re: Why do people believe Saban would have built a dynasty if he had stayed at LSU?

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Because he was just starting to establish himself in terms of gaining cache to recruit. LSU started to get Alabama like classes in 03 and 04, but he never got to develop them himself. In 05-07 Miles averaged just 2 losses a season and won a national championship. Saban would have won 2 national championships during that time period (06 &07), and at that point the thing would be rolling similarly to Alabama after 11/12.

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This. Saban came into Alabama with immediate credibility because of what he did at LSU. It took him a couple of years to really get rolling, and when he did, it has been lights out ever since.

That is where LSU was positioned from 05-07 and Saban would have kept it going at LSU and LSU would be where Alabama is now. Without question.

Miles did a good job of keeping things going, but Saban is an 11-1/12-0 coach and Miles was a 9-3/10-2 coach. That is the difference.

It is all about coaching, as the previous 25 years Pre-Saban at Alabama attest. LSU would have had the same type of success.