re: BAMA: Downs’s father basically just said Bama got the death penalty with Saban retirement

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LSU fans feel your pain in every way. We have been through this and saw first hand how hard it is replacing Saban. I think the irony is lost on most Bama fans. There might be another Saban out there but he isn’t coaching in college yet

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No Alabama fan here, but the situations were not exactly the same. When Saban left LSU for Miami (NFL), and Miles took over, there was no transfer portal. If a player transferred when Miles was hired, they had to sit out for 1 year unless they transferred down to D2.

Saban signed these players and given that the majority of Saban's roster were not Alabama HS ball players, those guys are now leaving to go somewhere else, probably one of their other top choices and maybe where they would have signed had Saban not been at Alabama.

The situation for LSU is more similar to O getting fired and BK coming in. LSU was at 39 Scholarships for the Texas Bowl (I think 41 or 42 were still on scholly but those extra 2/3 were not eligible for academic progress towards their degree if I remember correctly).

My guess is Bama is going to have to hit the portal in the spring window and bring in 10-15 players.

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LSU fans feel your pain in every way. We have been through this and saw first hand how hard it is replacing Saban

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Yeah. It was awful winning 10 straight games and the SECw right after Nick left even thought we had 2 major hurricanes at the start of the season.

Then 2 years later we had a national championship. I don’t know how we made it through that dark time.