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re: Nick Saban is not special

Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:01 pm to
Posted by elposter
Member since Dec 2010
25083 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:01 pm to
quote:

Out of 85 scholarship athletes on the Alabama football team, 80 of them were a 4 or 5 star out of high school.



Link? I know it is a lot but that seems a little high. I'd guess more like 75 out 85 tops.

247 composite 3 stars signed each of the last 5 years:

2016 - 7
2015 - 4
2014 - 5
2013 - 8
2012 - 8

I know a lot of those guys are gone but I'd bet at least 10 (probably more) are still on the team.
Posted by Pinche Cabron
TN
Member since Nov 2015
3639 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:05 pm to
Posted by ArabianKnight
Member since Jul 2010
2617 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:05 pm to
quote:

Nick Saban is an above average coach, at best


So if he was a really good coach, how bad would the 59-0 game have been?
Posted by sunseeker
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2016
2651 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:07 pm to
I agree. Sumlin would have won just as many championships during that time frame if he were at Bama.
Posted by flomacanes
Alabama
Member since Nov 2009
2760 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:14 pm to
quote:

Trade any coach in the SEC for the past 10 years at Bama and they would have a similar record


Les Miles proved this isn't true. He had an entire state of recruits all to himself and sent countless of them to the NFL, yet only managed to squeeze out 1 little turd of a championship on backs of Nick Saban's players no less.
Posted by IvanCCCP
U.S.A.
Member since Oct 2016
698 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:17 pm to
OP is cRaZy!
Posted by FreddieMac
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2010
21184 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:20 pm to
quote:

Out of 85 scholarship athletes on the Alabama football team, 80 of them were a 4 or 5 star out of high school.

With this ungodly amount of talent, he should never lose a game.

He is not Sir Alex Ferguson who can take above average talent and win the league 15 times. He is not John Wooden, who could take the best talent and win 10 national championships.

Nick Saban is an above average coach, at best, who has learned how to surround himself with the best recruiters money can buy. Trade any coach in the SEC for the past 10 years at Bama and they would have a similar record.


Posted by DBU
Member since Mar 2014
19059 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:21 pm to
Posted by taylormade
Tumbleton
Member since Jan 2011
9806 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:22 pm to
Posted by BloodSweat&Beers
One Particular Harbor, Fl
Member since Jan 2012
9153 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:24 pm to
quote:

Out of 85 scholarship athletes on the Alabama football team, 80 of them were a 4 or 5 star out of high school.

With this ungodly amount of talent, he should never lose a game.

He is not Sir Alex Ferguson who can take above average talent and win the league 15 times. He is not John Wooden, who could take the best talent and win 10 national championships.

Nick Saban is an above average coach, at best, who has learned how to surround himself with the best recruiters money can buy. Trade any coach in the SEC for the past 10 years at Bama and they would have a similar record.


Posted by HouseofWaffles
Member since Nov 2014
4653 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:25 pm to
Not reading all the replies. Just wanted to say you're fricking stupid.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
43478 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 3:33 pm to
Masterful Troll OP. I give you one internets.
Posted by CharlesLSU
Member since Jan 2007
31961 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 4:41 pm to
The fricking reason the talent is there in the first place is Nick. As a Bama-born boy, I'd like to think all that talent was because of the supreme pride in ALABAMA, but it's 20% heritage and 80% Saban.

The man is the best coach in NCAA history. Hands down......and that includes Bear.
Posted by Keltic Tiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2006
19480 posts
Posted on 10/19/16 at 4:43 pm to
Well, he is special if you count Little People as special. He makes Napoleon look tall. Tom Cruise looks down on him. Stallone uses his head as a table to hold his beer.
Posted by ALA2262
Cumming, GA
Member since Jun 2016
1683 posts
Posted on 10/21/16 at 4:43 pm to
This says otherwise.

LINK

Posted by tjv305
Member since May 2015
12522 posts
Posted on 10/21/16 at 5:08 pm to
I agree that he may not be the best game planner but he is the best recruiter. The only coach in the SEC in his time that could even come close to his results is Urban Meyer and maybe Spurrier if he still had the fire. Some of the newer head coaches could be good but we don't know yet.
Posted by 25mellon
Pittsburgh
Member since Nov 2015
403 posts
Posted on 10/21/16 at 5:36 pm to
Not special just very smart enough to put himself in a key position in one of the most profitable forms of entertainment to date. He is just an actor on this stage. There are producers and directors who are much smarter than he.
Posted by Weagle25
THE Football State.
Member since Oct 2011
46273 posts
Posted on 10/21/16 at 5:40 pm to
If what he does is so easy, why haven't other schools emulated him? It's not like Bama has more money then everybody else and pretty much everybody in the conference is willing to throw whatever they have at the program to make it successful.
Posted by Sid E Walker
InsecureU ©
Member since Nov 2013
23888 posts
Posted on 10/21/16 at 6:11 pm to
If he was taller he'd win 'em all.
Posted by Jonburris81
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2016
107 posts
Posted on 10/21/16 at 6:25 pm to
I tell you what, I wish LSU still had the little short SOB.
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