re: I’ve mentally accepted Lanning might go but seems like tide fans are split 50/50 on him.

I doubt Dabo will get much traction.

1. As you say, he is not embracing the changes required to stay up with the game. Clemson has slid a bit and it is evident.

2. His family has embraced the Sackerlina upstate area. That's all his kids have ever known and his wife reportedly loves the area. A lot. Dabo is now ingrained there.

3. He's the polar opposite of Saban's style - at least that's how he's viewed by fans in Tuscaloosa. I think that after 17 years of Saban, we'd rather have a my-way process-oriented coach as opposed to a happy go lucky player's coach. Maybe those aren't fair adjectives for Dabo but that's the perception. Bama needs a program manager who will not kneel before the boosters, and again, Dabo doesn't seem to be that guy. Whether he is or not.

4. With the escalation clauses that several of the top coaches have in their contracts, Dabo can earn a bigger paycheck by just sitting back and watching Bama unload the bank. They don't even have to do it for HIM to get a bigger salary. Why uproot your family and take on more stress when you don't have to?