apparent misery and frustration
Nick Saban calls this "Tuesday"
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:26 am to undecided
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Jesus...... you suck at life.....
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:29 am to CapstoneGrad06
Here's the thing, Andrew Luck has been dubbed Football Messiah in a weak division, if Saban were ever going to make the jump, Indy would be a perfect landing spot
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:30 am to CapstoneGrad06
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This shite is stupid and beyond getting old.
It really is. I always laugh at the "Saban to...." threads and I truly believe he was close to going to Texas. However, that was it for him. Bama is his last stop. He always looks and acts miserable so that's nothing new. I mean, I guess Indy wouldn't be a terrible place for him to be successful with Luck being an actual franchise QB and all but it's not happening. People need to move on.
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:31 am to undecided
Going to need reportable facts.
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:31 am to undecided
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What's with all the chatter coming out of Tuscaloosa
No chatter. One guy who said he can't support his claim with facts...he literally wrote those words.
And this one guy is getting retweeted a repeated.
One journalist, Lars Anderson, who's close to Saban took the Birmingham morning hosts on WJOX to task for repeating it.
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:32 am to TheJones
That's the craziest tear stream I've ever seen. Quality thread now.
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:33 am to undecided
He gone.
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:33 am to undecided
This time, it's for real
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:34 am to undecided
Jimmy Sexton doin work
Posted on 9/2/15 at 9:36 am to undecided
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after failing to meet expectations
Does not compute.
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