re: I know I'll get ridiculed for saying this

Lane is a serviceable OC and from an X's and O's stand point its an OK hire. The real issue for Bama's program is whether he can bow down to the master. Saban is a hard driving task master and he won't take one ounce of shite off that smug bastard. Can Lane deal with being put in his place on a regular basis? Pete Carrol is nothing like Saban.

The great thing for the rest of the SEC is the fact that Lane will cheat his arse off on the recruiting trail and won't give a shite if he burns bridges or not. The man has NO loyalty to anyone except the man he looks at in the mirror. It is likely he'll get the REC/Bama in a position that it'll be hard to buy or explain their way out of and do his best to burn that program to the ground on his way out of town.

He is who he is - not even Saban can change that.