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Saban is Phil Steele's 2012 Coach of the Year
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:26 pm
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I vote on several player awards and serve on many award committees each year including the Heisman, the Lombardi, Outland, Nagurski, Bednarik, Hendricks, Groza, Lott Impact, Jim Thorpe, O’Brien, Doak Walker and Biletnikoff Awards to name a few. I also vote on several coaches’ awards including the FWAA Eddie Robinson and Paul Bear Bryant coach of the year awards. However, most of these awards are voted and presented prior to the bowls and many times players’ and coaches’ bowl performances are neglected from this process or I feel that some players and/or coaches who did not receive an award deserve some extra recognition.
For this reason, last season I publicly released my Coach of the Year Award and the inaugural winner was Bill Snyder of Kansas State who led the Wildcats to a 10-win season. This year I am proud to announce Alabama’s Nick Saban as my Collegiate Coach of the Year with Bill O’Brien of Penn State as my runner-up.
Keep in mind coming into this season, many thought that this year’s Tide edition would be Nick Saban’s least talented in the past few years as they lost several players to the draft. In fact, in my College Football Preview, Alabama came up on top for my Draft Day Party Hangover (page 310) with 38 points. Keep in mind in the last 15 years, teams that had accumulated 35 points or higher in the draft had a weaker record 14 of the 16 times (87.5%!) the next season. Saban and Co would become just the third team to top their record after losing so many players to the draft the prior year.
It is remarkable to me that Saban has been shut out on many of the coach of the year awards since the 2008 season saw him guide the Tide to a perfect 12-0 regular season before dropping their final two games. Just because it has become the norm to expect a great Alabama team to show up each year does not mean that Saban and Co did not put forth a great coaching performance in getting that team to achieve that certain level of success. For this reason, I am very proud to announce Nick Saban as my 2012 Coach of the Year but it is also clear to me that he is one of the best coaches of all-time!
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I agree with Phil that Saban deserved more consideration for Coach of the Year. It's unfair that a coach of his caliber doesn't get more consideration for coaching awards. Can you believe that Saban has never won AFCA Coach of the Year? How ridiculous is that?
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Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:27 pm to Bench McElroy
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:28 pm to Bench McElroy
Hard to argue really. There are about five coaches you can make a serious case for.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:28 pm to Bench McElroy
Perhaps if Bama played a real SEC schedule he would get more awards. 
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:31 pm to Bench McElroy
just keeping it warm for coach bret after our run next year
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:36 pm to MoreOrLes
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Perhaps if Bama played a real SEC schedule he would get more awards.
This
Bama is the Boise st of the SEC. Play one or two games a year and still loses one.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:39 pm to Rickdaddy4188
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Play one or two games a year and still loses one.
And yet, we still beat LSU.
21-17
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:41 pm to Bench McElroy
Print the shirts! 
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:43 pm to Bamad
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And yet, we still beat LSU.
Yep. Your ONE DECENT WIN during the reg season. Talk shite about LSU all you want, we were Bama's only decent win.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:50 pm to Rickdaddy4188
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Bama is the Boise st of the SEC. Play one or two games a year and still loses one
Posted on 1/14/13 at 2:59 pm to Rickdaddy4188
Rickdaddy talking about Bama...? Nahhhhh
Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:00 pm to Rickdaddy4188
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Yep. Your ONE DECENT WIN during the reg season. Talk shite about LSU all you want, we were Bama's only decent win.
Do you know what it's like to win back-to-back national championships in football? It's very liberating.
Here's hoping you get to experience it one day with Lester and co.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:00 pm to Rickdaddy4188
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Bama is the Boise st of the SEC. Play one or two games a year and still loses one.
I think people said this about LSU the year they won as well. Except they lost 2 games.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:02 pm to Bench McElroy
Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:02 pm to Rickdaddy4188
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Bama is the Boise st of the SEC. Play one or two games a year and still loses one.
Yep, but those two games were Texas A&M and Georgia...they were pretty tough teams.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:04 pm to DvlsAdvocat
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Yep, but those two games were Texas A&M and Georgia...they were pretty tough teams.
Exactly. Saban said the three best teams Alabama played this year were Texas A&M, Georgia, and Notre Dame.
Hmm...no mention of LSU.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:05 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:This is one of the reasons I don't follow the COTY award anymore.
It is remarkable to me that Saban has been shut out on many of the coach of the year awards since the 2008 season saw him guide the Tide to a perfect 12-0 regular season before dropping their final two games. Just because it has become the norm to expect a great Alabama team to show up each year does not mean that Saban and Co did not put forth a great coaching performance in getting that team to achieve that certain level of success.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:10 pm to jatebe
2012 was Saban's best coaching job yet. The defense was young and inexperienced, having lost 7 starting players from last year's squad, and yet put up numbers that rivaled 2009 Alabama's defense. They finished #1 in total, scoring, and rushing defense.
This post was edited on 1/14/13 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:13 pm to Bellabama
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Bama is the Boise st of the SEC. Play one or two games a year and still loses one.
I think people said this about LSU the year they won as well. Except they lost 2 games.
nobody informed said this - LSU set a record in 2007 with the number of ranked teams they beat... a record they then broke in 2011
Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:14 pm to RollTide1987
FWIW I think Saban is a solid pick for coach of the year many years - a tip of my hat to him for being the best coach in college football over the last ten years
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