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re: Is Saban the one who ruined college football?

Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:07 pm to
Posted by XWing atAliciousness
Member since Jan 2018
8623 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:07 pm to
Saban ruined what the expectations of head coaches should be in the FBS Power 5 level.
Posted by bigdawg7780
SC
Member since Oct 2013
2915 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:10 pm to
Not the fact that all those championship teams but 1 are from the south pissed everyone off. It can't be that the south is better at something than the of the nation.
Posted by CrunchimusMaximusThe
Knoxville
Member since Jan 2022
1712 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:13 pm to
Until you play your first football game in this proud conference please stfu and focus on your bottom of the barrel power 5 league.
Posted by GruntAu
Member since Jul 2017
753 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:16 pm to
quote:

For both, you can't blame someone for adapting and excelling withing the framework that everyone else agrees upon.


I would replace everyone with Mark Emmert. I’d risk everything I own that Emmert let’s some get away with stuff and others not. How one person could have that job for as long as he has is ridiculous. They need oversight and constant change at the top to keep the institution that controls corruption from becoming corrupt. But instead, they basically have given him a lifetime appointment.
Posted by Nitro Express
Gulf Coast
Member since Jul 2018
17568 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:16 pm to
Cracks? Won the NC in 2020 and took the game deep into the 4th against the national champion last season. Preseason #1 or #2 going into next, and finished recruiting with highest average star rating per player ever recorded with this freshman class. Don't confuse your delusions with reality, bud.
Posted by CrunchimusMaximusThe
Knoxville
Member since Jan 2022
1712 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:24 pm to
Saban already looking to make excuses by complaining so much about the NIL. Bama been paying players forever and now the playing field just got leveled. Saban can't stand it. That's why the....gasp.... aggies are out recruiting them right now.
This post was edited on 3/1/22 at 3:29 pm
Posted by Tideroller
Lower Alabama
Member since Jan 2022
3132 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:33 pm to
I truly don't get these threads. If Saban's teams are so good and that bothers you, get better and work harder. It's not like he's got magical powers or something. And before the obligatory "he cheats and buys players", then you go buy some if that's what you think. With NIL you can do it legally. What he does takes tons of work and commitment at all levels but it can be duplicated, Kirby has a start at Georgia. I got tired of watching Spurrier beat us but I didn't want to whine about him, I wanted US to improve.

That is all.
Posted by Nitro Express
Gulf Coast
Member since Jul 2018
17568 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:38 pm to
quote:

the playing field just got leveled


No it didn't.

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Saban can't stand it. That's why the....gasp.... aggies are out recruiting them right now.


Highest average player rating ever.

I know being a Tennessee fan hurts.

CrunchimusMaximusThe:

This post was edited on 3/1/22 at 3:40 pm
Posted by PeleofAnalytics
Member since Jun 2021
4818 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:40 pm to
Sometimes you just have a coach and program that is there every year. It is not unprecedented in other sports and they all survived it.
Posted by m2pro
Member since Nov 2008
29636 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:53 pm to
I COULD buy that he hurt it short term, but long term he helped it tremendously because he proved that they won't stop you from winning if you play enough by their rules.

So, there is hope to the fan experience that you could witness your own program build an actual dynasty and they won't cheat you out of it just for being good at kicking arse.

Seeing schools go on runs is healthy for any sport.

Just my $0.02
This post was edited on 3/2/22 at 10:14 am
Posted by jimmarley
Southeast
Member since May 2020
1591 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 3:58 pm to
Greatest in what?

Nuff said.
Posted by XWing atAliciousness
Member since Jan 2018
8623 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 4:12 pm to
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Until you play your first football game in this proud conference please stfu and focus on your bottom of the barrel power 5 league.
Lol and Tennessee has done what exactly in the last 20+ years?

Until you play your first NY6 bowl game ever, please stfu and focus on not embarrassing yourselves while being the second-rate UT
Posted by DennyCrane
Member since Dec 2021
284 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 4:15 pm to
It’s not ruined for me. Working pretty good. Did UCLA ruin college basketball?
Posted by Ezzard
Member since Mar 2022
79 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 4:20 pm to
You mean by blatantly cheating while his butt buddy, Mark Emmert, ran cover for him?

Yes.

His incessant whining for rule changes that benefit him?

Yes.

NIL? So other schools could do above board what that filthy bunch in Alabama has been doing for years?

Yes.

All the bullshite political correctness, targeting, 2 hours of commercials every game.

No.
Posted by BIGJLAW
Member since Mar 2013
8861 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 4:25 pm to
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CrunchimusMaximusThe

LOL, stop crying.
Posted by XWing atAliciousness
Member since Jan 2018
8623 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 4:26 pm to
Lol that guy got owned in a baseball thread and is clearly very upset about it. Had to follow me in this thread
Posted by Hback
Member since Aug 2017
12753 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 4:39 pm to
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CrunchimusMaximusThe

As Jeff Foxworthy would say, “that boy is just rurnt.”
Posted by JJJimmyJimJames
Southern States
Member since May 2020
18496 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 5:12 pm to
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Recruiting is the main reason: $30,000,000+ paid to players every year.


FIFY
Posted by jimmarley
Southeast
Member since May 2020
1591 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 5:22 pm to
Agree. NIL leveled the playing field. Alabama and the REC have been paying players in one way or another for a long time. Saban took it to an art form. NCAA has always turned a blind eye because of Nicky’s connections and the fact that bammer is the cash cow of the SEC.
Posted by CrunchimusMaximusThe
Knoxville
Member since Jan 2022
1712 posts
Posted on 3/1/22 at 5:58 pm to
Texas has a baseball arse whooping coming and some more in football soon.

Tennessee takes a backseat to no one.

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LINK


Vols b#tch.

This post was edited on 3/1/22 at 6:02 pm
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