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Draconian Sanctions
Bama Football - Bear - Saban > LSU Football
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Ok, explain to me how Bama's great history is due to anything other than things like an Alabama scout showing up in Fordice, Arkansas at precisely the right time in history to kidnap a young Bear Bryant to play at Alabama as anything other than luck? Do you think he would have heard "Mama call" had he played and coached at say Arkansas?

Or what about the extreme good fortune of having a coach like Nick Saban fall into your lap at precisely the right time anything other than luck?

Even if those things hadn't happened then obviously Bama would still be a good program. But if you don't get lucky like that again in the future you're not "assured" of being successful. No program is. It's earned, not given.

Even if we play the devil's advocate and agree with you about Bryant, there was nothing "lucky" about Saban "falling into our lap." Alabama simply went to the best coach available and offered him an unheard of amount of money...combined with more power than virtually any other coach. When the time comes when Alabama has to do that again, we will. And while success in the future is definitely not a certainty, because of Alabama's willingness to do what it did in getting Saban, it definitely tilts the odds in Alabama's favor.

This post was edited on 8/22/12 at 7:07 pm