re: Cowherd "Urban Meyer better coach than Saban. Saban barely .500 in bowl games"

Here's some stats for ya.


Nick Saban went to 3 bowls at Michigan State. Lost all 3 of them. That was his first MAJOR (in other words not Arkan...I mean Toledo) program to coach at. Not fricking Bowling Green.

At LSU he won 3 of 5 bowls including a national championship in 2003.

At Alabama, he is 5-3 in bowls including 3 national championships and a massacre of Big 10 (co)champ Michigan State in 2010. Alabama hasn't played a December bowl game since Nick Saban's first year in 2007, which was one of his 5 wins. So in other words, Nick Saban coached in Tier 1 programs ever since he has started coaching.

Not only that, but he took two programs that were eyeball deep in NCAA trouble and program disarray to the very top of the CFB world....4 times. Urban Meyer has inherited a gold mine at every program he has been at except Utah which was a masterpiece of a coaching job.

They're both solid coaches in every sense of the word, but Nick Saban's path was way worse of a grind than Urban Meyer's was. Urban Meyer is an instant success kind of guy. Like a poster said earlier, Nick Saban is definitely more of a longevity kind of guy.