re: If Saban had waited a month

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What about giving Saban and folks 3 or so days to get with the core of the team and coming up with a plan and attempting to make them comfortable and incentivize them to help keep the team together and message positive and strong?

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I would expect that this happened throughout the entire process. I think Saban, DeBoer, and others have been meeting with players since the retirement announcement (and since DeBoer's announcement as head coach). I honestly don't know if there was a different way to do this that wouldn't have resulted in the same team attrition due to the current CFB climate.