How bad you want Saban gone?

Do I want Saban gone, or do I want Bama?

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Do I want Saban gone, or do I want Bama?

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Pretty sure, both.

Only seven more years to go, then he retires according to rumors.

Saban makes the rest of the conference stronger and more competitive because we all want to beat him. Iron sharpens iron. I’m honestly gonna miss Saban when he hangs it up. He’s a hell of a coach. Lot of respect for him. I yelled out “COACH NICK!!” when he was at the Tiger Walk before the ULM game in ‘03 shaking hands with people on the other side of the street. He turned around, walked up to me and shook my hand and said “Hey how’re you doing son”. I was 10, it was a really awesome moment of my childhood. He’s got a lot of class in my book.

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Ray Perkins of the world

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Better coach than he gets credit for besides Bama has had plenty of success prior to Saban and will again after he retires.

I like him and admire what he has done, but I would almost pull for Bama if it meant he was retiring for good.

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The game is better with him in it.

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I agree, he forces everyone else to step it up and he is one of the last of the old school coaches.

And this was a "rebuild" year for them......damn..

I don't want to see a conference champion by default like many around the country as proven by the first playoff games.

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Nothing left to prove and will b pushing 72.

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I'm not so sure he's trying to prove anything, it seems he really enjoys what he's doing and will keep doing it until he's ready to hang it up.

He retires and Aranda shows up in T-town.

No problem with that.

I think he was putting distance between himself and younger coaches like Urban and Dabo who had already won a few.

It would suck to retire then one of those young coaches goes on a run and your records don't last a decade.

With Urban essentially out of coaching for a while and Dabo dead in the water another 2 titles would probably make him feel secure enough to hang it up.