re: When is the last time Saban made a mistake

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what extra were yall asking of him and why? if I have a guy that good at calling an offense and I change something a frick up his chi I'm not gonna blame him and then fire him. that doesnt even make sense beyond just being sick of the guy and thats my excuse for firing him.

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He'd been hired at FAU before the playoffs started. He was both hiring a staff and recruiting for FAU and doing his job as OC for us. His Washington gameplan (and hell, his own admission later) showed that he didn't have the ability to multi-task and do both and do both well. Clemson could have been different, but there is no reason to expect that it would have been. Everyone knows that Kiffin has flaws and that one of them is being task oriented and basically anything having to do with compartmentalization and doing multiple things well at once. He is great when locked in a room and told to draw up plays and analyze film, which he did for 3 years, but when you introduce more balls to juggle.............it's never been his thing.

And I say this as somebody who frickin loved Kiffin. But what we saw in his first post-FAU hiring game was not the same guy we had for 3 years. It was a total disaster.