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What’s the Saban type hire in this scenario?
Posted on 3/21/19 at 11:50 pm
Posted on 3/21/19 at 11:50 pm
With the current landscape? Let’s hope Byrne approaches this with an open checkbook. Who is your absolute home run hire?
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Posted on 3/21/19 at 11:52 pm to Goldtide1
The Saban hire is to bring Pitino Sr. back. Man, that would send shock waves through the SEC.
Posted on 3/21/19 at 11:53 pm to phil4bama
No, Billy D
Posted on 3/21/19 at 11:58 pm to biggsc
Is there any shot?
Posted on 3/21/19 at 11:59 pm to phil4bama
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Pitino
i wish people would stop this. might as well just ask the ncaa to set up a satellite office in t'town during his introductory press conference.
Saban type hire is Donovan, which is unlikely. Prolly will be Prohm and that's a very good hire.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 12:05 am to Goldtide1
I hope Greg is more of value guy and not someone who just throws money at a problem. That's what got us in this mess in the first place. Saban equivalent would be Billy Donovan, but you have to realize uf spent a ishtload of money for Billy (recruiting trips, new facilities).
Posted on 3/22/19 at 12:16 am to RollTide4Ever
Why the hell would Donovan leave the NBA when he’s having success there and I haven’t heard that he’s unhappy.
Brad Stevens would be the Saban hire too but he ain’t leaving Boston.
Brad Stevens would be the Saban hire too but he ain’t leaving Boston.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 12:31 am to phil4bama
You totally missed the Saban analogy.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 6:22 am to bamasgot13
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i wish people would stop this.
Exactly - kinda silly to even put his name out there on message boards because it ain’t happening. Why the hell would anyone want a soon to be 67 year old coach with that much baggage? 67 folks. Absurd.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 6:28 am to Bham4Tide
Because despite the baggage the guy has been a big time winner everywhere he’s been. He would very likely take Alabama basketball to new levels of success never achieved before. He isn’t a long term solution for sure and there is the baggage but look what Pearl has done for Auburn. It makes people envious.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 6:38 am to RollTide4Ever
Exactly. Saban won a national title and then went to the NFL. He had some success, but not the same level of success. Then, came back to the NCAA.
Donovan would be the same scenario. Won a couple of national titles. Then, went to the NBA. He is having some success, but not at the same level. The question is whether or not he wants to come back. No one that Saban wanted to come back, but he missed working with the kids. Plus, the money didn’t hurt.
Donovan would be the same scenario. Won a couple of national titles. Then, went to the NBA. He is having some success, but not at the same level. The question is whether or not he wants to come back. No one that Saban wanted to come back, but he missed working with the kids. Plus, the money didn’t hurt.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 6:44 am to phil4bama
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Why the hell would Donovan leave the NBA when he’s having success there
Debatable on his success. If Thunder lose in RD1/2, his seat may get uncomfortable
Posted on 3/22/19 at 7:00 am to Goldtide1
Unlike FB our BB program wont get a home run hire. a HR hire would be a coach K..This would be akin to Duke FB hiring a NS. We are not a blue blood and will never make a HR type hire. I would be estactic with the Iowa State guy who would be a HR hire for our program only. Duke would never hire this coach to replace coach K
Posted on 3/22/19 at 7:28 am to Goldtide1
Alabama basketball will not draw a Saban type hire. Need to be a blueblood or luck out for a good coach under the right circumstances like Auburn did with Pearl.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 7:56 am to Goldtide1
Well Alabama basketball can't hire a "Saban" like Alabama football can. But if you want to live in a dream world, Brad Stevens and Billy Donovan are two guys who had a ton of success in college and are now coaching professionally as Saban was. Put down the pipe if you think there's any chance of either coming here.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 8:00 am to Goldtide1
Donovan. Coached in SEC. Went pro. Comes back to college to coach at Bama. LSU fans melt.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 12:05 pm to Ted2010
Billy D is probably getting paid 6 million a year. He would definitely be the Saban kind of hire, though.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 12:42 pm to Goldtide1
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What’s the Saban type hire in this scenario?
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With the current landscape? Let’s hope Byrne approaches this with an open checkbook. Who is your absolute home run hire?
This question is ridiculous on the face of it. The only way for Bama to be in any position to be destination that a "Saban-type" coach would come to is for us to have a time machine, and go back and make sure Bama wins a dozen or so championships in Basketball, thereby being a permanent blueblood in the sport, and then also travel back to 2014 and spend scores of millions of dollars upgrading our basketball facilities to class-leading facilities that are the envy of the sport.
Only in that scenario is a Saban-type (it's a hyphenated adjective) hire possible.
Also, someone should go put some flowers on Mal Moore's grave. Absolute legend.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 1:03 pm to prevatt33
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Only in that scenario is a Saban-type (it's a hyphenated adjective) hire possible.
People forget that Saban was very iffy on the Bama job at first. It took a LOT of convincing from not just people in the program but football people outside the program that Bama was still a place we where you can win. We already had blueblood status (albeit a little faded), a commitment to new facilities, rabid fan support, and a blank check going forward and it was still a hard sell. We had everything in place for Nick to blow up and still took convincing.
I see none of this in our basketball program.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 2:31 pm to 14&Counting
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a commitment to new facilities
Mal Moore was smart enough to upgrade our facilities even during the down times. Saban walked right into outstanding facilities. Sure, his success took those facilities to another level in keeping pace with the facilities arms race across CFB, but Moore had seen the future and had already upgraded Bama's facilities before Saban arrived.
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