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

He learned from Miami, alright... he has structured his "organization" much like a professional one. Hiring any decent out of work former head coach as analysts, has more administrative assistant types than ever before, is constantly looking for angles to get an edge (like Belichek), and the one thing he got at Alabama that he never had anywhere else is complete and unfettered control, with unlimited pockets to do whatever his "organization' can dream up.

For example, Alabama + Saban is a great recruiter all by itself, right? Kids just die to play for him and the school, right? Well, Alabama spends ~ $1 Million in recruiting , second only to Tennessee who HAD to ramp theirs up to survive.

As of 2014, the school you think just wakes up and pisses excellence, just because, spends more of it's budget on football than anyone in the country.... because what Saban wants, he gets.

He has pushed Alabama into the modern age of big-business professional football at the college level.... but i do give the school credit for literally spending anything it took to do what he wanted.


Can't wait until the next coach doesn't quite do it that way, and you'll have to come up with some reason why Alabumma can't get it done.