re: ESPN Article: Now We Know Why Saban Retired...

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That coach cheats... but not when he was our coach. Back then he didn't cheat.

My evidence is absolutely nothing.

*LSU fans on Nick Saban*

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I didn't say that Nick didn't pay players at LSU. I said I didn't think he did, given where the LSU football program was when he was hired.

That, and the fact that the Saban hired away from MSU wasn't the same Saban that coached at Bama. When he was hired, nobody I knew or heard of would have thought "Oh, damn, if we just buy a bunch of blue-chip players for this stupendous coach we'll be in good shape!"

Nope. When he was hired, Saban wasn't viewed as the GOAT he would become. And my personal opinion is that he didn't have the resume to justify LSU sinking that type of money into shady recruiting, just so they could get good players to play for a relatively unknown coach (at that time).

Two completely different things.