re: Georgia is the best job in the SEC but can be a nightmare

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Because it is Alabama, fool. College football royalty. Many articles have been written on it. Here is a whole page of them. I have been debating this for a week with Tillman. Look through the articles and you will find not one writer has any sec job ranked ahead of Bama. In fact most articles have the Bama job number one in the country. LINK

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The Bama job is only good so long as 1.) the UA administration gives the HC carte blanche to spend and build whatever is needed, and 2.) the HC actually knows exactly what is needed to get to the top and stay there. Right now, Bama has achieved perfect balance of those two with Saban at the helm. But as soon as one of those 2 things gets thrown out of whack, the sheer success hangover the Bama admins and fanbase will experience will make that job toxic for years.

I mean no program has ever experienced the combination of dynastic dominance, TV exposure, and big money as Alabama has in its current run. It's a plum job for Saban, sure, but there is just no way that there aren't serious ramifications for the HC position when Saban one day retires. What coach in their right mind will want to follow him and try to live up to Bama fans' and donors' expectations when there are less stressful jobs with as good or better resources combined with lower expectations?