re: Saban only ate at 1 restaurant in BR and 1 in Tuscaloosa

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Anyway I can’t link any of the above but that’s pretty much all inside info.

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I've heard it all before, but my point was, when it came to bringing the muckety-mucks back on board after Broadhead, it was Dean, not Saban. And while Dean was tight, he did what had to be done to turn around the finances. As I pointed out, it was Emmert that told the BOS that they had to spend money to make money, not Saban.

Saban mostly justified the rationale to open up the purse strings by winning big. Winning plus the facility upgrades started under Dean and continued under Skip, equals better recruiting - which leads to more winning. I don't mean to sell Saban short, I'm just saying he wasn't responsible for getting the boosters and admin to start investing in the facilities. That had already begun.

And say what you will about Dean, his being terrible, tight or drunk (Oh my!), the LSU athletic department came a LONG way under him - and I don't think it was all in spite of him.