re: Bama: Kiffin or Sark?

“What’s the story behind this? I don’t follow Bama football that closely.”

He had accepted the FAU job and was doing a lot of FAU “work” prior to the playoffs and not prepping Bama. It really hurt Bama for this to go down.
As far as the original question, Sark. You didn’t have the drama and the twitter bullshite. You don’t have ridiculous play calls with under a minute to play. Other stuff as well that doesn’t need to brought up. Kiffin was like that kid that just can’t stay out of trouble. Sark was the professional. People forget Sark had to coach the iron bowl as saban had Covid and did a great job that day. Talk about a pressure situation and he handled it like a pro.

Similarly exciting offenses but I think everyone will say Sark for the reasons mentioned about maturity. It’s impossible to address this question from pure coaching terms considering what a child Kiffin has been most of his career. That said I’ve largely appreciated and respected his run at OM. He’s still a troll but he’s grown up a ton. I like and appreciate him a lot more now than I ever have in the past, including when he was at Alabama. Are either of these guys at risk of falling off the wagon? I guess you gotta consider that as well.

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Texas fans being Texas fans. You gays are turning out to be every bit the bunch of high maintenance debutantes we imagined you. Ain't no Bama fans gonna stroke your ego so continue with the

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You're an idiot.

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He had already accepted the head coaching job at FAU and was essentially a missing person during bowl prep, not putting much effort into it. Saban told him to kick rocks, which basically led to our losing the championship game.

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Right, and I think that was one of Saban’s biggest mistakes at Alabama. Sarkisian was merely on the support staff and had less than a week to plan for and call that game. It wasa 4 point game and I’m pretty sure Kiffin would have been worth a touchdown more, considering he had planned and called around freshman Jalen Hurts passing game woes all that season

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both are considered offensive guru's I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on which coach you preferred while on your staff and why?

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Kiffin was better.

A big part of Sark's success came down to having two elite QBs in Tua and Mac Jones.

Lane Kiffin was a true offensive genius, and was always able to pull a rabbit out of a hat when we needed a play.

The only problem was Kiffin's ego clashed with Saban. Other than that, he was better.

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“Kiffin changed the offensive philosophy and kudos to Coach Saban for his willingness to evolve, adjust, listen and understand it was needed at the time to continue the dynasty.”

I’ve always viewed this differently. I think when Bama “evolved” it killed the dynasty. Bama lost its edge which was physicality. Michigan just proved that running the ball and defense can still win big time. As a buddy of mine said watching the mich-Ohio st game. It’s good to see a team huddle up, come to the line of scrimmage with two tight ends on first down, qb under center and run a lead play for 7 yards.

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I understand what you're saying.
But prior to Kiffin, Bama could manhandle opponents and literally run out the clock in the 4th quarter to win games. With a stifling defense we could control the LOS and choke out the opponent.

Then the RPO/HUNH/fast-paced offense hit the scene and Bama (Coach Saban) had to completely change his defensive recruiting for a smaller/leaner and faster D player, because ours were big, strong & slow and they couldn't handle playing sideline to sideline chasing down an offense. To compliment the new defensive players, we had to evolve the offense and run more RPO mixed with HUNH & faster pace, I think Kiffin was instrumental in that evolution.

I don't believe Bama would've been able to consistently win at an elite level had they stayed with that same type of player and relied on physically dominating opponents. Other teams were just too fast and scored way too much to rely on defense to get shutouts and hold opponents to single digits like they could during the early days of Saban's time at Bama.

Thanks for the conversation/dialog though. It's a rarity on tRant these days.

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Kiffin was better. A big part of Sark's success came down to having two elite QBs in Tua and Mac Jones.

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This. People forget Kiffin had Blake Sims, Jake Coker, and a freshman Jalen Hurts as his quarterbacks

I get the argument for Sark since he had some prolific offenses but he also had the better QB/WR talent to work with. Kiffin damn near turned Blake Sims into a NC winning QB and got maximum production out of an average Jacob Coker. Then he kept the offense simple enough for a true freshman Jalen Hurts to not get lost in. All 3 were vastly different coaching challenges that he did about as well as you can ask on.

Kiffin completely changed the trajectory of Alabama. Bama may not go on it's insane run of wide receivers if Lane Kiffin doesn't show America how valuable Amari Cooper was.

1. Daboll.
2. Kiffin
3. Sark

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Other stuff as well that doesn’t need to brought up.

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1) He banged Saban’s daughter.

2) He gave an interview and explained why he left Bama. He said Tuscaloosa wasn’t a good fit for him nor was the staff culture and he literally aged in dog years while coaching there.

Btw, all you d-bags in here bringing up Sark’s addiction are lowlife POS.