re: Bama Football - Bear - Saban > LSU Football

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Precisely. This is why tradition is so important. Alabama can lure a guy away from the nfl due to it. Tradition comes from outworking your opponents through the years, not dumb luck

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I will even give it to you that hard work and tradition is a part of it. I'm sure Nick Saban would not have left the NFL to come back to Virginia or something like that. Alabama is and for the forseeable future will be one of those "major" programs. There is no denying that.

All I'm saying is that other programs, LSU included, have just as much to offer and would be just as attractive from a resource standpoint as Alabama. Just because you won the NC in 1961 that doesn't mean the next great coach will just to come to Alabama. It's about timing and personalities as much as anything. You can't say with a straight face that Alabama hasn't been very fortunate along the way.