re: Why didn't Saban have more success at LSU?

Bama was ranked in the top 5 in 2005, finishing the year with a cotton bowl win and managed to make bowls the next two years. LSU was ranked high at one point early in 98 but fell hard and fast thru 99. Everything in the programs was a shambles.

I think shula would have had a rough year in 2007 but saban had them playing at a respectable level (ulm joke here)

Plus he learned A LOT in miami